A Drive, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.
- RBSC-ARC-1804-UL_1628-UL_1628_0005
- Item
- [1900?]
View of Stanley Park. Postcard is number 440.
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A Drive, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.
View of Stanley Park. Postcard is number 440.
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The collection comprises records acquired by Peter Moogk about aspects of British Columbia’s history, including the British Columbia Electric Railway Company’s interurban train lines (predominantly from 1909-1958), and photographic representations of persons (especially white settlers, from 1870-1960), places, events and activities in the province.
The collection includes six series: British Columbia Electric Railway Company Records, Portraits of Persons in British Columbia, Photos of places, streets, and architecture in British Columbia, Photos of events and activities in British Columbia, British Columbia ephemera and Records from British Columbia Penitentiary.
Records relating to the first series, British Columbia Electric Railway Company Records, include: photographs; postcards; original BCER documents, such as union agreements and timetables; BCER employee publications; transit tokens; signs and posters from within Vancouver streetcars; and a copy of a CJOR radio script.
Records relating to the second series, Portraits of Persons in British Columbia, include: photographs and handwritten notes by Moogk about Vancouver photographers operating from 1858-1920.
The focus of the third series, Photos of places, streets, and architecture in British Columbia, is photographs of structures and places of British Columbia, notably building exteriors and interiors, and street views from 1880-1959.
The fourth series, Photos of events and activities in British Columbia, includes photos of notable events and public activities (predominantly dating 1911-1941), as well as everyday life, and also includes handwritten and photocopied information on the provenance of the photos and activities depicted.
The fifth series, British Columbia ephemera, is mostly paper ephemera representing the variety of business and activity in the province from 1890 to 1990, and includes menus, theatre programs, business correspondence, and Chinese textbooks as well as some photographic materials.
The sixth series, Records from British Columbia Penitentiary, includes textual records and photographs relating to the British Columbia penitentiary.
The fonds consists of records produced by Jim Wong-Chu, records associated with Jim Wong-Chu's involvement in various cultural and artistic communities in Vancouver, British Columbia, San Francisco, California, and other areas in the northwestern United States and Canada.
In particular, the fonds includes records related to: Canadian cultural and literary communities; Asian Canadian writers; social justice and historical issues related to discrimination of Chinese and other Asian ethnic groups; and Canada and Vancouver's Chinese and other Asian cultural communities.
The fonds has been arranged into the following 9 series: Asian American communities; Asian Canadian communities; Asian Canadian Writers Workshop; Correspondence; Go for Broke Festivals; Manuscripts; Personal works; Personal Records; Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society; and Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre.
In addition to the series listed above, there is one sub-fonds which includes records created by Garrick Chu, a close-friend and colleague of Jim Wong-Chu.
The main types of records within the fonds include correspondence, meeting minutes, schedules, manuscripts, posters and event flyers, photographs, event programs, financial statements and budgets, publications and articles, reports, conference proceedings, and speeches.
Wong-Chu, Jim
Part of Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia fonds
Item is a film illustrating various views on the life cycle of forests, shared purpose logging areas, and the practices of the logging industry in British Columbia, including sustained yield forest policy.
View of downtown Vancouver. The post office spire is just visible in the centre. Photo possibly taken from the Hotel Vancouver.
Frank, Leonard
View of airplane over English Bay during sunset
Frank, Leonard
H.R.H. Prince of Wales, Arrival at Vancouver, British Columbia
Frank, Leonard
View of buildings by Vancouver Harbour. Photograph is numbered 3.
Frank, Leonard
North Vancouver Ferries, Vancouver, B.C.
Frank, Leonard
The collection contains materials related to Ian McDonald's Master's thesis research on the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 213 “Class conflict and political factionalism: a history of Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 1901-1961," and related to the activities of his father, Les McDonald, a trade union activist who belonged to Local 213 but was eventually suspended for leading the Lenkurt strike of 1966. Les McDonald was also a multi-sport athlete, and is credited with introducing the triathlon into the Olympics; some materials in the collection relate to Les McDonald's involvement in various sport and environmental organizations, as well as some of his personal papers. In addition to what he received from his father, Ian McDonald was also given papers by former IBEW Local 213 business manager Art O’Keeffe and Barry Sharbo, a board member of the Canadian Union of Electrical Workers (UE), as well as Alfie Huston, the former President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 213 from 1985-1988, which are included within the collection.
The collection is largely comprised of newspaper and photocopied journal articles, correspondence between members of IBEW Local 213, legal documentation, newsletters and other printed ephemera related to IBEW Local 213.
The collection also contains sound recordings of interviews with numerous figures in IBEW Local 213 created by Ian McDonald during his thesis research. McDonald's thesis, submitted for the completion of a Master of Arts in History at Simon Fraser University, can be found in the Summit database: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/6361.
The collection also contains background materials accumulated by McDonald while writing his book “The Red Baron of IBEW 213,” including digital sound recordings of interviews, research articles, notebooks, consent forms, a draft royalty agreement, a draft chapter and a press marketing questionnaire.
McDonald, Ian
Views In the Cascade Mountains: On Coast Exploration of 1874
An album mainly of landscape photographs of the Cascade Mountains near Kitimat B.C. Taken by surveyor and photographer Charles Horetzky, who was surveying the land in search of a route for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In a large and heavy book with the photos glued to the page.
Horetzky, Charles
The fonds consists records relating to Dr. Joan Ford’s medical career and personal life, with records including handwritten notes, letters and correspondence, newspapers, photographs, official degrees and awards, administrative reports, and a coin. Files often contain multiple record types within them. Dr. Ford dedicated her medical career to helping those in need, including traveling to Nepal, Dominica, and Bangladesh all while managing her own medical practice in Burnaby. She has served in various capacities on numerous boards and professional organizations including the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, Save the Children, the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, and the Trans-Himalayan Aid Society. She has received numerous awards and recognitions in her lifetime, but for her dedication to the global health community, she was appointed as an officer in the Order of Canada. Her personal interests included her family, Canadian history, and nature.
Ford, Joan
Vancouver, B.C., from Hotel Vancouver
View of the Vancouver skyline as seen from the Hotel Vancouver.
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Manhattan Apartment House, Vancouver, B.C.
View of the Manhattan Apartment House which is located on the corner of Thurlow and Robson St.
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The fonds consists of records related to the operation of Inverness Cannery. Records span from the early 1900s all the way through to the 1950s when the cannery was closed and turned into a fish camp. The cannery was owned by J.H. Todd and Sons Ltd. from 1902-1950. The fonds is comprised of seven different series: Correspondence series, Financial series, Fish Canning series, Fish Catching series, Inverness Cannery School series, Legal series, and Publications, Pamphlets and News Clippings series.
Inverness Cannery
Collection consists of Al Sens’ professional records, produced and received in the process of his career in cartoon and animation illustration. Material spans his career from the 1950s to the 2010s. The collection is arranged into two series according to record type: publications series and original illustration series.
Sens, Al
Likely taken in the vicinity of the Cariboo Wagon Road.
Gentile, Carlo, 1835-1893
Leeson, Ben William
The Old Mill, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver B.C.
Photograph of an older photograph of an old mill. Photograph pictured dates between (approximately) 1890 and 1900.
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The Old Mill, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver B.C. [negative]
Negative of a photograph of an older photograph of an old mill. Photograph pictured dates between (approximately) 1890 and 1900.
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[The Old Mill, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver B.C.]
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Photograph of an older photograph of the mill at Burrard Inlet. Photograph pictured dates (approximately) between 1890 and 1900.
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The New Mill, Burrard Inlet [negative]
Negative of a photograph of an older photograph of the mill at Burrard Inlet. Photograph pictured dates (approximately) between 1890 and 1900.
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Red Cedar, Hemlock, White Pine, Hemlock and Fir--all growing together
Caption from the book reads, "A unique forest scene--the source of much of the world's finest timber supply is British Columbia."
Frank, Leonard
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View of a log boom.
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View of a log boom from a distance.
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Image of a man standing in front of a logged forest.
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[View of a man scaling a tree]
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[View of rope and pulleys on a tree]
View of ropes and pulleys attached to a tree. Possibly used for logging.
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View of a top of a tree falling to the ground.
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Image of logs sitting in the water.
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A man and a boy hauling back logs through the forest.
Holliday, Charles William
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View of the east side of the Fraser River near Eburne (Richmond)
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Views of logging and a view of a ship that goes from Vancouver to Skaguay, Alaska.
British Columbia Photo Engraving Co. Ltd.
Two loggers standing on either side of a large tree, with a third reclining inside the wedge they have cut out. "No. 272"
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[Portrait of a logger on a huge log drawn by two horses]
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Postcard is from a set of 4 postcards with logging imagery.
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View of piles of cut logs. A man can be seen standing on top of a small pile in the bottom right side of the postcard. Postcard is from a set of 4 postcards with logging imagery.
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Postcard is from a set of 4 postcards with logging imagery.
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Logging operations, Vancouver Island, B.C.
Depicts two loggers falling a douglas fir with a handsaw
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An album of photographs by Frederick Dally from throughout British Columbia, plus one image from San Francisco. It also includes a map
Dally, Frederick
[William A. Bauer Photo Album]
A photo album of William A. Bauer of Vancouver that documents travels around British Columbia near the beginning of the twentieth century. It includes a number of photos of early Vancouver, many of which document the street on which they were taken, and also a number taken from a bird
Bauer, William A.