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Travelogue. Mainly recreational attractions of the island. Highlights Victoria and area, including view from steamship entering Inner harbour; streets and shops; Beacon Hill Park (cricket and lawn bowling); golf, riding and tennis facilities; harness racing; Thunderbird Park; Saanich peninsula farmlands; swimming at Thetis Lake. Also Island Highway and other areas, including Malahat Drive; making of Cowichan sweaters at Koksilah trading post; resort scenes at Parksville and elsewhere; Forbidden Plateau; coastal and river fishing; autumn hunting for game birds; brief logging scene. Also of interest: Friendly Cove village at Nootka Sound, and BC Provincial Police Highway Patrol.

Amateur film. Family; kids, zoo, Beacon Hill Park; house and family. Victoria; springtime; naval ships in harbour; view from Government House; rowing and canoeing regatta (in the Gorge?). Vancouver; sailing to English Bay; fireworks; royal visit, 1939 (quick drive past with King and Queen); departure of royal yacht with naval escort; kids at beach.

Television stock shots. In the first section, a crowd watches from Beacon Hill Park as naval vessels and coastal patrol aircraft (including an Argus) maneuver nearby, possibly in some kind of demonstration. The second section shows the supply ship H.M.C.S. "Provider" and the aircraft carrier H.M.C.S. "Bonaventure" underway at sea. "Provider" refuels another naval vessel while they cruise side by side.

Stock shots

Amateur film. Part 1 shows a day's activities at the Children's Garden Library, including games, calisthenics, playground equipment, dancing, and reading and storytelling at the "Book House". Part 2 shows the children participating in May 24 celebrations at Beacon Hill Park, which includes a May Queen pageant, maypole dancing, and activities honouring the "Queen of Health", the "Queen of Music", the "Queen of Drama", the "Queen of Race Friendship" and the "Queen of Art". A mothers' study group, and the toymakers' group, are also shown.

Amateur film. Shows children from the Children's Garden Library program participating in May 24 celebrations at Beacon Hill Park, and other activities. Also includes shots of Sea Cadets, Girl Guides, broom in bloom, ducks in pond, and a deer fawn.

The series is a photograph album created or acquired by Herbert Carmichael, sometime between 1897 and the early 1900s. It contains photographs of Victoria and area, particularly photos of Beacon Hill Park, Victoria Harbour and sailboats. There are also Vancouver Island photographs, including images of the Cowichan and Alberni areas and images taken on the mainland including Kootenays and coastal areas. There are a few photographs taken in Northern Island, Sault Ste. Marie and England. Most of the photographs have either stamped or penciled captions.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.