City of Vancouver Archives

20 July 1914 H.M.C.S. Rainbow

AM54-S4-: Mil P290.09
Item
July 20, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a civilian looking at a cannon on board the ship

[A parade on Georgia Street travelling west towards Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-476
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking east

[A parade on Georgia Street travelling west towards Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-473
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking east

[A sailor standing beside the] Information desk [at the] Hudson Bay Company

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1726
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[A Supermarine built "Walrus" seaplane suspended from a crane]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-356
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an amphibious biplane usde by the Navy and Airforce (numbered 769 and K8343) with a man kneeling on the upper wing

A.C. Winter - Stoker 2nd Class [in H.M.C.S. uniform]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2791
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Studio portrait
Note on negative envelope "8792 Cartier / La 0749y / proofed"

Active Service Ratings Vancouver Division R.C.N.V.R. September. 1941 Fourth Training Class

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N192
Item
Sept. 1941

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a group portrait with a boy holding a drum in front.

Admiral Hastings and Group of Officers on board "Sparrowhawk"

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-120
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Alfred F.B. Carpenter, Captain V.C.R.N.

AM54-S4-: Port P1029
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Amateur Group in Costume for Bombastes

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-203
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph identifies men as :Login, Berkley, Wright, Dickens, Brodie, Whyte, Stock, Pirie, Walker.

Amateur Group in Costume for Steeple Chase and Bombastes

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-202
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identiefied as men as : Berkley, Wright, Stock, Dickens, Brodie, Ashington, Walker, Login, Pirie.

Amateur Group of Officers in Uniform

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-201
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph identifies officers: Dr. Eustace, Pirie, Brodie, Wright, Hastings, Torry, Logan, Walker, Ashington, Stock, Dickens, Whyte, Bentley.

[An unidentified man and three women on the deck of H.M.S. "Warspite"]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-443.2
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Barge of "Zealous" [on water carrying sailors]

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-12
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Blood donor clinic aboard the H.M.C.S. Warrior]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2405
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

British Special Service Squadron while in Vancouver, B.C. - 1924

AM1052-: AM1052 P-94
Item
[ca. 1924]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Canadian Pacific Exhibition parade [Naval Cadets, Georgia Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2986
Item
1939

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Canadian Pacific Exhibition [group of Naval Cadets]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2992
Item
1939

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Capt. B.L. Johnson and Capt. B.D.L. Johnson

AM581-F11-: CVA 582-011
Item
1944

Part of Captain Barney Leitch Johnson fonds

[Captain Luis Recart and officer of Chilean training ship "Presidente Pinto" laying wreath at cenotaph]

AM54-S4-: Bo P365.7
Item
Mar. 1, 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Captain Luis Recart and officer of Chilean training shop "Presidento Pinto" presenting wreath]

AM54-S4-: Bo P365.6
Item
Mar. 1, 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

Captain of "Aida" boarding ["Empress of Russia"] for orders off Abu Ail

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2759
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Captain von Mueller as prisoner of war leaving "Empress of Russia"

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2758
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

CC2 in English Bay

AM581-F11-: CVA 582-013
Item
1914

Part of Captain Barney Leitch Johnson fonds

Photograph shows 3 men and Dodds aged 10 on cunning tower wearing his father's coat and cap.

C.E. Thomson [of Vancouver Motors]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2354
Item
Apr. 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait
Note on negative envelope "6311 Churchill / Vancouver Motors / Kerr 2717 / proofed"

[C.E. Tisdall addressing naval officers at dockside]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1138
Item
[1922 or 1923]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Commander J.M. Smith, R.C.N. sitting at a chart table]

AM54-S4-: Port P677.1
Item
1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Commander J.M. Smith, R.C.N. sitting at his desk]

AM54-S4-: Port P677.2
Item
1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

Commodore Beech buying Victory Bond

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1186
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Cordova Street in its Prime July 1st 1904 Naval Parade

AM1376-: CVA 1376-719
Item
July 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from Carrall Street including the Dunn-Miller Block

[Crew readying guns on board H.M.C.S. "Rainbow"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P106
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Crew readying guns on board the H.M.S. "Caroline"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P105
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Crowd watching naval guard and corner stone ceremony at H.M.C.S. Discovery]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-751
Item
1943

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Duke of Cornwall and York arriving in Vancouver at C.P.R. Station and the naval guard of honor awaiting inspection]

AM54-S4-: LP 55.1
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Old Yosemite paddlewheeler in background

Embarking Indian soldiers for the capture of Turkish lighthouses in the Red Sea

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2757
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view from the "Empress of Russia"

[Flag ceremony at the dedication of the foremast of H.M.C.S. "Vancouver" at Kitsilano Beach]

AM54-S4-: Be P60
Item
Oct. 24, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified: Yeoman of Signals Brown with flag and Mayor Miller on platform speaking to Lieut. Commander Donaldson

Fleet's in [3 Canadian Navy ships in dock]

AM1668-: CVA 293-110
Item
July 7, 1977

Part of William Edgar Knowles Middleton fonds

Fleet's in [3 Canadian Navy ships in dock]

AM1668-: CVA 293-110.1
Item
July 7, 1977

Part of William Edgar Knowles Middleton fonds

[Framed portrait of] Rear-Admiral V.G. Brodeur, C.B.E., R.C.N.

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2848
Item
June 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Head and shoulders portrait

French guns crew at target shooting starboard battery [aboard the "Empress of Russia"]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2751
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

French sailors at rifle practice [aboard the "Empress of Russia"]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2750
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Full length portrait of] Lieutenant Stopford

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-38
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full speed ahead

AM1553-2-S2-: MI-273
Item
1979

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Film produced by New Horizon Films for the Canadian Forces. It is an informational and promotional film about being a naval officer. Directed and filmed by Robert S. Rodvik, edited by Michael J. Collier, narration by Lt.(N) G. Davidson, S. Rodvik, narrator Campbell Lane, technical advisors Lt.(N) Terry Wolfe and Lt.(N) Glen Davidson.

[Full-length portrait of] Lieut. Parker

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-49
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Governor General his excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Bessborough, PC, GCMG, and her excellency the Countess of Bessborough visit Britannia Mines on Commodore E. W. Hamber's steam yacht "Vencedor" of the R. V. Y. C. Thursday Sept. 8th 1932

AM1036-S10-: MI-153
Item
1932

Part of Hamber family fonds

Item is a newsreel documenting the visit of Governor-General his excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Bessborough, PC, GCMG, and her excellency the Countess of Bessborough with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hamber to the Britannia Mines. The film shows footage of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hamber arriving at Ballantyne Pier; meeting with the members of the Vancouver Harbour Commission (President S. McClay, Commissioner J. B. Thomas, and Commissioner R. D. Williams); greeting his excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Bessborough and her excellency the Countess of Bessborough; and boarding their yacht Vencedor; the Britannia Mines band and Mr. C. P. Browning, manager of the Britannia Mines, officially receiving the visiting party at the Britannia Mines piers; and the visiting party inspecting the concentration and machine shop at the Britannia Mines. The film also includes images of the Vancouver skyline and the BC coastline taken during the seavoyage to and from the Britannia Mines, an aerial views of Britannia Beach and Howe Sound, as well an official shot of the crew of the Vencedor yacht.

Group at Maple Bank - 1869

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-3
Item
1869

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.

Group at Maple Bank - 1869

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-79
Item
1869

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.