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Local area planning : [parts one and two]

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0002/1 SUMMARY: A special report on local area planning in Vancouver. Incudes interviews with Ron Youngberg, head planner; Jock Craigg, Kensington area resident; Harry Anderson, retired carpenter; and George Puil, alderman.

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0002/2 SUMMARY: Includes interviews with alderman George Puil, alderman Helen Boyce and alderman Marguerite Ford.;

London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company records

The London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company (LCFIC) was incorporated by statute in British Columbia in 1890 as a general fire insurance business. Most of the original investors were shareholders or officials of the British Columbia Land and Investment Agency. The head office of LCFIC was located in Victoria with agencies in various British Columbia centres such as Vancouver, Nanaimo and Vernon. Because of its limited resources the company entered into a number of reinsurance treaties mainly with English and Scottish insurance companies. The LCFIC became inactive in 1898, was wound up in 1905 and liquidated in 1906. Most policies were replaced by Phoenix Assurance Company policies between 1898 and about 1900. Fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, insurance policies, registers and records of reinsurance treaties. For related records see MS-2880, British Columbia Land and Investment Agency fonds, series 23, 25-26, 84-91.

A metal seal embosser for the London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company was transferred to the BC Archives from the City of Victoria Archives in 2021. This is housed in container number 002340-2784.

London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company

Lorraine Bolton interview ; Muriel Richardson interview ; Doris Jensen interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of United Church activities in B.C., 1925-1975 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Lorraine Bolton: Brief memories of Dundas United Church. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-06-20.] Miss Muriel Richardson: Work as Superintendent of the United Church Girls' Home in the 1950s and as a Deaconess at First United Church in Vancouver, 1944-52. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-07-15.] Doris Jensen: Social life and United Church activities in Ocean Falls, B.C., ca. 1925-1950. [Recorded 1975-11-24; very brief.]

[Lower mainland, Coast Mountains & Vancouver : aerial views]

Footage. Two rolls of aerial views, presumably culled from various outs for use as stock footage. The first roll, compiled from stock dated 1957 and 1960, shows Second Narrows, False Creek, Stanley Park, Fraser Valley and the Coast mountains, with some overall shots of Vancouver. The second roll, on stock dated 1954 and 1955, consists of low-level aerial views of downtown Vancouver, Burrard Inlet and a logging camp (?); "tilt-ups" from the CPR docks to the North Shore mountains; and some high-level aerial views of the city, one of which is on 1947 stock.

Lucy R. Moon interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Lucy Moon RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Lucy Moon was born ca.1880 and lived in London, England before coming to Canada in 1919. She discusses life in Canada, impressions, detail on jobs (store clerk), the Depression, Vancouver in the 1930s, and Saskatoon. Duties of a store clerk in a fabric shop.

Lumbering in British Columbia

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

Lumbering in British Columbia

The item is a documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

Lumbering in British Columbia

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

Lure of far horizons : [part 1]

Amateur film. Shows Don and Phylllis Munday family travelling by boat from Vancouver to Bella Coola, then by pack train into Tweedsmuir Park, and visiting various natural sites.

Mabel Garnett Cornwall interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. F.V. Cornwall discusses her father, Robert Garnett Tatlow, who came to Canada from Ireland when he was seventeen; his work for a land syndicate in Vancouver in 1886; the Vancouver fire; real estate interests; her father as an M.L.A.; Joe Martin, Richard McBride, Dave Fulton; her father's political views; early Vancouver and high society; Lord and Lady Aberdeen. TRACK 2: Cornwall discusses her father's Cariboo property; more descriptions of people and places in early Vancouver; the Cornwalls; a train robbery story; more about the Cornwalls; dances at Kamloops; trips to Vancouver; brief comments on hunting, Indians, and clergymen in the Ashcroft area.

Madeleine is . . .

The item is a video copy of a feature film by Sylvia Spring. "The film follows the story of Madeleine (Nicola Lipman), a young French Canadian woman living in Vancouver. Caught between her domineering boyfriend Toro (John Juliani), with his socialist poser friends, and a patronizing employer, Madeleine must break free to assert control over her sexuality and creative desires. Heightened by Doug McKay's quasi-documentary camera style, Spring conveys a strong social vision in her portrayal of Vancouver on the cusp of the 1970s." (Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2002).

Madeleine is . . .

Feature film. "The film follows the story of Madeleine (Nicola Lipman), a young French Canadian woman living in Vancouver. Caught between her domineering boyfriend Toro (John Juliani), with his socialist poser friends, and a patronizing employer, Madeleine must break free to assert control over her sexuality and creative desires. Heightened by Doug McKay's quasi-documentary camera style, Spring conveys a strong social vision in her portrayal of Vancouver on the cusp of the 1970s." (Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2002)

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