City of Vancouver Archives

[Hudson's Bay Co. paddle wheel steamer "Beaver"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P147
Item
[ca. 1870]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Pelican"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P263
Item
1870

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Miowera" at dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P395
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. S.S. "Princess Victoria"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P226
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Inner Harbour Victoria B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P769
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. Princess "Victoria"

[S.S. "Vadso" at dock]

AM54-S4-: LP 302
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. Beaver boiler ; S.S. Beaver at anchor in James Bay, Victoria]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-113
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with two images. One image shows the boiler of S.S. Beaver at an outdoor display; the caption below this image reads, "Was wrecked July, 1888, at entrance to Burrard Inlet, B.C. Purchased and raised by C.C. Pilkey, Sept. 1906." The other image shows the S.S. Beaver at anchor in James Bay; the caption below this image reads, "S.S. Beaver at anchor in James Bay, Victoria[.] Photograph taken during her early days. Wrecked July [1888] at entrance to Burrard Inlet[.]" A hand-written note on the verso of this postcard reads, "Van B.C. March 1913[.] This [P.C.?] is also copyrighted in U.S.A. + Canada. [C.C.P.?]"

[The "Empress of Canada" and "Nanoose" at dock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1054
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The "Empress of Canada" at dock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1052
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The "Princess Victoria" leaving the harbour]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1055
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The "Empress of Canada" and "Nanoose" at dock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1053
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Inner harbour [showing] small boats and Union Steamship's "Camosun"

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-62
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[The "Empress of Canada" in drydock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1028
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The "Empress of Canada" in drydock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1051
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Victoria - arborist, waterfront, roses

AM1591-: 2011-089.28
Item
[1939?]

Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds

Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Victoria, British Columbia, which captures an arbourist climbing a tree with ropes and spiked boots, hacking branches with an axe, and stopping for a cigarette break at the top of the tree; a shot of a large steam boat seen through the porte cochere of the Empress Hotel (Victoria, BC); and close-up shots of roses, most likely taken at either the Empress Hotel or Beacon Hill Park.