City of Vancouver Archives

[View of B.C. Marine Railways Company near the foot of Victoria Drive]

AM54-S4-: Wat P109
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the sternwheel steamship "Baramba" and the tallship "Robert R.. Hind"

[Logging skid trail in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: VLP 84
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Hauling a Forest Giant in Oregon

AM54-S4-: Tr P8.2
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[People lined up on top of a large Douglas Fir felled by Tahsis Company at Gold River]

AM54-S4-: Tr P56.6
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Huge Douglas Fir logs from Woss' camp]

AM54-S4-: Tr P56.5
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Falling a large Douglas Fir]

AM54-S4-: Tr P56.4
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Felling Large Timber North Arm Fraser River near Vancouver, B.C. - George Oliver's Contract

AM54-S4-: Tr P44
Item
Oct. 14, 1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tree-felling using spring boards]

AM54-S4-: Tr P35
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Sample of B.C. Fir - Diameter 9'8" near Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Tr P26
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Felling the Timber, Royal City Mills Camp

AM54-S4-: Tr P10.1
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Felling a tree using spring boards]

AM54-S4-: Tr N49
Item
[ca. 1911] ; reproduced 1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two loggers with axes standing by a large tree in a forest]

AM54-S4-: Tr N38
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Shingle bolts being loaded onto a scow]

AM54-S4-2-: SGN 1809
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Log booms, and the ferry S.S. "Bowena" in Snug Cove, Bowen Island]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1561
Item
[1917?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Andrew Jackson Cates standing on a log boom]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1106
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Vancouver Harbour

AM54-S4-: PAN P78
Item
Feb. 7, 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Burrard Inlet including 42 ocean steamers in port of which 25 were for grain cargoes, 17 vessels at berth (not shown in photograph) and the Harbour Commissioners wharf and Grain Elevator No. 1 and log booms

[View of the North Arm of the Fraser River showing log booms and a tug boat]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N171B
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows a small section of the Eburne-New Westminster Interurban track and a stop.

[View of King and Jardine Sawmill at First and Ontario, False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N149B
Item
[ca. 1924]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows dicks, barges and logbooms.

[Canadian Pacific train load of Bainbridge lumber - "B.C. Toothpicks"]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N11
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Railway bridge over river to Abernethy-Lougheed Co. Ltd. sawmill, Port Haney]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N03
Item
1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Abernethy-Lougheed Logging Co. Ltd. locomotive drawing train of logs, Port Haney]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N01
Item
1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tugboat "Gypsy" at a Hastings Sawnill booming ground]

AM54-S4-: Out P986
Item
[between 1900 and 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A ten-horse team hauling logs]

AM54-S4-: Out P878
Item
1903 ; reproduced 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a skid road

[Women standing on spring boards on the Aslett property]

AM54-S4-: Out P863
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Daisy Crocker (Mrs. Kirkwood) and Maude Armour (Mrs. John Hicks)

[A four-horse team dragging logs]

AM54-S4-: Out P862
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Jim Horne, John Hicks, Hector MacDonald and others

[A four-horse team dragging logs along a skid road]

AM54-S4-: Out P861
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Dan Grey, Jim Horne, John and Frank Hicks and others

[Logging snags (burnt timber) after a forest fire]

AM54-S4-: Out P860
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Wilbur and John Hicks and Joe Shaw

[View of Harrison Mills]

AM54-S4-: Out P776
Item
[1903 or 1904]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A McNair logging engine that fell off the Hollyburn Wharf ]

AM54-S4-: Out P519
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Log booms fill the Saguenay River]

AM54-S4-: Out P379.10
Item
[ca. 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the Moodyville waterfront]

AM54-S4-: Mi P72
Item
[187-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the barque "Ellen Lewis" at dock and log booms

[Log booms at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P53
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver - Pacific Celebration [French narration]

AM1553-2-S6-: MI-340
Item
1982

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film is a promotional film for the city of Vancouver. The film won several awards at film festivals including: Chris Plaque - Best Travel Film, at Columbus International Film Festival; a Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Canuck Award - 2nd Place Best Canadian Travel Film, Canadian Travel Association; a Bronze Award at the Film and Television Festival of New York; and a Certificate of Merit - Recreation at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Producer and director of photography: Robert S. Rodvik; Director and supervising editor: Michael J. Collier; Original music composed and arranged by Ralph Dyck; Narrator: Art Hives; Narration script: Keith Cutler; Laboratory: Alpha Cine Service Ltd.; Electronic Instruments Courtesy of Roland Corp.; Sponsored by Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau; New Horizon Film Productions MCMLXXVI.
The English narration is on channel 1 and the French narration is on channel 2.

Sawmill

AM1553-2-S3-: MI-269
Item
1974

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film is a short following the lumbering process from cutting the tree down to loading the ships with lumber.

Vancouver - Pacific Celebration

AM1553-2-S6-: MI-264
Item
1976

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film is a promotional film for the city of Vancouver. The film won several awards at film festivals including: Chris Plaque - Best Travel Film, at Columbus International Film Festival; a Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Canuck Award - 2nd Place Best Canadian Travel Film, Canadian Travel Association; a Bronze Award at the Film and Television Festival of New York; and a Certificate of Merit - Recreation at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Producer and director of photography: Robert S. Rodvik; Director and supervising editor: Michael J. Collier; Original music composed and arranged by Ralph Dyck; Narrator: Art Hives; Narration script: Keith Cutler; Laboratory: Alpha Cine Service Ltd.; Electronic Instruments Courtesy of Roland Corp.; Sponsored by Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau; New Horizon Film Productions MCMLXXVI.
The16mm release print that the digital child was made from, was struck from the internegative/original negatives, and the optical sound track; it is closest thing to an original in the donation for this production. It is the only record of this movie on film with a soundtrack.

Allscreen - Vancouver - reel #4

AM1553-8-S13-: MI-256
Item
1984

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film consists of raw footage of scenes of Vancouver used in the video postcard "Vancouver - The World in a City." Film features aerial views of: B.C. Place Stadium, the City of Vancouver from Stanley Park, Coal Harbour, the seawall, Stanley Park, the downtown area, the B.C. Ferries-run seabus, the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre still under construction, the Expo Centre (now the Telus World of Science) under construction, as well as views of the development of the Expo site, the Fraser river, log booms on the Fraser river, the Airport, the University of British Columbia campus, and the Lions Gate bridge. Silent film.

Sawmill fire and Jake Loeppky family

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

Item is an amateur film documenting family life and a sawmill fire in Vancouver. The film consists of home movie footage filmed by Jake Loeppky, including footage of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Stanley Park Zoo, children playing at the family home in Burnaby, children swimming, and the family entertaining at home. The film also includes footage of a logging camp, a large dam, bears, and people waterskiing. Of particular note is several minutes of footage of the five-alarm fire that destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility at 999 West 6th Avenue on July 3, 1960.