Footage. A film showing tourism and commerce in three areas: the Cariboo region around 100 Mile House, Vancouver, and the upper Fraser Valley. Cariboo region subjects include fishing, motoring, horseback riding, boating, hiking, pioneer buildings, a covered wagon, and ranching. In Vancouver the focus is shipping. Upper Fraser Valley subjects include Chilliwack businesses and residences, agriculture, outdoor recreation, Hope area campgrounds, Fort Hope Lodge, hiking, boating, and horseback riding. Visitors cross the Fraser River in a canoe to see a waterfall.

CALL NUMBER: T0760:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Lagace recounts his father's journey across Canada working for the CPR from Alberta; his arrival in Mission, then later Hatzic. He talks about Captain Thompson; the homestead; farm li;fe; food; crops; clearing land; other settlers; the French-Canadian and Italian communities; Durier; Hatzic Prairie; the post office; Barkers Landing; John Barker; river transportation. TRACK 2: Mr. Lagace recalls trips to New Westminster; trails; logging camps; Stave Lake; dances; local incidents; cougars; Billy Martin; Regis Hudon; life on the homestead; making clothing and shoes.;

CALL NUMBER: T0760:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lagace continues with his recollections about growing up on the homestead; making shoes; constructing furniture; clothing; childhood stories; fishing; local characters; "Little Blue"; Ra;lph Corrie; Bergimace; Father Fouquet; George Rouleau; and Father Maissoneuve. TRACK 2: Mr. Lagace talks about his first job with a survey party; cattle ranching; Brewster Transport Company; Peter Bain's sawmill; Boucher's sawmill; schooling; Christmas and holiday celebrations.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cyr, nee Lagace, recounts her father's arrival in Hatzic Prairie from Quebec; the family homestead; Mrs. Thompson; Italian settlers; her family traveling through the Rockies in a covered wagon; Captain Stanley Thompson; Mrs. Cyr's father; her mother; dances; picnics; schooling; local residents; Father Fouquier; Durier; Boucher; the Lagace family. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cyr continues with her recollections about her family; her mother; her husband, Zoel Cyr; his logging work at Stave Lake; the Matsqui Hotel; ranching in the Dewdney area; family incidents.

CALL NUMBER: T2792:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Brown's family; Dairy farming in the Fraser Valley before the Depression; selling milk to individual buyers; organisation of Fraser Valley Milk Producers; moving to the Cariboo, Likely; and Horsefly; ranching in Beaver Valley during the 1940s; what the place was like when he bought it; getting the ranch going; haying; feeding cattle; daily chores and routine; milking cows and shipping; cream to Williams Lake and Quesnel. TRACK 2: Ranching Beaver Valley; leisure time in the winter; feeding cattle in the winter; travel by horse and cutter in winter time; condition of roads; cattle drives to Williams Lake; Williams Lake in the 1940s; operating a general store in Horsefly in the 1950s; managing a men's clothing store in Williams Lake; Horsefly in the early 1940s; the general store in Horsefly from 1950 to 1958. CALL NUMBER: T2792:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Harry talks about his years living in the Corner House, a large rambling log house in the centre of Horsefly; taking in boarders; feeding people; the General Store in Horsefly in the 1950s; bringing in beer for the local population; Niquidet's freight line from Williams Lake to Horsefly in the 1950s; customers; trappers, hunters, locals, tourists, forestry people; store goods; on the ranch in Beaver Valley; chores, fencing, irrigation; buying seed; pigs; the log home that was on the place when Harry moved in; building a barn; comparison between farming in the Fraser Valley and the Cariboo; winter on the ranch; Melba's father, Harry's father-in-law; food on the ranch.