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News items from British Columbia, 1910s-1920s

The item is a video cassette containing five newsreel items. There is a wide assortment of footage, much of it shot in the Victoria area. Highlights include: cars on Malahat; Victoria harbour; Empress Hotel; Government House; Lt.-Gov. Prior; Beacon Hill Park; Hatley Park; Fletcher Bros. music store; boxing; Gorge Sports Day; Colwood Golf Course; sulky racing, Vancouver; Butchart and other gardens; sealing fleet; panoramic views of Victoria; Legislative Buildings; Sooke pipeline; military sports day; motorcycle racing; canoe races; tug-o'-war; ship "Princess Louise"; John Oliver inspecting Navy League; visit of Gov.-Gen. Lord and Lady Byng; Hardy Bay; Willows Sports Day; garden party; Ladysmith coal bunkers; children's garden party; water sports, including high diving.

Nellie Hood interview

CALL NUMBER: T1290:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nellie, Mrs. F.G. Hood, talks about her childhood in early Victoria; her father, Colonel Prior, was an MP in the federal parliament, the premier of BC and Lieutenant Governor. She recalls memories of early James Bay; Judge Matthew Begbie; social occasions; musicals; streets in Victoria; the old Victoria Theatre; the Chinese Theatre; musical life; the Royal Navy; entertaining; Indians selling salmon; May 24 celebrations; impressions of Victoria; visits to San Francisco; Victoria and the Yukon gold rush; and changes in Victoria from 1906 to 1930. TRACK 2: Mrs. Hood speaks about her ;father, Colonel Prior; a visit to Seattle; San Francisco's influence on Victoria; Victoria's architecture and furnishings; Government House and other large houses; Rudyard Kipling and other notables; ;James Bay residents; her grandfather, John Work; the Gorge residents; her father in public life in Ottawa and Victoria; disreputable characters; riding; camping; and schooling at Angela College.

CALL NUMBER: T1290:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hood continues with recollections about local characters, Jenny and Jimmy Chickens; the chain gang; the Point Ellice Bridge disaster; Lady Douglas; May 24 celebrations; Christmas celebrations; her father in politics; elections; childhood pets; and her views on Victoria today. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Construction of Government House photographs

The file consists of two b&w photographs taken in 1958 during the construction of Government House in Victoria, B.C. Government House is the official home of the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. This building replaced the previous one on the same site that had burned down in 1956.

Scrapbook

Scrapbook of clippings highlighting career and social activities of Lieutenant-Governor Walter Nichol.

Nichol, Walter Cameron

Barnard Family records

Diary (1867), newspaper clipping books, correspondence out (1863 and 1867), deed and indenture re land of F.J. Barnard; scrapbooks and printed books of F.S. Barnard and dinner party record of Martha Amelia (Loewen) Barnard (1904-1931); F.J. Barnard clippings have been pasted in a way bill book of the British Columbia and Victoria Express Company.

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