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Title: 400 block West Hastings:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1906
Description: Looking west from the south west corner of Hastings and Homer. Royal Bank, left, with Montelius piano store next to it. Other businesses including the Bank of British North America (centre-right) and pedestrians, streetcars, and wagons. Flags and banners decorating the street may be in celebration of the city's twentieth anniversary.
Subject(s): Banks and banking, Horse-drawn vehicles, Pedestrians, Stores, Retail, Buildings, Architecture, Bank of British North America, Montelius Piano House, Ltd., Royal Bank of Canada
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: 600 block Granville:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1906
Description: Looking north from south side of Georgia Street. The Hudson's Bay department store is partially visible, right. The New York Block (658 Granville) is centre right, the Bank of Montreal is partially visible, centre. The CPR station is at the foot of the street. Streetcars, wagons and carriages, liquor store (Turner's), bookstore, camera shop, tailor, and Turkish bathhouse.
Subject(s): Horse-drawn vehicles, Stores, Retail, Architecture, Department stores, Buildings, Liquor stores, Turner, Joseph P., Hudson's Bay Company, Bank of Montreal, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Cabs at the Canadian Pacific Railway Depot:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: A line of carriages sit west of the terminus for CPR trains and ships at the foot of Granville. A train is behind them and beyond are some downtown buildings, including Spencer's (right) and Kelly Douglas with Gault's next door (centre).
Subject(s): Railroad stations, Horse-drawn vehicles, Railroads - Trains, Buildings, Department stores, Architecture, Horses, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Gault Brothers Limited, Spencer's Department Store, Kelly Douglas and Company Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Canadian Bank of Commerce, Spencer's Department Store, Empire and Marine Buildings:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1935
Description: Looking west on Hastings Street from Richards Street - Canadian Bank of Commerce - Spencer's Department store - Empire Building - Marine Building - automobiles - street cars. Old Photo Number not available.
Subject(s): Architecture, Automobiles, Urban transportation, Buildings, Street-railroads - Cars, Street-railroads, Department stores, Stores, Retail
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Canadian Pacific Railway Depot
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Terminus for trains and ships at the foot of Granville in 1904 or 1906. Harbour, ship, and mountains are partially visible in background. Wagons in foreground. Also available as a lantern slide (66658).
Subject(s): Railroad stations, Horse-drawn vehicles, Buildings, Architecture, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Crowd at the Canadian Pacific Railway Depot:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1909
Description: Terminus for trains and ships at the foot of Granville. People are possibly waiting to buy lots (in Shaughnessy?). Several people have bicycles.
Subject(s): Railroad stations, Crowds, Architecture, Bicycles, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Crowd at the Canadian Pacific Railway depot:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1909
Description: Terminus for trains and ships at the foot of Granville. People are probably waiting to buy lots (in Shaughnessy?). Several people have bicycles.
Subject(s): Railroad stations, Crowds, Architecture, Bicycles, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Granville at West Hastings
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1908
Description: Looking south: streetcars. Sikh men crossing the street, right foreground; carriage, centre left. Large block on corner is the Williams Building (with McDowell's drugstore), next is the Fairfield Building, then the post office. The Williams Building was called the MacKinnon Block till 1906; it housed the Masonic temple.
Subject(s): H. McDowell & Co., Street-railroads, Post office buildings, Drugstores, East Indian Canadians, Sikhs, Sikh Canadians, Pedestrians, Architecture, Buildings, Horse-drawn vehicles, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Streets, Freemasons
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Immersed in the Transformation of a City - Interview with Colette Parsons and Garry Eckford
Contributor(s): Parsons, Collette (Interviewee), Eckford, Garray (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-08
Language: English
Description: Garry, employee of Vancouver's renowned architect Arthur Erikson, speaks of how Expo 86 changed the appearance and character of the city. Colette, an architect, returned to Vancouver for Expo 86 with her new credentials excited to see the face of Vancouver transformed by the fair.
Extent: 00:10:53
Subject(s): Architects, Urban renewal, Seawall, Development, Architecture, Food
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

Title: Odd Fellows Hall under construction:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1906
Description: South west corner of Pender and Hamilton. Snow.
Subject(s): Winter, Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection