City of Vancouver Archives

[The first school house built in the Nicola Valley]

AM54-S4-: Out P465
Item
1884; reproduced 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mr. D.J. Macdonald and students

[The students and teacher in front of Hastings Sawmill School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P19
Item
June 11, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Ada Blair, Edith Cordiner, Annie Stewart, Louise Peck, Lillie Card, Grace Fraser, Lida Bell, Hector Stewart, Harry Alexander, Harold Ridley, Michael Costello, John Costello, Annie Moore, Lizzie Ward, Laura Heywood, Jennie Pedgrift, Florence Pedgrift, Florence Gregory, Jessie Stewart, Jemima Reed, Bertha Burnett, Milly Mathison, Cora Card, Tom Costello, Harvey Hall, George Favor, Det Bellanger, Maurice Ballanger, Janie Kenworthy, Mabel Blair, Maggie Kenworthy, Gussie Belanger, Florence Ballanger, Laura Ballanger, Louie Card, Louis Silvain, Alex Mathison, Dan McPherson, John Kenworthy, Millie Kenworthy, Bosca Balanger, Charlie Balanger, Bertie Gregory, James Grant, Laura Campbell, Minnie McCord, Mary Plant, Sophia Grimshaw and J.S. Palmer (Principal)

[Group assembled on steps of Hastings Sawmill School]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-224
Item
11 June 1886

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

The photograph is accompanied by a note stating that the information written on the photograph (that the school's teacher was Miss Harknay, standing in the back row in a blouse with white buttons) is incorrect. The note also states that the teacher was Mr. T. W. Palmer (standing on the plank sidewalk in the photograph).

[Students and staff in front of All Hallows' School]

AM54-S4-: Out P697.1
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Miss Thompson, Minnie Chase, Jenny Sawyer, Flora Walker, Esther McDonald (Mrs. Wellington), Miss Moody (Sister Althea), Miss Chase, Sister Margaret, Mrs. McGinnis, Mrs. Urquhart, Lena, Agnes Main, Rose Oppenheimer, Marian Walker, Annie Main, Emma Castle, Emma Llene, Sister Superior, Mrs. Dodd, Helen Oppenheimer, Sister Alice, Dora Oppenheimer, Amy Paul, Mary Jane, Mrs. Clare and others.

School with school children, J.C. Morrison

AM1630-: CVA 10-07
Item
1888

Part of A.W. Phair fonds

Central School, between Hamilton Street and Cambie, facing Pender Street

AM1376-: CVA 103-07
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Exterior of Central School at Cambie Street and Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch N17
Item
1889 ; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the original wooden school house in the background and the steeple of First Baptist Church

[Exterior view of Central School, corner of Cambie and Pender Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 44
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Exterior of East End School, Pender and Jackson Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 47
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Richmond Town Hall and School]

AM54-S4-: Out P254
Item
[1890 or 1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right): Wilber H. Garratt, Leo Carscallen, Master Robinson, Peter Carscallen, James Sexsmith, Mr. Kinney, unknown, George Sexsnith, William Mellis, Kate Smith, Grace Sweet, Mae Vermilyea, Anna Noble, Frances Sexsmith, Anna May Sexsmith and Pearl Robinson

[B.C. Bedding Company's lorry in front of Central School, Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P807
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individual identiefied as Joseph Wright

[Exterior of the second school house]

AM54-S4-: Out P877
Item
[ca. 1891] ; reproduced 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Dawson School, Helmcken and Hornby Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 48
Item
[1892?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Students standing in front of Vancouver High School at the northwest corner of Dunsmuir and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 480
Item
[1893?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows high school building, the Central School next door, and houses on Hamilton Street. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Chinese funeral procession passing False Creek School (Mount Pleasant School) at Westminster Road (Kingsway) and Ninth Avenue (Broadway)]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1451
Item
[1893?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Exterior of Mount Pleasant School, Westminster Road (Main Street) and Ninth Avenue (Broadway)]

AM54-S4-: SGN 46
Item
[1893?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Exterior of Mount Pleasant School at 9th Avenue (Broadway) and Westminster Road (Kingsway)]

AM54-S4-: Sch P98
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Mount Pleasant School, Westminster Road (Main Street) and Ninth Avenue (Broadway)

AM54-S4-: SGN 45
Item
[1893?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Vancouver High School, Central School buildings, Cambie and Dunsmuir Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 49
Item
[1893?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Exterior of Central School on the southwest corner of Pender Street and Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P95
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first wood Central School and Vancouver High School in the background

Central School at Pender and Cambie, Vancouver, B.C. [later the site of the Vancouver Community College] - Julie Eldridge, teacher, and her class

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-237
Item
[ca. 1897]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows class assembled on the steps of the school.

Central School at Pender and Cambie, Vancouver, B.C.; Julie Eldridge, teacher, and her class

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-260
Item
[1897?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Upper half of photograph shows the Central School building. The bottom half of the photograph shows students and teacher assembled on the steps of the school.

[Fairview School]

AM54-S4-: Port P1510
Item
1897 ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Rose Evelyn Glover and her students

[Mademoiselle Kern's private school at 1175 Haro Street (near Bute Street)]

AM54-S4-: CVA 466-12
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Dawson School [from] Hornby Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2042
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Central School and Miss Margaret Spillman's class on the steps]

AM54-S4-: Sch P86
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first Central School constructed of wood and Vancouver High School in the background

Central School [from] Pender Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2043
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver School Cambie [Street] and Dunsmuir [Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2044
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

276 - High School, Vancouver, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1932
Item
[190-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

[Exterior of Granville School at 1175 Haro Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P141
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Craigflower School]

AM54-S4-: Out P353
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Normal School

AM1052-: AM1052 P-462
Item
[190-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with a group portrait of men and one child outside what appears to be a building under construction

[Vancouver] High School

AM54-S4-: Sch P62
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Mount Pleasant School at 9th Avenue (Broadway) and Westminster Road (Kingsway)]

AM54-S4-: Sch P33
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Exterior of public school

AM1376-: CVA 103-08
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of the exterior of a public school, possibly Seymour School at 1130 Keefer Street.

[Exterior of Fairview School at 9th Avenue (Broadway) and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P28
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Lord Roberts School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P70
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Our Schools Vancouver 1902

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1115
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the exterior of the following schools (and the number of rooms in each one): Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Vancouver High School, Fairview, Dawson, Seymour, Roberts and Central

[Exterior of Central School on West Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P27
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Dawson School at 935 Helmcken Street and Burrard Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P29
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Lord Strathcona School on East Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P34
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Vancouver High School on Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Sch P30
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Lord Roberts School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P32.3
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Seymour School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P31
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Dawson Branch School] 1003 Granville Street

AM54-S4-: Sch P112
Item
1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Our Schools Vancouver 1903

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1116
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the exterior of the following schools (and the number of rooms in each one): Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Vancouver High School, Fairview, Dawson, Seymour, Roberts and Central