City of Vancouver Archives

[Bathers at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 151
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Comox" in Cates Bay]

AM54-S4-: Out P218.1
Item
[1892 or 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hood Point

[English Bay Beach looking towards Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: Be P151
Item
[between 1890 and 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

English Bay

AM1376-: CVA 1376-188
Item
[between 1890 and 1895]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Men and women assembled near shore at Linn's cottage]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1040
Item
[1896?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men and women standing behind rowboat on shore, watching two men wearing women's bathing suits dip their feet into the water. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Two women in bathing suits seated on rock in English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1074.1
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Bathing in the sulphur basin. Banff, Canadian National Park

AM54-S4-: LGN 645
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows five men in pool, and two men with dog on deck beside bathhouse.

[Group of men inside Burdis and Jones' floating swimming bath at the foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: SGN 174
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[English Bay Beach]

AM54-S4-: Be P1.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the First Beach Pavilion's water chute.

[Two women in bathing suits sitting on rock at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1071
Item
[1900?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

English Bay [Beach], Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Be P1.1
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the First Beach Pavilion's water chute.

[Bathing pavilion at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 302
Item
[1901?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

English Bay [beach scene]

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.01
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

Interior of cannery and fishing scenes

AM624-S1-: CVA 242-15.2
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

Item is a page from an album with photographs showing the interior of a cannery, fishing scenes and a canoe with swimmers in the water.

[Swimming and canoeing at] English Bay

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.05
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

English Bay [beach scene]

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.12
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

[Men's swimming race in English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Be P12.04
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

Our Friend "Joe", English Bay, Vancouver, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-38
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image of lifeguard Joe Fortes diving head-first into the water of English Bay from the diving platfrom. Young swimmers are pictured on the platform watching Fortes. A bathhouse and other buildings are shown in the background.