City of Vancouver Archives

"$18? It's me, Oxley … I've come to get the tow truck … I work for you…" [Fusters Gets Reprieve]

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.133
Item
Dec. 2, 1976

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"... On the other hand I felt that Mr. Kiniski's sensitive portrait of the villain opposite the buoyant acting of Rogers, was entirely up to festival standards"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.1
Item
[196-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "In the mid-1960s the International Festival was suffering from poor attendance. Obviously wrestling at the P.N.E. was not."

"... So we invite them to become part of the Festival... Think of the prestige it would give our attendance records."

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.6
Item
15 Aug. 1959

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "The International Festival was still having attendance problems when the B.C. Lions were in one of their heydays."

"...Chief, I said, Finnegan of the Force and half the boys at the Hall are holidaying today … how about loading us old number 7 for a picnic…?"

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.019
Item
May 4, 1955

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"15 Trucks to Serve You" - [Morrow's Coal and Ice Company at 1025 Main Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4147
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

"18" Studebaker 6 cyl. Hearse Armstrong and Hotson

AM1535-: CVA 99-5153
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph also shows that the hearse was also used as an ambulance.

"3-2-1 … a blinding flash! … we have a lift-off!... It's fantastic! … he's on his way to the polls to vote!" [Civic Election Day]

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.108
Item
Dec. 13, 1972

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"34th St. George's" - St. George's School - Troop Boy Scouts 1933

AM995-S1-: CVA 805-5
Item
Mar. 31, 1933

Part of St. George's School fonds

Group portrait on the school grounds

"3rd Section - 4th Division ammunition Column" 68th Field Battery C.F.A. - Vancouver, B.C. 1916

AM1535-: CVA 99-5087
Item
1916

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

"50 more cops! I feel sorry for those poor motorists…"

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.006
Item
Jan. 13, 1954

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"A Colonel in the Army... and here I thought you were in show business"

AM1562-S03-3-: 92-33.2
Item
15 July 1961

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Item is a cartoon. Display caption acquired with the item says: "In 1961 the International Festival presented its first military tattoo."

"A Glimps[e] of Home"

AM54-S4-: Dist P1
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view of the West End from Kitsilano Point

"A Good Citizen Medal" presented to J.S. Matthews, City Archivist, by acting Mayor T.J. Orr on behalf of the Native Sons of B.C., Vancouver Post, No.2

AM54-S4-: Add N59
Item
June 18, 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

"A Group of Ladies of the Old Huntingdon Hotel"

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-770
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Notes on back are: "Front row - Mrs. Schieber (Reirson), Sumas, Wa; Mrs. Moulton, deceased; Mrs. Julia York, operated C.P.R. coffee stand at Huntingdon Depot. Back row -Artie Nims, Vancouver; unknown and Mrs. McCormack (Teena McGregor), Vancouver"

"A Safe Passage" - The Missanabie in dock at Plymouth after disembarking the 47th Battalion

AM1376-: CVA 172-02
Item
Nov. 1915

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

"A Slogan for Malkin[?]."

AM22-F3--
Item
[12 Oct. 1928?]

Part of Campbell Sweeny fonds

An Mss election limerick. Page 208.

"A Vancouver tooth-pick" (fir tree) length 204 feet

AM1052-: AM1052 P-372
Item
[190-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mrs. [F.C. Manning?] of Calgary, Alberta.

"A bit of English Bay, Vancouver, B.C."

AM1562-: 71-28.1
Item
[190-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

"A narrative story of aid to civil power", published in Canadian Defence Quarterly

AM1519-: PAM 1932-37
Item
1932

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

"A whole mile! … Running!... On their feet!..." [Centennial Games]

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.037
Item
June 7, 1958

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"A" Company 62nd Batt[alion] C.E.F. (Vancouver, B.C.)

AM54-S4-: VLP 65.4
Item
Dec. 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the exterior of the Women's Building in Hastings Park.

"A" pan installed & "E" being installed

AM1592-S8-2-F02-: 2011-092.6923
Item
Apr. 27, 1949

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

"About Banks and Banking Since 1863. A Reminiscence."

AM22-F3--
Item
[19-?]

Part of Campbell Sweeny fonds

Pages 269-276.

"Actually it's a little experimental scheme to try making our mayor feel at home…"

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.093
Item
Apr. 17, 1971

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"Adopt a baby" week

AM276-S1-: 72-502.08
Item
1935

Part of Jack Boothe fonds

Boothe, Jack

"After the Fire," City Council

AM786-F4-: 82-22.072
Item
July 6, 1940

Part of Alan Morley fonds

Wilson, Fraser

"Albert Canyon". C.P.R. Selkirk Mountains

AM54-S4-: LGN 636
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

"Albert, for one, doesn't see any problem putting even a six-lane causeway through the park to Lions Gate Bridge."

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.137
Item
June 8, 1977

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"All Our Yesterdays: When Capt. Sweeny Killed Maj. Warde" (Montreal Gazette, copy).

AM22-F2--
Item
Jan. 1924.

Part of Campbell Sweeny fonds

No page numbers.

"All clear! The merger scare is confined to Burnaby, Vancouver and the North Vancouvers…"

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-15.067
Item
Jan. 10, 1968

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"All in f.f.favour of h.h.havin' the n.n.next Grey C.C.Cup f. final in m.m.mild V.Vancouver say h.h.hup…"

AM1562-S03-1-: 89-22.013
Item
Nov. 27, 1954

Part of City of Vancouver Archives documentary art collection

Norris, Len

"Always young," Bowen Island

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-602
Item
[191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Lettering on the back of the postcard states "Terminal Steamship Co.'s route."

"Amateur Hour" The Birds' Paradise, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1215
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Albert Jones playing the violin

"American-La France" Vancouver - Point Grey [firemen and engines in front of V.F.D. Firehall No. 2]

AM54-S4-: VLP 124
Item
Dec. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): In fire engines: Slim Sullivan, Ed Morgan, H.E. Edwards, Jack Dyer, Billie Hall, Unidentified, A. Gordon (rear), Torquil Campbell, Geo. Williams, Dan Maher (rear). Standing: "Cappy" Smart, J.H. Carlisle, Campbell, A.G. Long, Arthur Roberts, Plinton, Tommy Lauder, Charlton W. Thompson.