City of Vancouver Archives

[Group portrait in the entrance to the Orpheum Theatre for the premier of the movie "Silent Barriers" ("The Great Barrier")]

AM54-S4-: Can P106
Item
Apr. 9, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified: Mr. Chas A. Cotterell (fourth from left), Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Evans (standing sixth and seventh from left, close to microphone). Photograph also includes A.B. Calder, J.A. Mackay, T.W. Bradshaw, Mrs. Bradshaw, J.J. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Maharg, Herbert Vollans, as well as Norman Duncan and members of the C.P.R. Pipe Band.

City of Vancouver

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Map is a City Engineering Department base map of Vancouver, showing city blocks and Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and Great Northern Railway lines. Parks, golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. "Metric Vancouver" and "Guide Map 15" appear in the bottom right corner of the map.

City of Vancouver, British Columbia

AM1594-: MAP 1036b
Item
1970-Apr. 1974

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is the western half of a map showing city blocks, transportation infrastructure, recreational facilities, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. MAP 1036 is the eastern half of this map.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineering Services

City of Vancouver, British Columbia

AM1594-: MAP 1036
Item
1970-Apr. 1974

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is the eastern half of a map showing city blocks, transportation infrastructure, recreational facilities, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. MAP 1036b is the western half of this map.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineering Services

City of Vancouver

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Map is a City Engineering Department base map of Vancouver, showing city blocks and Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and Great Northern Railway lines. Parks, golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. "Guide Map 15" appears in the bottom right corner of the map.

City of Vancouver [park sites June/80]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Map is a City Engineering Department base map of Vancouver, with parks hand-coloured in green. Shows city blocks and Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and Great Northern Railway lines. Golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. "Metric Vancouver" and "Guide Map 15" appear in the bottom right corner of the map.

City of Vancouver, British Columbia : co-ordinate street index map 12

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Map is City Engineering Department base map 149 of the City of Vancouver, showing city blocks, streets and railway lines, as well as the area code co-ordinates assigned by the department. Golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are also identified.

Crowd outside the Dominion Theatre [at 963 Granville Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4520
Item
Jan. 13, 1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows a sign advertising two movies: "My Woman" and "Tarzan The Fearless" and a sign for LaSalle recreations

[Colonial Theatre - Granville Street]

AM1135-: cva 1135-10
Item
1977

Part of William Eadington Graham fonds

[Colonial Theatre - Granville Street]

AM1135-: cva 1135-46
Item
[1957]

Part of William Eadington Graham fonds

Colonial Theatre [603 Granville Street]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-399
Item
Jan. 9, 1972

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Item is a photograph showing Granville and Dunsmuir intersection. Pauline Johnson Candies is also visible.

Orpheum Theatre Seymour St. [under construction]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-397
Item
Mar. 28, 1927

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows part of the Vancouver Block.

Erection of new sign [at] Odeon Theatre [on Hastings Street]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4855
Item
Nov. 28, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Erection of new sign [at] Odeon Theatre [on Hastings Street]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4858
Item
Nov. 28, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Unit Block of West Hasting Street

Erection of new sign [at] Odeon Theatre [on Hastings Street]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4857
Item
Nov. 28, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Erection of new sign [at] Odeon Theatre [on Hastings Street]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4856
Item
Nov. 28, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Looking north on] Granville Street [from] Smithe Street

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4619
Item
Aug. 24, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Plaza and Paradise Theatres, the upper floors of the second and third Hotel Vancouver, and the No. 12 Kitsilano streetcar.

Arbutus [Street] and 16th [Avenue looking ] north

COV-S505-1-: CVA 772-98
Item
[between 1980 and 1997]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph shows Peoples Drug Mart, Buy Low Foods and the Ridge Theatre

[Granville Street at 11th Ave, looking south]

COV-S505-2-: CVA 772-12
Item
[1951]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph shows the Stanley Theatre

[Granville Street at Robson Street, looking south]

COV-S505-2-: CVA 772-8
Item
[1951]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph shows "Theatre Row".

Westcoast Hall, Orpheum Van., B.C.

AM1435-: CVA 1435-439
Item
July 1983

Part of Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. fonds

Item is photograph showing framed sign indicating the Westcoast Hall, named in honour of the Westcoast Transmission Company for its donation to the completion of a new section of the Orpheum Theatre.

[Man sitting on chair in front of the Orpheum Theatre ticket booth]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4675
Item
1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows a sign 'I'm going to be the first to see "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" starts Friday'

[Man sitting on chair in front of the Orpheum Theatre ticket booth]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4674
Item
1934

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows a sign 'I'm going to be the first to see "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" starts Friday'

Untitled [739 of 991]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4781
Item
1973

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing a southwest view of Granville Street with the Orpheum and Vogue Theatre in the background.

Flashlight of Audience Attending Henry W. Savage's Production "King Dodo" with Richard Golden Vancouver Opera House [759 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P389
Item
Oct. 30, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man on right at the back of the center aisle identified as Wallace Parker.

International Cinema [765 Granville St.]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-398
Item
Aug. 27, 1961

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Avenue Theatre [Main and Georgia Streets]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-396
Item
June 11, 1935

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the B.C.E.R. gas tank.

Avenue Theatre [Main and Georgia Streets]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-395
Item
June 11, 1935

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows Standard Junk Co. in the Bell building, the B.C. E. R. gas tank and the Georgia Viaduct.

Empress Theatre [S.W. corner of Hastings Street and Gore Avenue]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-394
Item
Apr. 20, 1940

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Old Bijou Theatre Bldg. [333 Carrall St.]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-393
Item
Aug. 4, 1940

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows signs for the New Method Shoe Making and Repairing Co., Hubb Barbershop, Tram Taxi and Dandy Cafe.

Lyric Theatre [765 Granville Street]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-392
Item
Apr. 12, 1969

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

South west Cor[ner] Georgia Street and Seymour Street

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-391
Item
1973

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the Strand Theatre and the Birks Building.

Pantages Theatre [Majestic Theatre - 20 W. Hastings St.]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-350
Item
Dec. 13, 1964

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the Army and Navy Shoe Dept.

Pantages Theatre [Majestic Theatre - 20 W. Hastings St.]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-349
Item
Dec. 13, 1964

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the southside of the unit block of Hastings Street including Army and Navy and Wosk's.

Main and Cordova Sts.

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-321
Item
Mar. 18, 1951

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the Happiness Cafe, McLeod's Transfer, Lanning Apartments and the Star Theatre.

RLY. [Railway] gates at Hastings Street

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-299
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Photograph shows the Sterling Food Markets Ltd., and the second Pantages Theatre.

Georgia Auditorium [1805 West Georgia St.]

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-69
Item
June 9, 1959

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

[Exterior of the Princess Theatre at 55 East Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-867
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View from Dunsmuir Street and Granville Street showing the] business district in early days

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-258
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Badminton Hotel, the Y.W.C.A., the Theatre Royal, the Vancouver Club and other buildings and the "Mission" and the North Vancouver Indian Reserve in the background