City of Vancouver Archives

Children on boat play structure at Expo '86

COV-S477-3-F111-: CVA 775-62
Item
1986

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Firefighters with children in wheelchairs]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-249
Item
1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Children in wheelchairs eating snacks at firehall]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-251
Item
1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Vancouver Fire Department staff member explaining tools to interviewer and boy scouts]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-252
Item
1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of fire prevention demonstration by Vancouver Fire Department firefighters at Oakridge Shopping Centre]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-275
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing people watching a firefighter demonstrating the use of a fire extinguisher.

[Children assembled on Shop 77, 1927 La France fire engine retired in Stanley Park playground]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-315
Item
[ca. 1968]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Group portrait of firefighters and other men gathered on playing field]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-373
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Hong Kong - children playing, steam ship band

AM1591-: 2011-089.12
Item
[between 1926 and 1938]

Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds

Item is an amateur film which captures children by the Scott's Hong Kong home skipping, playing, and smiling for the camera; children playing Ring Around the Rosie and cartwheeling; a band playing onboard a large steam ship; and shots of passengers and crew.

[Children in window of unidentified house]

COV-S535-F4-: CVA 786-85.16
Item
1978

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Children in playground, 1 of 3]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-14172
Item
[between 1968 and 1972]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Children in playground, 3 of 3]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-14174
Item
[between 1968 and 1972]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Queen Elizabeth Gardens

AM1487-: MI-227
Item
[between 1975 and 1980]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting the Bloedel Conservatory and the gardens at Queen Elizabeth Park. The film includes footage of flowers and people walking through gardens, standing on a footbridge, taking photographs, and waiting in line outside the Bloedel Conservatory.

Vancouver Aquarium and Stanley Park

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting the seals at the Stanley Park Zoo and other tourist attractions in Stanley Park. Film documents seals swimming and being watched by crowds at Zoo, as well as people visiting the Stanley Park Gardens and posing with the totem poles on Brockton Point.

Visit to Seattle’s World Fairgrounds

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Film shows a visit to Seattle’s World Fairgrounds and includes footage of the Space Needle, the New Craft Center and Gallery and children playing by a fountain a drinking fountain, and a ferris wheel.

Gabriel, Margaret (nee Kruger)

1948-1952 - Patsy 1 year old to 4 years old

AM1487-F05-: 2013-004.04
Item
1948-1952

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing Patricia McCuaig from ages one to four years old, skating, the McCuaig family attending christenings, children's birthday parties, the family at Boundary Bay Beach and Wayne McCuaig as a baby. Other individuals identified in the film include Jean McCuaig, Kenny McCuaig, David Goodman, Marg Clarence, Dot Toombs, Lynn Drinnan, Wil McCuaig, Do McCuaig and Anna Lena McCuaig.

Holidays Xmas '59 continued

AM1487-F05-: 2013-004.11
Item
1959-1960

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing the San Diego Zoo, San Francisco, driving through the Redwoods, Wayne McCuaig in Boy Cubs, trip to Kelowna, Mara Lake and Fraser Canyon, volleyball at camp, picking blackberries and water skiing.

Black and white (grainy) pre-1937

AM1487-F07-: 2017-055.3
Item
[ca. 1932-1936]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film containing home movie footage showing people on the deck of a boat, views of Georgia Street and Hotel Georgia, Burrard Inlet, trees, children eating on a bench and swimming, unidentified home and garden, and aerial views of Vancouver.

Boy tuning a large table model radio

AM1376-F02-: CVA 239-27
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Convent of the Sacred Heart school portrait

AM1376-F03-: CVA 214-08
Item
1918

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Mrs. Lewis and Gordon, Vancouver BC

AM1376-F14-: CVA 312-39
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Outdoor portrait of] Fluery children

AM1376-F14-: CVA 312-44
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

City Hall employees annual picnic

AM1376-: LEG1796.1
Item
1935

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a panoramic photograph showing the attendees of the City Hall employees picnic at Sechelt.

[Group portrait taken in front of a house]

AM1376-: 2021-024.1
Item
[July 5, 1913]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing a group standing in front and on the covered porch of a house. Inscription on verso of states: "July 5, 1913, Mrs. P McRae, 2631 Burns Street, Vancouver."

WPG Bowling Club

AM1376-: 2022-074.1
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of the West Point Grey Lawn Bowling Club. The print has been marked with ink identifying five people: 1) Nest/Barron, 2) George McKee, 3) J. Pollock, 4) Ald. Lembke and 5) C. N. Haney. Another man is marked with a question mark and the notation "Like[ly] ? Easton of Safeway."

Becky walking Aug. 7, June 79

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing a toddler [Becky] playing in a yard, Christmas scenes with children opening presents and dinner, playing in the snow, view of a pond and Siwash Rock in Stanley Park, a birdcage and relay races and games in a school yard.