The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Ranchland views; old irrigation project at Deadman Creek, Lillooet District; new irrigation system, pumping water from the Thompson River; irrigation pipes and sprinklers; totally mechanized commercial hay ranch operation; machinery: baler, bale collector, boom loader; ranch house and scenery.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. A filmed report (ca. 4 minutes) from Britain about Aberdeen Angus cattle. The breed's centennial year is being celebrated with several county shows in Scotland. H.R.H. the Queen Mother attends the main show.
2. Two young women tell the story of their registered Aberdeen Angus herd.
3. Use of a cherry-picker crane in fruit picking.
4. Treatment of fruit in a plant.
5. Drawing showing an insect in various development stages. Pears marked.
6. Pruning in a snow-covered orchard.
7. Cleaning planting boxes and preparing soil in a greenhouse.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Cattle in pasture. Feeding cattle. Inoculating cattle. Laboratory, silo, empty corrals, new building. Panorama of location. Sampling, testing and analysis of hay. Sampling silage. Laboratory procedures Fruit-picking device. Tomato-picking machine. View of pickers. The film cameraman. Based on a label shown in the film, the location may be the experimental farm at Summerland.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Cattle in pasture. A combination grass-cutter and silage maker at work; filling the silo. Cleaning stable. Farm buildings. Cattle in pasture and going to stables. Mechanized milking and dairy operation.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Various heavy soil cultivating machines at work -- harrows, disk-harrows. People examining the results. Sign on truck: "Piper Valley Ranch Ltd., Dawson Creek, B.C." Filling a sowing-machine with seed.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Apples, bin, forklift; one man fruit-picking crane. Pear orchard. Thinning fruit trees. Young pears. Drawing of an insect. Diseased pears. Fruit-laden trees in orchard, their branches supported and suspended. Picking pears from crane, ladder, and the ground. Forklift loading truck with bins of pears. Sign on truck: "Kelowna Growers, Rutland-Kelowna Exchange". Packing pears at plant. Views of area, home, orchard.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A1. "Heffley Creek, Apr. 68" [marked on head leader]: Sign: "Haughton Ranches Ltd." Ranch views. Crass-cutter. Cattle in corral. Snow-covered land. Dispersing hay in pasture for feed.
A2. "Dairy month, June 69" [marked on leader]: Cows move from pasture to holding area to mechanized milking area. 50 cows an hour. Bulk milk truck ("Okanagan Dairy Transport Ltd.") en route to dairy plant. Milk processing. Various sized cartons. Milk storage. Shipping to retailers. Customers selecting dairy products in supermarket. (00:19:21)
B. "Vegs Nov. 69" [marked on head leader]: A vegetable farm owner [?] describes the harvesting and packing of the asparagus crop. Portuguese farm workers and young people. Growing and harvesting cabbage. Potato harvesting machine. In partial partnership with man from Oliver. Sign: "Covert Farms". Grading and packing potatoes. Home scenes. (00:08:51)

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Farmland. Man collecting and packing asparagus. Sign: "Sher Singh, Prop. Kamloops". Cases of asparagus. Street scenes; supermarket interior; produce. Farmland. Carrot-picking machine. Washing, selecting and packing the carrots. Sign on bag: "F.W. Hack & Sons Ltd., Oliver, B.C." Truck marked "Vance Bros. Ltd., Wholesale Fruit, Trail, B.C." Loading truck. Picking vegetables.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Agricultural conference, co-sponsored by the B.C. Beef Cattle Growers Association, speakers discuss marketing; cattle at ranch; milking and dairy operation; cattle at pasture; cutting grass; views of CI Ranch Ltd., Alexis Creek; hay turner, baler, bale collector, hay shredder; cattle at the ranch; small airplane takes off from ranch airstrip.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Passengers in railroad coach. Cattle show. Tractor demonstration. Baseball game. Agricultural exhibits. Antique farm machinery, including steam tractors, steam ploughs, etc. Western Development Museum, exhibition site.

CALL NUMBER: T0826:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart recounts his grandparent's settlement in the Courtenay area in the 1870s. He describes his early life; Comox; Courtenay; Cumberland; the Indian settlement; life on his family's farm. Later he became a logger and trapper. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart continues with a description of his work on a fishing boat; and in a logging camp. He describes his reunion with his father in Alberta; the purchase of farm equipment; and his trek to the family's homestead. He recalls his time as a rancher; his trip to Vancouver; his time as a steam engineer; a successful logging operation.;

CALL NUMBER: T0826:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart describes some of his logging and trapping experiences in the Courtenay area; operating a pack train for the government survey parties and CPR surveys; anecdotes of some mainland inlet settlers. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart discusses the weather and storms common to the mainland inlets; a tugboat trip to Prince Rupert; boating incidents.

The item is a b&w documentary film from the 1920s. "Harvesting grain by tractor. Stooks. Threshing by "gas power" -- thresher driven by a belt from the tractor. Sacking grain. Trucks taking it away. Sacks being loaded into CP boxcars. Train pulls out and passes acres of hops being picked. Hop pickers weighing their baskets. Two-horse load of hops. Scenes of workers' camp, nurse, community newspaper, kid's playground. Hops unloaded at processing plant. Hop-curing sheds. Dairy barn. Tobacco-drying sheds at Sumas. Tobacco harvesting, curing. Ploughing match at Chilliwack. Two-horse teams and tractors." (Colin Browne)