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The item is a reel of film stock shots. (1) People sunbathing on Hot Sands Beach in City Park, Kelowna. Aquatic Pool building visible in background. (2) Activity at a game checking station (probably the permanent one at Cache Creek). Game conservation officer checking hunters' firearms. Deer carcass tied to hood of car; hunter removing its lower jaw to turn in. (3) Vancouver Airport, showing runway [construction?] and airliners (Trans-Canada Airlines) at terminal building.

The file consists of three reels of unedited film footage, either Kodachrome originals or a workprint. The footage documents the need for, and construction of, the Oak Street Bridge between Vancouver and Richmond. Includes sequences showing traffic problems at and around the old Lulu Island bridges (Fraser Street Bridge and Marpole Bridge); traffic to Vancouver International Airport (plus "air traffic"); Richmond Lumber Yard and rush hour traffic; horse racing at Lansdowne Park; the Peace Arch; Fraser River bridges and tugboats; opening ceremonies for the new bridge (with Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi); views from a tugboat towing a log boom on the Fraser River; construction, painting and finishing on the Oak Street Bridge.