Footage. "Probably members of the Columbia Coast Mission visiting the mission boat ['Columbia'] in Vancouver harbour during the Royal Visit. Includes ladies and two nurses. Scenes up the coast taken from the Mission boat: blue sky and sea, islands, and an unidentified [floating] settlement and its residents. Lion's Gate Bridge [long shot], looking out Vancouver Harbour. Lighthouse up the coast. Scenery through the islands, [fishing] boats & settlements. [Logging sequence.] Flowers in an unidentified garden and a little stone fountain in a pond with swans. Two women on deck of Mission boat look out over small village up the coast. Fishing boats, settlements. Man painting hull of Mission boat. Nurses. Boat at dock with other boats nearby, probably in Inner Harbour, Victoria. Empress Hotel. Ladies [disembarking]. Fishermen picking fish out of hold, Mission boat nearby. Scenery and settlement with fish-boats up the coast. At a Lighthouse (Pachena?), a small boat is transported across the top of the water by a cable, then lowered into the water when out of danger. The boat is then rowed out to the Mission boat. More scenery, settlements and islands. Scenery up the coast, islands, settlements, tugboat passing, destroyer passing. Point-No-Point Lodge and beach. [Logging scene.] [The yacht 'Taconite'] in Vancouver Harbour for King and Queen's visit. Many flags and pennants. Lion's Gate Bridge in background. Hundreds of boats in Harbour: fishboats with flags, cabin cruisers, motorboats, and RCN destroyer H48, 'HMCS Fraser'. Biplanes fly over bridge very close to cables. 'Princess Marguerite' hoves into view then sails away under bridge to Vancouver Island, carrying the King and Queen. Village church with wedding party emerging. Settlements, scenery and people up the coast." (Colin Browne)

Amateur film. Views of west coast from ship; work boats leave ship; personnel at Pachena lighthouse; West Coast Trail signs; family group leisure activity on the trail; the wreck of the "Uzbekistan"; shoreline; the supply ship "Estevan"; Jack (Pachena light keeper) hunting at Pachena.

Amateur film. S.S. "Princess Maquinna" in Alberni Canal [i.e., Alberni Inlet]; Bamfield; trail to Pachena lighthouse; boat-cable supply system; station personnel; shore line; Tofino; lumber yard; passenger ship; boat-pickup supply; radio station; teacher and pupils on sidewalk; family beach picnic; Joseph T. Dick Store (at Hesquiat); pickup truck on plank road; Estevan facilities; interior of station building; view of station and shore from top of lighthouse; shipboard views; girl guides in Richmond.

Amateur film. Gordon Head flowers; Race Rocks lighthouse; flowers; aboard ship; pan of Bamfield; construction of radio mast [at Pachena?].

Unedited footage. Supply routine for lighthouses at Estevan Point and Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Supplies are unloaded from CCGS "Estevan" onto whaleboats; boats are rowed ashore and unloaded onto rocky beach at Hesquiat; pick-up trucks carry supplies over wooden road to Estevan lighthouse; views of lighthouse and surroundings. At Pachena Point, supplies are loaded onto boats (rough water); near shore, boat is hoisted out of water and winched ashore by overhead cable. Views of lighthouse, shoreline at Pachena. Also includes seascapes and shots of the S.S. "Princess Maquinna", swans in a pond (Beacon Hill or Stanley Park) and the Nanaimo Bastion.