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Are we at the crossroads? : reminiscences of Gerald Ross Hunter

The file consists of a typescript copy of the reminiscences of Gerald Ross Hunter titled "Are we at the crossroads?" Mr. Hunter was born in England, emigrated to Wynyard, Saskatchewan, moved to British Columbia in 1937 where he and his wife operated a motel on Kingsway in Vancouver, and then lived in the Fraser Valley and in Victoria.

[CHAN-TV 8 Vancouver]

Promotional film. For Vantel's application to the Board of Broadcast Governors for a television broadcasting license, company president Art Jones introduces samples of proposed programming. These include "Van-O-Rama," a TV journal of local interest; a news program; a discussion of metropolitan planning in Vancouver with Warnett Kennedy; a football game; a children's show; a variety show featuring a female singer and a barbershop quartet; a West Indian dance performed by an ethnic dance troupe from UBC; a large grad choir, etc. Includes footage of simulated TV studio operations; an Artray film crew at a tree nursery, on the waterfront and in Fraser Valley; views of Port Moody waterfront and Vancouver skyline.

Decision

Documentary. An analysis of the decision-making procedures of the Ministry of Forests when confronted with ecological and other values in forestry resource management. The question was, "Should chemical sprays be used against the spruce budworm that is killing trees in the Fraser Valley?" Forests minister Tom Waterland hosts an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the issue.

Economic and institutional aspects of adjustment to floods in the lower Fraser valley / William Robert Derrick Sewell

The item is a microfilm copy of a thesis by William Sewell titled "Economic and institutional aspects of adjustment to floods in the lower Fraser valley." 1964. viii, 269 leaves: figs., maps, tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Washington, 1964. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 256-268. University Microfilms, 65-5463.

Plan of Lac la Hache cemetery and associated material

The file consists of a copy of a plan of Lac la Hache cemetery and list of persons buried there, compiled by Mrs. Percy Ogden, Lac la Hache, five letters to Joanne Hughes from Molly Forbes, Lac la Hache re cemetery, and a 2 p. autobiography by Mrs. Forbes titled "Fraser Valley cemeteries and how they reflect the social history of the area." It also contains field notes on the Fraser Valley cemeteries [history essay, Douglas College, 1972, Joanne Hughes].

Reports on education by William Plenderleith

The file consists of two reports by William Plenderleith from 1937. The first is titled "An Experiment in the Reorganization and the Administration of a Rural Inspectoral Unit in British Columbia." The second is a typescript copy titled "Report on Education in New Brunswick", with appendices dealing with the Matsqui - Sumas - Abbotsford Administrative Area and the Peace River Plan.