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The item is a b&w documentary film from ca. 1928. "The Poultry Inspector from the British Columbia Department of Agriculture visits Rose Comb Red Farm and inspects their hens, chicks, cows, pigs and bees. He also visits a Boy's and Girl's Poultry Club in Grindrod, where the school principal has been instrumental in establishing such clubs. Later he visits another mixed farm and looks over 600 Barred Rock chicks. He marks and culls the 'slow featherers' and Looks over the pigs and cows. There is also a [long shot] of the 40-acre orchard." (Colin Browne)

The item is a travelogue film from ca.1941. It shows scenes from an automobile trip to the Cariboo, Okanagan and Similkameen.

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film. "Mr. J.B. Munro, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, beside some beehives. Mr. Helmer, manager of Nicola Lake Ranching Co., shaking hands with visitor at a gate. Herd of purebred shorthorn bulls, cowboys working bulls. Steers in a field ready for shipping. Men look at Shorthorn bulls imported from England and a British Columbia bull. Clydesdale stallion. Pigs walking through a stream. Nicola Lake. At Guichon Ranch, a cowboy in chaps plays at being a wild west gunman and fires his pistol off until arrested by a man with a car. Cars leaving Guichon Ranch bound for Douglas Lake. Chuckwagon hauled past camera by four horses. Pan Douglas Lake, quarter horses feeding on the range. Pan across Douglas Lake Ranch buildings from a hill. Meeting of the British Columbia Shorthorn Breeders' Association at Douglas Lake Ranch, posing. Mr. Ward, manager, and Alex Davie of Ladner parading past camera. Members proceed to lunch. Three cars drive through a swollen creek -- 'A cure for squeaky wheels.' Members look over stock, including a Shorthorn bull imported from England. Group of members including Mr. and Mrs. Ward. Herd of purebred Shorthorn corns with calves. Shot of a roundup -- a cowboy and a calf. Stray cattle. Chapperton Lake and surrounding country -- pan. The film ends with the following admonitions: 'The Provincial Department of Agriculture is organized for the benefit of the farmer and the welfare of the province. The department is yours. Make use of it.' and 'On behalf of the farming industry we welcome the new settler. It is your duty as a neighbour to help him.' (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w film from the 1930s with agricultural footage: "Layritz Nurseries, Victoria, where Premier Tolmie and the Minister and Deputy Minister of Agriculture look on as shrubs are packed to be sent to the British Legation in Peiping. Rabbits in cages. Lady wearing fox fur in Victoria. B.C. Dept. of Agriculture booth at CNE, Toronto. Fox farm pens & feeding. Catching foxes. Feeding turkeys and other turkey shots. A field of dug-up potatoes. Horse-drawn potato harvester working. Potatoes being sorted and bagged. Huge mounds of potatoes in trucks. Horse-drawn cutter cuts plants off at surface." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1930s. "A bulb digger 'which will dig 5 tons of bulbs an hour with an average crop of 8 tons per acre' clears a field. Men harvesting alfalfa. Stacked alfalfa is heaped onto a wagon. Alfalfa is baled. A man in a test kitchen prepares something with milk & bacterial culture and a seed. View of farm and fields. This might be the Experimental Farm at Sidney." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film containing two sections, from the 1930s.
"1. A visit to Premier S.F. Tolmie's farm Cloverdale. Tolmie discussing his garden, inspecting his potatoes, working in the fields, prodding cows into barn for milking. Mrs. Tolmie and he posing several times, individually. Cloverdale consisted of 1300 acres, 400 under cultivation, and Tolmie took great interest in all agricultural pursuits. When he resigned in 1933 after five years as Premier of British Columbia, he dedicated himself to setting up a model farm on his land.

2. Simon Fraser Tolmie died at Cloverdale on October 14, 1937; his funeral was held on October 16, 1937 in Victoria with full honours. Scenes include flag at half mast. Coffin being carried down Parliament Buildings' steps and placed in hearse. Empress Hotel. Cars in the procession and the hearse in front of the Parliament Buildings. Entourage driving up Government Street with crowds lining the street. Procession continuing along Quadra Street. Procession on way to Royal Oak Burial Park. Removing the coffin from the hearse at the cemetery." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1930 titled Ayrshire cattle sales at Armstrong and Kamloops. "Excellent pan of Kamloops from height, looking down eventually into a street lined with cars. Indians in full regalia on appaloosa ponies. Bronco riding in a ring. Celery field and harvesting near Armstrong, B.C. Field of cabbage. Pan of fertile bottomlands. Salmon Arm farmers visit illustration station where Exhibition corn is grown. A combine in action drawn by a tractor. A two-horse team hauls the cart to collect the wheat. Stocks of grain in a field being loaded onto a horse-drawn wagon. Scenes of Ayrshire auction at Armstrong: Mat Hassen presents Percy French with winner's trophy. Ayrshire prizes awarded. Dunwaters, Davidson, Forest & Wells, outstanding at auction. Auction: $305.00 average for 30 two-year heifers. New owners parade their purchases. The Laird of Fintry. Pan of cattle. Fall fair at Lumby, crowded grounds & buildings. Veteran MLA J. H. Schofield of Trail. Donald Graham, a 'veteran of the first Riel Rebellion, 1870, poses. He came to the Okanagan Valley in 1874." (Colin Browne)

The item is a 16 mm b&w, silent documentary film from the 1930s. It is about poultry raising.

The item is a reel of film footage from the 1930s. Bee-keeping techniques; scenes from early Victoria, including views of Inner Harbour and an old Hudson Bay Company building; views of sheep day on Saltspring Island.

The item is a b&w print of an instructional film made in the 1930s by the U.S. Bureau of Dairy Industry. It shows the experiences of farmer Sam Jones suggest methods of improving production in dairy herds, stressing the importance of purebred bulls.

The item is a comedy film short from the 1920s. The story of a magician who displeases his audience.

The item is a four part colour film documentary about agriculture in the Okanagan, from 1942.
Part 1: Okanagan Fruit-Growing: fruit and vegetable growing -- irrigation, harvesting, packing and delivery, plus valley scenes.
Part 2: Okanagan Livestock: cattle, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep; dairy products; Okanagan Valley Co-Op Creamery; Interior Exhibition at Armstrong.
Part 3 Okanagan Seed Growing.
Part 4 Okanagan Agricultural Activities including footage of Valley scenery (especially farmland), demonstrating variety of agricultural production; Interior Exhibition, including parade with pipe band, novelties and livestock; Armstrong's "Victory Torch" monument and possible Victory Loan parade.

The item is a reel of documentary film from the 1930s. "Saanich Boys & Girls Club at Sooke, looking at and wrestling with young heifers. Adults making presentations. Starting a Boys & Girls Club. Kids lined up on school steps. Teacher asks who'd like to join. Kids receive boxes of eggs for hatching. Young girl prepares her hen for laying. Potato and Calf Club. Field day at Sea Island. Calves, picnic, spuds. Richmond and Delta Boys & Girls Club members in a field examining crops. Boys & Girls Club livestock judging in Vancouver: cows, horses & calves being judged outdoors and indoors." (Colin Browne)

The item is a colour reel of film footage from the 1930s. "Shots of kids grooming animals and parading them by the grandstand: cattle, swine, horses and poultry; no goats or sheep. Presumably taken at the Armstrong Fairgrounds." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1931. "Oliver Evans, President of the B.C. Jersey Breeder's Association and A. J. Cameron, Secretary. 'A Trip through Saanich (The Fair Land), The Home of the Jersey - May 26th'. A file of automobiles travelling along the two-track dirt roads of the Saanich Peninsula visiting the various dairy farms of the district, looking over the premises and chatting with the owners. The trees grow right down to the road, and the whole vision is warm and bucolic. Farms visited and shown are: Olympic Farm, W. Horsland; Babbacombe, H.E. Burbidge; Coleshill, Mr. Aldridge & Mrs. Clive; El Sereno, G.W. Malcolm; Dominion Experimental Farm at Sidney where lunch was served, courtesy of Mr. Straight, the Superintendent. The Hon. Dr. S.F. Tolmie, Premier of British Columbia, arrives to 'grace the occasion' and speeches are made at a long table set up outside in the sun. Following Lunch, more farms are visited: Blastree Farm, G. Hooper; Woodcote, Capt. F.C. Gibson; Easamo; Brackenhurst, A.W. Aylard; Duntulm Farm, Major & Mrs. MacDonald; Glamorgan Farm, S. Matson; Heather Farm, Capt. F.C. Wilson; and Sandy Gap, Geo. Clark. Home to the Parliament Buildings in Victoria. Other speakers at the Experimental Farm lunch included the Hon. Wm. Atkinson, Minister of Agriculture, and Hon. N. Lougheed. Also along for the trip were two members of the agricultural press: George Murray of the Vancouver Province, and H.B. Smith from the Nor'West Farmer." (Colin Browne)

The item is reel of colour footage from the 1950s. Daffodil and tulip growing for bulbs on a Dept. of Agriculture experimental farm. A horticultural field day. Flower beds around the Parliament Buildings in Victoria. A Trans-Canada Airlines plane landing.

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film from ca. 1931. "Vancouver Island bulb grower and his home and garden. October, planting time, bulbs being shaken from the back of the tractor into every second furrow, then placed by hand. Spring cultivation with a rototiller. Men in overcoats inspecting plants for disease and insect damage. Pan across field of daffodils. Pickers picking blooms to improve the bulb, then dumping them into a heap to be destroyed. Pickers playing in a pile of flowers. Men inspecting good blooms. Diseased or insect-smitten bulbs are rogued, or dug up and destroyed. Huge litter of cut blooms being carried away by pickers. Bulbs ploughed out of the ground by a tractor that once was a Ford car. Helpers collecting the bulbs from the top of the furrow. Bulbs in baskets, transported to drying sheds. Loose bulbs are unloaded into drying trays for storage. Stacking trays in storage shed, unloading truck." (Colin Browne)

The item is a 1947 colour documentary film in three parts. It shows the complete process of flower bulb production, from land clearing to packing of bulbs for shipment. Many varieties are shown.

The item is a b&w film reel from 1936 containing footage showing selecting, harvesting, storage and packing of bulbs. "Grown in Holland" and "Narcissus King Alfred" signs. Seeding.

The item is a b&w documentary film from the 1920s. "Harvesting grain by tractor. Stooks. Threshing by "gas power" -- thresher driven by a belt from the tractor. Sacking grain. Trucks taking it away. Sacks being loaded into CP boxcars. Train pulls out and passes acres of hops being picked. Hop pickers weighing their baskets. Two-horse load of hops. Scenes of workers' camp, nurse, community newspaper, kid's playground. Hops unloaded at processing plant. Hop-curing sheds. Dairy barn. Tobacco-drying sheds at Sumas. Tobacco harvesting, curing. Ploughing match at Chilliwack. Two-horse teams and tractors." (Colin Browne)

The item is a news reel from 1950. Includes an item about Doukhobors (possibly in the Grand Forks area) protesting by burning down their homes and disrobing. There are two other brief BC-content items: the Dominion Curling Championships in Vancouver, and troops departing for Korea from the west coast.

The item is a colour documentary film from the 1930s, about the production of cauliflower crops.

The item is a documentary film from 1930. It is a three-part film documenting the first agricultural demonstration train in B.C., sponsored by the CNR in conjunction with the Dominion and Provincial departments of Agriculture. The route followed was from Vancouver to the Okanagan, through the northern interior to Terrace, then back to Vancouver. The train left Vancouver on March 6, 1930 and returned on April 12,1930. "'Mr. H. Bowman, CNR Agricultural Representative for B.C., arranged 25 meetings with Farmer's Institutes. They showed their appreciation by turning out, men, women and children, 4,657 strong.'
Reel one: Kamloops, Tranquille Sanatorium. CNR Locomotive #2104, Lavington, Vernon, Armstrong, Falkland Station and gypsum mine, Birch Island, Foster Station, Mt. Robson, Croydon, McBride and Fort Fraser. At the stations, local residents gather about and wander through the train. Agriculture experts demonstrate various skills, chief among them seeming to be poultry killing and plucking, which is demonstrated in the open door of a freight car. Lots of school kids crowd around.
Reel two: Fort Fraser. Vanderhoof, poultry killing & plucking, Smithers, Telkwa, Houston, Hazelton, Woodstock, Skeena River seen from Cedarvale, Terrace, the terminus for the Agricultural train in the North. Many shots of staff and freight in the Terrace rail yards.
Reel three: Scenes between Fort Fraser and Vanderhoof, Vanderhoof and Prince George, Red Pass, snow plough in the mountains, Albreda Summit, Avola Station, train staff posing, Ashcroft, and staff members leaving the station after having disembarked in Chilliwack." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of b&w film footage from 1930. "Totally concerned with a livestock parade of cattle being led past camera by various men." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage from the 1950s. Views of fields of flowers.

The item consists of two reels of film footage. Shows views of fields of flowers (primarily daffodils) and the picking, packing and transporting of daffodils. Packing boxes are labelled "Pacific Flowers."

The item is a documentary film from ca. 1929 on three reels:
"Reel one: A day in the life of a Cow Testing Association Supervisor from Chilliwack. Cow testing shown in every detail and its results explained to the farmer being visited by the Supervisor. All the results are marked in a book for future reference, such as weight of milk given, butterfat content, etc. The Supervisor moves on to the next farm.
Reel two: This film is concerned with Jersey cows and shows how conformation and good looks don't necessarily make a good milker. It is impossible to tell butterfat content from looking at a cow. A little drama is staged: "Mr. Byer" and "Mr. Sellar" do a little cow trading. Sellar at first balks at the higher priced cow, not the one he fancies, but is convinced to take her, once he sees her Cow Testing Association records. Mr. G. F. Thornberry, Assistant-in-Charge of Cow Testing Association, standing talking to the two farmers.
Reel three: Cow Testing Association picnic at Coldstream Ranch near Vernon. President W.R. Powley speaks. W.F. Kennedy, MLA. for Vernon, speaks. Professor Boving of UBC speaks about Feed Evaluations. J.W. Berry, MLA, President of BC Dairyman's Association, tells jokes. Views of good sires the other important factor, besides testing, in dairy herd improvement. Shot of Dairy Commissioner Mr. H. Rome. This reel may not have been shown on occasion, the first two being the most important." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w Instructional film from the 1930s. It shows judging poultry to improve production by eliminating particular hens.

The item is a promotional film made 1945-1946. Poultry breeding in B.C. produces high-grade eggs for domestic and foreign markets. Shows the world's record shipment of eggs, when 33 million eggs were shipped from B.C. to Great Britain -- eggs being loaded onto a freighter at the Vancouver docks.

The item is a copy of part of a National Film Board news reel print of one of the items in Eye Witness no. 21. The Hon. Nancy Hodges is seen at home, at work as a columnist for the Victoria Times newspaper, and in her role as Speaker in the Legislative Assembly of B.C. in Victoria.