City of Vancouver Archives

[A dinner for an unidentified occasion]

[Air Marshall Heakes speaks at a presentation at Sir Charles Kingsford Smith School]

[Barbara Duffee, Mrs. Bessie Bolton, Major J.S. Matthews and Mrs. H.F. Stanley]

[City Archives at temporary City Hall in the Holden Building]

[Corporal M.J. Olsen, Major J.S. Matthews and Thomas Howarth study copies of "The Northwest Passage" at Jericho Beach Hospital]

[First City Archives room at temporary City Hall in the Holden Building]

[First City Archives room, Main Street, City Hall]

[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]

[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and His Worship Fred J. Hume]

[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother signs the guest book in the Mayor's office]

[His Worship Frederick J. Hume congratulates Major J.S. Matthew's upon receiving The Freedon of Vancouver]

[His Worship J. Lyle Telford, Miss Margaret McNeil and Major J.S. Matthews]

[Interior: furnace, new Archives building]

[Interior: power centre, new Archives building]

[Interior: record centre, new Archives building]

[Interior: research room, new Archives building]

[Interior view of the City Archives, Burrard Street, showing Mrs. Jean Gibbs, Assistant City Archivist and another woman at work]

[Interior view of the main room of the City Archives, Burrard Street]

[Ken Waites and Templeton High School's "Archivists Club"]

[Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) visits the Archives]

[Major and Mrs. J.S. Matthews sign documents to appoint responsibility for the Archives' holdings to a board of trustees]

[Major J.S. Matthews]

[Major J.S. Matthews and his four great-grandchildren]

[Major J.S. Matthews and his staff]

[Major J.S. Matthews and Mrs. Bessie Bolton]

[Major J.S. Matthews and Mrs. Jean Gibbs, Honourary Life Members of the Vancouver Council of Women]

[Major J.S. Matthews and Stuart S. Lefeaux]

[Major J.S. Matthews and William N. Cooper examine the spot where the first survey peg was driven to mark the C.P.R. Townsite in 1885]

[Major J.S. Matthews and William Templeton with the model airplane that Mr. Frank H. Ellis built in 1911]

[Major J.S. Matthews beside the New Brighton Park plaque]

[Major J.S. Matthews cuts a cake to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Imperial Bank of Canada Branch at 84 West Hastings Street]

[Major J.S. Matthews eats cake to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Imperial Bank of Canada Branch at 84 West Hastings Street]

[Major J.S. Matthews escorts former Mayor L.D. Taylor to a Junior Board of Trade luncheon]

[Major J.S. Matthews examines a reproduction of Captain George Vancouver's commission in his office]

[Major J.S. Matthews has tea with Miss Margaret Florence McNeil and Mrs. Lucille Marincovich]

[Major J.S. Matthews near the New Brighton Park plaque]

[Major J.S. Matthews on his 90th birthday]

[Major J.S. Matthews on the verandah of his house at 1158 Arbutus Street]

[Major J.S. Matthews pins a corsage onto Mrs. Eric C. Martin at a Kitsilano Ratepayers Association dinner]

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