The file consists of five reels of unedited film footage/out-takes. Contains footage of commercial salmon and halibut trolling; purse seining; gill netting; fish ladders (Hells Gate); cannery interiors; tagging salmon; salmon spawning; salmon eggs and fry in laboratory; Adams River salmon run; hatchery scenes. Also includes: aerial views of the B.C. coastline; docks at Zeballos; De Havilland Dragon Rapide passenger plane on floats (registration CF-AYE).
It includes some footage from the film "Commercial salmon trolling off the British Columbia Coast."

Amateur film. Shot by CBC Vancouver radio producer Imbert Orchard during a visit to the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Skeena region, the footage includes views of: a coastal community on the Queen Charlottes [Masset or Queen Charlotte City]; Prince Rupert harbour; a fish cannery interior; Port Essington (before it burned down the second time); and views on the Skeena River, including Cedarvale, an Indian village (Kitseguecla?), and Hazelton.

Footage. A large column of soldiers, led by a pipe band, parades through Prince Rupert to the courthouse. Travelling shots of the harbour and waterfront. At Prince Rupert dockyard, the fishing boats "Rupert 44" and "Rupert 34" are prepared and launched. The gillnet fishing fleet is shown leaving the harbour, with a larger boat or tug towing a long string of smaller craft. Views of Claxton cannery and village, including buildings, docks, and mending of nets. Gillnetting scenes, plus unloading and weighing of catch. Fishing boats at dock, Prince Rupert. The fishing boat "Departure Bay" approaches, and crew unloads catch into conveyor at cannery. Interior footage of cannery operations, including the canning line, workers (including many women) butchering and cleaning salmon, filling the cans, labelling and boxing of cans, etc. A group of Japanese-Canadian adults is shown waiting at the dock, and engaged in a snowball fight. Views of a large coastal community (unidentified) from a ship or dock. Townspeople and children taking part in holiday sporting events, footraces, etc.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lidster came to BC with his family from England in 1902; Lister, his father, was an early technical teacher in Vancouver. Mr. Lidster recalls New Westminster; various streets; Columbia ;Street; social life; schools; the Chinese cemetery; and the New Westminster Exhibition. He discusses his law practice in New Westminster and his position as first permanent Solicitor for the City of ;New Westminster. He compares Vancouver and New Westminster. He describes his employment at the Royal Bank of Canada; New Westminster lumber mills; canneries and fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Lidster continues with a discussion of New Westminster industries; the harbour; ships and shipping; bridges and railways. He discusses the importance of New Westminster for the Fraser Valley; the New Westminster; Market circa 1913; Burnaby circa 1900; Sir Richard McBride, and Frank Degrey. He tells anecdotes about politicians. He talks about the Gifford family, and the New Westminster lacrosse team.

CALL NUMBER: T0745:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Acton Kilby recalls his father; Thomas Kilby, coming from Ottawa with the first carload of settler's effects on the CPR; his father worked at various jobs in the area; the Brunette Sawmill store in Sapperton; the milk delivery business; the livery business at Barnet; operating the Harrison Mills Timber and Trading Company boarding house in 1902; owning the Kilby Store in 1904; the family; farm and family store; the Chilliwack ferry and Cheam station; and the Harrison family and Menten family. TRACK 2: Mr. Kilby continues with the history of the Chilliwack ferry service and the Albion ferry; anecdotes about rowing to Chilliwack; incidents on the family farm; the Harrison River; Captain Dick Ward; Mrs. Menten.

CALL NUMBER: T0745:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kilby talks about an incident with Joe Davidson; Morris Valley; residents of the Chehalis Reserve; logging; working in the canneries; hop picking; stocking winter supplies for the reserve; 24th of May excursions; Indians and hop picking; Port Douglas; Purcell; transportation on Harrison Lake; Harrison Hot Springs; C.F. Pretty; the Kilby Store at Harrison Mills; business practices past; and present. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hilda North remembers her father, Peter Herman, and Port Essington before 1907 PERIOD COVERED: 1870-1907 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hilda Theresa North talks about her father, Peter Herman who came from Germany, his adventures, his work in the Chemainus mill and for Robert Cunningham at the sawmill at Port Essington (1885). Her mother and father trapped at Lakelse Lake, then competed with Cunningham for the Indian fur trade. She speaks about her father's business relations with the Cunningham family, a fight between George Cunningham and Peter Herman, his businesses (sawmill, logging and canning) and his cannery operations. Hilda North recalls childhood memories of Port Essington and schooling. She relates more of her father's background, his advice to the G.T.P. officials on the Kaien Island site, his position as a MLA [?], and his involvement in the Gun-an-noot incident. Hilda North recalls more about her early life in Port Essington and her father's death.

Out-takes. Showcases scenery, attractions and industries in the Vancouver area. Good general and aerial views of Vancouver, plus sequences on the harbour, Vancouver International Airport, Stanley Park, UBC, the Vancouver International Festival and the PNE. Industry is depicted through shots of a sawmill, a fish cannery, a foundry and a shipyard (where the vessel Yukon is launched). Water sports, golf and skiing at Grouse Mountain are shown, as well as Queen Elizabeth Park, Capilano Suspension Bridge, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Granville Street at night and a White Spot drive-in.

Travelogue. Showcases scenery, attractions and industries in the Vancouver area. Good general and aerial views of Vancouver, plus sequences on the harbour, Vancouver International Airport, Stanley Park, UBC, the Vancouver International Festival and the PNE. Industry is depicted through shots of a sawmill, a fish cannery, a foundry and a shipyard (where the vessel Yukon is launched). Water sports, golf and skiing at Grouse Mountain are shown, as well as Queen Elizabeth Park, Capilano Suspension Bridge, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Granville Street at night and a White Spot drive-in.

The item is a composite print of a travelogue from 1961. It showcases scenery, attractions and industries in the Vancouver area. General and aerial views of Vancouver, plus sequences on the harbour, Vancouver International Airport, Stanley Park, UBC, the Vancouver International Festival and the PNE. Industry is depicted through shots of a sawmill, a fish cannery, a foundry and a shipyard (where the vessel Yukon is launched). Water sports, golf and skiing at Grouse Mountain are shown, as well as Queen Elizabeth Park, Capilano Suspension Bridge, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Granville Street at night and a White Spot drive-in.

Stock shots. Compiled from the outs of sundry Parry productions, these rolls include footage of cannery operations, cattle ranching, farming, fishing, a foundry, logging, pipe laying, powerhouse and power line construction (Kemano), sawmilling and shipping. In addition, there are such sequences as an amphibious aircraft landing on a lake and taxiing onto land; a CPA DC-8 airliner taking off and in flight; Kelowna's Royal Anne Hotel; CPR locomotive 374 (retired) at Kitsilano Park; Mission Dam; Okanagan Valley apple blossoms; Rocky Mountain scenery and locales; Stanley Park; a fire in a Vancouver shipyard; and Vancouver's streets, skyline & waterfront. 76.3 has some particularly good mid-1950s Vancouver street scenes (with newsboys hawking papers on busy streets), as well as good footage of the waterfront and docks, various cargoes being loaded or unloaded, etc.

Industrial film. A survey of the Pacific coast fishing industry. Follows a commercial fishing vessel on a typical trip along the BC coast, and shows the various fishing methods used. Also includes footage of cannery operations, fish ladders at Hells Gate, spawning grounds, the cleaning of fish on a processing ship, fishery by-products (such as fish meal used for stock feed), the manufacture of nets and other equipment, fishing boat maintenance, etc. Features fishing boats Pacific Raider and Western Provider.

Industrial film. A survey of the Pacific coast fishing industry. Follows a commercial fishing vessel on a typical trip along the BC coast, and shows the various fishing methods used. Also includes footage of cannery operations, fish ladders at Hells Gate, spawning grounds, the cleaning of fish on a processing ship, fishery by-products (such as fish meal used for stock feed), the manufacture of nets and other equipment, fishing boat maintenance, etc. Features fishing boats Pacific Raider and Western Provider.

Industrial film. A survey of the Pacific coast fishing industry. Follows a commercial fishing vessel on a typical trip along the BC coast, and shows the various fishing methods used. Also includes footage of cannery operations, fish ladders at Hells Gate, spawning grounds, the cleaning of fish on a processing ship, fishery by-products (such as fish meal used for stock feed), the manufacture of nets and other equipment, fishing boat maintenance, etc. Features fishing boats Pacific Raider and Western Provider.

Documentary. Life cycle of the sockeye salmon, especially their return to the headwaters of the Fraser River to spawn. Shows efforts of scientists and engineers to facilitate the salmon run, and the contribution of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission. Includes shots of fishing boats setting their nets, cannery operations, Vancouver's Chinatown, salmon fighting the rapids at Hells Gate, and the development of fish ladders or fishways to aid the salmon.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hall recounts her family history; her early life in Britain and the family's immigration to BC. She recalls the family settling at Terra Nova; Lulu Island in 1888; the journey to the family farm; family life; the family farm; other residents; farm produce; her father's [Gordon Robert] work as a carpenter; a description of the area in 1900; dyking; drinking water; bridges; a description of Sea Island; river traffic; supplies; the stage route; Mr. Steves; Mr. Mellis; roads. TRACK 2: Mrs. Hall continues with her discussion about road conditions; early Vancouver; William Gray; clearing flood boxes; Bridgeport; the Mellis family; Mr. Yewdall; canneries; the Terra Nova Cannery; Indian and Chinese labour; the flood of 1894; entertainment.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pfister talks about living on Lulu Island in 1899; he arrived from Switzerland and lived in Port Angeles for five years. He worked on Sea Island during the 1893 depression and later moved to Lulu Island; his wife's family, Udy, owned a brickyard in Vancouver. He discusses clearing land; wooden horse shoes; drainage ditches; drinking water; dykes; floods; the Terra Nova Cannery; local stores; Steveston; Steves Stage Coach; Terra Nova Stage; the railway; present day [1963] conditions; land ownership. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Parmiter recounts coming to Ladner in 1874; his father's involvement in coal mining in the Queen Charlotte Islands; early Ladner; the family farm; other residents; early roads; transportation; early farming; Vancouver; cattle; growing oats and hay; Pemberton's farm; sloughs; canneries; Deas Cannery; Canoe Pass; recreation; floods; dykes; flood boxes; his work at the Standard Cannery on the Skeena River; fishing and farming in Ladner; winters; ice skating; roads; dances. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Amateur film. May Day: parade (mostly children); May Queen, etc. Gardens, beach, house at Parksville. The vessel "Uchuck I" travels from port (Ucluelet?) to places on Barkley Sound; people on board, scenery, etc.; Port Albion Cannery; return trip; Port Alberni Chamber of Commerce trip. Okanagan visit: Kelowna; city streets; 45th Regatta [i.e., 1951] - Ogopogo float; parks, people, fruit. Royal Visit to Parksville; motorcade with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip [1951]. Small parade. Waterfalls. Port Alberni fishing derby, held by the Tyee Club: fishing; men displaying their catches; weighing in the fish, etc.

The file consists of a Christmas card ca. 196-? from Winnifred and Huntley Kirkpatrick to "Jean" that contains 2 photographic print copies of the S.S. Oscar at Wadham's Cannery in Rivers Inlet. The photographs were taken in 1897 by E.A. Wadham, Winnifred Kirkpatricks grandfather.

Industrial film. Fishing for pink salmon off the Queen Charlotte Islands. Prince Rupert scenes. Sequence at Clover Leaf Packers canning plant -- unloading salmon from boat, footage of cannery operations, machinery and workers, and stacked cans awaiting shipment. Special plant to convert fishery by-products to cattle and poultry feed. Return to Vancouver, entering Burrard Inlet (before construction of Lion's Gate Bridge).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Sloman recounts her father, Jacob Arnet, coming to Clayoquot, circa 1893, from Norway; early fishing and processing of fish; pre-emptions; boat building; Indians; seasonal migration of Indians; Indian sealers; early Clayoquot; transportation; sawmill; family life; Methodist missionaries and Tofino in 1911. TRACK 2: Mrs. Sloman continues with her description of early Tofino; naming; of the community; life at Ucluelet; schooling; George Fraser; her family's return to Tofino; family life; their floating summer house; canneries; children from the Indian reserve; shipwreck; Long Beach; mail delivery; CPR passenger ships; Clayoquot; Walter Dawley; early tourism and fishing.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-17 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T2397:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese-Canadian account of her pregnancy and working in a cannery PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mrs. Maeda's family and jobs in Japan. Boat trip to Canada. Life and experiences in Steveston, B.C. CALL NUMBER: T2397:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese-Canadian's reminiscence of life in Japan and immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mrs. Maeda's pregnancy. Working in the cannery at Steveston, B.C. Visiting Japan with child. CALL NUMBER: T2397:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese-Canadian's childhood, fishing and cannery jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mrs. Maeda's childhood in Japan. Discusses her friendships in Canada. Talks about fishing and cannery jobs near Seattle. CALL NUMBER: T2397:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese-Canadian's life in Japan during World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mrs. Maeda discusses: her husband's fishing; her housework; husband's illness; life in Japan during World War II; and the death of her husband. (End of interview)

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc. One sequence shows a Kelly raft of aviation spruce being broken up; another shows logs being unloaded from the log barge "Monongahela" (formerly the ship "Balasore", whose figurehead is shown sitting on shore). The B.C. Packers cannery at Quathiaski Cove is shown. Troops arrive at Nanaimo from Vancouver on the "Princess Victoria" and parade through the streets.

SUMMARY: "Best Seat In The House" was a weekly series of Kunstkopf programs, produced in stereo. This episode, "Steveston", is a dramatic documentary in verse and prose by the well-known West coast poet Daphne; Marlatt. It is a sound portrait of the waterfront community of Steveston, BC -- its history, people, fishing industry, canneries and Japanese heritage. Recorded on the location in the spring of 1976;, with a narrative by the author. The voices heard include Walter Marsh, Rae Brown, Bill Buck, Merv Campone, Lillian Carlson, Robert Clothier, Catherine Croll, Peg Dixon, James Johnston, Jan Mortil, H;.S. Olson, Sam Payne, Al Pearce, Susan Ringwood, Eric Schneider, Shannon Shepherd, and David Stein. Source material was provided by the Aural History Programme at the Provincial Archives of British Co;lumbia.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Nick Cadwallader discusses the beginnings of Fort Rupert with Rupert Hunt in 1884; a description of Fort Rupert; hand logging in Seymour Inlet; his uncle Spencer and his cannery at Alert ;Bay in 1870; longhouses; the potlatch; Hamatsa ceremony; and fishing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mac McLean RECORDED: White Rock (B.C.), 1976-03-08 SUMMARY: Mac McLean started to work for Canadian Fish Co. in 1928 for 2 years. Then went to work for California Packing Co. where Richie Nelson was superintendent. It was located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Went to the Albion Plant situated in Ucluelet at Barkley Sound. Spent several seasons there, then went to Canadian Packing Co. (a reduction plant) and stayed there for 5 years. Explains the process of reduction. Built a fish reduction plant for B.C. Packers at Namu in 1936. In 1937, built a reduction plant at the Imperial Cannery. The first reduction plants in B.C. were what you call the old hydraulic type of plant that reduced dog fish; there was one on Pender Island. The continuous reduction plant didn't come to B.C. until 1927. These reduction plants were seasonal. In 1929 there were 32 reduction plants on the west coast. By 1931 they were all gone. From 1930-1935 there was very little profit made from the reduction plants. It started to improve after 1935, and from then on there were good or reasonable profits made. Discusses a population of pilchards that got trapped at one of the northern inlets. So instead of processing herring that year they did pilchards which was much more profitable. Did up to 10-15 thousand tons of pilchards that year. Explains the technique of fishermen finding fish with piano wire. At the Namu reduction plant they had electricity but didn't use electrical driven motors. For power, the cannery used a steam engine to a line shaft and then wire belts off of a line shaft to each individual machine. Plants were rated based on the number of tons you could put through in an hour. Namu was a 5 ton an hour plant, which by today's standard is very small. The Imperial Plant used to have 50 tons an hour. They used to catch and reduce about one quarter of a million tons of herring a year. Discusses fish prices. Speaks on canning herring during the war years. Japanese herring saltery on the Gulf Islands. Describes and explains trolling.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-02-16 SUMMARY: Squamish Chiefs. Chief Joe Capilano. Other Squamish Chiefs. CALL NUMBER: T4356:0001 - 0014 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Interviews with Louis Miranda covering a variety of topics, including Squamish chiefs, Indian dancing, Indian agents, fishing, bootlegging, canneries, logging, and Christianity.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-02 SUMMARY: The Durieu System. Indian agents. Indian dancing. Kitsilano sale.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-07 and/or 10 SUMMARY: Kitsilano sale. Squamish River fishing. Fishing rights activity. Kitsilano sale, 1913. Fishing meetings, ca. 1920.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-16 SUMMARY: Longshoring, North Vancouver; unions; meeting with John Oliver. Enlistments -- World War One & Two; conscription. Ditchburn hops.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-30 SUMMARY: Hop camps. Berry-picking in Washington.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-04-06 SUMMARY: Canneries: Great Northern, St. Mungo, Terra Nova. Dr. D. Bell-Irving. Bootlegging; "Siwash". Vancouver underworld. Squamish hop ranch? Moodyville biography [or] directory.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0007 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-04-12 SUMMARY: Squamish amalgamation. Logging. Squamish Valley. One Big Union.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0008 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-04-27 SUMMARY: Squamish personal names. Royal Commission. Kitsilano history. Canneries. Hand logging. Half breeds [sic] at Moodyville [School?]. 1876 census.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0009 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-04 SUMMARY: Commercial fishing. Dock workers and unions. Moodyville half breeds [sic]. Drinking: then and now. Up Squamish whites. Indian houses. Oblate priests. Hyass Joe, Andy Paull, Simon Pierre.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0010 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-07 SUMMARY: Confirmations and bishops' visits. Funeral practices. Signs and warning of death. Medical services. Political protests. Fishing right -- Charlie case, 1925. Relief payments.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0011 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-06-01 SUMMARY: Living conditions, 1914-1945: World War One, Depression, World War Two. Squamish Bands funds and welfare. Work and welfare/relief. Work of early Chiefs. Squamish Jim. Big Flu epidemic, 1918-1919. Smallpox. Medical services.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0012 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-10-10 SUMMARY: Squamish Chiefs. Brass bands. Early elections. Councillors. Timber sales.

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0013 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-10-24 SUMMARY: Fishing, Squamish River. Squamish funeral ceremonies, 20th century. Potlatches amd namings. Spuds. Various Chiefs.;

CALL NUMBER: T4356:0014 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-11-22 SUMMARY: Important events. Settlement at Mission Indian Reserve. Church and Christianity. Amalgamation. Drugs and alcohol. Land question. Andy Paull.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kal Kaisla RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1976-03-04 SUMMARY: Kal Kaisla was born on Malcolm Island, Sointula, in (1904). Sointula was primarily all homesteads, fished sockeye at Rivers Inlet. Logging was also an important occupation. He got his first fishing license when he was 15 by appearing older in big boots and south-wester in front of the fisheries officer. First boat was a skiff with oars up at Rivers Inlet. Started as a boat puller when he was 8 years old at Rivers Inlet. Discusses canneries, canning fish, and fish prices. He lived in Sointula for 20 years. First gas boat in 1927, a converted cannery skiff with a 5 HP 2-cycle "Eagle" put in by his father. Changes in fishing equipment. He owns a 41 foot troller now (1976). He discusses and critiques "license limitation". He lived in Bella Bella for 27 years. Discusses unions. Used to hand log at Bella Bella as well. Discusses grade school at Sointula, had to move to lower mainland for his kids' high school education. Dislikes cars and pollution -- would rather live in Sointula. Both his boys have trollers and are fishing herring. During the War, you had to stop and check in with the navy boats. Describes hand logging. Discusses local history and tells stories.