City of Vancouver Archives

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1931
Item
[1912]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image of the Pacific Building in Vancouver. The back of the postcard contains personal correspondence addressed to Mr. Syde Faucett.

[View of funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938. Funeral procession from Christ Church Cathedral with Firemen's Band]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-097
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938. Funeral procession from Christ Church Cathedral with Firemen's Band]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-096
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938. Funeral procession from Christ Church Cathedral with Firemen's Band]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-095
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of Firemen's Band playing the funeral procession for Fireman Herbert E. Ellis, mortally injured on April 17, 1938]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-094
Item
Apr. 21, 1930

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Gathering of fire engines to show "Fully Motorized" occasion at C.P.R. freight yards]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-049
Item
Dec. 9, 1917

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing firefighters and fire equipment with a view of the 700 block of Main Street and a rail car in the background.

[Firefighters and motorized equipment in front of Firehall No. 2, 754 Seymour Street]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-043
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Police officers and vehicles assembled in front of Public Safety Building]

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-323
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Item is a photograph showing the building at 312 Main Street taken from a rooftop across the street.

[View of parking lot located on Main Street between Alexander and Powell Streets]

VPD-S214-: CVA 480-306
Item
Nov. 17, 1962

Part of Vancouver Police Department fonds

Item is a photograph showing cars in the parking lot and painted advertisements on surrounding buildings for Army & Navy Department Stores, Coca-Cola, Burrard Iron Works and other storefronts.

Georgia Street looking east

AM303-S2---: CVA 294-090
Item
[ca. 1931]

Part of Bertram Emery fonds

Vancouver Block clock tower and Birks sign

AM1536-: CVA 70-17
Item
1973

Part of Art Grice fonds

Item is a photograph of the upper floors and clock tower of Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street) taken from Howe Street over the top of the lower portion of the of the Toronto Dominion Bank tower (700 W. Georgia Street). The photograph details the clock face with neon tubing visible (though turned off), as well as the detailed cornices and caryatids that decorate the upper floor and tower. Atop the tower is a large rotating sign for Birks.

752 Richards Street

COV-S535-F4-: CVA 786-6.10
Item
1978

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Robert Cuthbert photographs

AM1376-F15
File
1925-1971

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

File consists of photographs taken by Cuthbert of streets and buildings in Vancouver's downtown core, the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge, and exterior views of the former F. Ronald Graham home, 1955-1958, 1967, 1971; as well as photographs collected by Cuthbert including the Burrard Bridge, 1932, group portrait of the Southlands Riding Club for which Cuthbert and his father, Robert G. Cuthbert, were members, 1945, and the the site of his father's veterinary practice at different locations on West 4th Avenue, 1925 - ca. 1964.

Cuthbert, Robert

Larwill Park

AM1659-F1
File
1975-1976

Part of Tom Grant fonds

File consists of photographs showing the area of downtown known as Larwill Park taken from viewpoints along Georgia, Dunsmuir, Cambie and Beatty Streets and shows the bus depot for Pacific Coach Stage Lines and Greyhound Bus Line and surrounding area.

Allscreen - Vancouver - reel #3

AM1553-8-S13-: MI-255
Item
1984

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film consists of raw footage of scenes of Vancouver used in the video postcard "Vancouver - The World in a City." Including Vancouver street scenes, the downtown area around Burrard Street, and Georgia Street, the Trade and Convention Centre construction site in Coal Harbour, Coal Harbour, the B.C. Ferries seabus, the Gastown neighbourhood, tourists, the steam clock, First Nations artists carving a totem pole, the undeveloped Expo 86 site, and various views of the city of Vancouver. Silent film.