City of Vancouver Archives

AM1376-: CVA 1376-360
Item
June 1947

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the rocket designed by Lew Parry for the Sheet Metal Workers Union 280 float in the 1936 P.N.E. Parade at the entrance to the terminal on Sea Island

B.C. Electric Railway Co. Observation Car; "Teddy" Lyons, Conductor

AM1376-: CVA 193-1
Item
Aug. 18, 1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Jubilee parade

AM1443-: MI-14
Item
1946

Part of John Gansner fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting Vancouver's Diamond Jubilee parade. Film documents marching bands, dignitaries on floats, and parade floats from the veterans of the Boer War, Native Sons of B.C. Post #2, Irish Fusiliers, City of Victoria, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Nanaimo, and New Westminster. Background buildings include Ailso Lodge and Mackenzie, White, and Dunsmuir Ltd.

Parade

AM1470-: MI-74
Item
26 Aug. 1936

Part of Colonel Victor Spencer family fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting a Vancouver Golden Jubilee Parade. Film documents floats including the Electrical Contractors, Tyees Grouse Mountain, the Japanese-Canadian Citizens' League, Seaport Crown Fish Co., Ltd., Grace Hospital, Hodgson Lumber Company, Fraser River Sockeye, the Vancouver Rowing Club, and a float reading "Good citizenship and British ideals built Vancouver".

Vancouver on parade [Pacific National Exhibition parade, 1936]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is an amateur film showing the 1936 Jubilee Pacific National Exhibition parade. Film contains footage of the Burrard Bridge, Stanley Park, an RCMP musical ride at near Jericho Beach, Vancouver Fire Department stunt with the firetruck ladder.

Diamond Jubilee Vancouver from Gilford Hotel

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing views of Vancouver, Stanley Park. And the North Shore mountains from Coal Harbour, horses on street in downtown Vancouver, Marine Building from Burrard Street, Diamond Jubilee Parade footage, and scenes around downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver Diamond Jubilee Parade #2

AM1487-: 2013-047.2
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a film showing Diamond Jubilee Parade footage, scenes around downtown Vancouver, and street cars.

Alaskan Scenery and the Chinese Exhibit at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a moving image/film documenting a Chinese performance at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee celebration that includes a theatrical stage show, a trapeze artist, and moving images of the Chinese Arch erected at Pender Street near Carrall Street. There are also images of an unknown beach. This section is preceded by the title frame: Chinese Exhibit Golden Jubilee at Vancouver, B.C.. Film also includes footage taken from a passanger ship moving up the Alaskan coast. The stops are separated by the title frames: Ketchikan, Alaska; Castle Rock; and Peril Straits.