Openings

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4845
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a CKWX microphone

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4849
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4847
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4851
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4848
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4850
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4843
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Shell Oil Company opening of new plant at Shellburn

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4846
Item
Nov. 21, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the "Lady Rose"

Shell Oil Plane at Airport Opening [showing] Premier Tolmie, Mayor Taylor, Pilot McCleary

AM1535-: CVA 99-3986
Item
July 22, 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Sir Richard McBride driving the last spike of the B.C. Electric Railway Company's Fraser Valley line to Chilliwack, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 951
Item
[3 Oct. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Sir Richard McBride leading crowd in cheer after driving in the last spike of the B.C. Electric Railway's Fraser Valley line to Chilliwack, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 952
Item
3 Oct. 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Sir Richard McBride officially opens Marine Drive]

AM54-S4-: Port P1368
Item
Aug. 7, 1913 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows E.H. Bridgman, George Hanes and others

[South Vancouver City Councillors at opening of Memorial Park]

AM54-S4-: Park N21
Item
[22 May 1926]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Souvenir menu : official opening : April 4, 1973 : Queen Elizabeth Park

AM1519-: PAM 1973-156
Item
1973

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Standard Oil Company Gas Station [at 5th Avenue and Cambie Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4775
Item
Aug. 20, 1935

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Symposium] Opening and Kubach-Wilmsen Splitting (Chisels)

AM959-S13-: MI-211
Item
[1975]

Part of Sculptors' Society of British Columbia fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting the 1975 Vancouver International Stone Symposium at VanDusen Gardens. The film contains footage Mayor Arthur Phillips, the crowds, and artists at the opening ceremonies, and Wolfgang Kubach and Maria Kubach-Wilmsen using circular saws and chisels to cut stone.

[The Beatty Street Drill Hall after opening by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P53
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Duchess of Connaught and others at the opening of the Cambie Bridge]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2739.3
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Alderman Ramsay and Sergeant Major Bundy

[The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arrive to open the Beatty Street Drill Hall]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P5
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Honourable Eric Martin making an address at the opeining of the new wing of Grace Hospital]

AM54-S4-: Bu P658
Item
July 3, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Honourable Eric Martin unveils a commemorative plaque for the opening of the new wing at Grace Hospital]

AM54-S4-: Bu P659.2
Item
July 3, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows W. Wycliffe Booth, Major Muriel Everett, Mrs. and Lieutenant - governor Frank MacKenzie Ross

[The Honourable James Sinclair, Minister of Fisheries and Mayor Hume at the opening of the Vancouver Aquarium]

AM54-S4-: Port P1387
Item
June 15, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Percy Vincent) [opening gates to new subway]

AM54-S4-: Port P178
Item
[ca. 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The opening ceremony of the Empire Swimming Pool at U.B.C.]

AM54-S4-: Sp P85
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mayor Hume and others

The opening of the Banfield Pavilion

AM427-S4-: CVA 211-2
Item
Dec. 1, 1972

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing (L-R) the Honorable Dennis C. Cocke, Orson Banfield and Mrs. Orson Banfield standing beside a plaque at the opening of the Banfield Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital.

The opening of the Banfield Pavilion

AM427-S4-: CVA 211-3
Item
Dec. 1, 1972

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing Orson Banfield and M.W. Walker (V.G.H. Building Coordinator) standing beside a plaque at the opening of the Banfield Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital.

The opening of the Banfield Pavilion

AM427-S4-: CVA 211-4
Item
Dec. 1, 1972

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing Mr. and Mrs. Orson Banfield standing beside a plaque at the opening of the Banfield Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital.