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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: 300 block West Hastings
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: North side looking west from Hamilton to Homer. Various businesses, including Buscombe's housewares store, (sign, left). Pedestrians. Also exists as a lantern slide (66966)
Subject(s): Buildings, Pedestrians, Stores, Retail, Frederick Buscombe & Co., Limited, Buscombe's Housewares
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: 400 block West Hastings
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1907
Description: West view from Homer. A.F. McMillan jewellery shop. Pedestrians in the rain.
Subject(s): Jewellers, Dental offices, Pedestrians, Stores, Retail, Buildings, Boston Dentists, Limited, McMillan, Allan Francis (1865-1942)
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

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: 500 block Carrall Street west side:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1906
Description: Looking north with the Chinese Empire Reform Association of Canada, centre. Chinese businesses and men. Wagons.
Subject(s): Horse-drawn vehicles, Chinese Canadians, Buildings, Stores, Retail, Chinese Empire Reform Association 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: 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: Activity on Granville Street near Georgia looking north
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1935
Description: Activity on Granville Street near Georgia looking north.
Subject(s): Music-halls (Variety-theatres, cabarets, etc.), Hotels, Stores, Retail, Women, Automobiles, Pedestrians, Hudson's Bay Company, Hudson's Bay Company Building (Vancouver, B.C.), Colonial Theatre, Buildings
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Leonard Frank 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: Childhood Memories - Interview with Wail Wong
Contributor(s): Wong, Wail (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Wail Wong talks about seeing buildings go up and the places he frequented at as a child. Wong discusses the long standing businesses and buildings; describes the businesses he grew up around and other fond memories.
Extent: 00:00:57
Subject(s): New Town Bakery & Restaurant, Modernize Tailors, Ming Wo, Woodward's Stores Limited, Chinese Cultural Centre, Army And Navy Department Store Ltd., Stores, Retail, Department stores, Sun Yat-Sen Gardens
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Display at Hudson's Bay Department Store for Attorney General's first annual Christmas tree party:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1948
Description: Display at Hudson's Bay Department Store for Attorney General's first annual Christmas tree party.
Subject(s): Christmas, Parties, Stores, Retail, Hudson's Bay Company, Hudson's Bay Company Building (Vancouver, B.C.), British Columbia. Ministry of Attorney General
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Interior of Harrison's drugstore:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1907
Description: Two men at the back of the store at 500 Granville Street.
Subject(s): Display of merchandise, Drugstores, Stores, Retail, Interior architecture, Harrision, W.M., and Company, Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Philip Timms in his shop
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1906
Description: The business he started selling books, sheet music, and photographic supplies at 944 Granville Street.
Subject(s): Photographers, Interior architecture, Portraits, Display of merchandise, Timms, Philip Thomas, 1874-1973, Stores, Retail
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Steam pump on Dunsmuir:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Looking west toward Granville with D.A. Smith furniture store centre-right and the Bank of Montreal far right. The horses have been unhitched, the hoses are attached, and a man stands at the rear of the apparatus. Several men watch, left, and other people and a wagon are in the background, centre-right and right. "'Business hours'. Vancouver, B.C. Timms".
Subject(s): Streets, Pedestrians, Fire departments, Fire extinction - Equipment and supplies, Horse-drawn vehicles, Banks and banking, Buildings, Stores, Retail, Bank of Montreal, Smith, D.A., Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms 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: Vancouver's Chinatown
Contributor(s): Triggs, Stanley (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1961
Description: Part of a series 85766 + A-Y.
Subject(s): Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Streets, Pedestrians, Children and adults, Older people, Stores, Retail
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, 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