City of Vancouver Archives

24" x 8'-0" oil reservoir for 6'-6" needle intake valves [used for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1216.05
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Pelton Water Wheel Company.

3rd Avenue Prince Rupert, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P630.2
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A man at work on electric generators on dam]

AM54-S4-: Out P452.2
Item
Nov. 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Annual Pacific Coast Convention

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1298
Item
Sept. 13, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a visit of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to plant No. 2 where lunch was served in the high tension switch room

Assembly of 72" butterfly valve for Vancouver Power Co. [used for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1216.07
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Pelton Water Wheel Company.

Base for 6'-6" needle intake valve [used for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1216.12
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Pelton Water Wheel Company.

[Base of "H" frame wood pole structure at south side of Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1214
Item
26 Feb. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows partially constructed base of poles used to carry power lines across the Burrard Inlet to North Vancouver.

[B.C. Electric Railway Co. exhibition booth, displaying electric storage battery operated truck and household appliances]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1249
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shoes truck, as well as lamps, stove and washing machine.

[B.C. Electric Railway Co. power house under construction - Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P248
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a carbon arc street light.

[B.C. Electric Railway Company right-of-way and power lines through hop fields near Sardis]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1160
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[B.C. Electric Railway Company's Lake Buntzen power house from the water]

AM54-S4-: Out P1217.1
Item
July 22, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bearing of a gland for 72" butterfly valve [used for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1216.08
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Pelton Water Wheel Company.

[Boards and other debris in excavation area for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1756
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boat, logs, and buildings at small dock at site of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1669
Item
29 Sept. [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boats near dock piled with lumber for construction of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1673
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boilers in partially constructed Brentwood Bay Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 896
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1657
Item
[190?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows various buildings, power lines, and tracks leading up the mountain.

[Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one construction site]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1751
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one construction site]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1672
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Buntzen-Coquitlam hydro-electric development - Key map

AM54-S4-: LGN 1297
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing showing profiles of hydraulic tunnels for the Coquitlam Dam and the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; and of a map showing the Lower Mainland area. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the two images.

[Cable structure used to clear site for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1661
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Vancouver branch visit to Lake Buntzen, B.C.

AM54-S4-: LGN 859
Item
27 Sept. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a group of men assembled behind railing of gate house of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two.

Chapman and Walker [Electric Machinery and Supplies display at] Vancouver Exhibition

AM54-S4-: Bu P492.2
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Chart of transmission system

AM54-S4-: LGN 1148
Item
2 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a diagram illustrating a high voltage electrical power system.

[Collapsed structure and equipment, from construction of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 825
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Concrete stacks of the Vancouver Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1194
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows stacks and surrounding buildings, as well as a construction elevator used to pour concrete for the construction of the Georgia Viaduct. Photograph also shows False Creek and Mount Pleasant in the distance.

[Concrete stacks of the Vancouver Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1199
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Concrete stacks of the Vancouver Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1197
Item
11 June 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows stacks, surrounding buildings, partially constructed Georgia Viaduct, and the North Shore mountains.

[Construction of Brentwood Bay Steam Plant, viewed from inlet]

AM54-S4-: LGN 893
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 814
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of east portal of hydraulic tunnel for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 855
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of Horne-Payne substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 888
Item
31 July 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of main generating room for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1179
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of penstock number one for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 841
Item
5 May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows railway track and sections of pipe.

[Construction of penstock on hillside behind Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1259.1
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of penstock on hillside behind Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1259.2
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of penstocks at rear of power house of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 860
Item
11 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows pipes and railway tracks leading up hill.

[Construction of switches and switch structures in high tension switch room of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 861
Item
14 Apr. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Cope & Son (Electrical)

AM54-S17-M2070
File
1945-1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

File consists of newspaper clippings related to Cope & Co. Ltd., pioneer wholesale electrical firm. Cope & Son Ltd.

[C.P.R. crossing under construction on Cordova between Seymour and Granville Streets]

AM54-S4-: Can P25
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the end of the depot that held the Dominion Government Immigration Office.

[Cross section of headgate structure and New Westminster Water Works intake tower]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1299
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a page from a Sept. 12, 1912 article in the "Engineering Record", entitled "Enlargement of the Coquitlam-Buntzen hydro-electric power development". Negative was created in order to produce a lantern slide of the image.