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Bridge Patrol and Ferry Patrol

The item is a reel of unedited film footage. Shows the work of the Bridge Patrol and Ferry Patrol to ensure safety and smooth traffic flow on bridges and at BC Ferry terminals. Includes footage shot on Second Narrows Bridge, the Stanley Park highway, Oak Street Bridge, Lions Gate Bridge, Richmond freeway, and Tsawwassen ferry terminal.

High-speed traffic footage

The item is a reel of film footage. Shot for engineering purposes, this footage uses single-frame or "time-lapse" cinematography, shot from inside a vehicle, to record automobile traffic. The first section appears to show the Squamish Highway going north. The section travels on the highway through West Vancouver, across Lions Gate Bridge, and onto Denman and Davie Streets in downtown Vancouver. The third section appears to have been shot on an interior highway south of Kamloops.

[Scenery (North Vancouver, Fraser Valley, etc) ; railway shots]

Stock shots. Sternwheeler arriving at dock. Views from Stamp lookout, and from the Grouse Mountain gondola lift. Lumber trucks on freeway. Fraser River and rapids. CPR and CNR freight trains travelling along the Thompson River. Aerials views of islands, coastline, beaches, etc., near Tofino.

International Fact Finding Committee (Canada-United States, 1931)

This series contains International Fact Finding Committee records to October 1931. In the early 1930s, separate Canadian and American committees (Canadian 1931, US 1930) were formed to study the proposed B.C.-Yukon-Alaska highway. The two committees met as a joint fact finding committee in Victoria in 1931. The Canadian committee did not publish a report but reported the results of its investigation to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The published report of the American commission contains information collected by the Canadian committee. This volume, which contains material relating to the study and the joint meeting, consists of notes on the joint meeting, route reconnaissance reports, preliminary construction estimates and individual reports on mineral, forest and water resources in the proposed route areas of British Columbia (2 copies).

International Fact Finding Committee (Canada-United States, 1931)

James Isnardy interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James Isnardy talks about the Cariboo, and plays some old time fiddle music. Mr. Isnardy discusses his background, how his father Amadie Isnardy came from Nice to the Cariboo via California, and the Cariboo gold rush. Mr. Isnardy describes how his father started a ranch at Chimney Creek, and drove cattle to Peace River, Isnardy's schooling in New Westminster, travel on the Cariboo Road, stopping houses along the road, various early settlers, countryside at site of Williams Lake, and playing the fiddle at dances. Then he plays two songs on the fiddle including the Victoria Waltz. TRACK 2: Isnardy plays: Dream Waltz, Springhouse Waltz, Carlyle's Reel, MacDonald's Reel, Oxford Reel, Where Is My Darling Tonight?, Smash The Window, Old Hall and several more.

Vince Gresty interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Vince Gresty describes the highways around Hope, Lytton, and Cache Creek from the 1930s to the 1950s. TRACK 2: Mr. Gresty describes Cache Creek in 1949, and recent changes; people passing through Cache Creek and early Ashcroft.

Kate Mellard interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kate Mellard recalls coming to Chilliwack with her family in 1887; family members in the area; transportation; George Ashwell; the Old Yale Road; Centreville; her husband's work in the post office; hotels; the telegraph trail; anecdotes of life in Chilliwack. TRACK 2: She continues with her recollections about the community of Chilliwack; stores; childhood pranks; entertainment; interesting characters; her husband's work as justice of the peace; schooling; 24 May 1897; Five Corners; hotels; early residents.

Harry Weaver interview

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver recounts his parents' arrival in Vancouver from Cheshire; England in 1887; his grandfather [Woodward] was already living in BC; his family later moved to Delta in 1894. He discuss;es early life on the family farm; schooling; game; draining and preparation of the land; mud shoes for the horses; ploughing; soil conditions; drinking water; crops; Brackman and Ker; transportation; ;roads; schooling; other settlers; the McKee family; farm produce; West Delta settlement; flooding and dyking. TRACK 2 Mr. Weaver continues his discussion about the dredging operation; the Oliver Slough; the Great Northern Railway; Old Man Morgan; recollections of John Oliver; fish trapping; picnics at Blackie's Spit; Frank Burns; early settlers; Old Man Morgan; John Woodward; logging in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver talks about the roads in the area; weather conditions; mosquitoes; Butler's Corner; Tom Ladner's property; threshing work; [pause]; local incidents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Warren Gillis interview

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about his parents, John Murdoch Gillis and Sammie Ann Gillis, who came from P.E.I. in 1888; they homesteaded in Tynehead. He talks about the family farm; family members; William and Donald Gillis; early life in the area; settlers in the area; travel on the Fraser River; roads in the area; Hjorth Road; his father's work as a logger; his mother's work on the farm; the New; Westminster Market; winter incidents and anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis talks about his father's work on the Great Northern Railway; Liverpool Station; Bonnacord Station; Port Kells; Johnny Wise's ;hotel; Brownsville; bridges over the Fraser; Great Northern Railway; incidents; school; derailment of a circus train; childhood; school activities; Annadale School; childhood; recreation; church.;

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about fishing and hunting; chores and work for children; Barnston Island settlers and description; Port Kells; Port Mann; land boom; Surrey; incidents during road work; caterpillar plague in 1909; mosquitoes; D.M. Robertson. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis continues with reminiscences about the Tynehead Church; D.M. Robertson; William Bothwell; lost in the woods in 1902; Green Timbers area; incidents involving the local policeman; Alec Mathieson.

[Vancouver and British Columbia stock shots]

Stock shots. Compiled by Parry Films from the outs of various productions, these rolls includes extensive footage of Vancouver (e.g., general views, English Bay, Georgia Street, Granville Street by night, shopping centres, street scenes, etc.), as well as scenes of fruit orchards, cattle ranching, highways and railroads in the interior of the province.

The opening of the Big Bend Highway

Left to right: Dr. W.H. Sutherland former Minister of Public Works, Prov. Gov.; Mrs. Fred Fraser first (respectable white woman to arrive in Revelstoke; Premier Pattullo; Charlie [Charles A.] Cotterell CPR official of Western Lines & a former Chief Despatcher (of early days) of Revelstoke. All were at the opening of Big Bend Highway June 29/40. Picture on Columbia Crossing [Boat Encampment] Bridge 99.3 miles from Revelstoke. [Text from back of photo.]

BC Radio News : [press conferences, interviews, speeches, etc., May 1979]

CALL NUMBER: T3860:0208 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mike Parker of Tacoma ; Elwood Veitch RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mike Parker of Tacoma on the "Princess Marguerite". TRACK 2: Elwood Veitch wants a recount.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0209 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Highways minister Alex Fraser RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-16 SUMMARY: [Alex?] Fraser "on a bunch" [of topics] -- freeway in Vancouver; ferry; "Queen of Surrey".; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0210 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rafe Mair RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-17 SUMMARY: Rafe Mair on Japanese fish investments.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0211 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Vander Zalm ; Hugh Curtis RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-17 SUMMARY: Bill Vander Zalm on business tax; Hugh Curtis on elections act.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0212 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett and Dave Barrett on Clark win RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-23 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett and NDP leader Dave Barrett on Joe Clark's federal election win.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0213 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett's news conference regarding the federal election. TRACK 2: News conference about BCRIC.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0214 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Garde Gardom RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-25 SUMMARY: Garde Gardom on third report of the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit (CLEU).; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0215 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hewitt RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-28 SUMMARY: James Hewitt on nukes, gas, and natural gas.;

Day book of expenditures and correspondence

  • GR-1029
  • Series
  • 1862-1865

This series consists of a day book of expenditures of road and bridge construction, surveys and transport, 1862-1864; goods received from grocers, Hope, B.C., 1865; correspondence and specifications relating to the construction of the Burrard Inlet road, 1864-1865.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Dude Lavington interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chilcotin ranching in the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Dude Lavington. He talks about starting a cattle ranch 60 miles west of Quesnel in 1931; cutting roads; hunting; and the origin of his name "Dude".

Thomas E. Windt interview

CALL NUMBER: T0454:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Freighting on the Cariboo Road, 1910-1919 PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1919 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Windt discusses family background: father came to B.C. from Ontario in 1898; brought family to Pavilion in 1902; family background; settling the family ranch after 1902. Windt's early schooling. Food and supplies. Economic conditions of the family farm. Anecdotes about the Cariboo Road. Brother began freighting on the Cariboo Road in 1907. Description of freighting on the Cariboo Road between Ashcroft and Quesnel. TRACK 2: Windt visited the grave of Cataline (Jean Caux) at Old Hazelton. Cataline described. Experiences freighting on the Cariboo Road with wagons and sleighs. Details about wagons, sleighs and horses.
CALL NUMBER: T0454:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Freighting and mining in the Cariboo region, 1910-1939 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of freighting on the Cariboo Road. Horse medicine. Steamers on the Fraser River between Soda Creek and Quesnel. Anecdotes about local policeman, Dave Anderson. Canoe travel on the; Fraser River. More about freighting on the Cariboo Road. Anecdotes about Charlie Ross of Soda Creek. Other anecdotes about local characters. TRACK 2: Windt worked at Antler Creek (near Barkerville), 1924-28. Techniques of working with a dredge described. During the Depression, Windt mined gold on the Fraser River. Chinese along the Fraser described. Comments about the changes in the Indian population.
CALL NUMBER: T0454:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Freighters and freighting on the Cariboo Road, 1900-1925 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Freighters on the Cariboo Road described. In response to a list of former freight drivers on the Cariboo Road, Mr. Windt describes them and relates anecdotes and stories about freighting. TRACK 1: freighters A - G TRACK 2: freighters G - Z. (End of interview)

Correspondence and other material, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works

  • GR-1381
  • Series
  • 1863-1896

This series contains miscellaneous records of the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works. The records consist of correspondence, receipts, accounts, petitions relating to pre-emptions, ferries, roads, public works, leases, and tax assessments. Includes (1) Metchosin District assessment roll, 1863; (2) pre-emption correspondence with William G. Cox and Peter O'Reilly, 1865, 1869; (3) receipt book for rental of crown lands, including waterfrontage and timber cutting, 1868-1869; (4) indenture for ferry charter at Omineca, 1872; (5) accounts relating to roads and bridges 1872-1873; (6) an 1880 petition re the graving dock; (7) report on Thompson River Bridge, 1876, 1882; (8) an 1892 pre-emption of Allison, Carefoot and Cameron in Yale District; (9) copy of a letter re road to Montgomery Landing, Kootenay District, 1896.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Leo L'Estrange interview

CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leo Edward L'Estrange (truck driver, skidder, miner, owner of Red's Billiards) was born on June 12, 1937 in Prince George. Background about parents. Arrived in Terrace first in 1949 for work. Drove team of horses. Visited Terrace again in 1952. (blank gap). Came to live in Terrace in 1956. Changes in Terrace during these visits. Various jobs after settling in Terrace. Sports and other social activities. Roads and automobiles. Hiking and hunting. Houses and where they were situated. Sewage and power facilities. Medical facilities. Business community in 1956. Worked for Ernie Sandy. Changes that occurred around house on Straume. Changes across tracks near Agar, proposed shopping plaza. Farming near Terrace. Fruit growing. Evidence of the military occupation. Location of some military buildings. TRACK 2: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. (blank).

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