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File consists of architectural drawings of Jericho Lodge Apartments. The drawings depict floor plans, elevations and sections.

Series consists of files of architectural drawings created by the Building Department and later, the Permits and Licensing Department. The files were created to aggregate architectural drawings of structures on properties in the city. The large majority of the records had been submitted as part of a building permit application, though original design drawings created by Building Department staff between ca. 1920 and 1932 are also included in the files.

The series includes drawings submitted to the Building Inspector's offices of the municipalities of Point Grey and South Vancouver in support of permit applications in those two municipalities. These drawings appear to have been amalgamated into the Vancouver Building Department records and assigned Building Department file numbers some time after amalgamation of the municipalities in 1929.

Researchers should note that the Building Department and Permits and Licensing did not retain drawings of single family houses. As a result, the series contains very few files documenting houses, other than drawings relating to applications for conversion of single family homes into apartments, rooming houses, or for commercial uses.

Series consists of two subseries: daily reports of building permits (Oct. 1941 - Dec. 1942, Jan.-Dec. 1947) and record/registers of building permits (1901-1904, 1909-1945). Records relate to applications to erect or alter buildings according to by-law requirements and fees charged for the permits by the City. The daily reports, the incomplete sequence, give essentially the same information as the record/registers - owner, architect, contractor, and details (e.g. "alteration to front") - except during the 1940s when the "daily reports" were slightly more detailed whereas the record/registers emphasized values. The A - Z record books for 1901-1911 are arranged by name of owner, while the books for 1912-1945 were kept in one long sequence by permit number (i.e. chronologically); 1912-1920 record books also contain indexes by name of owner.

Series consists of building specifications for the following buildings: the dining pavilion and pure food building at Hastings Park (1929, 1931), the administration building at the airport (1930), the city dog pound (1929), Granville Mansions on Granville Street at Robson (n.d.), and the new Vancouver Opera House on Pender Street at Burrard (1915).

File consists of architectural drawings created for various renovation projects proposed and completed at "old" City Hall, at the corner of Main and Pender Streets. Drawings are plans, exterior elevations, sections. Many of the drawings were created by Arthur J. Bird, Building Inspector / City Architects (head of the Building Department).

Projects documented include expansion of the Treasurer's office, and addition of the Annex to the south of the original building.

File consists of architectural drawings of a boat house and new float for the City's 16'0" x 15'0" fire boat, as well as reference drawings of the boat itself. The drawings depict deck plans, floor plans, elevations, sections and details. The drawings depict floor plans, elevations, sections and details.

Original construction, ca. 1927: LEG2285.10047 to .10052
Reference deck plans of fire boat, 1927: LEG2285.10053 to .10054
New float for fire boat house, 1927: LEG2285.10055
Alterations to boat house, 1935: LEG2285.10056

Item consists of a linear map of Kingsway Avenue from 7th Avenue to Boundary Road. The map depicts cross streets and the District Lost, block and lot numbers of lots adjacent to Kingsway Avenue. The map is in nine sections on three sheets.

Series consists of maps created by the Building Department. These appear to have been created as a result of the department's responsibility for providing support to the City's special Street Naming Committee (which reported to the Building, Civic Planning and Parks Committee), which had been tasked with rationalising and where necessary, recommending changes to street names to remove duplicates and ensure continuity across the city.

Item is a sectional plan of the Municipality of South Vancouver at the time of amalgamation with the City of Vancouver and the Municipality of Point Grey in 1929. The sheets were traced by Building Department staff from sheets in the custody of the Assessment Office, most likely of the Municipality of South Vancouver. The date of the original maps that the tracings were taken from is not known, though the tracings include 1929 data that was most likely added after the tracings were completed. For streets where names were changed at amalgamation, both pre- and post-amalgamation names are noted.

Series consists of records documenting public hearings as special meetings of City Council, conducted to make determinations on re-zoning applications.

The records consist of Council zoning supporting documents, records created and accumulated by the Building Department's Zoning Secretary, who kept petitions, external correspondence, internal correspondence, and attachments (including plans) relating to City hearings on zoning matters until, until responsibility for re-zoning was transferred to the new Planning Department in 1952.