City of Vancouver Archives

[Exterior of Boeing Plant building two Sea Island]

AM54-S4-: Air P1.1
Item
Mar. 16, 1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Boeing Plant, building one, Sea Island

AM54-S4-: Air P1.9
Item
Mar. 16, 1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows planes in various stages of assembly.

[Three Catalina Patrol Bombers on test flight]

AM54-S4-: Air P1.10
Item
Feb. 20 [1944?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Trans-Canada airplane taxiing at Sea Island airport]

AM54-S4-: Air P17
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Austrialian National Airways D.C. 4 airplane "Warana" on runway]

AM54-S4-: Air P18
Item
Sept. 18, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Canadian Pacific Airlines pre-inaugural flight of the "Empress of Sydney" to Australia]

AM54-S4-: Air P37.3
Item
July 10, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the Immigration and Customs building.

[Charles K. Hamilton] First Air Plane Visitor to Vancouver B.C.

AM54-S4-: Air P43
Item
Mar. 25, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Administration building at Sea Island Airport]

AM54-S4-: Air P44
Item
Jan. 5, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Front end of B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]

AM54-S4-: Air P55.1
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ashthorpe in front of a B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]

AM54-S4-: Air P55.2
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[James Wedell and William Templeton beside Wendell Williams Air Service Incorporated airplane]

AM54-S4-: Air P76
Item
Dec. 5, 1931 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Airplane in flight over Minoru Race Track]

AM54-S4-: Air P77
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Frank Way, first Customs Officer, Sea Island Airport and Keith Rider, pilot

AM54-S4-: Air P79.1
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an experimental airplane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker" NR-14215

["Gilmore the Record Breaker" airplane taking off on the first non-stop flight to Mexico from the Vancouver Airport]

AM54-S4-: Air P79.4
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

Mr. Way bids Pilot Rider farewell and good luck on the first non-stop flight between Canada and Mexico.

AM54-S4-: Air P79.5
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Aerial view of] The New International Air Terminal - Vancouver, Canada

AM54-S4-: Air P111.1
Item
Oct. 25, 1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view. Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Airlines and Air Canada planes at the terminal.

[Airport administration building and airplane]

AM54-S4-: Air P113
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Mayor R.H. Gale and his two sons [in front of] Curtiss J.N.4 two seater bi-plane]

AM54-S4-: Air P72.2
Item
July 9, 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Lady Lowson and Sir Denys C.F. Lowson, Lord Mayor of London prior to boarding a Trans-Canada Air Lines flight]

AM54-S4-: Port P1227
Item
1951

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Major D.R. McLaren, Percy Richards, Alderman G.C. Miller, Sheriff Welch, Sheriff Lovely, John Cates, Mr. Anscombe, Premier Johnson, Mrs. Hume, His Worship F.J. Hume, W.T. Boston and others

[The Canadian Pacific Airlines airplane in which Queen Elizabeth travelled]

AM54-S4-: Port P1690.01
Item
Feb. 1, 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men await for Queen Elizabeth to deplane]

AM54-S4-: Port P1690.02
Item
Feb. 1, 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Murton A. Seymour at the controls of William Stark's airplane at Minoru Race Track]

AM54-S4-: Trans P12
Item
Sept. 8, 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Parachuting from a Curtiss Flying Boat over Lulu Island]

AM54-S4-: Trans P75
Item
[1923 or 1924]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Members of the first Aero Club in British Columbia in front of their bi-plane at Minoru race track]

AM54-S4-: Trans P86
Item
Sept. 8, 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right): Billy Macrae, Phil Scott, W.M. (Billy) Stark, Phil H. Smith, Murton A. Seymour and Vic Phillips

The "Empress of Auckland", C.P.A. transpacific aircraft, on tarmac at Vancouver Airport.

AM54-S4-: Air P39
Item
July, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pilot Earl Ortman beside] an experimental [air]plane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker&quot...

[Pilot Earl Ortman beside] an experimental [air]plane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker" NR-14215

AM54-S4-: Air P79.2
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Flying school, Sea Island, B.C.]

AM1584-: CVA 7-158
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Flying school, Sea Island, B.C.]

AM1584-: CVA 7-159
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Mrs. Catherine Quiney standing beside a plane at Sea Island, B.C.]

AM1584-: CVA 7-160
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Plane flying from Sea Island]

AM1584-: CVA 7-163
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Plane flying]

AM1584-: CVA 7-162
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[Plane flying, from Sea Island, B.C.]

AM1584-: CVA 7-161
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[City of Vancouver truck making delivery at] Vancouver Airport

AM1535-: CVA 99-4454
Item
Nov. 19, 1935

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows sacks being loaded into the nose of an airplane

[City of Vancouver truck making delivery at] Vancouver Airport

AM1535-: CVA 99-4453
Item
Nov. 19, 1935

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows the terminal building in the background

[First Nations men wearing regalia at Western Canada Air Show]

AM54-S4-: In P57
Item
Aug. 1, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): Joseph (Splahk-tum), the sons of Chief Jack Stogen, Chief Jack Stogen (Semilano), Chief Moses Joseph, Chief Jimmy Jimmy (Swahsh), Stanley Joseph