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The item is a video copy of a promotional film of a comprehensive look at Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition. Includes footage of PNE parade; Exhibition Park (general and aerial views); industrial exhibits; horse show; livestock and poultry exhibits; horticultural displays; home arts and fashion events; dog show; hobby show; the "gayway" rides and games; "Kiddieland"; Miss PNE competition; armed forces display (with CF-100 jet and Centurion tank); tree climbing competition; heavy machinery demonstration; B.C. Electric's "Garden Rendezvous"; horse racing; Board of Directors; the gayway at night.

Out-takes. A record of the 1956 PNE in Vancouver. These outs include general views of Exhibition Park, miscellaneous scenes on the fairgrounds, the midway games and rides, the Miss PNE pageant, agricultural exhibits, the dog show, a fashion show and the horse races, as well as the PNE parade.

SUMMARY: Radio program with Marce Munro presenting a drama written by James Beard.;

Documentary. Excerpts from the first "Pacific Wave" TV series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. Films presented include THE GIFT, THE FLYIN' MELON BROTHERS, REAL ITALIAN PIZZA (excerpt), SANTA, MIGRATION, GULF OF GEORGIA TOWING, LABYRINTH, NIGHT TIME. OCEAN PICTURE, GROWING UP IN PARADISE (excerpt), RITUAL, BATTLE OF EGO, TUFTED PUFFINS (excerpt), and GREAT RAIN MOUNTAIN (excerpt).

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. THE WASH and ONE CYCLIST are shown.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The documentary FOR TWENTY CENTS A DAY is presented.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. Includes excerpts from the animated films THE FUNNY COW, THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE MUDDY THING, ANIMALS, and THE SPECIMEN, plus the live-action short AN EGG STORY (shown in its entirety).

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films RUCIBEL and SWAP MEET are shown.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. Excerpts from the film DO IT WITH JOY are shown.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. Includes THE KICKBOXERS, as well as excerpts from three animated films and from ON CRYSTAL LEVELS (THE LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE SKIER).

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films COMING DOWN, DIMINISHED and IN BLACK AND WHITE are presented.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films PRINTMAKER and ROOFSPACE are presented, along with an excerpt from ART SCHOOL, EH?

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films KITSILANO SOLAR HOUSE and ICE are presented.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The film WE'RE ALL OLD is presented.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. Includes the film CABIN and an excerpt from ENTER THE DEVIL'D EGG.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films WIND FROM THE WEST, NINE O'CLOCK GUN, A DAY MUCH LIKE THE OTHERS and TEARING are presented.

Documentary. A program from the second "Pacific Wave" television series, featuring BC filmmakers and their work. The films SURVIVORS, WIND OF THE FIELDS and GIVE THAT PERSON THERE A CAMERA are presented.

Item consists of one panoramic photograph of the False Creek area of Vancouver. Visible industrial businesses include West Coast Shipbuilders, Hamilton Bridge Western Ltd., Columbia Machine Works, and Dominion Construction Co. Ltd. A variety of automobiles, railroad tracks, industrial materials and machinery, and people are visible. "#822-P. Aug. 20/43. W.J. Moore" has been captioned at the bottom right corner.

Taken from Hotel Vancouver (2), showing intersection of Georgia and Burrard. Christ Church Cathedral bottom, right. Billboard advertising for various businesses bottom left.

Looking north; post office building on right.

Looking north. Post office building on left; Granville Street, bottom left. Billboards.

Item consists of a mount of four landscape photographs adhered to card to create a panoramic view of Vancouver. Image depicts empty fields, commercial and domestic buildings, a waterfront, and distant mountains. "Vancouver 1905" is captioned on the card in white ink.

Item consists of one photograph of groupings of men and women standing near the intersection of Hastings Street and Cambie Street in Vancouver. They are watching a parade of horse-drawn floats. A Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) building is visible in the background, at centre.

Stock shots. Compiled from the outs of sundry Parry productions, these rolls include footage of cannery operations, cattle ranching, farming, fishing, a foundry, logging, pipe laying, powerhouse and power line construction (Kemano), sawmilling and shipping. In addition, there are such sequences as an amphibious aircraft landing on a lake and taxiing onto land; a CPA DC-8 airliner taking off and in flight; Kelowna's Royal Anne Hotel; CPR locomotive 374 (retired) at Kitsilano Park; Mission Dam; Okanagan Valley apple blossoms; Rocky Mountain scenery and locales; Stanley Park; a fire in a Vancouver shipyard; and Vancouver's streets, skyline & waterfront. 76.3 has some particularly good mid-1950s Vancouver street scenes (with newsboys hawking papers on busy streets), as well as good footage of the waterfront and docks, various cargoes being loaded or unloaded, etc.

Partnership records documenting declarations and dissolutions of partnership. GR-0930 is the index to these volumes by the name of the firm rather than the name of the partners.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-29 SUMMARY: Pat Foley discusses the take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

SUMMARY: Unidentified male TV announcer; Harry Davis, Premier Cablevision chief engineer; Lynn Patterson of BC Tel; Daryl Duke, CKVU president. Davis, Patterson and Duke discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the pay TV concept.

SUMMARY: Recorded at a City of Vancouver public hearing in West Point Grey. Speakers are Dr. Josephine Mallek and Mayor Art Phillips; unidentified male voice asks for vote from City of Vancouver council members.

SUMMARY: Sarah Bourgon recalls her adventures as a young English immigrant: arriving in Canada in 1912, working in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, and travelling to Aldermere in the Bulkley Valley in 1914.