The Seniors Connection Collingwood Corner: Joyce Road in September 1911

by Loretta Houben

There are only a few photographs taken of the Collingwood area in the early 1910s that include Joyce Road, so I have a profound fascination with finding larger copies and looking at them blown up in my photograph program.

The photo included with this article is from September 1911, and is from the Vancouver Library collection, which can be found online.

This photo is very small, due to being scanned in at low resolution years ago. I took a photocopy of it and visited the Central Branch library downtown Vancouver in January 2023. The librarian who assisted me on the 7th floor was very helpful. She located a print of the scanned photo, not the original as that was in a bad shape, and she allowed me to look at it closely with a magnifying glass and me to take a picture of it with my phone.

I tweaked the copy by making it black and white as the original print was sepia. Zooming in, I noticed a few details that I couldn’t see on the small online photo. I’ve labeled them so you can see them, too.

much I learned from this experience.