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[All-Sooke Day]

News item. Excellent footage of some of the main events. Background sound only.

[BCFP -- IWA back]

News item. Interview, and shots of logs being lifting from booming grounds into a barker at BC Forest Products's Sooke Division.

[Bike racing]

News item. Shows Canadian bicyclists participating in a road race (on the Old Island Highway near Sooke?) as part of a training camp. A team of six riders will go to Europe to contest four major tours, while six riders from Europe go to Mexico to contest a Mexican tour. Following these tours, the Canadian bicyclists will return to Canada to take part in the Okanagan tour at Penticton. Other B.C. riders are also preparing for the 1984 Olympics Games. One Victoria rider, Bernie Willock, will almost certainly go on to the Olympics, says the club's trainer. Lots of footage.

[Heritage buildings ; Lai at Immigration Building]

Television stock shots. The reel begins with brief sequences on the Sooke Region Museum and on Helmcken House. The balance of the reel (shot 06-Dec-1977) deals with the old Immigration Building at the corner of Dallas Road and Ontario Street in Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood. The building is in the process of being demolished. In the years 1908-1923, it was used as a detention centre for processing and confining Chinese immigrants. Dr. David Lai tours the building, talks about Chinese immigration and the head tax, and transcribes some of the old Chinese writing from the walls of the cells, which comprise messages and poems written by the immigrants confined there.

[Logging look]

News item. Footage shows logged-off areas beyond Sooke (?), logging truck being loaded by hydraulic loader; loaded truck on way to the mill; shots of sawmill (B.C. Forest Products, Sooke?); faller bringing down a tree.

[Sooke arts and crafts fair]

News item. Outdoor arts and crafts fair in Sooke. Footage shows different crafts in the process of manufacture; costumes worn by crafts people; different types of music and instruments.