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SUMMARY: Description of anniversary of first arrival of transcontinental train in Vancouver, by Dick Halhed and Ray Mackness. Includes comments by W.D. Hayward [?], and speeches by C.A. Cotterhill [?], CPR official, and Jack Cornett, Mayor of Vancouver.

SUMMARY: Talk by naturalist Dan McGowan about the Earl of Southesk's visit to the Canadian Rockies in 1859-1860.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bert Nelson, announcer, with performance of radio drama "See This Valley", about Doukhobors in British Columbia.;

SUMMARY: "Tuesday's Child", a radio play by Vancouver actor and writer Fletcher Markle, is part two of a four-part "auto-bio-drama" series entitled "There Was A Young Man" that was broadcast within the radio drama series "Baker's Dozen". The play dramatizes events in the life of young man influenced by his encounters with women.

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SUMMARY: Radio program including an interview by unidentified commentator with Miss Katie O'Neil, farm mother, about: Fairbridge Farm School, backgrounds of various students, student duties. <10 minutes 30 seconds>
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SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with students and farm manager John Brown about: Fairbridge farm School, duties; dairy farming, horses, growing crops. <14 minutes>
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SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with principal of Fairbridge Farm School, Colonel H.T. Logan, about: creation of farm school; child immigration from Britain; students enlisting in war; followed by Colonel Logan reading letters from various students fighting in war; followed by interviews by unidentified commentator with various female students, about: school, favourite subjects. <11 minutes>
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SUMMARY: Radio program (broadcast 1942-05-22) including a documentary with an unidentified speaker about the principal's Bible class, morning prayers; including sounds of school bell, children's voices, children saying Grace before dinner; assistant principal W.J. Garnett reads "daily orders" about upcoming basketball games, horseshoes, morning prayers, birthday greetings; talks by Mr. Tamkin [?], school janitor, and Kenny Ryan [?], Ronny Alton [?], Bob Bennet [?], students, and principal, about a fire brigade, cleaning furnaces, hospital furnaces, student cottages, duties in dairy barn; interview with female students about their hometowns in England, duties, favourite subjects, hobbies. <28 minutes>
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SUMMARY: Radio program with unidentified announcer, about: native people, Okanagan Indians, including the singing of young Indians.

Travelogue. A video souvenir of Vancouver, including sequences on Expo '86, Chinatown, Stanley Park, the Sea Festival, the Japanese Festival, etc. Includes day trips to Victoria, the Cloverdale Rodeo, and other locales in the Lower Mainland.

SUMMARY: Report by Tom Leach about British Columbia's Fraser River flood and its effect on food supplies.;

SUMMARY: Report by Bill Herbert about the opening of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly and the Speech from the Throne.;

SUMMARY: Report by Bill Herbert with comments by Margaret Hincks, Extension Librarian of British Columbia Public Library Commission.;

SUMMARY: Talk by naturalist Dan McGowan about transportation and pack horses.;

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: A talk by Byron Johnson, Premier of British Columbia, about the (upcoming) British Columbia provincial election of June 15, 1949; accomplishments of the Coalition Government; social security; industry; government support; election promises. [TRACK 2: blank.];

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SUMMARY: Reports by Jim Nesbitt about British Columbia forestry and railroad transportation from Quesnel to Dawson Creek.;

SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: agriculture, British Columbia encouraging settlement and farming; immigration from Great Britain for farming.;

SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: transportation, roads, British Columbia Highway through United States territory.;

SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: British Columbia election June 15, 1949; legislative assembly, party standings at dissolution; Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) party, election promises.;

SUMMARY: Report by Ted Reynolds about the Canadian Swimming and Diving Championships in Victoria, B.C.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with John Fisher, broadcaster, including comments by unidentified swimmer and gardener; announcer Bill Herbert; and Jack W. Cornett, Mayor of Vancouver, about: environment, weather, Vancouver springtime.

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert and John Sherman (?), announcers, with Syd Hubble ?), chief dispatcher for British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization; part of farm radio broadcast from CKOV by Harry Mitchell (?), announcer; A.K. Lloyd (?), President and General Manager of British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization, including sounds from machines producing apple juice; Paul Wallbruchk (?), General Manager of British Columbia Food Processors Plant; George D. Fitzgerald (?), fruit farmer, about: British Columbia, Okanagan Valley, fruit farming, cooperatives, marketing, fruit products, irrigation.

SUMMARY: Second part of radio program with Bill Herbert, announcer, about: British Columbia, hydro development; mountain driving; including sounds from excavation process, with comments by Dennis Breerly (?), truck driver, W.C. Bud Connell (?), transmission line supervisor and Thomas Ingledow, Chief Engineer of British Columbia Electric.

SUMMARY: Part of first half of radio program with Marce Munro, Bill Herbert and Jack Bingham, announcers, about: transportation, logging trucks; truck manufacturing industry; with comments from employees in a truck manufacturing plant, George Harrison (?), vice-president of engineering, Bill Piper (?), engineer, George Moore (?), superintendent of manufacturing production, Charles Henry (?), machinist and Peter Rutherford (?), sheet metal worker.

SUMMARY: Radio program with Marce Munro and Bill Herbert, announcers, about: science, astronomy, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria; including comments by Joseph A. Pearce, Robert M. Petrie and Andrew McKellor, scientists with the Dominion Observatory at Little Saanich Mountain.

SUMMARY: Comments by unidentified speakers for radio program, about: aviation, trans-Pacific flights and weather forecasting.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert, announcer, including comments by Cecil Clark (?), John Mackelvein (?), Peter Kelsberg (?), Jack Purdy (?), Frank Bradner (?), Kelly Irving (?), Jack White (?) and Roger Peachy (?), members of British Columbia Provincial Police; including portions of radio communication between police station and police cars, about: British Columbia Provincial Police, crime and justice.

SUMMARY: Proceedings of ceremonies honouring Captain Vancouver, with speech by George C. Miller, acting Mayor of Vancouver, W. R. Stacey, Commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. Discovery, about: Vancouver, its discovery; including music from ceremonies. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Vancouver's death.

SUMMARY: Interview with Al D. Young, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Cariboo region, pioneer life and cold weather.;

SUMMARY: Interview with Alex McKinnon, former Presbyterian Minister, by John Barnes, about: transportation, pioneer life, religion, Williams Lake, British Columbia.;

SUMMARY: Interviews with Bob McElhaney, Mine Surveyor for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, and Bob Willen, drill sharpener for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, by John Barnes, about: industry, mining, gold; natural resources, gold, mining process; including sounds from mining process with ore trains, drilling, and sharpening of drills.