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SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: transportation, roads, British Columbia Highway through United States territory.;

SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: British Columbia election June 15, 1949; legislative assembly, party standings at dissolution; Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.) party, election promises.;

SUMMARY: A Vancouver history program that tells the story of the famous Burns Family.;

SUMMARY: Report by Ted Reynolds about the Canadian Swimming and Diving Championships in Victoria, B.C.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with John Fisher, broadcaster, including comments by unidentified swimmer and gardener; announcer Bill Herbert; and Jack W. Cornett, Mayor of Vancouver, about: environment, weather, Vancouver springtime.

SUMMARY: This episode, from Vancouver, is comedy by Sherman Snukal about a woman who teaches an ESL class. The play is a satire in which the teacher teaches her students realistic English phrases to help them ;manage out on the street in Vancouver. The play consists of their experiences on the buses and streets of Vancouver, where all the Canadians they meet are rude. With Norman Grohman, Jane Schoettle, Al; Kozlik, Duncan Fraser, Alec Willows and Gary Chalk.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert and John Sherman (?), announcers, with Syd Hubble ?), chief dispatcher for British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization; part of farm radio broadcast from CKOV by Harry Mitchell (?), announcer; A.K. Lloyd (?), President and General Manager of British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization, including sounds from machines producing apple juice; Paul Wallbruchk (?), General Manager of British Columbia Food Processors Plant; George D. Fitzgerald (?), fruit farmer, about: British Columbia, Okanagan Valley, fruit farming, cooperatives, marketing, fruit products, irrigation.

SUMMARY: Second part of radio program with Bill Herbert, announcer, about: British Columbia, hydro development; mountain driving; including sounds from excavation process, with comments by Dennis Breerly (?), truck driver, W.C. Bud Connell (?), transmission line supervisor and Thomas Ingledow, Chief Engineer of British Columbia Electric.

SUMMARY: Part of first half of radio program with Marce Munro, Bill Herbert and Jack Bingham, announcers, about: transportation, logging trucks; truck manufacturing industry; with comments from employees in a truck manufacturing plant, George Harrison (?), vice-president of engineering, Bill Piper (?), engineer, George Moore (?), superintendent of manufacturing production, Charles Henry (?), machinist and Peter Rutherford (?), sheet metal worker.

SUMMARY: Radio program with Marce Munro and Bill Herbert, announcers, about: science, astronomy, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria; including comments by Joseph A. Pearce, Robert M. Petrie and Andrew McKellor, scientists with the Dominion Observatory at Little Saanich Mountain.

SUMMARY: Comments by unidentified speakers for radio program, about: aviation, trans-Pacific flights and weather forecasting.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert, announcer, including comments by Cecil Clark (?), John Mackelvein (?), Peter Kelsberg (?), Jack Purdy (?), Frank Bradner (?), Kelly Irving (?), Jack White (?) and Roger Peachy (?), members of British Columbia Provincial Police; including portions of radio communication between police station and police cars, about: British Columbia Provincial Police, crime and justice.

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0786 SUMMARY: This episode is entitled "Cancer Chaplain". A chaplain in a cancer clinic is followed on his visits to the patients. He provides patient counseling, and symbolizes many different things to different p;eople.;

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0789 SUMMARY: Another copy of the above program.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "Cancer Magister, or Crab Fishing ;on the West Coast": Jurgen Hesse interviews individuals involved in the crab fishing industry in Steveston and Sidney, BC.;

SUMMARY: This episode features "Cap'n Simon Wheeler, Amateur Detective", the world premiere of a stage play by Mark Twain, adapted for radio by Jeffrey Groberman. The actors include Robert Clothier, Peg Dixon,; Wayne Robson, Bruno Gerussi, Roger Dressler, Edward Stidder and Joseph Golland.;

SUMMARY: Proceedings of ceremonies honouring Captain Vancouver, with speech by George C. Miller, acting Mayor of Vancouver, W. R. Stacey, Commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. Discovery, about: Vancouver, its discovery; including music from ceremonies. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Vancouver's death.

SUMMARY: "Sunday Matinee" was a one-hour series that presented radio drama, history, comedy, mystery and romance. This episode is a play by Chris Bruyere about a First Nations family that is becoming increasin;gly westernized, and acquires a television.;

SUMMARY: Interview with Al D. Young, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Cariboo region, pioneer life and cold weather.;

SUMMARY: Interview with Alex McKinnon, former Presbyterian Minister, by John Barnes, about: transportation, pioneer life, religion, Williams Lake, British Columbia.;

SUMMARY: Interviews with Bob McElhaney, Mine Surveyor for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, and Bob Willen, drill sharpener for Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, by John Barnes, about: industry, mining, gold; natural resources, gold, mining process; including sounds from mining process with ore trains, drilling, and sharpening of drills.

SUMMARY: Interview with Mr. Pike, Manager of Columbia Tungsten Company Limited Mine at Wells, British Columbia, by John Barnes, about: natural resources, tungsten, mining process, industry, mining. Including sounds from mine during the crushing process.

SUMMARY: Interview with D.H. Allison, Chairman of town commissioners of Quesnel, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Quesnel, its history.;

SUMMARY: Interview with G.R. Baker, medical doctor, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Cariboo region, hunting and fishing potential.;

SUMMARY: Interview with E.C. Lunn, government agent at Quesnel, by John Barnes, about: British Columbia, Cariboo region, land settlements; agriculture and ranching.;

SUMMARY: Interview with trapper George Williams by John Barnes, about British Columbia, pioneer life; transportation, river freighting, British Columbia.;

SUMMARY: Interview with William Hime, Manager of Giscome Saw Mill, by John Barnes, about: natural resources, timber, lumbering, industry, saw mill processing; including sounds from saw mill and an interview with unidentified manager of hotel at Quesnel.

SUMMARY: Interview with publisher G.W. Renner, by John Barnes, about: agriculture, ranching, Cariboo region of British Columbia, pioneer life, animals, wild horses.;

SUMMARY: Interview with Harry Moffat, by Louis LeBourdais (Member of Legislative Assembly for Cariboo), about: British Columbia, Cariboo region, pioneer life, transportation and pioneer conditions.;

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.;

SUMMARY: Interview with Eric Johnson, Mill Superintendent of Island Mountain Mine, by John Barnes, about: industry, gold, description of refining process; natural resources, gold, including sounds from operation of mining process with crusher, noon whistle, "grizzly", scoop of ball mill, top of ball mill, swish of return to mill of oversize, general noise, clatter from under ball mill, water coming out of mill, overall sound from door.