British Columbia--Description and travel

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Diary of a trip "out West" in 1933

The item consists of an illustrated typed transcript of a diary of a trip "out West' taken by Kit A. Sauvary from June 22 to July 30, 1933. Kit Sauvary and her party traveled across the Northern United States by automobile from Toronto, entering British Columbia South of Kootenay Lake. They took the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway to Princeton, North to Spences Bridge, and down the Fraser Canyon. They visited Vancouver and Vancouver Island before returning via the Banff Windermere Highway and the Rockies, through the United States and back to Toronto. The diary was written as a series of letters to Sauvary's parents in Guernsey, typed up in 1979 and contains photographs and marked route maps of the journey from 1933.

Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks, 1925-1950 (5 volumes) containing postcards, photographs, hotel and motel brochures, menus, tickets, time tables, place mats and other memorabilia collected by Mr. and Mrs. Scott Graham on vacations in Ontario, the United States (mainly New York, Washington, D.C., and Washington State), British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. The scrapbooks also contain theatre programmes, Anglican Church leaflets and Council of Women and Women's Canadian Church meeting notices, etc.

[This is Canada]

Travelogue. Impressions of Canada as seen by an American couple travelling from Newfoundland to BC, a sports fisherman, an American schoolboy and a landscape painter. BC footage includes views of Mt. Robson, Vancouver and Victoria; fishing at Amethyst Lake in the Thompson Valley; logging for pulpwood (including falling, trucking of logs, log jam being cleared with explosives); totem poles at Kitwanga.