City of Vancouver Archives

[Hydraulic gold mining at Lillooet Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Out P723
Item
[ca. 1880]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows William Cumming and others

[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

Hotel Site C.P.Ry

AM54-S4-: Hot P14
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the excavation for the first Hotel Vancouver at Granville and Georgia Streets and John Tonkin

[Students and staff in front of All Hallows' School]

AM54-S4-: Out P697.1
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Miss Thompson, Minnie Chase, Jenny Sawyer, Flora Walker, Esther McDonald (Mrs. Wellington), Miss Moody (Sister Althea), Miss Chase, Sister Margaret, Mrs. McGinnis, Mrs. Urquhart, Lena, Agnes Main, Rose Oppenheimer, Marian Walker, Annie Main, Emma Castle, Emma Llene, Sister Superior, Mrs. Dodd, Helen Oppenheimer, Sister Alice, Dora Oppenheimer, Amy Paul, Mary Jane, Mrs. Clare and others.

[Workmen in front of the first Hotel Vancouver under construction on southwest corner of Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Hot P4
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Streetcar line construction on Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P77
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from near Prior Street

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).

[Loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3067
Item
[between 1889 and 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken ground level view of loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station.

[Streetcar line construction on Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P78
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from near Prior Street

[Laying tracks for the Vancouver Street Railway Company on the corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and Powell Street]

AM54-S4-: Trans P13
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Laying tracks for the Vancouver Street Railway Company on Westminster Avenue (Main Street) near Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Trans P17
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the building (second from right) where the Salvation Army was first located

[Streetcar line construction on Powell Street looking west from Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P79
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the first City Hall on the far right

Workmen improving bluff at "Cariboo Joe's" tunnel, C.P. Ry.

AM54-S4-: LGN 734
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with loads of rock on tracks next to cliff.

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.

[Tea being spread out to dry in C.P.R. park at Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1083
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a customs agent sitting on a box of tea, watching Asian workers empty tea out of boxes and spread it out to dry with rakes.

Threshing on the farm of J.R. Neff, Esq., Moosamin, Assa

AM54-S4-: LGN 648
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field, some operating threshing machinery, and others with horse drawn carts.

[Threshing outfit at T.B. Waddington, Brandon, Manitoba]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1473
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Threshing outfit at T.B. Waddington, Brandon, Man.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1472
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rotary snow plough, Revelstoke

AM54-S4-: LGN 617
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men on Canadian Pacific Railway Rotary Snow Plough on tracks in forest

[Men working on C.P.R. railway line uphill from the Nose tunnel in Mt. Stephen, on the Big Hill east of Field, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 608
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows area known as the Big Slide, Kicking Horse River, the slopes of Mt. Field (on right) and Mt. Burgess in the background.

Threshing on farm of C.A.C. and Col. Co., Namaka, Alb.

AM54-S4-: LGN 650
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field with horse-drawn carts, threshing machinery and barrels.

Threshing on the farm of J.R. Neff, Esq., Moosamin, Assa.

AM54-S4-: LGN 649
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field, some operating threshing machinery, and others with horse-drawn carts

Interior of salmon cannery, Fraser River

AM54-S4-: SGN 1466
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men and women working at assembly line in cannery.

[Men constructing foundation for smokestack in Bellingham]

AM54-S4-: SGN 985
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph consists of two images of the construction scene, one showing men excavating the site, and the other shows two men with lumber near the site. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.