The item is a reel of film stock shots from ca. 1977. It contains miscellaneous B.C. scenery. Aerial views of coastline (Long Beach). Shots of seals, small islands, and people playing in the surf. Mountainside waterfall and stream. Shots of and from a car on a highway. Water skiing; canoeing. Loggers' sports events. Sequence on the Royal Hudson steam train, with shots of and from the train going south along Howe Sound, aerial shots, travelling shots, etc. Aerial shots of a BC Ferry, Active Pass, Gulf Islands. Swimming, boating, sports fishing. Aerial views of mountains. Camping on the shore of a lake; canoeing, glacier, mountains. Cowboys take part in rodeo events; audience looks on. Orchard scenes: trees in blossom, fruit, etc. Long final shot of fisherman casting from a small boat, silhouetted against the sunset.

Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

24. At Browning Lake cabin.
25. Sports Day June 1932 St. Clare.
26. Beach hotel after fire; log boom; rough day on Howe Sound -- December 1933.
27. Wedding at Britannia, August 1933.
28. California?, April 1935.
29. July 1 1936 at townsite.
30. Browning children & others at play, etc., [192-].
31. Father Flanagan's boys' home and other New York locations, [ca. 1940].
32. West coast forest.
33. Beach May 24 1940.
34. PGE Quesnel Cariboo mines 1933. A trip to the Cariboo via the steamboat "Lady Alexandra" and the PGE railway. Quesnel, Barkerville, 70 Mile House. The Cariboo Quartz and Island Mountain Mines (?). Fraser Canyon views.

Item consists of one photograph in a card mat of five men in an old growth forest. "C.T. Dunbar's Timber Limits on the Mamquam River, Howe Sound 40 miles from Vancouver, B.C. About 35 square miles. Edwards Bros. Photos." has been captioned on the bottom left of the photograph.

Promotional video. A railroad trip by BC Rail dayliner from North Vancouver to Prince George.

The series consists of five reels of amateur film created by the Billwiller family. Includes scenes of Britannia Beach townsite and the surrounding area, as well as a trip on the PGE Railway, building a road to Britannia Beach, May Day celebrations at Britannia (including crowning of the "Copper Queen"), Cub Scout gatherings, sports day events, and family scenes (Christmas, babies, children, friends and neighbours, fishing trips, etc.).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Grace Chamberlin relates the story of her birth at Gibsons Landing, which was called Howe Sound at that time; her mother's father George William Gibson, who came to Vancouver in 1886 wit;h her mother and father; Gibson's pre-emption; jobs her father worked at in Vancouver; his eventual move to Gibsons Landing; various "skid roads" in the area; Native Indians in the area; other settler;s; Ralph Gibson's store around 1893; life in Gibson's; impressions of George William Gibson; a comparison of today and yesterday; details on how the old timers lived; impressions of Finns including Jacob Hintsa; J.S. Woodsworth and the Methodist Church. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Stock shots. The self-dumping log barge "Haida Monarch" is shown underway and dumping a load of logs.

Docudrama. Commercial herring fishing on the BC coast. The story focuses on one seiner (the "Western Girl" from Vancouver) and her crew's attempts to reach their quota before fishing is closed. Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd. took part in the production. Actor Bruno Gerussi makes his film debut as a crewman on the seiner.

Hilary Brown was Chairman of the Islands Trust, 1974-1976. Unit consists of file copies used by the Chairman and includes: minutes of the General Trust, 1974-1976; briefs (3); correspondence; policy statement; review and history of the Islands Trust. Also includes report of the Nature Conservancy of Canada Islands Trust "Natural areas inventory: islands of the Strait of Georgia, Howe Sound and Haro Strait, British Columbia" (1975); S.G. Preston's 1976 " Study of the agricultural resources of the British Columbia Gulf Islands"; subject files on various islands and collected articles and pamphlets on aspects of conservation.

Item consists of one bound atlas measuring 55 x 34 cm. It contains three fire insurance plans for the former mining town of Britannia Beach, BC. Maps were surveyed by the British Columbia Fire Underwriters' Association in March 1923. A stamp on the back of Sheet 1 states: "received Oct 12 1923". Sheet 1 provides brief fire protection details and notes the Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. and a variety of mining and domestic buildings, bodies of water, railway lines, and topographical details. Sheet 1 provides an overview of the area and includes an inset location map and a section map through mill building AA. Sheet 2 includes three detail sections of Tunnel Mine. Sheet 3 includes details for Head of Incline, Victoria Camp, Empress Camp, and Barbara Camp. Maps have been annotated in pencil and ink with buildings being added and removed. Sheets 1 and 3 have fold out additions to depict expansion to the site.

Fire Insurance plans and atlases are large-scale (high resolution) urban maps which grew out of the need of fire insurance underwriters to understand the physical characteristics of a structure to be insured. These maps show, with detailed colour drawings and symbols, the character of the construction of buildings, passages, probable fire cut-offs, fire walls, openings in walls, height and occupancy or use of individual buildings or groups of buildings. Street widths, street addresses, property lines, water pipes or mains, and fire hydrants are also typically located on the maps. Although fire insurance plans stopped being produced in the 1970s and have long outlived their primary function, they continue to act as important source material.