City of Vancouver Archives

[First C.P.R. train to cross Cisco cantilever bridge]

AM54-S4-: Can P183
Item
1884

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the locomotive "Nicola"

Rock cutting at Salmon [Nahatlatch] River

AM54-S4-: Can N126
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

Highest Trestle between Vancouver Kamloops - 7 miles north of Boston Bar

AM54-S4-: Can N132
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

[C.P.R. New Westminster Junction]

AM54-S4-: Can P177
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bottom left corner shows inscription: "143, Harrison Station" [Image subject possibly shows Harrison Mills C.P.R. site?].

Telegraph station

AM54-S4-: Can N125
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

Grasshopper Trestle 3 miles above Keefers

AM54-S4-: Can N108.1
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

Keefer's House [and family]

AM54-S4-: Can N101
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Cutting at Salmon [Nahatlatch] River

AM54-S4-: Can N127
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

[Third] Fraser River Tunnel

AM54-S4-: Can N117
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph show two hand cars

The Jigger [C.P.R. construction car]

AM54-S4-: Can N97
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. Station and round house]

AM54-S4-: Can P178
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a hand car

[C.P.R. engine # 47 - the "Pacific Express"]

AM54-S4-: Can P181
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The first through train at the train station in Port Moody]

AM54-S4-: Can P1
Item
July 4, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Donald A. Ross, C.E.

Canadian Pacific Railway arrival of the first through train at the seabord of British Columbia

AM54-S4-: Can P2
Item
July 4, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men next to C.P.R. locomotive 371 at the Port Moody railway station.

Donald, B.C. from Selkirk House

AM54-S4-: Can P180
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows engine #152

[Men and women gathered at platform next to C.P.R. locomotive 371]

AM54-S4-: Can P4
Item
[July 4, 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Identified are A.G. McCandless, "Teny" Christina Robertson, Victoria, and Miss Lewis (Mrs W.H.R. Collister)

Glacier Hotel, Selkirk Mountains

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-456
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows hotel buildings, train cars, people on train platform, fountain, and mountains in the background.

No. 314 Heavy grade engine, C.P.R.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1501
Item
[1886?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Train] wrecked by Snow Slide: Rogers Pass

AM54-S4-: Can P198
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the town of Rogers Pass]

AM54-S4-: Can P197
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a C.P.R. construction camp

Snow Plow and [Train]

AM54-S4-: Can P200
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian Pacific Railway arrival of the first through train at the seabord of British Columbia

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1294
Item
July 4, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men next to C.P.R. locomotive 371 at the Port Moody railway station.

Vancouver from C.P.R. Docks

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 4-36
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

C.P.R. Co.'s wharf

AM54-S4-: LGN 463
Item
[1887?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows wharf, piles of timber, railway cars, the ship "Williamette" at dock, and buildings and forest in the distance. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

C.P.R. Bridge Crew

AM54-S4-: Can P176
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The first C.P.R. station and wharf]

AM54-S4-: Can P204
Item
1887; reproduced in 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Pacific Express" being unloaded

[The first train load of salmon to leave New Wesminster]

AM54-S4-: Out P6
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows W.L. Fagan in a white hat and other men

Cheops Mountain from Hotel

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 4-32
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Locomotive at field, C.P.R., Rocky Mountains

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-455
Item
[188-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows two men in engine of car. A mountainside covered in trees can be seen in the background.

[Small steam logging train at foot of Trutch Street in Kitsilano]

AM54-S4-: Log P15
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

C.P.R. Rotary ["A"] Snow Plow at Rogers Pass, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Can P188
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Mountain Creek Bridge, C.P.R., Selkirks, length 1084 ft., height 153 ft.

AM54-S4-: SGN 188
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a train crossing a trestle bridge, with a snow covered mountain in the background.

Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2381
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. wharf at the foot of Howe Street

General View of Docks at Vancouver

AM1376-: CVA 1376-375.18
Item
[1889 or 1890]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

C.P.R. Dock [at foot of Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P193
Item
[1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

First train to cross Mission Branch Bridge (C.P.R.), spanning Fraser River, Mission, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1459
Item
[Feb. 1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vintage print identifies four individuals in the photograph: #29 H. Abbott, Supt. C.P.R., #30 H.J. Cambie, Engineer C.P.R., #31 Mayor David Oppenheimer, #39 W.H. Armstrong