Circa 1911 McLaughlin Buick, maybe?

[West Peterson]

McLaughlin Buicks did not have the side splash pans. The fenders don't look right, but perhaps they've been modified.

[Ariejan NL]

The car is a ca 1907 Pierce Great Arrow. Just visible is the charataristic rounded dash. Another id feature is the rather complex handle configuration below the steering wheel.

[1912Staver]

Perhaps the one that ended up on Vancouver Island ?  Recovered in the late 1970's  - early 1980's by a gent from Montana. Then as far as I know to a well known Brass Era guy nearby. There could not have been very many Great Arrow's in British Columbia. This is perhaps the only one.

[PFindlay]

The driver is Harry Hooper, perhaps Vancouver's first taxi driver and a very interesting character in early cycling then motoring in Vancouver.  In 1909 he used his $75000 inheritance to start his own taxi company.  There are photos of him with several different types of cars, including a few Wintons.

 

This photo is dated 1906 according to the Vancouver archives.  The front passenger is John Hendry, a well-known lumber baron and railway owner.  He was also a very early car owner with a little french front Oldsmobile that wore BC plate number 60.  That car is in the Vancouver museum these days.

 

As for the Pierce Great Arrow, it may be the one that belonged to Benjamin Tingley Rogers (BC plate #59) head of the Rogers Sugar refinery.  It's possible that Hooper drove for him as well as Hendry in those days.  Newspaper reports indicate that both Hooper and Rogers appeared in Vancouver court on the same day - charged with speeding.  Hooper's speed was charged as 20mph but Rogers; was only 16mph.  I wonder how they clocked them in those days?

 

Here's an interesting post about Harry Hooper's exploits:  https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2015/01/

 

Peter

 

[nzcarnerd]

3 hours ago, PFindlay said:

The driver is Harry Hooper, perhaps Vancouver's first taxi driver and a very interesting character in early cycling then motoring in Vancouver.  In 1909 he used his $75000 inheritance to start his own taxi company.  There are photos of him with several different types of cars, including a few Wintons.

 

This photo is dated 1906 according to the Vancouver archives.  The front passenger is John Hendry, a well-known lumber baron and railway owner.  He was also a very early car owner with a little french front Oldsmobile that wore BC plate number 60.  That car is in the Vancouver museum these days.

 

As for the Pierce Great Arrow, it may be the one that belonged to Benjamin Tingley Rogers (BC plate #59) head of the Rogers Sugar refinery.  It's possible that Hooper drove for him as well as Hendry in those days.  Newspaper reports indicate that both Hooper and Rogers appeared in Vancouver court on the same day - charged with speeding.  Hooper's speed was charged as 20mph but Rogers; was only 16mph.  I wonder how they clocked them in those days?

 

Here's an interesting post about Harry Hooper's exploits:  https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2015/01/

 

Peter

 

And the location looks to be Stanley Park where lots of photos were taken.

[nzcarnerd]

The head of the woman sitting on the far side of the rear seat looks to have been added in later.

[dictator27]

12 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

And the location looks to be Stanley Park where lots of photos were taken.

As noted in another thread the hollow tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park is still with us, but it is on life support.

[wayne sheldon]

That "tree" may be one of the most famous and most recognizable photo-ops in the world! However, from what I have read it has been basically dead for nearly a hundred years already. It, for over a hundred years, makes a great backdrop for photos of people, whether in cars or carriages on foot or bicycles, one of the best known "we were here" shots anywhere!