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Title: 300 block West Hastings:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1904
Description: View from Homer to Hamilton. Streetcars, street sweeper, and the Royal Insurance Company on the corner
Subject(s): Street-railroads, Buildings, Street lighting, Royal Insurance Company, British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: 300 block West Hastings
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1908
Description: View of Hastings from Homer. Mahon Block on the corner with a bookshop at street level and Buscombe's housewares store, right. Pedestrians, and a streetcar in the snow. The office for the Province newspaper is visible in the background, right. Also exists as a lantern slide (66972).
Subject(s): Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - Hastings Street, Pedestrians, Stores, Retail, Street-railroads, Buildings, Winter, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Frederick Buscombe & Co., Limited, Province Newspaper
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: 600 block West Hastings
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1904
Description: Looking east from Granville. Streetcars and wagons. George Trorey's jewellery store is at the north east corner (left) with other businesses beyond.
Subject(s): Jewellers, Street-railroads, Children, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Stores, Retail
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: 600 block West Hastings:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Looking east from Granville. Streetcar, carriage, and pedestrians. Birks jewellery store is at the corner (left) with the 'Birks' clock out front (George Trorey's jewellery store until 1906). A boy with a bicycle, centre, and a woman pushing a pram, foreground.
Subject(s): Stores, Retail, Bicycles, Street-railroads, Pedestrians, Buildings, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Henry Birks and Sons Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Dump truck clearing snow
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1928
Description: Dump truck clearing snow on East 14th Avenue. Also exists as a lantern slide (67770).
Subject(s): Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - East 14th Avenue, Snow, Winter, Dwellings, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Dump trucks
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1920s
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: Interurban railway:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Interurban railway with Granville Bridge in the background.
Subject(s): Bridges, Railroads - Track, Railroads - Trains, British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Location(s): Fairview
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Last trip for B.C. Electric Railway observation car:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1950-09-17
Description: Last trip for B.C. Electric Railway observation car. Photo series 81424 - C
Subject(s): Crowds, Parades, Street-railroads - Cars, British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Streetcars in the snow:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1909
Description: (Top left) Granville, looking south from Dunsmuir. D.A. Smith furniture store (601 Granville), right. Car, streetcar, pedestrians, and dogs. (Top right) Granville, looking north from near W. Pender. Post office is left, followed by Fairfield Building and Wilson Building. New post office is Looking south east along 500 block Granville. Buildings, businesses, and pedestrians also visible. Also available as a lantern slide (66969).
Subject(s): Buildings, Street-railroads, Streets, Pedestrians, Stores, Retail, Winter, British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Teenage Life in South Vancouver - Interview with Arthur and Olave Schultz
Contributor(s): Schultz, Arthur (Interviewee), Schultz, Olave (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Arthur describes his teen years in South Vancouver; summer jobs, ice skating on 49th Avenue and joining the RCAF cadets.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Youth - Employment, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - 49th Avenue, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, Teenagers, Skating
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: West Hastings from Granville
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1908
Description: Looking east in the snow. Streetcars and pedestrians. Birks jewellery store is partially visible, left, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce is across the street with the Strand Hotel next door. Also exists as a lantern slide (66971).
Subject(s): Buildings, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Canadian Bank of Commerce, Henry Birks and Sons Limited, Winter, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - West Hastings Street, Pedestrians, Hotels, Banks and banking, Stores, Retail, Street-railroads
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection