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Tourism and promotional films and videos
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Way to go

The item consists of six reels of unedited film footage, from around 1971. It contains material shot for a production that was never completed. Includes much footage of the P.N.E. (midway, rides, etc.), street scenes in downtown Vancouver and Gastown, a residential area, and cyclists (in Stanley Park?). Two teenage boys and a young man appear in some of the P.N.E. and downtown scenes.

West Kootenay adventure

The item is a composite print of a travelogue from 1972. It shows scenic and recreational attractions of the West Kootenay area. Includes sequences on Arrow, Christina and Kootenay lakes; mining history, abandoned mine workings, old hotels and ghost towns, including Sandon; Hugh Keenleyside dam (and boat lock there); boating, fishing and water-skiing; Duck Lake wildfowl sanctuary; Meadow Creek kokanee spawning channel; "house of bottles" tourist attraction; Ainsworth Hot Springs; the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie" at Kaslo; the Balfour-Kootenay Bay car ferry; mining museum at Rossland; parade honouring champion skier Nancy Greene, who is seen winning the ladies' slalom in the Du Maurier International at Red Mountain; Trail, including Cominco smelter; Phoenix open-pit mine; Doukhobor village museum and tomb of Peter Veregin; trail riding on the Dewdney Trail; various facilities for visitors.

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