Vancouver by the decade

Try a short phrase like “people waiting for a streetcar”, "crowd around a large tree", or "kids playing at the beach" — the results will match the meaning, not just the exact words.

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[Head and shoulders portrait of] Chief Justice Morrison

[193-?]

[C.P.R. eastern tunnel portal near the Georgia Viaduct]

[ca. 1932]

[The front end of locomotive # 371 and participants in the re-enactment of the arrival of the first train]

July 4, 1936

William Thomas [Cascade Lodge No. 12]

[ca. 1932]

Sir Alexander MacKenzie School

17 July 1930

[Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War]

1937

[Replicas of the Crown Jewels on display at David Spencer Store for the Golden Jubilee of Vancouver]

1936

[Women carry placards protesting the sale of goods to "the enemy"]

[ca. 1939]

[Mrs. Thomas H. Kirk]

[ca. 1936]

[Alderman J.W. Cornett, Acting Mayor]

1938

[George J. Dyke]

1938

[View of boarded up house near southwest corner of Burrard and Pacific Streets, before construction of the Burrard Street Bridge]

13 Mar. 1931

[Group of small buildings west of the Marine Building]

[Sept. 1932]

[Two views of the fountain at Lost Lagoon]

17 July 1936

[Sunbathers on Kitsilano Beach]

1937

[Mayor Geo. C. Miller planting an oak seedling (Coronation Oak) at the south west corner of City Hall in commemoration of the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]

May 12, 1937

[Alexander McLean]

[ca. 1930]

[Mrs. Ruth Morton]

Sept. 12, 1935

[Mrs. Isabella Ann Burns (nee Macaulay)]

1938

[Sea Island Airport administration building]

[5 May 1931]

[Mrs. Crakanthorp, Stephen Burns and Miss Crakanthorp]

22 Apr. 1938

[Two portraits of Alex Walker]

[193-?]

[Mrs. J.W. Fordham - Johnson and her two dogs]

[193-?]

[Angelus Confectionery, north west corner Howe and Dunsmuir Street]

12 Aug 1936

[City Archives at temporary City Hall in the Holden Building]

1936

[Council chambers at City Hall]

[1936]

[Telescope in a glass case]

[193-?]

[Head and shoulders portrait of] R.W. Armstrong, Paymaster, City Hall

1936

[Potrait of] Mrs. John Oliver

[193-?]

[Portrait of] Chief Justice Morrison

[193-?]

First Avenue Viaduct - Dominion Construction Company Limited, Contractors

Aug. 19, 1937

Provincial Mental Hospital - Farm Cottage - Essondale, B.C. - H.D. Crawford "Contractor"

Jan. 20, 1930

[Men attempting to salvage the tugboat "Ella McKenzie"]

Apr. 28, 1939

[Measuring subsidence on the Georgia viaduct]

Sept. 9, 1931

[Demolition of the first Exhibition building at Hastings Park]

May 27, 1938

[Exterior of Vancouver Art Gallery at night - 1145 W. Georgia Street]

1931

[The ship "Empress of Japan" passing through Burrard Inlet]

[1936?]

[Ferry arriving at Jubilee Children's Camp]

[ca. 1939]

[Mrs. Nellie Evans at her son's grave in Mountain View Cemetery]

21 June 1939

[Commercial building at Water and Cordova Streets]

[193-]

[Construction of reservoir at Burwell Lake]

14 Oct. 1930

[Mrs. Nellie Evans at her son's grave in Mountain View Cemetery]

21 June 1939

[View of Vancouver from the British Properties]

[1932]

[Full length portrait of] Chief Justice Morrison

[193-?]

T.B. Hospital

June 1, 1936

"Chilco" Isle de Pierre Canon

[193-?]

[Lions Gate Bridge]

[ca. 1939]

[View of C.P.R. Pier "D" on fire]

July 27, 1938; reproduced 1955

[Granville Island]

Mar. 27, 1931

[S.S. "Chehalis" disaster monument]

Mar. 1938