Vancouver (B.C.)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-18
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Illustrating the pleasing effect of a properly and systematically planted boulevard."

Burnaby Street (looking towards English Bay)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-17
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "One of the few sections properly and systematically boulevarded.

Bidwell Street

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-16
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "This scene is common wherever the native or forest maple grows. Every year work of this nature has to be undertaken at a heavy cost. Note the size of the roots which lift the sidewalks.&q...

Denman Street (between Nelson and Comox)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-15
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "In this block the heavy type of forest maple was planted on the inner boulevard. This is a typical instance of how the owners of the houses affected by such trees deal with them in their ...

Robson Street (between Thurlow and Bute)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-14
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Trees without form or beauty. Note their effect upon street lighting at night."

Thurlow Street (corner of Davie looking north)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-13
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "On the right is another example of the growth of the forest maples after heavy pruning a few years ago by the B.C.E. R[ai]l[wa]y. Co. to remove the danger from contact with their light wi...

Haro Street (between Cardero and Bidwell)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-12
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "The pole-like looking tree is all that remains of what was once a full grown Lombardy poplar; this is how the owner of the house fronting them dealt with these specimens in order to obtai...

Melville Street (West of Burrard)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-10
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "One of the streets whose trees were heavily pruned at the expense of the B.C.E. Rly. Co., at a cost of $3,000, a few years ago, the work being necessary to remove the menace caused throug...

Bute Street (corner Barclay)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-9
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Bare trunks and arms are all that remain after these trees are reduced to make habitable this new apartment block 'Coniston Lodge'. The trees on the other side of this block are...

Haro Street (corner Denman Street)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-8
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Showing how street lighting is affected by heavy growth. NOTE: Tree planted within a foot of light pole."

Bidwell Street (between Haro and Barclay)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-7
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Lombardy poplars on right. Forest maples on left, always kept heavily pruned to permit of light and air to apartment block."

Comox Street (between Burrard and Thurlow)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-6
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "This is one of the worst examples of boulevard planting. It shows both inner and outer planting on the left side, while on the right it will be noted that the outer boulevard is planted i...

Barclay Street (between Jervis and Broughton)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-5
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Another case of boulevarding common to the whole City and especially to the West End. Note the close planting of the heavy forest type of maple on the right, which act as a shroud to the ...

Seaton Street

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-4
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "An example of conditions often met with. On the left (North side of street) the sidewalk is on the inside, with outer boulevard; on the right the sidewalk is constructed to the kerb, with...

Eveleigh Street (West of Burrard)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-3
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "A typical example of boulevard planting. Note the forest maple and the attempt to keep down its growth, and the other varieties of trees also 'pruned'. Left background - forest ...

Comox Street (looking East from Denman)

VPK-S625-: CVA 357-1
Item
1925

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "A 'hit-and-miss' example of boulevard planting. Note the varieties of trees planted, size and age, and the gaps left unplanted."

[One way traffic Seymour St. at Georgia Street, looking south]

COV-S505-2-: CVA 772-14
Item
1952

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Eaton's [73 Water Street]

AM123-S4---: CVA 810-263
Item
1950-1968

Part of Mercantile Mortgage Company fonds

Clark Drive Bridge (looking north from intersection of 6th Avenue)

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1096
Item
July 11, 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Looking south on Graville Street at Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-825
Item
[ca. 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Birks Bulding and clock and part of the Vancouver Block on the left and part of the second Hotel Vancouver on the right

George Noble [client] [safety zone (pedestrian island) for street car patrons on Hastings Street]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2619.1
Item
Oct. 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Christ Church [Burrard and Georgia]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1438.1
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: PAN P92.1
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is almost a 360 degree view. Buildings and some landmarks are identified on cropped version PAN P92.2

[Panoramic view of Vancouver looking east, south and west from the Post Office tower]

AM54-S4-: PAN P93
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews identification notes on print.

[Panoramic view looking north from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P143.1
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photographs show the west side of the 600 Block of Howe Street, Manor House, Deadman's Island, the 600 Block of Granville Street, the Van Horne Block, the Hudson Bay Company store, the Homer Street Methodist Church, the tower of Holy Rosary C...