City of Vancouver Archives

[A construction engine hauling lumber for the construction of Buntzen Lake Dam]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-35
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A pipeline under construction at Buntzen Lake Dam]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-48
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A team of horses hauling logs at the Buntzen Lake Dam construction site]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-58
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Angus Avenue (Drive) near 30th Avenue being graded with a plow]

AM54-S4-: Dist P22.1
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[B.C.E.R. cars being loaded at Little Mountain Quarry]

AM54-S4-: Dist P129
Item
[ca. 1907]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mr. Till, R. Piper, W. Prest and George Mare

Building stone wall. C.P.R.near Keefer's Station

AM54-S4-: LGN 637
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows workers with machinery on an elevated railway track running alongside a river.

Building the pipe - Seymour Creek water system

AM54-S4-: VLP 165
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men building a wooden pipe for the Seymour Creek Water System

[Buntzen Lake Dam tunnel under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-4
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-53
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-52
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-59
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-44
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-72
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Canal diggers at Capilano Dam]

AM54-S4-: Ci Dept P9
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Capilano Waterworks System [laying pipes]

AM54-S4-: Ci Dept P13
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Capilano Waterworks System [laying pipes]

AM54-S4-: Ci Dept P14
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Clearing the road after the Seymour Creek washout]

AM54-S4-: Out P719.19
Item
Oct. 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows F.L. Fellowes and others

[Construction of Horne-Payne substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 888
Item
31 July 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction workers tightening cables atop Westcoast Building - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.7
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] drag bucket entering tipple

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-98
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] drag bucket loading

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-9
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] method of sawing stumps at the ground

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-66
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. employees beside gravel bunker at Matthews Avenue and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Dist P25
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Andy Mitchell, Bill Morrison, Tommy Davis, Billy Buttars and Jack Neave

[Crated statue of Lord Stanley being loaded onto truck at Johnston Terminals Limited]

AM54-S4-: Mon P105.5
Item
Apr. 26, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Decking logs

AM54-S4-: LGN 513
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men stacking logs by rolling them up a ramp using chains, pulleys and horses. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Employees Hastings Sawmill, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Mi P4
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group of mill workers. Persons in the front row identified are Yasukichi Yoshizawa (second from left), Rusty Pleece (third from left), and Tom Hunter (fifth from left).

[Employees standing in front of the Hastings Sawmill building]

AM54-S4-: Mi P13
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows "Dumps" Baker, "Cinch" Smith, Mr. Treyenza, Charles Coldwell, Calvert Simson, A.J. Mouatt, Fred Cordiner, Alex Merryfield, Peter Cordiner, W.T. "Silly Billy" Frost, August Nielson and others

[Engineers and labourers in the engine room of R.M.S. "Empress of Japan"]

AM54-S4-: LP 267.1
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Face of cliff and start of rock excavation on site of No. 2 plant

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-4
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Floating railway track carried on cedar logs across Lake Buntzen

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-3
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the access from the tunnel camp trackage to the hydraulic tunnel leading to Plant No. 2

[Four men standing outside partially constructed gate house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 833
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Four scenes regarding construction of Buntzen Lake power lines]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1145
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: men clearing land in forest; horses and supplies next to small dock; power poles and lines; rowboat and supplies in lake near dock.

[Four scenes regarding construction of Buntzen Lake power lines]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1146.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: electrical towers in front of mountain; power poles and lines; men working on hillside; and electrical tower surrounded by power poles and trees.