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Video compilation tape

The item is a video compilation tape with copies of various films related to BC, from the Allan D. Taylor collection.
Films represented include:

  1. Newsreel item of a street scene showing a dirt road in a small town. Cars drive toward the camera, buildings in background.
  2. Swans in Beacon Hill Park, 1913: newsreel item of Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia in June 1913. Shots of swans swimming on lake, waterfowl, footbridge in background, willows by the water and overexposed footage of people on the shore, feeding the swans.

Allan D. Taylor film collection

The collection consists of video copies of 36 film items from the Allan D. Taylor collection held by Library and Archives Canada. These selected items (mainly newsreel footage and out-takes) depict British Columbia events, leisure activities, scenery and cityscapes in Victoria and Vancouver, on Vancouver Island, or in the Interior (for example, Kamloops and Lillooet), during the period 1907-1931. Several items filmed during World War One show events related to the war, including the departures of various military units for the conflict. The collection includes at least one item fillmed by Vancouver filmmaker A.D. "Cowboy" Kean, and a few others that are attributed to him.

Taylor, Allan D., 1916-1999

Hudson's Bay Company. Archives

Hudson's Bay Company Archives microfilm register for reels 1199 to 17M12. The register lists documents filmed from1988 to 1996 in classification number order and gives a description, inclusive dates, number of frames, etc. for each document. For microfilm of earlier registers see MS-2053. Series listed include post 1870 London Office correspondence, post journals, 1905-1949; post correspondence inward and account books, 1870; ships records; Governor's papers and Commissioner's office papers, private records; Land Department deed copy books, 1870-; French government correspondence, 1904-; maps and pre-1870 atlases.

Purchased from the HBC Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1997.

Finding aid: see finding aid for MS-0855.

Hudson's Bay Company. Archives

Video compilation tape

The item is a video compilation tape with copies of various films related to BC, from the Allan D. Taylor collection.
Films represented include:

  1. Granville Street fire, 1919: newsreel footage of a disastrous fire that rips through the downtown business section of the City, creating endless destruction and pouring clouds of dense smoke over the City.
  2. A Jenny on floats, 1920: footage of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane float plane is shown taxiing prior to takeoff.
  3. Victoria Fusiliers leave for overseas, 1916: newsreel footage taken at the CPR wharf in Victoria's Inner Harbour, soldiers board a steamship as a very large crowd looks on.
  4. Visitors arriving in Victoria, 1907: newsreel footage of two CPR ferries moving toward dock laden with American visitors to Victoria.
  5. War comes to Victoria, 1914-1915: newsreel items of anti-German feelings, Yukon regiment training and unloading horses for war.

Archives research collection

  • F2
  • Collection
  • 1785-1991

The collection consists primarily of copies or records collected by the archives, loaned to the archives or donated to the archives. These records encompass all aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the province. They come from all over the world but have a BC connection. These copies come from other archives, universities, historical societies, institutes and individuals.

British Columbia Archives

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