The item is a reel of film stock shots. (1) People sunbathing on Hot Sands Beach in City Park, Kelowna. Aquatic Pool building visible in background. (2) Activity at a game checking station (probably the permanent one at Cache Creek). Game conservation officer checking hunters' firearms. Deer carcass tied to hood of car; hunter removing its lower jaw to turn in. (3) Vancouver Airport, showing runway [construction?] and airliners (Trans-Canada Airlines) at terminal building.

Footage. First half of film shows a crew working around a pile of oyster shells, and preparing them to be hung submerged from a raft for oyster propagation. The locale is probably one of the oyster harvesting areas on east coast of Vancouver Island. Remainder of footage is mixed, including shots of U.S. Air Force Globemaster cargo plane and a Pan American Airways airliner (named "Clipper Monarch of the Skies") being serviced at an unidentified airfield. Also brief scenes of an abandoned coastal gun emplacement and the bow of a wrecked ship off a beach. This latter part of the reel may have been shot in California or Hawaii.

Amateur film. (1) Armstrong Fair and Interior Provincial Exhibition, 1956: agricultural exhibits; performing dogs; gymkhana; livestock parades and judging; marching pipe band; Armstrong and vicinity; street scene. (2) DEW Line construction, Northwest Territories, ca. 1957-1958: construction of radio masts and radar dome at a DEW radar site; winter landscape; aerial views of snowy terrain; shots inside, from and of Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 (designated CF-CPY); CPA Terminal (Yellowknife?); US Air Force cargo plane (a C-124 Globemaster II?) lands on snow-covered airstrip; a Sno-Cat tractor is unloaded, and the cargo plane takes off; sled and dog team pause near DEW Line site; crash site and wreckage of the same C-124 (broken-off tail, wings, etc.); CPA plane lands on a gravel strip; DEW line site. (3) Kelowna airport: light planes taxiing, taking off and landing; heavy equipment at work nearby. (4) Family boating and fishing scenes.

Amateur film. A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 (designated CF-CPY) lands at Kelowna airport, and John Diefenbaker makes a brief campaign stop there, during the 1957 or 1958 federal election campaign. Aircraft crew, dignitaries and crowd milling around airliner and tarmac. Diefenbaker circulates, greets well-wishers, poses for photos, and reboards the plane.

Footage. Miscellaneous subjects, including shots of downtown Vancouver streets, the Marine Building, the CPR station, a parade, and a Bristol Bitannia (a four-engined turbo-prop) airliner at Vancouver Airport. Also includes an unrelated sequence that shows hunters taking a butchered animal carcass from the back of a pack horse and loading it into a station wagon.