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The item is a video compilation of footage from eight unedited film items from the Alfred E. Booth collection.

1. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936: includes ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), river ferry, etc.
2. B.C. interior scenes, ca. 1937-1945: includes buses, beer parlour interior, Kamloops Indian Residential School, fire trucks, steam train.
3. Kelowna Regatta, ca. 1939: water sports, lifesaving class, "Ogopogo" replica, Okanagan scenery.
4. Greenwood, ca. 1939: visiting baseball team on street with locals, mining scenes, old-timers, artist at work, scenery.
5. Edgewood and Arrow Lakes area, ca. 1938: townsfolk, street scenes, etc.
6. Cariboo scenes, ca. 1936 or 1939: guest ranch scenes (Flying U Ranch?), orchard, trail riding (or pack train?) scenes. 7. New Denver area scenes, ca. 1938-1939: ore refining [?], town scenes, fire hall, etc.
7. Pier D fire, Vancouver, 27 July 1938: the fire (various angles), crowd of onlookers, fire crews and fireboats at work.

The item consists of a video copy of footage from 1982. Shows aerial footage of various forest fires between Squamish and Whistler, in the Cariboo Region, the Peace River Region, Bulkley Valley, Vancouver Island, and along the BC/Alberta border. Commentary discusses characteristics of the individual fires, their causes, specific problems presented, etc.

The item is a VHS promotional video from 1987. It shows BC Rail's passenger service, serving North Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Tyax, 100 Mile House, Quesnel, and Prince George. Emphasis on winter sports, particularly cross-country skiing.

Promotional video. A railroad trip by BC Rail dayliner from North Vancouver to Prince George.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A rodeo documentary, recorded at ;the Williams Lake Stampede.

SUMMARY: A.P. Murray discusses Barkerville newspaper editor Ma Murray talks about Fort St. John.

SUMMARY: "Concerned with current indecision in civic government [partial]; settlement in the Cariboo (Strathnaver) [complete]." Based on this sketchy content information, the speaker on this tape MAY be Russell R. Walker (1888?- ), whose is also interviewed by Imbert Orchard on tape T1342:0001.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), [196-?] SUMMARY: In an interview with Imbert Orchard, Frederick Nassau Sutton recalls how he came to Canada in 1906, worked as a ranch hand, and eventually bought a ranch at 150 Mile House.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1970?] SUMMARY: Imbert Orchard interviews an unidentified man -- possibly with a Mr. Tachi [?] or recorded at a place known as Tachi[e] -- about early settlement in the Cariboo and Chilcotin regions, especially as relevant to Orchard's other interviews with and about the Bryant family.

The item consists of an audio interview with Olive Loggins recorded in Victoria, B.C. on July 19, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Olive Loggins was born in 1900 in Plymouth, England. Her family came to Canada is 1910. They lived at 25th and Main in Vancouver, where her father had a shoe repair shop. Describes the home as she remembers it. Olive had to stay home a year from school at the age of 15 to help her mother with a new baby. Also talks about domestic science class (sewing only) she took at South Vancouver High School. Olive went to Success Business College. Worked at various places including B.C. Tel as an operator.

Track 2: Olive Loggins and her sisters lived at home while working and contributed half of their wages to the family. Olive married and set up her own home in Vancouver in 1925. Went up to Lone Butte in the Cariboo in 1926 with a 6-week-old baby to homestead. Describes that experience.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1952-11-20 SUMMARY: An interview with Alvin Johnson, C.C. McKenzie and Mrs. Bill Morris, recorded by Bob Barlow at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morris. Includes discussion of lost mines the Canal Flats area of the East Kootenays.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1953-11-16 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Mr. "Rusty" Campbell.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1952-12-17 or 18 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Mrs. Emma Johnson.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-12-07 SUMMARY: A talk by William Speare at the annual meeting of the Cariboo Historical Society, 7 December 1958.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-12-16 SUMMARY: Donald Van Buskirk recalls Dr. Lloyd Champlain and the Cariboo region community of Cinema, B.C., where Champlain ran the store and post office in the 1920s (and 1930s?). Mr. Van Buskirk worked for Champlain and lived on his property.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-11-30 SUMMARY: Wilfred Norn recalls Dr. Lloyd Champlain and the Cariboo region community of Cinema, B.C.

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode, "The Bryants", presents the story of the Bryant family and their experiences as settlers and ranchers in the Cariboo in ;the 1920s and 1930s. The voices heard are those of Phyllis Bryant Kellis and her children -- Jane Lehman, Caroline Moffat, Florence ("Bunch") Trudeau, and Alfred Bryant.;

SUMMARY: "The Bush and Salon" was a series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries, and other sources. In this program, a journey in the summer of 1970 retraces the travels and experiences of Phyllis Bryant as a young mother, homesteading in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region with her husband and four children during the 1920s. Based on oral history interviews and other recordings from the 1970 journey, it presents the trials and joys of a pioneer family. The voices heard include: Phyllis Bryant Kellis, Peggy Keefe, Jim Keefe, Harry McGhee, Dean Holt, Bill Broughton, Elmer Purdue, and Dan Lee.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Two short interviews with people of the Cariboo. (1) Mrs. Elizabeth Wendel, who came to the Cariboo in 1910, describes how she learned to ride and hunt, and recalls her first hunting experience of shooting a grizzly bear with a .22 rifle [ca. 8 minutes]. (2) The next interview is with an unnamed steamboat captain (born ca. 1874). In 1900, he was piloting steamboats for the Canadian National line between Victoria and Vancouver, and landed a new job running riverboats on the Fraser River between Soda Creek and Quesnel. After some blasting to clear rocks along the route, the service was extended to Prince George in 1909. Later on, two steamboats built by Foley, Welch and Stewart operated between Tete Jaune Cache and Prince George, south to Soda Creek, and up the Nechako to the site of Vanderhoof. He discusses the three companies running boats on the Upper Fraser: the Fort George Trading and Lumber Company; Foley, Welch and Stewart; and the BX (Barnard's Express) company. His account includes descriptions of the boat schedules and the boats themselves, which operated on the Fraser until 1920. The boats burned wood for fuel and had a crew of about twenty. Some discussion of passengers and freight carried. Stories about the packer Jean Caux, known as "Cataline". [ca. 17 minutes] (3) The final piece is an editorial by Willis about cowboy heroes on radio and television and in movies, as compared to the reality of being a cowboy. [ca. 4 minutes] [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "Trail of Gold", number 8 in the series, recalls the coming of Simon Fraser and the story of the Cariboo Gold Rush -- but more particularly, the results of the gold rush, such as the Cariboo Road, inns, stagecoaches, freight wagons, pack trains, etc. Techniques of gold mining. The story of Barkerville. Voices heard include: Annie York, Rose Baker, Nellie Baker, R.T. Crosby, Captain Norman Evans-Atkinson, Gus Milliken, A.W. Ludditt, Roddy Moffat, Art Phair, Tom Carolan, Bryson Patenaude, Martin Starret, and Albert Drinkell.

SUMMARY: A program about development and industry in Quesnel from the end of World War Two to 1970, told in the words of contemporary residents. The voices heard include Mr. and Mrs. Justice Havelaer, Hubert Havelaer, Harold Marshall, and Peter Miller.

SUMMARY: Captain Norman Evans-Atkinson, one of the last of the old British Columbia miners, tells stories of gold-mining from the Fraser River gold rush of 1859 to his own experiences as a prospector in the 1920s. The program includes details about the life of John Likely of the Bullion Mine, and anecdotes about eccentric old prospectors.

SUMMARY: A visit to Soda Creek and vicinity, and a discussion of its role as a terminus for stage coaches, freight wagons, and sternwheelers. Voices heard are: Phyllis Bryant Kellis, Nellie Baker, Roddy Moffatt, Jim Keefe, Clarence Roberts, and Earl Baity. Elliott Weisgarber, Associate Professor in the Department of Music at UBC, is also heard.

SUMMARY: This program deals with the early days and growth of the town of Williams Lake, and some of the early settlers in the area. Voices heard are: Mrs. C.D. Stevenson, Bryson Patenaude, Tom Carolan, Roy Blackwood, and Mayor Herb Gardner.

SUMMARY: This program presents a trip from Clinton to Williams Lake via back roads near the Fraser River. It includes descriptions of the landscape along the way, as well as recollections about gold rush days, people and events in the area, and early days of Williams Lake. Voices heard include: Phyllis Bryant Kellis, Elliot Weisgarber, Tom Carolan, Albert Drinkell, F.W. Pinchbeck, S.H. Patenaude, and Bryson Patenaude.

SUMMARY: A program about the town of 100 Mile House, including: Lord Martin Cecil's ranch; how the town grew up on his land; and the religious community (the Emissaries of Divine Light) which has its Canadian headquarters there, under Cecil's guidance. The voices heard are Ross Marks, Allan Hammond, April Britton, and Michael Cecil (son of Lord Martin Cecil, and later the Eighth Marquess of Exeter).

CALL NUMBER: T2442:0001 track 1
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tales of the ranches : part 1
SUMMARY: In the first of three episodes, this program tells the story of how Harry Marriott came to B.C. and worked on the Gang ranch, and the early history of the ranch, with anecdotes mainly told by Marriott. Also discussed: the early history of ranching in B.C., the Harper Brothers, the Gang Ranch, Carl Wycott, the Big Bar country, and old Phil Grinder. Voices heard include: Harry Marriott, Harry Coldwell, Tom Carolan, Albert J.Drinkell, and Henry Castillou.

CALL NUMBER: T2442:0001 track 2
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tales of the ranches : part 2
SUMMARY: The second of three episodes. More stories about the Gang ranch, Carl Wycott, Harry Marriott, the Big Bar country and old Phil Grinder. The voices heard include Harry Marriott, Harry Coldwell, TomCarolan, Albert J. Drinkell, and Henry Castillou.

CALL NUMBER: T2442:0002 track 1
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tales of the ranches : part 3
SUMMARY: The third of three episodes. The beginnings of Harry Marriott's own ranch at Little Big Bar. The Chisholm boys and their lonely ranch. Marriott recalls his life on the O.K. Ranch at Big Bar Creek. Harry Marriott, Mrs.Catherine Christy, Gus Haller, Tom Carolan, Albert J. Drinkell, and Harry Coldwell recall life on other Cariboo ranches at the turn of the 20th century. [TRACK 2: blank.];

SUMMARY: This program features stories about the legendary packer Jean Caux, better known as "Cataline". The voices heard include Henry Castillou, Tom Carolan, Alan Benson, Hugh McLean, Nellie Baker, and Martin Starret.

SUMMARY: A program on the Cariboo Road, in modern times and in the 19th century, with stories of travel by car and stagecoach from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo. The voices heard are: Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs. R.T.Crosby, Miss Leah Shaw, Vince Gresty, Gus Milliken, Roddy Moffat, and Bryson Patenaude.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: An interview with Harold Mainguy of Clinton, B.C. He is the brother of Admiral Rollo Mainguy, retired head of the Canadian Navy.