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Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

24. At Browning Lake cabin.
25. Sports Day June 1932 St. Clare.
26. Beach hotel after fire; log boom; rough day on Howe Sound -- December 1933.
27. Wedding at Britannia, August 1933.
28. California?, April 1935.
29. July 1 1936 at townsite.
30. Browning children & others at play, etc., [192-].
31. Father Flanagan's boys' home and other New York locations, [ca. 1940].
32. West coast forest.
33. Beach May 24 1940.
34. PGE Quesnel Cariboo mines 1933. A trip to the Cariboo via the steamboat "Lady Alexandra" and the PGE railway. Quesnel, Barkerville, 70 Mile House. The Cariboo Quartz and Island Mountain Mines (?). Fraser Canyon views.

Amateur film. In summer 1928, two carloads of travellers drive from Kamloops to Hazelton and return, filming highlights of their trip. These include the Cariboo Road, Barkerville, Bear Lake, Summit Lake, Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, Bulkley River, Telkwa River, and Skeena River. Footage from this trip is continued on film F1984:01/05.

SUMMARY: A docudrama about the rise and fall of the town of Barkerville during the Cariboo Gold Rush.;

The item is an audio recording of a comedy and music variety show recorded live at the Theatre Royal, Barkerville in its first year of operation as a historical attraction, 1962.

SUMMARY: Interviews with Fred Tregillus, Mary Tregillus (nee House), John Houser, Mrs. Roddick, and Mr. Bryant, by Louis LeBourdais (Member of Legislative Assembly for Cariboo), and John Barnes, about: British; Columbia, Cariboo region, pioneer life; industry, mining, gold, Barkerville, including playing of church organ at Barkerville Anglican Church.;

Consists of a collection of unidentified account books from hotels, businesses and mining companies in the Cariboo district. The records have been acquired by the archives over a number of years and placed into this collection.

A collection of ledgers, journals, day books, and other accounting records produced by various unidentified hotels, businesses, mining companies and other businesses in the Cariboo district.

Documentary. The importance of Canada's forests to the economy. Includes scenes of logging; log drives; huge trees felled by crosscut saw; sawmill and pulp mill operations and the various uses of forest products. Forest fire prevention and forest fire fighting techniques are shown, with shots of a huge forest fire in a mountainous area. No locales are specified, but the footage is clearly shot in BC. In the first sequence, dealing with a prosperous town which becomes a ghost town after a nearby forest fire, Barkerville is the ghost town location.

SUMMARY: "Musical highlights from the Theatre Royal productions in Barkerville Historic Park, the world famous Cariboo Gold Rush mining town reborn by the Government of the Province of British Columbia, Canada;.";

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-24 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A docudrama about the rise and fal;l of the town of Barkerville during the Cariboo Gold Rush.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "Barkerville" is a poem for voice;s by Florence McNeil, set in BC's most famous ghost town.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating from different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode, "Oak Street", recounts the settlement of the Jewish people in British Columbia. Accounts of early Jewish settlers of Victoria, Vancouver, and Barkerville are featured, and the origins of synagogues in Victoria and Vancouver are described. Present-day activities of the Jewish community, and the role of women, are also discussed.

The fonds consists of records created or acquired by Wallace in the course of his life as a teacher, public servant and retired member of the community.

The records reflect events held across the province in celebrations of the 4 centennials in British Columbia in 1958, 1966, 1967, and 1971.

The records are primarily photograph albums or scrapbooks and were arranged by Wallace as volumes in chronological order.

A small number of records contain correspondence and personal records related to Wallace’s family history in addition to collected ephemera related to centennial celebrations.

Published material included in the donation has been transferred to the archives’ library.