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CHEK (Television Station : Victoria, B.C.) Victoria (B.C.) Satellite dish antennas
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[CHEK-TV news film -- military stock shots]

Stock shots. 1. Terry Fox rally. "To a great guy, Terry Fox, from the crew of the M.V. Victoria Princess." 2. Car wash. 3. Radio station interior. 4. Incinerator. 5. Nuclear medicine; chemotherapy. 6. Hospital shots -- surgery. 7. Guard dog. 8. Cyclotron (TRIUMF?). 9. Mirror for Canada/France/USA telescope in Hawaii. 10. Radio telescope (satellite dish?) -- Teleglobe Canada Earth Station at Lake Cowichan. 11. BC Ferry workers on strike. 12. "Queen of Chemainus" in dry dock. [Note: no known vessel by that name.] 13. CP Ferry "Prince George". 14. Troops landing on a beach. 15. Arctic exercises -- troops in white. 16. Naval vessel. 17. Winter exercises -- troops cavorting. 18. Parachute drop. 19. Tall ship in harbour -- "Sagres". 20. HMCS "Provider" -- troops boarding. 21. Jet fighter launching missile; aircraft in flight. 23. On parade. 24. Battlefield exercise.

[CHEK-TV news film -- December 1979 and January-August 1980]

Stock shots. 1. Flood scenes - houses awash, roads washed out, etc. 2. Seaspan's Santa in the Inner Harbour. 3. More floods and washouts. 4. CUPE Local 727 on strike in a flood. 5. Snowstorm - car wrecks and toboggans. 6. Small oil spill? Divers. 7. Premier Bill Bennett and unidentified woman [Bella Abzug?]. 8. More flood footage. 9. CPR train wreck. 10. Flotsam and jetsam on the beach. Clean-up. 11. Burst pipes in Chinatown. 12. Nuns demonstrating. 13. Fire - good action shots. 14. BC Hydro pickets. 15. Glenshiel Hotel - seniors demonstrating. 16. Student rally against tuition increase. 17. Demonstration in front of the Legislature. 18. Royal visit - [given the date, probably Princess Alexandra]. 19. Lambrick Park Secondary - vandalism. 20. Sooke Forest Products. 21. Reception - Prince Charles and Grace McCarthy. 22. Damaged aircraft - light planes. 23. Airport arrival [of ?]. 24. Satellite dish at Legislature. 25. Fernwood News. 26. Fire at the British Columbia Provincial Museum. 27. Village Green Inn in Duncan. Police artist sketches. 28. Airport arrival - [state visit?]. 29. "The Daily Colonist" shuts down. 1858-1980. The last issue. 30. Moving a house through city streets. Saanichton School. 31. A satellite dish or telescope [?] on the Legislature lawn.