Jubilee celebrations

Engine [374] of First [C.P.R. Passenger] Train [to arrive in Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Can P5
Item
May 23, 1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows freight sheds at the foot of Richards Street and Seymour Street and a portrait of Queen Victoria.

Engine [374] of First [C.P.R. Passenger] Train [to arrive in Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Can P6
Item
May 23, 1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows freight sheds at the foot of Richards and Seymour Streets and a portrait of Queen Victoria.

Exterior of the Sunny Side Hotel northwest corner of Water Street and Carrall Street

AM54-S4-: Hot P7
Item
May 24, 1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows decorations for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and Mrs. William McGirr and Miss Mellie McGirr

First C.P.R. Locomotive to Reach Vancouver

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2870
Item
May 23, 1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows locomotive No. 374 and freight sheds at the foot of Richards Street and Seymour Street and a portrait of Queen Victoria.

[Children in costume to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee]

AM54-S4-: Str P352.2
Item
1897

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right): Robin Bell-Irving, Kathleen Bentley (Mrs. H.C. List), Peter, Agnes and Dorothy Bell-Irving

[City of Vancouver float of a ship]

AM54-S4-: Fl P1
Item
[1927?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Gerald Gratton McGeer making a speech during Vancouver Golden Jubilee celebration

AM1616-S1-: CVA 136-241
Item
May 6, 1935

Part of Pacific Press fonds

[The new grandstand at Brockton Point during Golden Jubilee celebration]

AM54-S4-: Port N157.3
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Replicas of the Crown Jewels on display at David Spencer Store for the Golden Jubilee of Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Misc P62
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Crowd watching Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade at Robson and Howe Streets]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-599
Item
[1936]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[Crowds assembled at Robson and Howe Streets, waiting for Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-598
Item
[1936]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[David Spencer Limited store, decorated for Vancouver's Golden Jubilee]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-597
Item
[1936]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows pedestrians outside store.

[Parade for Vancouver's] Golden Jubilee

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-596
Item
[1936]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows soldiers and pipers marching west on Georgia Street, near Burrard Street. Photograph also shows spectators, and the Christ Church Cathedral.

[National Dairies float made by Butterfields Florists in the Golden Jubilee exhibition opening parade]

AM54-S4-: Fl N5.1
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Golden Jubilee programme highlights sign]

AM54-S4-: Misc N58
Item
[1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An omnibus "Old Bill" loaned to Vancouver for the Golden Jubilee]

AM54-S4-: Trans P87.7
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Veterans Battalion mascot, Hastings Street near Homer

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-143
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Vancouver Veterans Battalion, before placing wreath

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-144
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Replicas of crown jewels on exhibition, David Spencer Ltd.

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-147
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Mystic Shriners Parade, Hastings Street near Howe

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-154
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Mystic Shriners arrive, C.P.R. Pier "D"

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-155
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Mayor McGeer, Chief Mathias of Capilano, and Hawaiian troupe in Mayor's car

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-164
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

At back of Lumberman's Arch, Indian village, 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-172
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Unveiling of paintings brought as gifts to Vancouver

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-189
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

The statue: in the studio od Charles Marega, the sculptor

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-211
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

His Excellency inspects Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Drill Hall, Beatty Street

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-249
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

His Excellency Lord Tweedsmuir and the Mayor

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-256
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Lady Tweedsmuir presented with bouquet by Mrs. F.J. Rolston at Woman's Club tea

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-257
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

His Worship G.G. McGeer, K.C., M.P. Mayor of Vancouver, 1935-1936 [silhouette in wheat]

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-279
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

The Golden Jubilee City Hall

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-332
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

London Omnibus

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-005
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

[London Omnibus] passes up Hastings Street near Homer with war veterans aboard

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-008
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Chinese Jubilee Queen, Maids of Honor, and officials, W.K. Gardens

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-094
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

[Locomotive # 2702 decorated for Vancouver's Golden Jubilee]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-416
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Locomotive # 2702 decorated for Vancouver's Golden Jubilee]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-417
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

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.

[An omnibus "Old Bill" loaned to Vancouver for the Golden Jubilee]

AM54-S4-: Trans P87.5
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The plaque commemorating the gift of a flagpole from the City of Vancouver to the City of Johannesburg]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1463
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men raising the flag on the flagpole gifted from the City of Vancouver to the City of Johannesburg]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1464
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Military parade at Brockton Oval]

AM54-S4-: Mil P274
Item
May 6, 1936 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mayor Gerry McGeer, Colonel A.D. Wilson and a partial squad of Irish Fusiliers

Troupe of Hawaiian entertainers disembarking at Vancouver, and Mayor McGeer

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-111
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Hastings Sawmill School, 1973-1886

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-112
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Item is a photograph showing the seven of the twelve surviving pupils of the Hastings Sawmill School. Pictured: Mrs. A.B. McKelvie, Mrs. J.F. Christie, Mrs. C.L. Austin, Mrs. Wallace (nee. Reed), Mrs. Alice Grakanthorp (one of the two survivors of the first class, 1973), Mrs. R.D. Smith (nee. McCord), Mrs. C. Lycett.