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Title: 1st Vancouver Hotel, CPR. Park looking across to Georgia and Granville:
Contributor(s): Unknown (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1892
Description: Ground view of Vancouver Hotel No.1 - C.P.R. Park - Whetham College - Hudson's Bay Co. - looking S. across C.P.R. Park to Georgia and Granville.
Subject(s): Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Parks, Buildings, Hotels
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: CPR Locomotive #365 on a Bridge in the Fraser Canyon:
Contributor(s): Caple, N. (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: C.P.R. locomotive #365 on a bridge in the Fraser Canyon - Fraser River below.
Subject(s): Trestles, Locomotives, Rivers, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: CPR royal train that contains 5 Locomotives with Locomotive No.683 at the front:
Contributor(s): Krebs (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1898-1903
Description: 'Locomotive 683 heads a royal train carrying the Duke and Duchess of York, as it leaves Field on October 4, 1901. Four pusher locomotives (two more than usual) have been assigned to the ten car train, perhaps indicating that the CPR did not wish the future King George to come to grief on the Big Hill. The photograph was taken by renowned mountaineer Edward Whymper.Pole, p. 45.: (1995), The Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill, Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd., Canmore, Alberta
Subject(s): Locomotives, Railroads - Rolling-stock, Railroads - Track, Railroads - Trains, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Time Period: 1890s, 1900s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Empress of India at CPR Dock
Contributor(s): Bailey Bros. (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1891-04-28
Description: Empress of India at CPR Dock.
Subject(s): Docks, Ships, Crowds, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Empress of India (Ship)
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Japanese Canadian Neighbours and the Celtic Cannery - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Japanese immigrants made up an large part of the Southlands community from the late 19th to the mid 20th Century, attracted by the opportunity to work at the Celtic Cannery. Terry Slack, long time Dunbar-Southlands resident, relates a story he heard from members of the McCleery family (original white settlers in the Dunbar Southlands area) that sheds light on why the Celtic Cannery (pronounced with a soft "C") may have changed its name from Keltic Cannery. Note: the story of the Cannery is unverified.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Japanese Canadians, Celtic Cannery
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Large trees
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900-1910
Description: Large trees.
Subject(s): Trees, Forests and forestry
Time Period: 1890s, 1900s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Mattie Gunterman at approximately 20 years of age
Contributor(s): Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1892
Description: Note on source negative envelope, 'Madeline Gunterman about age 20'.
Subject(s): Photographers, Portraits, Gunterman, Mattie, 1872-1945, Women
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Mattie Gunterman Collection

Title: Mattie Gunterman dressed as a hobo
Contributor(s): Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900
Description: Madeline (Mattie) Gunterman wearing ragged clothes and standing beside a horse near Beaton.
Subject(s): Photographers, Portraits, Costume, Horses, Amusements, Gunterman, Mattie, 1872-1945, Women
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Mattie Gunterman Collection

Title: Mattie Gunterman posed by a tree stump
Contributor(s): Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1899
Description: in book 'Flapjacks and Photographs' by Henri Robideau 1995 p.50
Subject(s): Photographers, Portraits, Gunterman, Mattie, 1872-1945, Women
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Mattie Gunterman Collection

Title: Men and women on stairs:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900
Description: Men and women on stairs.
Subject(s): Portraits, Group, Women, Dwellings
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Mixed hunting party:
Contributor(s): Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900-08-26
Description: Men and women with packs and rifles, left to right, Harry Needham, Mrs. A. J. Helms, A. J. Helms, Madeline (Mattie) Gunterman and William (Bill) Gunterman - see 'Lardeau Eagle', vol. 2, no. 27, page 1, story, 'Novel Outing' and -from book 'Flapjacks and Photographs' by Henri Robideau 1995 p.59.
Subject(s): Manners and customs, Portraits, Group, Rifles, Gunterman, William, Gunterman, Mattie, 1872-1945, Needham, Harry, Helms, A.J.
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Mattie Gunterman Collection

Title: Packers ascending Chilkoot Pass Summit:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1898
Description: Packers ascending Chilkoot Pass summit.
Subject(s): Men, Mines and mineral resources
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Six CPR Locomotives on the Stoney Creek Bridge:
Contributor(s): Unknown (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Six CPR locomotives on the Stoney Creek Bridge in the Selkirks. Date is prior to November 1893 when the replacement steel bridge was completed. Note the supporting false work is still in place and the furthest of the original three Howe trusses appears to have been removed.
Subject(s): Locomotives, Railroad bridges, Railroads - Rolling-stock, Rivers, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Trees
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900-1910
Description: Trees.
Subject(s): Trees, Forests and forestry
Time Period: 1890s, 1900s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Unloading salmon at a cannery:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900
Description: Unloading fish at a cannery.
Subject(s): Canneries, Fishes, Fish canneries
Time Period: 1890s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: We Were Street Smart - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob recalls his experiences growing up in the West End and seeing a number of significant changes over the years as the area developed from single family housing to rooming houses and high-rise apartments.
Extent: 00:04:39
Subject(s): Housing, Housing, Living conditions, Gentrification, Trees
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: West End Stories