City of Vancouver Archives

[Interior: research room, new Archives building]

[Interior: furnace, new Archives building]

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

[Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) visits the Archives]

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

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

[Major J.S. Matthews receives a standing ovation at a luncheon in his honour]

[Major J.S. Matthews signs a document to appoint responsibility for the Archives' holdings to a board of trustees]

[Major J.S. Matthews speaking at the unveiling of the walking beam of the S.S. "Beaver" at Prospect Point]

[Major J.S. Matthews, City Archivist, with Mrs. Jean Gibbs and another woman at his desk in the City Archives, Burrard St.]

[Major J.S. Matthews]

The Archivist at Work

[City Archives at temporary City Hall in the Holden 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]

[John Hosie and Sir Harry Lauder on board the "Princess Kathleen"]

[John Hosie]

[Mrs. H.F. Stanley and Major J.S. Matthews ]

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

[Replica of Vancouver's First General Post Office on display at the Pacific National Exhibition]

[Willard E. Ireland]

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

[Mr. and Mrs. John Post a box of jokes to Major J.S. Matthews in the Archives]

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

Archivist Ken Young on the phone at the City of Vancouver Archives

[Portrait of Major J.S. Matthews, V.D.]

[Miss Margaret Giles holding a "Daily Sketch" newspaper from London, England]

[Model of Centennial Archives Building - with model replica of Centennial Museum and H.R. MacMillian Planetarium]

[Superintendent Henry A. Larson presents Major J.S. Matthews with the Union Jack from the St. Roch"]

[Miss Diana Denny with a statuette to be presented to the Council of King's Lynn to commemorate the bi-centenary of the birth of Captain George Vancouver]

[Miss Florence Fyfe-Smith unveils a copy of a painting of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Captain Charles Ulm]

[Major George Nicholson, Inez Mitchell and L.J. Wallace with a painting of "Discovery" in the Legislature]

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

[Major J.S. Matthews and his staff]

[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 near the New Brighton Park plaque]

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

[Major J.S. Matthews speaking at the unveiling of the walking beam of the S.S. "Beaver" at Prospect Point]

[Major J.S. Matthews speaking to British exchange teachers in his office]

[Major J.S. Matthews waves to passengers on the miniature train during the 75th Anniversary celebrations of the park]

[Major J.S. Matthews with his cat "Jack"]

[Major J.S. Matthews, Mrs. R.J. Sprott and others at opening of Granville Bridge]

[Major J.S. Matthews]

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