British Columbia--Description and travel--1918-1945

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Alfred E. Booth : [reminiscences]

PERIOD COVERED: ;1913;-;1955 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [197-?] SUMMARY: In a series of recorded reminiscences, Alfred E. Booth describes his travels on the B.C. coast, and in the Lower Mainland, Nicola and North Thompson regions; the Hope-Princeton Highway and the Boundary region; the Canadian Arctic (March 1955); coastal steamship travel; Kamloops to Calgary via the Big Bend highway; Alberta and N.W.T. oil and fields; Vancouver Island (especially its west coast and interior); the Lower Mainland; the Depression in the B.C. interior, and showing films in the relief camps. Throughout, Booth also discusses his experiences as an amateur and semi-professional filmmaker throughout the province. The second side of tape 5 discusses the senior's residence Booth was living in at the time of the recording, and includes some harmonica music performed by a friend of Booth's.

[Beginning of trip to Hazelton, 1928]

Amateur film. In summer 1928, two carloads of travellers drive from Kamloops to Hazelton and return, filming highlights of their trip. These include the Cariboo Road, Barkerville, Bear Lake, Summit Lake, Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, Bulkley River, Telkwa River, and Skeena River. Footage from this trip is continued on film F1984:01/05.

North of the border

The item is a travelogue from 1942. It is a film on the attractions of vacationing in British Columbia, intended for American audiences. Footage includes: Peace Arch Park; Vancouver (skyline, city hall, waterfront, activities in Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge); Capilano Golf Club; Victoria (Empress Hotel, Parliament Buildings, homes and gardens, golf course); summer cruising up the coast; Princess Louisa Inlet; the Fraser Canyon; Cariboo Highway; the Okanagan Valley (scenery and orchards); the Big Bend Highway in the Rocky Mountains; Boat Encampment at the confluence of Wood River and Canoe River with the Columbia River; Kinbasket Lake; mountains and glaciers; Fraser Valley (fishing for steelhead in the Vedder River).

Oral history interviews, field sounds, and music

The series consists of oral history interviews focusing on the European settlement and development of British Columbia, mainly covering the period 1880-1914, recorded all over the province by broadcaster Imbert Orchard. The series also includes field recordings of natural and man-made sounds, as well as some example of indigenous and folk music.

People in landscape : series 2 : [Journeys / Bella Coola / Queen Charlotte Islands]

The sub-series consists of episodes from the second series of "People in Landscape", a radio program about people and places in British Columbia history that aired from 1968 to 1972. It was based on oral history interviews by Imbert Orchard, who also wrote, produced and narrated the programs. The second series (1969-1970) included programs about various journeys around B.C. (broadcast October 3 to November 21, 1969); the history of, and present-day life in, the Bella Coola Valley (December 5, 1969 to January 9, 1970); and the Queen Charlotte Islands (January 16 to April 3, 1970).

Thomas Whitefoot fonds

  • PR-1837
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  • [ca. 1926]-1955; 1963

The fonds consists of Tom Whitefoot's amateur films depicting military parades, Vancouver scenery, highway trips in British Columbia and the Northwest, and local events such as Vancouver's Golden and Diamond Jubilees (1936 and 1946), the 1939 Royal Visit, the British Empire and Commonweath Games (1954), and the city's first Grey Cup game (1955).

Whitefoot, Thomas, 1891-1986

Vancouver and vicinity in the 1920s and 1930s : compilation tape for display use

The item is a compilation videotape made in 2004 for the "Experts in the gallery" program held in the Royal BC Museum. It contains a compilation of archival films showing Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and vicinity in the 1920s and 1930s.:
Across Canada in fifteen minutes (1929), New Westminster fair, 1928 (1928), Old Hastings Mill Store moved (1930-31), Industrial Britannia (1926?), Burrard Street Bridge : Vancouver British Columbia 1931 (1931-32), The Fraser Valley public library (1932), A flying visit to Garibaldi : a story of modern mountaineering (1933), Vancouver waterfront, ca. 1935 (1935), Deep Cove days (1937?), Pier D fire, Vancouver, 1938 : Burritt footage (27-Jul-1938) and Stanley Park (1939).