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Northerly Portion Vancouver Island

The item is a colour map of the north part of Vancouver Island published in 1958 by the Department of Land and Forests. The map shows the allocation of timber licenses along with their respective numbers. The location is identified as district 2C in the National Topographic System [NTS].

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests

Southerly Portion Vancouver Island

The item is a colour map of the south part of Vancouver Island published in 1951 by the Department of Land and Forests. The map shows the allocation of timber licenses along with their respective numbers. The location is identified as district 2A in the National Topographic System [NTS]

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests

Remains of an ancient civilization on Vancouver Island

The file consists of a report written by James Deans regarding evidence of early habitation on the southeastern part of Vancouver Island. The last page of the report includes several rough pencil sketches of artifacts found by Deans elsewhere on Vancouver Island in 1870 and 1874. Pages 21, 22, 25 and 26 of the report are missing.

[Alberni digs] : [television spot]

Television shorts. Television spot featuring an archaeological dig in the Port Alberni area. Located near one of MacMillan Bloedel's mills, the dig was carried out with the company's financial support, under the direction of Denis St. Claire. Archaeologists are seen at their various tasks in the excavation, documenting artifacts, etc. The site appears to relate to the whaling tradition of the West Coast people.

Better housing for British Columbia

Documentary. In British Columbia, where the population is expanding rapidly, there is a need for housing to keep abreast of demand. This film shows what is being done, with National Housing Act assistance, to build planned communities in parts of mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island, and to initiate various forms of urban development and renewal.

[Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Ltd. : Port Alberni and Great Central]

Industrial film. Edited and inter-titled film showing Bloedel, Stewart and Welch facilities on Vancouver Island. Film highlights construction of Port Alberni sawmill, 1934-1935, from an empty site to an operating plant, and arrival in spring 1935 of the "Rio Dorado", the first ship to load at the company dock. Also includes footage of boat trip to Great Central and scenes in and around the Great Central townsite; the steamship "Princess Maquinna" is shown en route. B.S.&W. personnel shown and named in the film include E.P. Demens, J.H. Bloedel ["J.H.B."], and J.W. Stewart.

Blow the wild whale

Industrial film. BC Packers (Western Canadian Whaling Ltd.) whaling operations, based at Coal Harbour. Whaling ship departs; whale is sighted and harpooned; whale struggles and dies. Flensing and processing of whale carcass at Coal Harbour -- products are frozen ground whale meat and mink feed. Sequence on preparation of harpoons, followed by another whaling trip aboard the "Polar V". Several sequences appear to be in slow motion.

Universal international news. [Vol. 30 no. 46.]

Newsreel. Eleven stories from around the world, including three from British Columbia. The eighth story, entitled "Rodeo: Cowboy's Holiday -- Wild and Western," shows bronco and Brahma bull riding at the Cloverdale holiday rodeo. The ninth, "Indian Regatta: West Coast Tribes Vie in War Canoes," shows native Canadians competing in the annual war canoe races at Esquimalt; the Chemainus team wins. The tenth, "End of Era: Timber Festival Marks End of Logging Trains," shows the shutting down of the logging railway at MacMillan & Bloedel's Franklin River operation. The train, pulled by a steam locomotive, is shown loading and dumping logs, and its replacement -- the logging truck -- goes to work.

[Blasting ; log dump scenes]

Stock shots. Footage includes: powder man preparing to blast section of rock; dumping truckloads of at the Port hardy log dumping ground; caterpillar tractors shifting logs and moving earth; more drilling and blasting; more log dump scenes.

[Fires 67 no. 4 : Canso and ground fire crews]

Stock shots. Shows Canso airtanker taking off from Patricia Bay, picking up water [?], dropping on fires near Squamish, Finlayson Arm, Harrison Lake and Zeballos; radio room at Vancouver; footage of Canso from bird-dog plane; helicopter making monsoon bucket drops, and ferrying federal prisoners to fight fire; suppression crew fighting fire on ground; shots inside a Canso; etc.

[Fires 67 no. 6 : fire and careless smoker, Langford]

Stock shots. Suppression crew dispatched from Langford ranger station. Canso drops on fire. Caterpillar tractor, surpression crew fighting the fire. Staged sequence showing smokers discarding their cigarettes carelessly. Fire crew and tanker trucks.

[Fires 67 no. 7]

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor, tanker truck, and suppression crew at forest fire scene. Canso airtanker makes drops on fire. Use of radio communications. Duncan ranger station.

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