The item is a news reel from 1950. Includes an item about Doukhobors (possibly in the Grand Forks area) protesting by burning down their homes and disrobing. There are two other brief BC-content items: the Dominion Curling Championships in Vancouver, and troops departing for Korea from the west coast.

The series consists of a letterbook containing crime reports produced or collected by Sergeant John William Hooker during the course of his duties as a British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP) officer while posted to Coquitlam, Grand Forks, Nelson, Smithers, Prince George, Clinton, Ashcroft, Spence’s Bridge, Merritt, and Kamloops between 1932 and 1944. The records cover a variety of crimes and social issues—particularly in small, rural communities. In addition to generic social issues, the records from Grand Forks (file 3) relate primarily to Doukhobors, and include reports on the settlement of Gilpin.

The majority of the reports were produced by Hooker. Some supplemental records (copies), such as an inquest, inward correspondence in relation to particular cases, and a reason for judgement are interfiled with the crime reports.

The records are arranged chronologically and by detachment location. The records do not capture all crime reports filed in a particular district, but were likely selected by Hooker. Some of these files have been labeled in pencil “Personal file.” The records consist primarily of crime reports on standard BCPP letterhead. Each report contains the district, detachment, and the date, as well as an overview of the case and persons involved.

Some of these records may also be available in GR-1388: Correspondence and other material created by the British Columbia Provincial Police Force of the Yale district. John William Hooker's personnel card, which provides details of the service of constables, including marital status, date of first appointment, station, and various postings, can be found in GR-0091, vol. 30-31.

Travelogue. Scenery and attractions of the West Kootenay region: Crowsnest Pass, the Kootenay Lake ferry, boating, fishing, the Glass House, Nakusp or Ainsworth hot springs, the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie", golfing, Nelson curling bonspiel, caving, rodeo, spawning salmon, the Doukhobors, Fruitvale international dog show, miner's museum and Golden City Days Festival at Rossland, Wildlife Centre & Bird Sanctuary at Creston, hiking and skiing in the Valhalla Range. Other locales include Castlegar, Christina Lake, Grand Forks, Trail.

The item is a video travelogue. Scenery and attractions of the West Kootenay region: Crowsnest Pass, the Kootenay Lake ferry, boating, fishing, the Glass House, Nakusp or Ainsworth hot springs, the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie", golfing, Nelson curling bonspiel, caving, rodeo, spawning salmon, the Doukhobors, Fruitvale international dog show, miner's museum and Golden City Days Festival at Rossland, Wildlife Centre & Bird Sanctuary at Creston, hiking and skiing in the Valhalla Range. Other locales include Castlegar, Christina Lake, Grand Forks, Trail.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jack E. Thompson was born in 1894 and came to the Grand Forks Valley in 1895. His father, Andrew Thomas, was a blacksmith. Mr. Thompson describes what the valley was like at the turn of the century, which towns were there, which towns had not yet been established, and how the CPR and the hotels brought expansion. He describes the Indians of the area and a man named Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes his relatives between Chilliwack and Rosedale. Mr. Thompson goes on to describe his earliest memories of Cascade and more about Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes Grand Forks, the farming, the Doukhobors, and Peter Verigin.

TRACK 2: Mr. Thompson describes the Cascade power house, the trestle bridge, the "Hot Air Line" Railway, North Fork mining, and people in Cascade including: Billy Dalgleish, Jack Shaffer, Stocker and Chandler. Then Christina Lake is described, and a story about a moose is told. The interview ends with stories about the Grand Forks beer parlor and ;more about Billy Dalgleish.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mrs. Marjorie Reynolds came from Grimsby, Ontario to Grand Forks in 1900 with her father, who used to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She discusses orchards and nurseries and the day she arrived in great detail. Other things she discusses are: the community, fires, brickyard Doukhobors, some gentlemen, black maids, Chinese servants, and the closing of the smelter. Then Mr. E.S. Reynolds describes how he came to Vernon in 1913 and had to go east to join the army. He was one of two men from the area who survived the war. He worked on farms and describes the frost of 1925 which froze his orchard. Mr. Reynolds discusses irrigation, mining, smelting and Volcanic Brown's prospecting trips.

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Father wants to leave Doukhobor faith; comes to Brilliant in 1913; anecdote about immigrant train; communal life in Brilliant; privation of settlers; graft in commune; father quits commune and moves to Grand Forks; mother, ostracized because her husband left, leaves commune. Anecdote about Grand Forks brothel. Father moves to Trail; family moves to Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan; life in Blaine Lake; moves back to Trail in 1924; train and boat trip back; anecdote about boat ride; child molester; anecdote, father leaded in 1928; 1927 polio outbreak. TRACK 2: Recovery from polio; high school in Trail; father sick; Normal School in Victoria; Mr. McClarren, (principal) started first Doukhobor schools; teaching certificates; back to Trail in 1931; Doukhobor school trustee, Mr. Sheffield, offers her a job; anecdote about Sheffield coming to her house; teaches at Ootischenia school for 114 dollars a month. School in cobbler's shop; teacherage in commune; trials and tribulations of teaching; Sons of Freedom children returned from foster homes; salary cut to 90 dollars a month; moves to Glade, becomes principal; accident kills several teachers; Major Clarke takes over from Sheffield; Glade school bombed in 1936; rebuilt school burned same year it was rebuilt; was paid to call the roll at burned school to keep it open; anecdote about poor heat in school; guard at Glade School; reminiscences about recreation at Ootischenia; anecdote about Glade ferry. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0005 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdotes about Glade ferry; recreation; relief camp at Shoreacres; ferry operation; relief camp worker anecdote; transients calling for food and clothing during the Depression; anecdote about clothing; KC jam factory; Brilliant Doukhobor library; Depression life and commerce; local economy of the Kootenays; CPR and local economy; first radio in Ootischenia; Pat Romaine on local economy; dances at the Castlegar community hall; anecdote about courting; Swedish immigrants in Castlegar; immigration during the 1920s; Ukrainians in Castlegar; Eremenko's first store; Plotnikoff's store; White Russians arrive in the 1920s; Castlegar boomed with car pools; bought land in 1943. TRACK 2: Kinsman Park donated to city; Pauline meets Pat Romaine; father in hospital; courting Pat Romaine; anecdote about homemade beer in Trail; anecdote about a dance at Deer Park; moving to Castlegar in 1944; brother killed at Cominco; father leaded at Cominco; moved in with parents; lead poisoning and compensation; brother killed on hill; Pat Romaine on unionism; conditions before unions; move to Deer Park; electioneering in Deer Park; party at road opening; Robert Sommers as Social Credit candidate; Pauline hired as teacher; bad feelings against her as a teacher; rewards of working with children. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0006 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: How the children she taught turned out; discussion of modern school politics; one room school in Deer Park; difference in lifestyles; feuding between neighbours in Deer Park; fruit farm goes down hill; local packing house; [steam?] boats taken off lake in 1954; employment lost with boats; CPR buying policy; gyppo logging on lake; log picking; Renata fruit box factory; local economy dries up; Procter maraschino cherry factory; changing fruit markets; good fruit refused; pig farming; anecdote about pig farming; BC Tree Fruits; anecdote about fruit from Australia; Grand Forks war time seed farms; fruit market during the war; forestry employed people to cut fire trails and to work as fire lookouts. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Records relating to appraisals of Doukhobor lands. Records include: "Doukhobor Lands, a report on a study of the condition and value of the Doukhobor Lauds", by N.T. Drewry, with accompanying atlas of soil and land classification maps and land use mosaics, and working files; "Doukhobor lands: a report on a valuation of the Doukhobor lands for the Land Settlement Board", by Neil T. Drewry, 1957; appraisal of 1962 subdivisions of former Doukhobor lands at Ootischenia and Pass Creek, Kootenay District, by N.T. Drewry, H.W.R. Ramsden and J.S.D. Smith.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert F. Simpson came to Grand Forks on March 1, 1894; his father had the first sawmill in the area. Mr. Simpson begins this interview by talking about his father and the lumber and floods of the late 1800s. Mr. Simpson bought a plot of land in "Brown Creek". Mr. Simpson describes what Grand Forks was like when he arrived in 1894, mentioning: McClintock, who was a farmer; John Manly, who owned a large plot of land below Grand Forks; Carse Manly, hardware store owner; Spraggot, in the sawmill business; Ammond, the gold commissioner; and Cobert, who had the first orchard. Mr. Simpson discusses the Chinook Indians of the area and horses. Mr. Simpson mentions the Granby smelter which opened in Grand Forks in 1899.

TRACK 2: Mr. Simpson discusses the boom in Grand Forks which followed from the opening of the smelter. The smelter closed in 1920 and he describes the repercussions of that before discussing how timber and farming helped the local economy pick up again. Mr. Simpson describes the Doukhobors and communal living before telling a story of Volcanic Brown. The interview ends with a story about Dr. Avril who was the first dentist in the Grand Forks area.

Travelogue. Scenic and recreational attractions of the West Kootenay area. Includes sequences on Arrow, Christina and Kootenay lakes; mining history, abandoned mine workings, old hotels and ghost towns, including Sandon; Hugh Keenleyside dam (and boat lock there); boating, fishing and water-skiing; Duck Lake wildfowl sanctuary; Meadow Creek kokanee spawning channel; "house of bottles" tourist attraction; Ainsworth Hot Springs; the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie" at Kaslo; the Balfour-Kootenay Bay car ferry; mining museum at Rossland; parade honouring champion skier Nancy Greene, who is seen winning the ladies' slalom in the Du Maurier International at Red Mountain; Trail, including Cominco smelter; Phoenix open-pit mine; Doukhobor village museum and tomb of Peter Veregin; trail riding on the Dewdney Trail; various facilities for visitors.