City of Vancouver Archives

[Exterior of the J.W. Horne building - 300 block Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P508.7
Item
Mar. 1959

Photograph shows the Wilson Bible and Tract Depot, M.C. Cleaners, Tailors and Petland Petshop and the Commercial Hotel above

[The new Post Offce construction site looking towards Homer Street between Dunsmuir and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P476.7
Item
Sept. 8, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph. Photograph shows the Alcazar Hotel, the "W" on the roof of the Woodwards building and the Sun Tower.

[Exterior of Manor House - 603 Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P402
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows wooden sidewalks, a macadam road and the houses at 613 and 617 Howe Street.

[Exterior of the Sunny side Hotel - 1 Water Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P372
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man second from right identified as William McGirr.

[Exterior of the Sunny Side Hotel - 1 Water Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P371
Item
[between June 12 and 25, 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man fourth from right identified as William McGirr. Building at left contained Van Volkenberg Market and A.R. Coughtery's butcher shop. Photograph shows street refuse.

[Exterior of old Hotel Vancouver during demolition]

AM54-S4-: Bu P366
Item
July 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of the White Swan Hotel and American Restaurant - S.W. corner of Seymour and Cordova Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P361
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man with arm outstretched is Charles Mee.

[View of the north side of the 900 block Georgia Street from the driveway of the old Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Bu P301
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia and Devonshire Hotels and the Georgia Medical-Dental Building.

[Cornerstone ceremony at Vancouver Free (Carnegie) Library - S.W. Corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P272
Item
Jan. 7, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows business on the east side of Westminster Avenue in the 300 block: J.S. McLeod Dry Goods (336) and Blackburn House (318); and McDowell, Atkins, Watson & Co. Drugs (343).

Vancouver Opera House [731 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P265
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the extension to the first Hotel Vancouver.

Canadian Bank of Commerce [650 West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P256
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Leland Hotel, the Strand Hotel and the Delbruck Block.

[Exterior of the Masonic Temple (Springer-Van Braemer) building - 309 Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P243.1
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right): The Grey Hound Hotel - 228-232 Water Street, Morgan, Quick &Co. Havana Cigar Factory - 309 Cordova and the Regina Hotel - 200 Water Street.

[Group portrait of South Vancouver pioneers in front of Jos. Curry's Gladstone Inn - Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P143
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): unidentified, John Third, W.A. Pound, Spencer Robinson, Joseph Tyerman, Robert Curry, Joseph Curry, James Egerton, George Rae, Moses Gibson, John Dickinson, Tom Prentice, Eugene Cleveland. Photograph shows part of the new Gladstone Hotel.

[Group portrait on porch of the Ellesmere Rooms at 439 Homer Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P141
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man in derby hat identified as Frank M. Yorke.

[Exterior of Bank of Montreal building - 580 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P121
Item
July 22, 1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Royal Trust Building and the Pender Hotel.

[Exterior of Royal Bank of Canada building - 404 W. Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P78
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Elesmere Rooms.

[Group portrait in front of boarding house at 708 Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P74.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boarding House at 708 Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P74.1
Item
[Ca. 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Women identified (left to right): lower verandah: Miss Annie Donnelly and Miss Kate Donnelly (Mr.s H.E. Campbell); upper balconies: Annie Mcallister and Margaret Donnelly (Mrs. D. Wilson); Photograph shows Frank W. Hart's house to the right.j