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St. Ann's Academy (Victoria, B.C.) Victoria (B.C.)
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[CHEK-TV news film -- Victoria construction #1]

Stock shots. 1. Synagogue; church steeple; church exteriors. 2. Beaconville Apartments. 3. Congregation Emanuel Temple (Canada's oldest synagogue) being restored. 4. Unidentified interview [Rabbi or architect?]. 5. Metropolitan Store; street scenes. 6. Oak Bay Village. 7. Johnson Street Bridge. 8. Chinese hospital. 9. Coastal scenes. 10. E&N Railway 90th anniversary (1888-1978); train, station, engineer, conductor, etc. 11. Airport -- Air Canada counter. 12. Old Carnegie Library building. 13. Church interior -- Stations of the Cross. 14. St. Anne's Academy -- development plans. 15. Chinatown scenes. 16. Artist's drawing of gate; chart on wall, ending at June 28, 1981. 17. Undeveloped city land [ at St. Anne's?]. 18. Construction site. 19. Sewage outfall; protest banner; Clover Point. 20. Wrecking ball on the waterfront. 21. Office building and mall nearing completion. 22. Refinishing plaster work and gilt finish. Crystal Garden renovation. 23. Construction site. 24. Old building being renovated -- construction scenes.

[Widner film]

Footage. Painting of St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, ca. 1950s - circular shot of Victoria from roof, sign "J.T. Devlin & Co., General Painting Contractors" superimposed on view of St. Ann's. Beacon Hill Park - flowers and ducks. California trip including Sacramento, Donner Pass, ca. 1953 (theatre sign for "Shane", which was released that year), Oregon, picnic scenes, truck with sign "Ed Widmer/Vancouver, B.C." Moscow City Limits. Sign "entering Creston" (shows main street); Kootenay Flats (sign "last reclamation in 1952"; classroom, girls doing copper work, boys doing industrial arts? (building model planes); playing field scenes; road sign "International View Point" Oroville/Osoyoos; Anarchist Mountain; truck with water bags; orchard; family eating meal outside; brief fishing/coast scene.

Photocopies of illegible pages from PAC microfilm of the Victoria portion of the 1891 census

Series includes a Victoria City official Census, 1891: returns of census taken as a result of the city's belief that the federal census had placed Victoria's population at too low a figure. Census lists heads of households and single people alphabetically with either address or occupation, number of members of household and numbers who were either Indian or Chinese. Residents of Protestant Orphans' Home St. Ann's School and St. Joseph's Hospital, Indians, and crews of barques Callao and Serica are listed separately at back of volume.