City of Vancouver Archives

Wood World

AM1519-: 2010-024.09
Item
1976

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

WHC APWA [American Public Works Association?] Presentation [7 of 32]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4699
Item
Mar. 3, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

WHC APWA [American Public Works Association?] Presentation [3 of 32]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4695
Item
Mar. 3, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

WHC APWA [American Public Works Association?] Presentation [22 of 32]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4721
Item
Mar. 3, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

WHC APWA [American Public Works Association?] Presentation [2 of 32]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4694
Item
Mar. 3, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

WHC APWA [American Public Works Association?] Presentation [1 of 32]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4693
Item
Mar. 3, 1983

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Walking story tours : walk through the neighbourhood with Cindy Kravchenko and hear tantalizing tales of the early days of Vancouver history

AM1519-: PAM 1998-11
Item
1998

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

[View of West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd. on the southeast shore of False Creek]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-1108
Item
[1943 or 1944]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[View of Vancouver from Fairview]

AM54-S4-: LP 43
Item
[between 1932 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia), Marine Building, Hotel Vancouver (710 West Georgia), Vancouver Block, CPR Yards, Yaletown Warehouses, False Creek and Northshore Mountains

[View of the reclamation of False Creek Flats showing the reconstruction of Main Street at the bascule bridge]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N158
Item
June 30, 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the CN Freight shed, (temporary) Evangelistic Tabernacle, City Market building, the Globe and Ivanhoe Hotels and the swing span of the G.N.R. Trestle Bridge.

[View of the C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle Bridge]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-116
Item
Dec. 19, 1930

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

[View of Mount Pleasant from the Lee Block, Broadway and Main]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N161A
Item
July 7, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows False Creek east of Main, Downtown Vancouver and the Cambie Street Bridge in the background. Some prominent buildings include: Quebec Manor, Arcadian Hall, Dudley Block, Muir Apartments and Mount Pleasant Public School.

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-561
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-573
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-520
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows Granville Island in the background

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-563
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-562
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of mills on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-564
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of mills and log booms on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-572
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows the Vancouver Lumber Company smoke stack

[View of mills and log booms on False Creek]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-521
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows Granville Island in the background

[View of False Creek showing the Granville Island reclamation]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N98
Item
20 Aug. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the Granville and the C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle bridges, and the Kitsilano Indian Reserve.

[View of False Creek showing men on a barge, the Burrard Street Bridge, log booms and shacks across the water]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3132
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[View of False Creek showing Granville Island and the Fairview waterfront]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N88
Item
23 July 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of False Creek looking south showing Granville Island during reclamation and False Creek being dredged]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N85B
Item
Aug 19, 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Granville Street Bridge, C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle, and the Kitsilano Indian Reserve.

[View of False Creek looking north showing Connaught (Cambie Street) Bridge]

AM1584-: CVA 7-231
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[View of False Creek looking north from 12th Avenue and Oak Street]

AM1584-: CVA 7-232
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[View of False Creek looking east from the Burrard Bridge]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-682
Item
1941

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Kitsilano Trestle and Granville Bridges

[View of False Creek Flats east of Main Street]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N86
Item
Aug 19, 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the start of the False Creek reclamation, the Great Northern Railway Station construction site, the Main Street bascule bridge, Market Hall and Ivanhoe Hotel.

[View of east False Creek showing the C.P.R. Drake Street Roundhouse and coal trestle, and the Cambie Street Bridge]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N85A
Item
19 Aug. 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the dredging of False Creek for the Granville Island construction.

[View of Downtown from the Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-485
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of buildings at the north end of the G.N.R. trestle bridge at the east end of ] False Creek

AM358-S1-: CVA 152-24
Item
ca. 1907

Part of H.A. Price collection

[View looking south from False Creek] Photo Taken on June 1st 1916.Time 1140. Tide 0.4.

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N92
Item
1 June 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the south shore of False Creek, houses and builidings in Fairview Slopes, the construction of Granville Island, Granville Bridge and the Kitsilano Trestle Bridge.

[View looking north from False Creek] Photo Taken on June 1st, 1916. Time 1232. Tide 0.4

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N93
Item
1 June 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows construction of Granville Island, Granville Bridge and Cambie Bridge.

Vancouver, B.C. From The Lee Block July 7-1913

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N161B
Item
July 7, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mount Pleasant Public School, False Creek, Downtown and the Cambie Street Bridge.

Vancouver Iron [and Engineering] Works [Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-486
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver Iron [and Engineering] Works [Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-490
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows the Granville Bridge

[Vancouver history and Vancouver in the 1930s]

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

Item is a documentary film documenting a history of Vancouver using historical photographs, maps and records as well as street scenes of Vancouver in the 1930s. The historical portions of the film contain footage about the pioneers of Vancouver including Captain George Vancouver, John Morton (first resident of what was to become the City of Vancouver), Mr. Wm. Evans (engineer on the first transcontinental train into Port Moody), Lord Granville, John Robson, Richard Earl Howe, Admiral, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale. The film also contains footage of a map of First Narrows, Burrard Inlet, English Bay and nearby Government reserves as well as a map of False Creek, the West End and the East End. In addition there is footage of Hastings Mill (1887), Gastown (1887), the heart of the city (1884), the 1886 fire, City Hall after the fire, the CPR (1887), Indian ranches on Lost Lagoon, clearings near Stanley Park, Vancouver in 1888 and 1890, the entrance to Stanley Park (1890), as well as city scenes of Vancouver in the early twentieth century.

Vancouver From The Lee Block. Corner Broadway and Main Street

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N161C
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mount Pleasant Public School, False Creek, The Cambie Street Bridge.

Vancouver Cityscapes - Downtown, Fairview, Mount Pleasant

COV-S587-: CVA 69-27
Item
[between 1972 and 1974]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a set of negatives of cityscape photographs taken mostly from the upper floors of the Plaza 500 Hotel & Convention Centre at 500 W. West 12th Avenue, at the intersection of West 12th Avenue and Cambie Street, looking north. The subject material of the photographs is predominantly downtown Vancouver, the North Shore Mountains, False Creek, and the Fairview and Mount Pleasant neighbourhoods. This set contains the raw photographs from the roll the photographer shot in their original order. The associated contact sheet has selection marks for frames 16, 21, 23, and 25.

The village voice : on False Creek

AM1519-: 2012-096.20
Item
2012

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

"Embrace the village vibe and claim your place on the waterfront . . . last opportunities to own at the village. . . ."

The village on False Creek : your community : play, live, shop, work

AM1519-: 2011-022.3
Item
2010

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

"Your village is uniquely urban and inclusive, taking full advantage of its prime locale, the heart of new False Creek . . . ."

The Village on False Creek

AM1519-: 2023-046.2
Item
[2011]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Item is a promotional pamphlet for The Village on False Creek.

Sweeney Cooperage [Ltd.]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-489
Item
[196-?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows the Sun Tower (100 West Pender Street) and the Dominion Building (207 West Hastings Street)

[Southward view of west False Creek showing dredging and Granville Island under construction from the roof of Begg Motors]

AM54-S4-: PAN P33A
Item
Aug. 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Granville Bridge with the span open, C.P.R. Trestle Bridge, Robertson and Hacket Sawmill, Canadian Pipe Co., Vancouver Granite Co. and Marpole Coal Co.

[Southeast view from the top of the old Hotel Vancouver]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-403
Item
[between 1930 and 1948]

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the Canadian National Railway Station, Georgia Viaduct, Beatty Street Armoury, B.C.E. R. gas tank, the spire of St. Andrew's Chruch and False Creek.

Sludge from False Creek [1 of 2]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-0430
Item
[1976]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Sawmill on False Creek]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-488
Item
Mar. [19]68

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Sawmill fire and Jake Loeppky family

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

Item is an amateur film documenting family life and a sawmill fire in Vancouver. The film consists of home movie footage filmed by Jake Loeppky, including footage of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Stanley Park Zoo, children playing at the family home in Burnaby, children swimming, and the family entertaining at home. The film also includes footage of a logging camp, a large dam, bears, and people waterskiing. Of particular note is several minutes of footage of the five-alarm fire that destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility at 999 West 6th Avenue on July 3, 1960.

[Postcards : drawings of False Creek scenes]

AM1519-: PAM 2000-21
Item
2000

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Park on Beach Avenue, facing south with children and woman

AM1376-: CVA 71-24
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of park space on Beach Avenue, looking south towards False Creek. The view includes children posing on the grass in the middle and a woman with a sun umbrella sitting on a bench. Across False Creek can be seen the area that became Vanier Park.

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