City of Vancouver Archives

[Exterior of the White Swan Hotel and American Restaurant - S.W. corner of Seymour and Cordova Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P361
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man with arm outstretched is Charles Mee.

[A group of men and children in front of the Acadia Restaurant at the corner of Abbott Street and Trounce Alley]

AM54-S4-: Str P60
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Men and boy standing outside the Boulder Saloon (Boulder Hotel), 3 West Cordova Street, at the northwest corner of Cordova and Carrall Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 36
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Exterior of the Rendevous Restaurant at 620 Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2101
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Columbia Brewery - Corner of Powell Street at Wall and Victoria Drive]

AM54-S4-: Bu P728
Item
[1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Illuminated sign for Hotel Abbotsford Cafe]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1185.2
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The north side of the intersection of Pender Street and Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2116
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Pekin Chop Suey, the Bank of Vancouver and a hand cart

Woodwards Dining Room [at Hastings Street and Abbott Street]

AM220---: CVA 809-27
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Woodward's Department Stores Limited fonds

[B.C. Electric Railway Company's building under construction]

AM54-S4-1-M-14-: M-14-62
Item
Oct. 19, 1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is progress photograph of construction of B.C. Electric Railway building at 435 Carrall Street (at Hastings). Photograph shows the Pekin Chop Suey House and the Bank of Vancouver, at the intersection of Pender and Carrall Streets, in the foreground.

[Construction progress photograph of the third CPR station site excavation]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-5.060
Item
[Sep. 5, 1912]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking east. Photograph shows the station site with derricks and workmen. Image includes the 600 block of Cordova Street with pedestrians, carriages, the Hotel St. Francis, Austin Grand View Hotel, and the Depot Restaurant.

[Group portrait of hunters with a black bear on Georgia near Seymour Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P484
Item
1913 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): Harry Duker, Eddie Weed, Alf Taylor, Harold Brown and Joe Newton. Photograph shows Leo A. Malfet Taxidermist, the Georgia Cafe and part of the Hudson Bay Co. store under construction.

Station Site looking West [Construction progress photograph of the third CPR station site]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-5.094
Item
[1913]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Progress photograph for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. of the third CPR station site. View is looking west. Photograph shows the excavated site under a blanket of snow. Image includes the Austin Grand View Hotel, the Depot Restaurant, the Post Office, and the second CPR station.

[Electric sign for the Trocadero Grill]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1271
Item
2 Apr. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows sign, storefronts, and pedestrians on sidewalk.

[Lunch counter at the third CPR station]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-1.218
Item
[1914]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows the newly completed lunch counter of the third CPR station.

[View of English Bay, Vancouver, B.C.]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-109
Item
[1915-1925]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a ground level view of bathers at English Bay in the foreground and in the background the Simpson Block Apartments, Esplanade Tea Rooms, old and new bathhouses, and English Bay Mansion Apartments.