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The item is a video compilation of footage from eight unedited film items from the Alfred E. Booth collection.

1. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936: includes ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), river ferry, etc.
2. B.C. interior scenes, ca. 1937-1945: includes buses, beer parlour interior, Kamloops Indian Residential School, fire trucks, steam train.
3. Kelowna Regatta, ca. 1939: water sports, lifesaving class, "Ogopogo" replica, Okanagan scenery.
4. Greenwood, ca. 1939: visiting baseball team on street with locals, mining scenes, old-timers, artist at work, scenery.
5. Edgewood and Arrow Lakes area, ca. 1938: townsfolk, street scenes, etc.
6. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936 or 1939: guest ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), orchard, trail riding (or pack train?) scenes. 7. New Denver area scenes, ca. 1938-1939: ore refining [?], town scenes, fire hall, etc.
7. Pier D fire, Vancouver, 27 July 1938: the fire (various angles), crowd of onlookers, fire crews and fireboats at work.

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RECORDED: [location unknown], [1955?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Alice M. Earley talks about coming into the Cariboo from Victoria in 1884; the journey by steamboat, train, and horse-drawn wagon to Quesnel, where she had been hired to teach. The Conco;rd stages. She describes Quesnel in the 1880s: the town; the fur traders; pack trains; the Klondike gold rush of 1898; the telegraph line; a plot by the Chilcotin [Tsilhqot'in] people; Barkerville; Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie; the school teacher; coins; prices and automobiles of a later era. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1952-11-20 SUMMARY: An interview with Alvin Johnson, C.C. McKenzie and Mrs. Bill Morris, recorded by Bob Barlow at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morris. Includes discussion of lost mines the Canal Flats area of the East Kootenays.

The item is a reel of amateur film made by Winstock A. Shilvock, who worked in advertising for Home Oil Distributors in the 1930's and also worked as Assistant Manager of the Pacific National Exhibition from 1939-1940. The reel contains miscellaneous footage: the opening of Vancouver International Airport (including RCMP musical ride); Home Oil gas stations; Home Gas Optimists on tour in Cariboo and in Victoria; race driver "Cannonball" Parker; logging trucks; Exhibition Park, including construction of Exhibition Gardens.

Shows route from Quesnel to Elwin Lake near Topley. Photographic copy of coloured ms. original in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866d/D). Astronomical observations by P.J. Leech. From notes by J. [Maclu]re. Sheet 1.

Photographic copy of coloured ms. originals in the Bancroft Library (Map/17.B8/C7T/1866/C).