[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"
[View of B.C. Marine Railways Company near the foot of Victoria Drive]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the sternwheel steamship "Baramba" and the tallship "Robert R.. Hind"
[Logging skid trail in Stanley Park]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Hauling a Forest Giant in Oregon
Part of Major Matthews collection
[People lined up on top of a large Douglas Fir felled by Tahsis Company at Gold River]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Huge Douglas Fir logs from Woss' camp]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Felling Large Timber North Arm Fraser River near Vancouver, B.C. - George Oliver's Contract
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Tree-felling using spring boards]
Part of Major Matthews collection
A Sample of B.C. Fir - Diameter 9'8" near Vancouver, B.C.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Felling the Timber, Royal City Mills Camp
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Felling a tree using spring boards]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Two loggers with axes standing by a large tree in a forest]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Shingle bolts being loaded onto a scow]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Log booms, and the ferry S.S. "Bowena" in Snug Cove, Bowen Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Andrew Jackson Cates standing on a log boom]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
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]
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]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph also shows dicks, barges and logbooms.
[Canadian Pacific train load of Bainbridge lumber - "B.C. Toothpicks"]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Railway bridge over river to Abernethy-Lougheed Co. Ltd. sawmill, Port Haney]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Abernethy-Lougheed Logging Co. Ltd. locomotive drawing train of logs, Port Haney]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Tugboat "Gypsy" at a Hastings Sawnill booming ground]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[A ten-horse team hauling logs]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows a skid road
[Women standing on spring boards on the Aslett property]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Daisy Crocker (Mrs. Kirkwood) and Maude Armour (Mrs. John Hicks)
[A four-horse team dragging logs]
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]
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]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Wilbur and John Hicks and Joe Shaw
Part of Major Matthews collection
[A McNair logging engine that fell off the Hollyburn Wharf ]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Log booms fill the Saguenay River]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[View of the Moodyville waterfront]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the barque "Ellen Lewis" at dock and log booms
[Log booms at Hastings Sawmill]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Vancouver - Pacific Celebration [French narration]
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.
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
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
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.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows men cutting down a large tree possibly in Stanley Park.
Comox [Logging Company using a Caterpillar tractor to log]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Logging with Caterpillar tractor near Elk River]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Logging by Caterpillar tractor near Elk River]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Logging west of MacDonald Street on Point Grey Road]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Locomotive "Two Spot" at Royal City Planing Mills logging camp at Sunnyside Road, Halls Prairie
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Photograph shows Robert Harvie, Engineer and a group of unidentified men
Royal City Planing Mills, Mud Bay logging camp
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Photograph shows a wood burning donkey engine yarder and men standing on a huge log
"Curly" [at] Port Kells [log dump of the Royal City Planing Mills]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Robert Harvie, Robert Collishaw, Jack Shortreed, Tom Fairhead and W. Harris
['Old Curly' (former C.P.R. locomotive) at logging camp]
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McNair Fraser logging camp [at] Hollyburn
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the 'Walking Dudley' hauling logs
McNair Fraser logging camp [at] Hollyburn
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the "Walking Dudley' hauling logs
McNair Fraser logging camp [at] Hollyburn
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the "Walking Dudley' hauling logs