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Stock shots. 1. Construction site. 2. Community meeting [?]. 3. More construction -- CBC logo. 4. New CHEK-TV station. 5. Brick laying. 6. Unidentified person [Jack Davis?]. 7. Quadra Steel Company plant. 8. Offshore oil drilling rig. 9. Open pit mining. 10. Ships. 11. Oil rig. 12. Clallam County Courthouse. 13. Fish trawler -- navigating, etc. 14. Maps. 15. Open pit mining. 16. Stills of historic mining, windmills. 17. Modern windmill. 18. Canadian Forces Base -- Toronto. 19. Hydro lines. 20. Tank farm. 21. Freighter. 22. Oil pipeline. 23. Ships at sea.

Will, inventory of estate and effects, and contre-lettre of John Dease (1801); engagement of Peter Warren Dease to Alexander McKenzie and Company (1801; engagement of Francis Dease with Myer Michaels (1801); diary of John Warren Dease at Fort Vancouver with Dr. John McLoughlin (1829) and portion of a will (1829); correspondence of Albert E. Dease with the British Columbia Provincial Librarian regarding the Dease family (1924, 1928 1934).

Documentary. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission's struggle to save the Fraser River sockeye salmon run. Includes research toward and construction of the Hells Gate and Bridge River fishways, and the program for re-stocking depleted streams.

Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

11. Billy Matheson's birthday party, 1928.
12. 1929 Mrs. Davis May 24th crowning Queen, Tennis, Seaside.
13. Beach scenes, n.d.
14. Browning family holiday: golf, etc., n.d.
15. Picnic and boating footage.
16. Children.
17. Skating at cabin [Browning Lake] and at beach, Mr. Wiser, ca. 1930
18. July 1, 1930 -- celebration at townsite.
19. July 1931 -- cabin at Browning Lake.
20. July 1931 -- Main camp [?].
21. Family holiday in California, ca. 1932.
22. 1930 Murdoch & Robinson and Lucerne, Chelan, Compressor, Trip to Hart Lake, down Lake Chelan.
23. Townsite group at cabin -- family at cabin, ca. 1929.

Amateur film. Vacation footage from Vancouver (Burrard Inlet, Lion's Gate Bridge); the town of Gibsons; Seattle (Space needle, monorail, World's Fair site, zoo). Harbour scenes. Aboard the liner "Oriana". Long Beach, California.

Footage. Stock shots and camera original rolls of the activities of Island Tug and Barge Ltd. in the 1960s. Items of note: salvage of the "Mandoil", 1968; salvage of the ferry "Queen of Prince Rupert," 1967; salvage of the "Glafkos", [1961]; launch and first dump of the log barge "Island Yarder", 1965.

Item consists of one photograph of the city of Seattle, Washington. Waterfront warehouse B of the Oregon Improvement Co. is central.

Item consists of one photograph of the Tacoma Mill Co. sawmill in Tacoma, Washington. The mill was built in 1869 by Charles Hanson and initially named the Hanson-Ackerson sawmill. It was destroyed by fire in 1922.

Item consists of one aerial photograph of Tacoma, Washington, looking westward up Commencement Bay from McKinley Hill.

Travelogue. Cruising from Seattle to Juneau aboard the S.S. "Alaska" (Alaska Steamship Company). Brief shots of coastal scenery en route -- probably including BC. Also includes footage of Ketchikan; fish trap with salmon swirling inside; cannery or fish plant; frozen salmon and halibut; Wrangell Narrows; scenes in downtown Juneau; Mendenhall Glacier; Alaska-Juneau gold mine.

The collection consists of records related to the creation and function of the Sisters of St. Ann in St. Joseph's Province, which covers the geographic area of British Columbia, the Yukon, Alaska, Oregon and Washington State. The SSA Archives acquired records created by the Sisters and the Corporation, as well as associated bodies such as parent-teacher organizations or alumnae societies for the schools they were involved in. The collection is currently arranged into 53 fonds, with the records created by The Sisters in one main fonds (PR-2415) which is comprised of approximately 140 series. The additional fonds are records created by external related bodies, such as the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae, Providence Farm in Duncan, and the Friends of St. Ann's Academy.

The Sisters of St. Ann were involved in education and healthcare throughout British Columbia as well as in the Yukon and Alaska, and the records in this collection represent those activities, as well as the place of the congregation in the broader Catholic landscape of Western Canada. Records reflect the Sisters' presence in parochial and residential schools as well as hospitals, but also their relationship to their motherhouse in Lachine, Quebec, and the reporting structures of a congregation of women religious. There are many series that are related to a specific institution where the Sisters worked, but additional information about that institution will be held in administrative series such as the Provincial Bursar records or the Provincial Superior records.

The records in this collection are on numerous formats, including textual, photographic, audio and visual recordings, artworks, published library materials, objects, and digital records.

Travelogue. Footage taken on automobile trip(s) through "the historic gorge of the Fraser". Also includes footage of trail rides and Rainbow Lodge at Alta Lake. The reel concludes with shots of a covered wagon and cars on the Fraser Canyon highway.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [1982-05-14?] SUMMARY: Recollections of family life on B.C. whaling stations: Rose Harbour, Naden Harbour, and Kyuquot -- and later, Bay City, Washington. Father, Captain George Le Marquand, later became general manager of Consolidated Whaling Company. Some material about Consolidated Whaling Company. Biographical notes on Chinese boss Kong Sing Wing (?), as well as on fireman Mike Benson.

Sweeney Cooperage was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver-based international organization with branches in Montreal (ex John Paxton and Company) and Seattle (ex Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981. Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Company and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

Sweeney Cooperage, manufacturers of barrels, staves and headings, was established in Victoria in 1889. Over the next ninety years, the cooperage grew from a small business into a Vancouver based international organization with branches in Montreal (John Paxton and Co.) and Seattle (Western Cooperage). Development of Vancouver's False Creek industrial area, the site of the cooperage, forced the closure of the business in 1981.

Records include articles of incorporation, minutes, by-laws and financial records of the Sweeney companies, John Paxton and Co. and Western Cooperage. Also included are industrial appraisement books which give a complete appraisal of plants and equipment and contain photographs and drawings.

The series consists of copies of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials kept at Fort Vancouver, Fort Victoria, Fort Langley, and the Parish of Victoria. The original dates of the records are 1836 to 1886 while the photocopies and transcripts were probably made around 1950.

The first mission of the Church of England on the northwest coast of North America was established by Rev. Herbert Beaver when he arrived at Fort Vancouver, the Pacific Headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, in May 1837. With the establishment of Fort Victoria, the Hudson's Bay Company employed Rev. Robert John Staines to replace Rev. Beaver who had resigned his Fort Vancouver post in 1838. Staines arrived in 1849 and initiated construction of Victoria's District Church in 1853. Unhappy with the company's land policies, Staines sailed for England in 1854 carrying the grievances of other settlers. His ship foundered and Staines perished. His replacement was Edward Cridge who arrived at Fort Victoria on 1 April 1855. With the issuance of an ordinance by Governor Douglas "establishing regulations for the arrangement of the affairs of the Colonial Church" Cridge could hold his first regular services in August 1856. An endowment of £25,000 from Baroness Burdett-Coutts provided for the establishment of the Diocese of British Columbia and on 12 January 1859 Letters Patent were issued creating a Bishopric and appointing Rev. George Hills as Bishop. His church was consecrated on 7 December 1865 and Edward Cridge was appointed Dean. In September 1869 the Cathedral was destroyed by fire to be replaced by a second wooden structure consecrated on 5 December 1872. This was replaced with the existing stone cathedral consecrated 28 September 1929.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Coming to Canada. Married 1908. Fishing at Blackfish. Trollers. Cannery operations before 1908, including the "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine. Story of a close call at sea in the Aleutians. Halibut fishing. Went to Bering Strait before 1908. First fishing boat. Ranching in Alberta after WWI; hard hit by the Depression. His grandfather settled on Orcas Island and grew hay. [Mr. Still grew up on Orcas.] TRACK 2: Probably made trip to the Bering Sea in 1903 or later. Rowboat fishing. Fish abundant. Story of man abandoned by dog team. Eskimos at cannery. More on canneries and fishermen. Fishing methods then and now. Story about towboating and breaking up a log boom.