Amateur film. Lions Gate Bridge; inlet; family picnic; shore line; row boats; passenger train; boat "Katherine A."; baby in crib; ship or boat; small rail track landing; radio mast; ship; boys on ship.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1975?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for tape T1794:0001.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1975?] SUMMARY: [No content summary or documentation available for this tape.];

CALL NUMBER: T1798:0001 - 0002 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T1798:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Union Steamship Company RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1975

Minute books, cash books and ledgers (8 vols.) of Cascade Transportation Company and Forager Transportation Company respective owners of the steamships Cascade and Forager which were engaged in coastal shipping.

SUMMARY: "Best of Emerson" is a twice-a-week series (Monday and Friday) that ran from July 2 to September 28, 1962. In this series Vancouver's provocative conversationalist, John Emerson, discusses unusual asp;ects of Vancouver history and gives his recollections and impressions of well-known people.This episode, number 13 in the series, is about tourism and the CPR coastal steamers.;

Receipt book showing cargo received on board ship Josephine.

RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1980 SUMMARY: David Rody, who works at the Traffic Management Centre of the Canadian Coast Guard, discusses the activities of his office.;

Television stock shots

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0020 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Interviewed by Jack Webster SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Jack Webster of radio station CJOR, Vancouver, 23 March 1977 (part 1).;

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0021 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Interviewed by Jack Webster SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Jack Webster of radio station CJOR, Vancouver, 23 March 1977 (part 2). Following the Bennett interview, there are short interviews with NDP MLAs Charles Barber a;nd Don Lockstead, who discuss housing and coastal transportation, respectively.;

Amateur film. George and Elsie Lowe on holiday trip aboard a Union Steamship vessel: shore line near Bella Coola; fish boats; Butedale with Indian children on docks; naval parade, Victoria; Barkerville sights; motel; horses; highway; swimming pool; shore line; RCMP historical site; scenery; Butchart Gardens; Beacon Hill Park.

Fonds consists of masters' journals of the the ship M.V. Uchuck III. The journals document daily operations of the vessel plying the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Gold River to Zeballos. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings, poems, tariffs, and time-tables pertaining to vessel.

Masters' journals of M.V. Uchuck III, 1962-1975, concerning daily operations of vessel plying west coast of Vancouver Island, from Gold River to Zeballos. Collection includes newspaper clippings, poems, tariffs, and time-tables pertaining to vessel.

Stock shots. 1. Construction site. 2. Community meeting [?]. 3. More construction -- CBC logo. 4. New CHEK-TV station. 5. Brick laying. 6. Unidentified person [Jack Davis?]. 7. Quadra Steel Company plant. 8. Offshore oil drilling rig. 9. Open pit mining. 10. Ships. 11. Oil rig. 12. Clallam County Courthouse. 13. Fish trawler -- navigating, etc. 14. Maps. 15. Open pit mining. 16. Stills of historic mining, windmills. 17. Modern windmill. 18. Canadian Forces Base -- Toronto. 19. Hydro lines. 20. Tank farm. 21. Freighter. 22. Oil pipeline. 23. Ships at sea.

Amateur film. Begins with arrival of the CN steamship SS "Prince Rupert" at Stewart and people gathering at the dock. Scenes in town. Views of mining operations, chiefly at the Premier Mines, and the Silverado Mine's Marmot River aerial tramway, running 18 miles (?) to tidewater.

News item. Interior and exterior shots of the S.S. "Prince George". Before a refit can even be considered, the debt on the ship -- now over $600,000 -- must be greatly reduced. This is not possible when no revenue is coming in. Neither Nanaimo nor Ladysmith now seem to want to buy the ship. NDP MLA Dave Stupich says the vessel could be developed into an excellent facility and tourist attraction for Nanaimo.

Interview. In an interview with Ben Nicholas, Mr. & Mrs. Young of Van Anda, Texada Island, BC, provide an alternative account of the sinking of the S.S. "Cheslakee" at Van Anda on 7 January 1913. The official records state that seven people lost their lives in the sinking. However, Mr. Young maintains that eleven additional men were drowned and never reported. These men were allegedly loggers who were locked in the ship's "bull pen". File contains a copy of the newspaper Texada Island Lines Spring 1987. It has the story of the sinking of the S.S. Cheslakee.

The series consists of a photograph album, probably created around 1925, by Major Harold Brown of the Union Steamship Company. The album contains 250 black and white prints of various ships, many of them Union Steamship Company ships. The names of the ships have been written directly on most of the prints, although some remain unidentified.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-05-14 SUMMARY: An interview with Captain Russ Cooper of the Westminster Tugboat Company.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-05-15 SUMMARY: An interview with Terry Waghorn, president of C.H. Cates and Sons.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-08-06 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-07-30 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

Amateur film. Shows family activities, community events, Stewart and Hyder buildings, and scenery in summer and winter -- including extensive shots of snow clearing. S.S. Alaska.

SUMMARY: Sounds of the coastal freight boat "Skeena Prince" being unloaded.