The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Vegs - Canim Lake - 1966": Views of Canim Lake. Beet field. Harvesting cabbages. Loading bins. Beet damaged by worm. Selecting and bagging beets. Making bins. Harvesting potatoes. Hay baler. Picking carrots. A dwelling with hanging skins and meat [?]. Children watching television in the house. Beet picking. Building a large root cellar [?]. Views of settlement, farm workers. Cabbage field. Farm workers.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Gardening procedures: pruning, planting. Colour views of flower garden, roses. Planting a shrub. A settlement. Young farm workers. Picking fruit. Picking beets. Harvesting potatoes. Building a root cellar [?]. Selecting beets. Children watching television. Picking fruit. Workers. Workers' camp.

RECORDED: Canim Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: These sisters tell the story of coming to Canim Lake from Washington State by covered wagon. They had a homestead, but had to live in a houseboat for the winter. Their parents ran a trap line, and had to leave their four girls for a week at a time.

RECORDED: Windermere (B.C.), 1982-06-10 SUMMARY: Dixon Anderson grew up living with his grandparents in Canim Lake. He tells stories about life on the homestead, and tells many tall tales. He worked in a sawmill, cut Christmas trees, hunted, and worked as a fishing guide;

CALL NUMBER: T0373:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Emil Richard Krebs and his wife Gertrude Krebs recall their experiences in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region. Mr. Krebs discusses his father, Fred Krebs, who settled in Vernon. Mr. Krebs describes Okanagan ranches and Vernon circa 1908. He discloses his first experiences in the Chilcotin in 1928, Chilcotin ranches, several anecdotes, how he took up land at Dog Creek, the settlement of the Dog Creek area, the Chinese population, wild horses, and the trap line at Canim Lake in 1939. TRACK 2: Mr. Krebs offers an anecdote about trappers, pioneers at Canim Lake, the story of Buckskin Joe, the Indian population, the town of Likely, Quesnel Forks, and anecdotes about mining in the Keithley Creek-Likely area.

CALL NUMBER: T0373:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Gertrude Krebs, born in McLeod Lake in 1900, recalls Cariboo life. She offers the details of her birth, a brief summary of her life to 1919, a fire in Williams Lake, Williams Lake in the 1920s, and the first Williams Lake Stampedes. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Bound volumes containing cruiser's reports by W.J. Kelly and photographs of each of the quarter sections in the company's holdings in their Clearwater Lake, Canim Lake, Egan Lake, Alkali Lake, and Canoe Creek holdings. There is a list of sections held by the company and a brief description of the tracts at the front of each volume.

RECORDED: Canim Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Onken came to Canada from Germany in 1926. He lived in Manitoba until 1936, when he came to the coast, settling finally in the Cariboo in 1951. He set up a one man sawmill at Canim Lake. There he felled, bucked, loaded and hauled lumber to the mill where he sawed it into lumber, planed it, and hauled it to the consumer.;