Christmas number of the News-advertiser, Vancouver, B.C.
- FC 3801 .N3 c.2
- 1889
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Christmas number of the News-advertiser, Vancouver, B.C.
Historical papers : Session 1907-8
Hon. Attorney General Bowser's speech on the False Creek agreement
Constitution and by-laws of the Vancouver Pioneers' Association
Described on cover as a "Review of the development of Canada's western gateway from the first coming of the whiteman."
The vision realized : through to Vancouver
Greetings from Uneeda Printers Limited
A history of Point Grey municipality.
Early charitable institutions and their works in Vancouver, B. C.
Vancouver's early days and the development of her social services
Killed in action [in World War I]
Part of City publications collection
Waterfront : [illustration of the first post office & store & school, Vancouver,, B.C., 1866]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other sources, and original film segments. Narration is provided with intertitles and scrolling and animated text.
Reel three features: the arrival of a Canadian Pacific steamship, crowds meeting it at port, and the unloading of cargo; construction of the Lions Gate Bridge; sports, including boxing, horse racing, and speed boating; the fishing industry with shots of fishing boats unloading their catch outside the National Fisheries Cannery and net mending and preparation; and Remembrance Day services at the cenotaph in Victory Square.
Cooke, Larry
Greetings from Vancouver Canada on the occasion of the coronation of King George VI
Part of City publications collection
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other sources, and original film segments. Narration is provided with intertitles and scrolling and animated text.
Reel two features Vancouver airport, including a biplane (Lockheed Model 10 Electra) and a Canadian Airways passenger plane, the airport hangar and terminal building; shots of a steamer ship entering the harbour; the Marine Building, Hotel Vancouver, and the Burrard Street Bridge;coverage of the opening of Vancouver City Hall (parade with a pipe band, a car with dignitaries (possibly Mayor Gerry McGreer), and Mounties); the Pattullo Bridge; an unidentified paper mill and surrounding landscape; the funeral of George V; excavation work for the foundations of the Lions Gate Bridge; the abdication of Edward VIII and his subsequent marriage to Wallis Simpson.
Cooke, Larry
The University of British Columbia : Twenty-first anniversary, 1915-1936
Vancouver : the rise of a city
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other sources, and original film segments. Narration is provided with intertitles and scrolling and animated text.
Reel one includes: discovery of the site of Vancouver by George Vancouver, Old Hastings Mill Store, the great 1886 fire, the arrival of steam ships and the CPR, the beginnings of industrialisation in Vancouver until the First World War, WWI and the war front, George V and the Prince of Wales, post-war recovery, economic boom, the 1929 stock market crash, a 1932 stock recovery. Prosperity and youth are illustrated with women?s calisthenics (possibly Pro-Rec activities), busses, trams, street scenes, and shots of buildings on the UBC campus.
Cooke, Larry
Vancouver's Golden Jubilee : 1936 : information for our guests
Romance of Vancouver : jubilee number
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other sources, and original film segments. Narration is provided with intertitles and scrolling and animated text.
Reel four features: equestrian displays; the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland crisis of 1938 with intertitles hoping for goodwill, wisdom, and peace; completion of the Lions Gate Bridge and the opening of the bridge to pedestrian and automobile traffic; the royal visit of George VI and Queen Elizabeth; footage of a steamship travelling under the Lions Gate Bridge and footage of the bridge from the water and ground; footage of the harbour; a photo of the downtown skyline and a scrolling text tribute to Vancouver extolling how much the city has progressed in the preceding fifty years.
Cooke, Larry
The heroine of Moodyville : an epic of Burrard Inlet, 1883
This item includes a poem about Mrs. John Peabody Patterson, nee Emily Susan Branscombe (1835-1909). It also includes a print of a portrait of Mrs. Patterson.
Early shipping in Burrard Inlet : 1863-1870
Fifty years of Cascade Lodge : 1888-1938
A short history of Caulfeild Village
Autobiography of Captain William Watts, pioneer, 1888.
The first fifty years : Vancouver high schools 1890-1940
Part of City publications collection
The sobriquets of "Gastown" ; being a compendium of nicknames of Burrard Inlet.
The first fifty years: Vancouver high schools 1890-1940.
[Magazine excerpt: The fire of 1886, facsimile from “Your Health”]
Proclamation by the Mayor to all citizens to whom these presents shall come
Part of City publications collection
Early lumbering on Burrard Inlet
"The evolution of Vancouver" : [an entertainment]
Incorporation of Vancouver, 1886
"The evolution of Vancouver" : [an entertainment]
Included an illustrated address by Philip Timms, F.R.S.A. presented March 20th in St..Andrew-Wesley Auditorium, Nelson & Burrard Streets