Television stock shots. Includes footage of: house at 522 Simcoe; the area around the Village Auction building at 966 Yates; parking lot at McCall Brothers funeral home; downtown parking, parkades, traffic, etc.; buses at stop on Douglas Street; pedestrians on Government Street; Bastion Square area, and street kids there; stores and street scenes in the Old Town area; the "Reid site".

SUMMARY: "BC Folio" was a weekly program featuring items of interest to BC listeners, including interviews with British Columbians of diverse backgrounds. "BC Folio" was broadcast from 1971 to 1976 on the Paci;fic Network, first on AM and later on FM. This episode is a documentary consisting of interviews and sounds about the Vancouver transit system. Peoples opinions are offered, and problems with the sys;tem are exposed.;

The item consists of film out-takes. Various shots of a bus tour from Victoria to Port Alberni as it travels along the highway, over the Malahat, and arrives at a lodge or hotel. En route, passenger visit the Forest Museum in Duncan and take a ride on a sightseeing boat.

The item consists of unedited film footage from around 1946. It shows BC Electric buses en route throughout North Vancouver, land clearing and house construction in the Capilano Highlands subdivision, streetcars meeting the ferry from Vancouver and at the North Vancouver car barn and miscellaneous shots.

The item is a promotional video from 1985. It is a program about B.C. Transit. Includes shots of buses and bus drivers; a Seabus leaving the North Vancouver terminal; Skytrain and Skytrain track construction.

Television stock shots

Stock shots. 1. Public Service Alliance meeting - unidentified speaker. 2. Air Canada plane arrives. 3. Airport interior with Oriental family. 4. Unidentified (First Nations?) couple in apartment. 5. John Wayne - on his boat in Inner Harbour. 6. David Suzuki - interview. 7. Rolf Harris - at a school, Monday, February 9, 1981. 8. [Unidentified.] 9. [Unidentified.] 10. Peter C. Newman. 11. Pierre Berton. 12. School exterior. 13. Large tree fallen on power lines. 14. Storm damage. 15. Damaged vehicles. 16. Truck being pulled out of the Inner Harbour. 17. Overturned fuel truck in ditch. 18. Garbage on roadside - garbage truck in ditch. 19. The Snowbirds - planes flying in formation. 20. MLAs in the legislature. 21. The ferry "Queen of Prince Rupert". 22. Free bus. 23. Front-end loader. 24. Steam engine #4012.

The item is an Industrial film on colour print made in 1947. It is a film about the growth of B.C. Electric from 1906 to 1946, built around the story of stenographer Flossie Creeden, the first female office employee of the company. Footage includes: Goldstream power plant, Vancouver natural gas facilities, BC Electric Railway lines in Fraser Valley, Stave Falls generator plant, Alouette Lake and Ruskin plants, 1939 royal visit, BCE employee's newsletter, A.E. Grauer family at home, office scenes, plans & construction at Bridge River project, BCE employee's service in World Wars I & II and BCE streetcar and trolley bus services.

The item consists of colour out-takes from the film "Dinner for Miss Creedon" made in 1947

News item. High-angle shots of Victoria's Inner Harbour causeway, double-decker buses and Government Street.

Out-takes. Illustrates Vancouver's downtown parking problems. The outs here accessioned, found in a can labelled "Roy's Traffic," are on 1953 stock and are thought to be from the film DOWNTOWN PARKING. The roll includes many excellent shots of dense traffic (including streetcars and buses) on downtown streets, and on the Burrard Street and Cambie Street bridges.

Television stock shots. Mainly shots of the Vic West area, especially a parking lot for sightseeing buses.

The item consists of a promotional film made in 1948. It depicts Vancouver's growing traffic problems and BC Electric's response, including the start of its switch-over from streetcars to trolley buses. Also shows how public transit services help to alleviate traffic congestion, the operation and maintenance of buses, and the removal of streetcar tracks.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Logan recounts his parents' early life in Esquimalt; the family moved to New Westminster in 1909. Mr. Logan started with the BC Electric at age thirteen; he describes his first job; financial background of BCE; his first trip to Chilliwack; weekender special trains to Sumas; World War I; job advancement; post-war; his employment in various positions; train dispatching; train master; and the superintendent for rail operations. He discusses the railway's effect on the Fraser Valley's economic development; the station buildings; the route; mills and logging shipments; freight; population of the valley; milk-trains; pride of the employees; and the M.B. King Lumber Co. at Newton. TRACK 2: Mr. Logan discusses transcontinental freight rates; international trade; freight traffic; financial arrangements with the CPR; BC Electric services; the train route and stations from New Westminster to Chilliwack; local traffic; farm freight; truck traffic; World War II; the end of passenger service in 1950; bus traffic; Pacific Stages; trainmen; "bloomer days"; and traffic growth.

The item is a promotional film from 1949. Broadcaster Cal George is given a tour of the Vancouver bus system by his "cousin" Penny, a B.C. Electric employee. Shows complete operation of the system, including training and assignment of drivers, maintenance of buses, Oakridge transit depot, Cambie Street garage, etc.

The item consists of unedited footage from 1960. It shows the opening ceremonies of the Bridge River Hydro-Electric Project, Second & Final Stage, September 8, 1960. Includes people en route to opening by bus and train, views of transmission towers, turbine rooms, spillways, etc. and officials at site.

The item consists of a film print of unedited footage from 1955. It shows BC Electric's celebrations marking completion of the conversion from streetcars to trolley buses in Vancouver. Footage shows final streetcar runs from downtown Vancouver to the PNE, with special cars for longtime local residents, crowd entering PNE grounds, ceremonies inside PNE Exhibition Gardens, including BC Electric (male) choir, BCE President Dal Grauer, Vancouver Mayor Fred Hume, speeches, presentations and communal singing, etc.

The item is a spliced ECO picture of a training film from ca. 1976. It employs live-action footage and animated maps to familiarize Hydro bus drivers with a particular bus route, Vancouver through Richmond to Delta and return.