The fonds consists of the Harbour Navigation Company's photographs, which include one album and several loose photos and postcards. These images depict the Wigwam Inn and Belcarra Park (both on Indian Arm), and social activities at those locations, as well as the company's vessels, captains and personnel. Vessels shown include the "Fort Langley", the "Harbour Princess", the "Hollyburn" and the "Scenic". Several photos were taken by the Dominion Photo Company, and some by the Royal Canadian Air Force. The photographs were collected by Joan Hughes from the Harbour Navigation Company and former staff members.

The item consists of an audio interview with H.H. Stevens, recorded in 1966.
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Track 1: Mr. Stevens, who came to Vernon in 1894, talks about his early experiences and memories of the Okanagan, including driving the stage from Penticton to Grand Forks in 1897; Camp McKinney; Fairview; Rossland; Phoenix; Greenwood; Grand Forks; Crows Nest Railway; Rock Creek; prospecting and mining and W.R. Meagaw. He describes Vernon; local residents; farms; ranches and the Aberdeen Ranch.
Track 2: Mr. Stevens continues with recollections about the Coldstream Ranch; Okanagan Lake; coming to Vancouver 1901; False Creek; CPR land holdings; real estate boom 1901 to 1912; sawmills and logging; Oppenheimer brothers; local personalities and wholesalers; Victoria wholesalers; North Vancouver ferry; Stewart; and the Dominion Trust Company.

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Track 1: Mr. Stevens speaks about the Dominion Trust Company; the beginning of party politics in BC, 1903; and his election as a federal Conservative MP in 1911. He comments on federal political life; Vancouver in the boom period and depression, from 1911 to 1920; personalities; Alvo von Alvensleben; Hindus; Japanese; wholesalers and the Vancouver Hotel. [Track 2: blank.]

Amateur film. Vacation footage from Vancouver (Burrard Inlet, Lion's Gate Bridge); the town of Gibsons; Seattle (Space needle, monorail, World's Fair site, zoo). Harbour scenes. Aboard the liner "Oriana". Long Beach, California.

CALL NUMBER: T2687:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh Curtis on SAFER program and Victoria Harbour RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-09 & 1977-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Hugh Curtis announces the Shelter Aid For Elderly Residents (SAFER) program, 1977-03-09. TRACK 2: Hugh Curtis, Victoria mayor Mike Young and Recreat;ion Minister Sam Bawlf announce the Harbour West development for Victoria Harbour, 1977-05-19.; CALL NUMBER: T2687:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh Curtis on municipal financing and Burrard Inlet Sea Bus RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-17 & 20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Hugh Curtis announces new municipal financing formula for BC municipalities, 17 June 1977. TRACK 2: Curtis gives his reaction to the new Burrard Inlet Sea Bus, 20 June 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T2687:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh Curtis on strata titles and national unity RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-24 & 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Hugh Curtis announcing the plugging of loopholes in the Strata Titles Act, 24 June 1977. TRACK 2: British Columbia politicians express support for; the idea of national unity: (1) Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Hugh Curtis; (2) Environment Minister Jim Nielsen; (3) Mines Minister Jim Chabot; (4) Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister; Rafe Mair; and (5) NDP MLA Emery Barnes. 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T2687:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh Curtis, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, announces plans to sell the Housing Corporation of British Columbia. Also in attendance are Tom Toynbee, chairman of the board of directors, and deputy minister Larry Bell. Questions from the press. April 7, 1978. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Item consists of one bound volume measuring 30 x 79 cm. It contains 11 blueprints of varying dimensions and one map of the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet, as surveyed by Captn G.H. Richards and the officers of H.M.S. Plumper in 1859-1860. Each plan/map is numbered using white, paper labels adhered in the top right corner. Pages have been bound with the front cover at the back. Handwritten inscriptions repeat an abridged version of the title on the back cover. "Martin -J" is also written on front cover.

Blueprints include: (1) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (2) Subdivision of Lot 541 Group I, New Westminster District, 1886; (3) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, 1893; (4) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, Burrard Inlet, 1886; (5) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (6) Plan shewing intended improvements on Vancouver waterfront, [1899]; (7) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (8) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (9) Plan showing head line of proposed piers and other improvements by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Vancouver B.C., 1903; (10) Plan of Vancouver Front showing wharf head line, 1903; and (11) [False Creek and Burrard Inlet, 1904].

The item is an industrial film. It shows the construction of BC Electric's new Lake Buntzen power plant on Indian Arm around 1951. Footage includes demolition (by explosion) of part of the original plant, construction of cofferdam, penstock and tunnel; installation of turbines and generators, official opening with guests arriving on the launch "Hollyburn."

The item consists of two film reels of out-takes from the film Lake Buntzen power plant parts I and II. The film shows construction of BC Electric's new Lake Buntzen power plant on Indian Arm. Includes demolition (by explosion) of part of the original plant, construction of cofferdam, penstock and tunnel, installation of turbines and generator and official opening with guests arriving on the launch "Hollyburn."

Ledger kept by the collector of customs at Burrard Inlet.

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.

Amateur film. Mexico: outdoor dancing, horses, bullfight. Royal visit to Vancouver, May 1939: street scenes, pipe bands, shots of the city (Burrard Street Bridge, etc.); May Day, Queen's Park, New Westminster; beach, afternoon tea (Bowen Island?); Lions Gate Bridge; Stanley Park; King and Queen drive past; royal yacht sailing past Brockton Point, under Lions Gate Bridge; Indian canoes.

The item consists of four film reels made from 1958-1972:

1. Unedited footage, shots of Vancouver city, area, harbour and surrounding scenery, including the North Shore mountains, as seen from the Pacific Centre Tower.
2. Footage of downhill ski competition, possibly in Banff; various shots of races and skiers, 1967.
3. Footage. Shots of Princess Margaret visiting Vancouver City Hall: arrival; escorted into City Hall; signs register; presentation; leaves City Hall.
4. Billings to bargain, footage of interview with John Macdonald Billings regarding IWA contract negotiations, ca.1972.

Amateur film. Trip up the BC coast from Vancouver to Ocean Falls on the "Princess Norah". Shots of Ocean Falls, boating, crab fishing. Lion's Gate Bridge. Trip on the "Princess of Nanaimo." Elk Falls.

Industrial film. Operations of Island Tug & Barge. Includes: historical background on coastal towboating; company's repair & maintenance facilities in Victoria; tugboats at work; a trip with the freight barge "Island Express" to Beaver Cove, Coal Harbour whaling station and Port Alice; barges "Island Exporter" and "Island Importer" carry limestone to Oregon from quarries at Blubber Bay on Texada Island; construction and launching of "Island Yarder", the world's largest self-loading/self-dumping log barge, which is seen loading at Kimsquit and towed to Burrard Inlet for dumping; railcar barges; chemical transportation barge "Island Pine"; other uses of barges to transport bulk cargoes.

Out-takes. Operations of Island Tug & Barge. Footage may include: historical background on coastal towboating; company's repair & maintenance facilities in Victoria; tugboats at work; a trip with the freight barge "Island Express" to Beaver Cove, Coal Harbour whaling station and Port Alice; barges "Island Exporter" and "Island Importer" carry limestone to Oregon from quarries at Blubber Bay on Texada Island; construction and launching of "Island Yarder", the world's largest self-loading/self-dumping log barge, which is seen loading at Kimsquit and towed to Burrard Inlet for dumping; railcar barges; chemical transportation barge "Island Pine"; other uses of barges to transport bulk cargoes.

File consists of a film and cashbook (undated) of the Hastings Mill Store in Vancouver.

The series consists of records created by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway between 1913 and 1974. The records contain correspondence 1946-1957 re Pension Funds Committee, Inaugural trains 1956, a register of correspondence from 1930-1953, register of accidents 1915-1956; records of dining car and sleeping car sales 1946-1953; certificates (1951) concerning PGE barge #3; employee examinations; tariffs; builders' specifications for diesel locomotives; scrapbooks of newspaper advertisements, etc. and miscellaneous photographs There is also a map of PGE rail lands from Vancouver to Fort George, 1915 and a drawing of a Hart Otis Convertible car from 1913.

Footage. Detailed depiction of the fire that engulfed the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pier D on Vancouver Harbour on 27 July 1938. Includes shots of fire-fighting, crowds of onlookers, and adjacent buildings.

Footage. Good general and close views of the spectacular fire which destroyed the CPR's Pier D in Vancouver.

Series consists of include lists of vessels leaving the port of Victoria and Burrard Inlet, circa 1859-1874 and an account book, 1868: vessels entering the Port of Victoria, June 1859 - October 1861, November 1863 - November 1865; vessels cleared at the Port of Victoria, October 1861 - April 1887, December 1869 - July 1874 (includes entries for Burrard Inlet, July to September, year not given and Nanaimo, June - October 1872); unidentified account book, January - June 1868.

Report to the Honourable T.D. Pattullo, Minister of Lands, on the question of joint control of water supply to the cities and municipalities on Burrard Inlet, B.A. Cleveland, Comptroller of Water Rights, October 1922.

Industrial film. Deep water towing and rescue work by the tugs "Sudbury" and "Sudbury II". "Sudbury" (acquired 1954) tows four tankers from South America in tandem with "Island Sovereign" (longest single line tow in marine history); rescues the freighter "Makedonia"; tows the barge "Straits Maru" (the hull of the Cunard liner "Parthia") to Japan; rescues the Liberty ship "Thunderbird", the "Rowenmore", and the freighters "Lomaland" and "Andros Legend" in the open Pacific. "Sudbury II" (acquired 1958) sails from Australia and is refitted at the company's Victoria headquarters; leaves Victoria for first tow (two Liberty ships) and subsequent service, including rescue of old aircraft carrier "Guadalcanal". Includes scenes of Island Tug and Barge repair shop in Victoria.

Industrial film. Unidentified film on west coast salmon fisheries. Includes: views of Vancouver (showing English Bay beach, plus pans of the city skyline, harbour and surrounding area); Fraser River and Hells Gate (seen from a moving train); salmon run on the Fraser; bears catching spawning salmon in the river shallows; gillnetters at the mouth of the Fraser; fishing boats rounding the southern tip of Vancouver Island in heavy weather, and crossing Nitinat Bar; fishing boat "Westview" fishing on Nitinat Lake, Vancouver Island.