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Vancouver 1886-1900

File consists of images of early Vancouver, including Gastown, Hastings Mill, Granville Street, Burrard Inlet, Prospect Point, the first City Council, arrival of the first C.P.R. train, Cordova Street, and Mount Pleasant.

Vancouver and Stanley Park

Vancouver and Stanley Park

Item is a documentary film documenting Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver, the Vancouver Planetarium, and Vanier Park. The film documents a number of attractions within Stanley Park including the Stanley Park Miniature Railway, Stanley Park Junction, various sections of the seawall, the Brockton Point Lighthouse, Coal Harbour Marina, Elek Imredy's sculpture Girl in a Wetsuit, the replica figurehead of the RMS Empress of Japan, tennis courts, Prospect Point lookout, Lost Lagoon, the Stanley Park Golf Course, totem poles, and the Lions Gate (First Narrows) Bridge (1938-). The film also includes footage of birds including Canada geese, seagulls, swans, mallard and wood ducks, and peacocks. The film documents Vancouver Harbour and its facilities, and includes footage of shipping containers, cranes, cargo ships, seabus, and a floatplane.

The film also documents downtown Vancouver and includes footage of numerous prominent buildings including the Marine Building, Vancouver Harbour Centre, Bayshore Inn, the Westcoast Energy Building, Hotel Vancouver, the Provincial Court House, Robson Square under construction, the Georgia Medical Dental Building, the Bank of Nova Scotia Tower, TD Tower, the Vancouver Block, Commodore Ballroom, Sun Tower, Dominion Building, Andrew Wesley Church, and the Hudson's Bay Company building. The film also contains night footage of the Vancouver skyline, Granville Street with illuminated signs, a fountain lit by coloured lights, and neon signs in Chinatown, including those for the Marco Polo Chinese Smorgasbord, Loon Foon Kwok restaurant, Ming's, South Seas Dining Lounge, Ho Inn Chop Suey, and Bing C. Wong & Associates Accounting and Taxation Service.

Film also includes footage of the exterior of the Bloedel Conservatory, a tugboat in False Creek, the downtown Vancouver skyline as viewed from Kitsilano, an old house (number 1160, street unknown), sailboats in English Bay, the Vancouver Planetarium, Vanier Park, and Beach Avenue as seen across False Creek from Vanier Park.

Vancouver Harbor, B.C.

Vancouver Harbor, B.C.

Item is a postcard printed with an image of the Canadian Pacific Railway Station at the foot of Granville Street, looking north toward Stanley Park and the North Shore. A C.P.R. steamship is pictured at the wharf to the west of the station. The freight sheds to the west of the station are also shown. This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss McCaulay at Slocan Junction via Nelson from J. Burns in Vancouver.

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints showing: interior of interurban car "Connaught"; head office building illuminated with electric lights; interior of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; illuminated arches on Granville Street for visit of Duke of Connaught; view of Burrard Inlet; New Westminster interurban depot decorated for visit of Duke of Connaught. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the six images.

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: the interior of an interurban streetcar furnished for the visit of the Duke of Connaught; the head office building lit with electric lights; the interior of the gate house of the Buntzen Lake power plant; arches built for the visit of the Duke of Connaught, lit with electric lights; view of Burrard Inlet; and the New Westminster interurban depot decorated for the visit of the Duke of Connaught. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the six images.

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