[Miss Marian E. Meilicke, reportedly the first woman taxi driver in Vancouver]
- AM54-S4-: Port P835
- Item
- Aug. 1938
Part of Major Matthews collection
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[Miss Marian E. Meilicke, reportedly the first woman taxi driver in Vancouver]
Part of Major Matthews collection
["The Fan Drill" presented at Hart's Opera House in aid of Alexandra Hospital]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Group portrait showing (left to right) standing: Nellie Boultbee (Mrs. J.O. Benwell), Miss Martin (Mrs. J.M. Buxton), Sydney Boultbee (Mrs. A.E. Phillips), Rose Townley (Mrs. Grange Holt), Elizabeth Alexander (Mrs. J.G.L. Abbott) and Jennie Johns; seated: Mrs. Storey; kneeling: Mrs. John G. Woods, Elizabeth McDougall (Mrs. Beetham), Miss McWhinney and Anne Bodwell
[Rev. Charles Montgomery Tate and others]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "End of Pipe Line Road. First Narrows. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris have lived here almost fifty years.; Picnic is on the edge of beach. Her Lord Stanley dedicated. Oppenheimer opened.; Stanley Park water works house. Pipe Line Road. Prospect point.; Old Indian [indigenous] clearing. Occupied Chief Haatsalanogh (Kitsilano) 1863.; See R.E. [Royal Engineers] survey this is Chaythoos. Here Hay-tulk was buried."
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Mrs. Edward Boynton (102 years old) smoking a cigar]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph showing a portrait of Matilda Boynton. Inscription on verso states "Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boynton 4195 Fraser St. Mrs. Boynton will be 103 years old Feb. 13th 1961. Born, Victoria, Tennessee. Ed. Boynton was born [Aurora] Ontario March 10th 1876. She still use no glasses, no hearing aid, does her own house work. Smokes the odd cigar and like a drink of Rum. Presented by Reuben Hamilton, Pioneer."
[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. car]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. observation car]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]
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Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Charles Bailey, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eva Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Charles Bailey, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eve Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Railway yards] immediately below Keefer's house
Part of Major Matthews collection
[View of men and women and threshing machines at work in a field in Ladner]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows two horse drawn wagons filled with mown grain stalks.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Professionally taken head and shoulders portrait shows Emily Matthews in evening gown. This portrait was used as the basis for Sydney March's oil painting of Emily Matthews.
[Miss McFarland and unidentified girl seated on bench in wooded area]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph showing Cora McFarland (right).
[Mrs. James Esselmont plants a "Frances Willard" tree in the rock garden in Stanley Park]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph also shows Paul R. Josselyn, American Consul, at ceremony to mark the centenary of Willard's birth.
[Methodist Church and parsonage and the side of St. Saviour's Church]
Part of Major Matthews collection
People identified (left to right): Dawson H. Elliot, Maggie Pinkerton, Elizabeth Pinkerton (Mrs. D. H. Elliot) and James Delhanty
[A group of pioneers at the Heatley Avenue Station for the arrival of C.P.R. locomotive No. 374]
Part of Major Matthews collection
The Happier Old Age Club 10th annual New Years Dinner [at the] Hotel Vancouver
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Second May Queen celebration at Queens Park, New Westminster]
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People identified: Man in top hat: Col. Scott and two girls in front of Maypole (left): Helen McColl, (right): Elizabeth Irving
[Lord Strathcona and Sir MacKenzie Bowell with group in front of "Hollow Tree"]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows David Robertson, D.C. McGregor, C.S. Douglas, Colonel McSpadden, William Murray, C. Wade, Miss Howard, Lord Strathcona, Donald Howard, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, C.C. Chipman, John Hendry, Ewing Buchan, H.T. Lockyer, W.H. Malkin, Alex Morrison, J.J. Banfield, J.N. Ellis, A.E. Goodman, Rupert Chipman, George E. Trorey and J.M. Bowell
Earl Grey Party at Big Tree Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Group portrait at the Hollow Tree showing Earl and Lady Grey and their daughters and His Worship Fred Buscombe and William Stark driving
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
[Group portrait of the Tourist Association on the steps of the courthouse]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Mayor Louis D. Taylor
Part of Major Matthews collection
unknown
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
The Canadian Bar Association 34th Annual Meeting (Buffet Dinner at U.B.C. Library Lawn)
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows people seated at a banquet on the lawn of the Main Library
[Miss Elizabeth Lucy Crickmay (Mrs. A.R. Sherwood)]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
[Mayor L.D. Taylor and the "Exhibition Queen"]
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Photograph shows the Mayor standing with a woman beside a sign advertising for the Grand Canadian International Celebration event.
[Sophia Jane White (Mrs. Charles S.L. Street)]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Van Roggen at the Jericho Country Club golf course]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Miss Harvey (Mrs. C.R. Bull) teeing off at the Jericho Country Club golf course]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print in Archives.
[Mrs. Douglas Broome at the Jericho Country Club golf course]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print
[Mrs. A.C. Eddy and R.P. Baker at the Jericho Country Club golf course]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print in Archives.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph showing shows Major J.S. Matthews, Mrs. Jean G. Gibbs and Principal Muir. Notes written on the back include: "Sir Charles Kingsford Smith School, Vancouver. 8901 Elliott St. On June 24th 1959, at 2 30 p.m., there was unveiled at this school, and, in the presence of Miss Florence Fyfe-Smith, Principal Muir, of the school, Major J.S. Matthews, City Archivist, and Mrs Jean G. Gibbs, Assistant Archivist, a photogravure of an oil painting of the celebrated aviators, Charles Kingsford Smith, and Captain Ulm, who together were the first to fly from America to Australia. The painting was painted for the Atlantic Union Oil Co., of Australia, by William Dargie. Major Matthews arranged with Mr McDermot, Canadian High Commissioner, Canberra, for colored copies. Mr McDermot sent about six. One is in the City Archives. There were about 600 pupils at the ceremony."
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Mrs. and Admiral Hastings with a group of six naval officers including Captain Dawkins, Alec Hastings, A. Brooke, Mr. Dent and Mr. Perry.
[Sir John A. MacDonald, Members of Parliament and others]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows images of individual members of Parliament that were cut from various sources and collaged onto a hand-drawn background and then re-photographed to represent a group portrait
[Mrs. H.S. Armstrong, President Vancouver Council of Women]
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Head and shoulders portrait
Mary Matthews at 80 [years of age]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait of Major J.S. Matthews' mother
Part of Major Matthews collection
Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis or Eileen Willis, Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, and Major Matthews.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis.
1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis]
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Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis holding a cat.