Opening Day of Vancouver International Airport
- AM54-S4-: VLP 136
- Item
- July 22, 1931
Part of Major Matthews collection
Opening Day of Vancouver International Airport
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Sea Island Airport Airdrome with hangar doors open]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' inscription on negative "7797 Sea Island Airport Airdrome. 5 May 1931. Foundation stone Administration Bldg laid 13 Sept 1930. Official Opening 22 July 1931."
[View from the Administration Building at Sea Island Airport looking north across the runway]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Aerial view of Vancouver International Airport looking south]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Oblique view showing runways and the terminal buildings
[Aerial view of Vancouver International Airport looking west]
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Oblique view showing runways and the buildings at the South Terminal
Sea Island Airport Airdrome [hangar]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Aerial view of Vancouver International Airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
The "Empress of Auckland", C.P.A. transpacific aircraft, on tarmac at Vancouver Airport.
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Airport administration building and airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
International Air Terminal, Vancouver
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Aerial view of] The New International Air Terminal - Vancouver, Canada
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Oblique view. Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Airlines and Air Canada planes at the terminal.
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Administration building at Sea Island Airport]
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[Canadian Pacific Airlines christening of the "Empress of Vancouver"]
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Photograph shows Grant McConachie and the Queen Charlotte Airlines Limited Manager in the background.
[Canadian Pacific Airlines pre-inaugural flight of the "Empress of Sydney" to Australia]
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Photograph also shows the Immigration and Customs building.
[Area between Sea Island Airport administration building and airdrome]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Sea Island Airport administration building]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Sea Island Airport administration building]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Sea Island Airport administration building]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Sea Island Airport administration building]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.