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Fire Department Band performing by pool in front of bleachers

COV-S280-: CVA 354-349
Item
1953

[View of Firemen's Band playing the funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-094
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938. Funeral procession from Christ Church Cathedral with Firemen's Band]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-096
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-104
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Canadian Pacific Railway Pier D on fire and two fireboats working on the water while crowds watch]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-106
Item
July 27, 1938

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters using portable inhalator and spectators at Second Narrows Bridge wreckage]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-194
Item
June 17, 1958

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing first aid given to an unidentified victim of the bridge collapse; includes Ray Acheson (middle, operating inhalator) and Harry Griffiths (standing, left) with Cst. Dan Brown, Vancouver Police Department.

[Firefighters at construction site accident]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-201
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters at construction site accident attending to an injured man on a stretcher]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-202
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of fire prevention demonstration by Vancouver Fire Department firefighters at Oakridge Shopping Centre]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-275
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing people watching a firefighter demonstrating the use of a fire extinguisher.

[View of car and truck collision at Oak Street and 49th Avenue]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-300
Item
1967

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing a firefighter operating a hose on the vehicles.

[Spectators gathered at fire at concession stand at Lumberman's Arch, Stanley Park]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-353
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Spectators watching fire at Cottrell Warehouse on Water Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-375
Item
Oct. 30, 1910

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Launching "J.H. Carlisle"

COV-S280-: CVA 354-460
Item
1928

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver and miscellaneous industrial activities]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting Vancouver street scenes and cityscapes as well as a variety of industrial activities. This films contains colour footage of a sea plane, mills and mining, shipbuilding, steel making, as well as Vancouver street scenes with people around Dunsmuir St. and the Georgia Hotel. The black and white portions of this film contain footage of Vancouver beach scenes.

PNE Parade - Start of the RCMP Musical Ride

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver Pacific National Exhibition Parade and British Columbia scenery. The film begins with footage of floats in the P.N.E parade. Identified floats and performers include the train from Montreal to Port Moody 1886, New Westminster, Comox Valley, Sannich, Vancouver Fire Department, Fraser Expedition, Canadian Order of Foresters, The Moonlighters, Horseshoe Bay, and the P.N.E Minstrel Band. Businesses and buildings shown include Standard Stations, British American Oil Company, Canadian Pacific Railroad, Radio CKWX 1130, Hotel Vancouver, Georgia Hotel, the Provincial Courthouse, and Pacific Western Airlines. Footage also shows downtown street banners. The second half of the film includes footage of the RCMP riding onto Hastings Park racetrack in formation in front of an RCMP band being conducted and a crowd. Houses in the Hastings-Sunrise area to the east of Hastings Park are also shown.

Queen Elizabeth Gardens

AM1487-: MI-227
Item
[between 1975 and 1980]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting the Bloedel Conservatory and the gardens at Queen Elizabeth Park. The film includes footage of flowers and people walking through gardens, standing on a footbridge, taking photographs, and waiting in line outside the Bloedel Conservatory.

RCMP Musical Ride

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver RCMP Musical Ride. It contains footage of police on horses perfoming in formation at Hastings Park racetrack in front of an RCMP conducted band and a crowd. Houses in the Hastings-Sunrise area to the east of Hastings Park are also shown.

Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting the seals at the Stanley Park Zoo and other tourist attractions in Stanley Park. Film documents seals swimming and being watched by crowds at Zoo, as well as people visiting the Stanley Park Gardens and posing with the totem poles on Brockton Point.

Easter 75

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing footage of a person wearing an Easter bunny costume, performers on a stage, parked cars and various shots of people and crowds at the event.

July 1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film containing home movie footage showing views of the shore from a boat, people gathered on a pier, houses along an unidentified shoreline, men drinking on a boat, views of Burrard Inlet from above and a parade downtown in 1936.

Opening of Granville Street Bridge by Earl Grey

AM1376-: CVA 1118-1
Item
Sep. 6, 1909

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Leaving the depot N[ew] Westminster for England

AM1376-: CVA 172-05
Item
Nov. 1915

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

["Take Back Our City" anti-Olympics rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-606
Item
Feb. 12, 2010

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

["Take Back Our City" anti-Olympics rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-608
Item
Feb. 12, 2010

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

["Take Back Our City" anti-Olympics rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-615
Item
Feb. 12, 2010

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[A horse-drawn sulky in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-495
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[A parade of horse-drawn carriages on the north side of the Unit Block of West Hastings Street for visit of Duke and Duchess of Connaught]

AM1376-: CVA 458-5
Item
1912

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[An unidentified float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-491
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a relica of a British warship and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[B.C. Electric float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-481
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company

[Fancy dress carnival in the Vancouver Arena (1805 West Georgia Street)]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-60
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the interior of the arena (also known as the Denman Arena).

Hastings [Street] and Cambie Street [on] Labor Day

AM1376-: CVA 1376-720
Item
Sept. 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a view looking west along Hastings Street including a V.F.D. No. 4 horse-drawn fire wagon, The Arcade building and other buildings and businesses on the north side of the street

Hastings Street West of Seymour [Street] Dominion Day

AM1376-: CVA 1376-718
Item
July 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows people lining the street to watch a parade including a horse-drawn fire wagon and the Bank of B.N.A., Standard Furniture, David Spencer and Molson Bank

Unveiling of the Harding Memorial in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada, September 16th, 1925. Erected by the Kiwanis Clubs of Canada & U.S.A.

AM1376-: CVA 1376-377
Item
16 Sept. 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows crowds of spectators, the memorial decorated with flags, and the Stanley Park Pavilion.

Unveiling of the Burns Memorial in Stanley Park

AM1376-: CVA 279-6
Item
Aug. 25, 1928

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Unveiling of the Burns Memorial in Stanley Park

AM1376-: CVA 279-7
Item
Aug. 25, 1928

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[The 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-488
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a First Nations person in traditional garb, an unidentified group of clowns and performers and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[The Britannia Wire Rope and Arctic Ice Cream floats in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-586
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

[The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York leaving the C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street]

AM1376-: CVA 137-94
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[The Jantzen and Vancouver Swimming Pool-Pleasure Pier float in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-592
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

[The Oriental Limited float in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-575
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

[The Rat Portage Lumber Company float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-494
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a playhouse (the prize to be awarded to the child who guesses the correct weight) and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[The Spencer Limited float in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-574
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

[The Vancouver float in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-591
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

[Unidentified float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-487
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the main office of the Singer Sewing machine Company and Anderson and Warnock Hardware

Cordova Street in its Prime July 1st 1904 Naval Parade

AM1376-: CVA 1376-719
Item
July 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from Carrall Street including the Dunn-Miller Block

Crowds in Stanley Park during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

AM1376-: CVA 1376-66
Item
May 29, 1939

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Watching a Circus Parade, Hastings Street

AM1376-: CVA 229-06
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[New Westminster Queen of the May float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-486
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the main office of the Singer Sewing machine Company

Opening of 2099 Beach [Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation building]

VPK-S652-: MI-106
Item
1962

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a documentary film documenting the opening of the Board of Parks and Public Recreation building at 2099 Beach Avenue as well as recreational activities and special events in Stanley Park. The film contains footage of the ribbon cutting ceremony with crowds in attendance as well as winter snow scenes with people, ducks and swans in the park. Other recreational activities documented include log rolling in a pool, diving, and poolside sunbathing. The film also documents the unveiling of the statue of Lord Stanley in Stanley Park and concludes with footage of a baby polar bear.

[Cornerstone ceremony for the Science Building at the University of British Columbia]

AM54-S4-: Bu P483
Item
Sept. 27, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

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