hotelvancouver

the top photo is the old Hotel Vancouver, also shown in your collection here: www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/7460319944/ the lower right shows the Empress Hotel in Victoria on Vancouver Island

See where this picture was taken.. [?]

there is another, very similar image of the Hotel Vancouver in The Commons already: www.flickr.com/photos/uw_digital_images/4670205856/

Amazing trees!!

This is actually Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), not a Douglas 'Pine'. For more info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Douglas-fir

i wonder if they still exist...

Based on the angle of the photograph, this was taken of the rear of the first Hotel Vancouver, which faced Georgia and Granville. You can see the chimney on the far left of this building, reflected on the far right in this photograph: searcharchives.vancouver.ca/hotel-vancouver-corner-of-geo... Thus, I estimate this photo was taken from the vicinity of Burrard and Smithe. It is definitely taken from a higher elevation than the hotel; it might even be a bit further up Burrard, and/or back towards Thurlow. If we knew the lens that Notman used in this photograph, we could perhaps more accurately estimate the distance.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called artland, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

there is now also another, very similar image of the Hotel Vancouver in The Commons: www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/7460319944/