Zionists and Hebrew Aid picnic at Bowen Island.
- C-08937
- Item
- 5 Jul 1923
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Zionists and Hebrew Aid picnic at Bowen Island.
Part of Travel Bureau photographs
Part of Film and Photographic Branch travel industry and tourism photographs
"Wrecked Steamer Iroquois, showing salvage boats; wrecked off Jacks Point".
Wreckage at the Exclusion Mine; Dunsmuir coal miners' strike, Nanaimo.
World Croquet Championships Parksville
World Croquet Championships Parksville
World Croquet Championships Parksville
Workman's Cottages At Granby Collieries Cassidy
Part of Taylor Engineering fonds
Workman's Cottages At Granby Collieries Cassidy
Part of Taylor Engineering fonds
Workman's Cottages At Granby Collieries Cassidy
Part of Taylor Engineering fonds
Working permit and caution tag procedures : safety film no. 1
The item is a composite print of a training film, ca. 1961. It is a film for linemen and switchmen showing procedures for safe repair of power lines. Several repair jobs are illustrated, as are use of safety clothing and tools. Probably shot on Vancouver Island, as it includes sequences at the Nanaimo switching station.
Working in "Toil and peacefull life", Hilliers, B.C.
Woodworking Shop Harewood School Nanaimo
Woodmen's lien register.
British Columbia. County Court (Nanaimo)
Woman on statue at Little Qualicum Falls Park.
Part of Travel Bureau photographs
Winter In The Nanaimo River Area. Snowshoeing
Winter In The Nanaimo River Area
Winter In The Nanaimo River Area
Winter In The Nanaimo River Area
Part of West Coast Medical Historical Society oral history collection
CALL NUMBER: T2002:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Neen describes her personal and early educational background up to beginning nurses training in 1923; a description of life in the nurses residence, curfew and roommates; the emphasis of the course, lectures, duties, and Ward X; a statement of qualifications for nursing in 1923 and the size of the VGH class; a brief statement of jobs held after graduation; special nurse in Trail, Nanaimo and San Francisco; introduction to the Rotary Clinic, staff, location and an aside on relief. TRACK 2: More on the Rotary Clinic and treatment available for TB patients; isolation techniques, enforcement and placarding; a brief recollection of Dr. Norman Bethune and his visit to Vancouver; changes in the Rotary Clinic; association with VGH; amalgamation with Metropolitan Public Health staff in 1936 and changes in treatment with the introduction of PAS and streptomycin; a discussion of the effects of the Depression on health units; the growth of baby clinics; services, restrictions and time spent at; involvement in social work; referrals to out-patients VGH, Social Services; Children's Health Centres. CALL NUMBER: T2002:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Involvement in school health programs and an anecdote about Miss Elizabeth Breeze; activities in schools, examinations, iodine tablets, athletics; growth of mental health program and an anecdote about TB derangements and problem of civil rights and forced hospital admissions; public health nurse and changes in VD clinics; anecdotes of follow-up situations; Shanghai Alley at Alexander and Cordova Streets; Stella the prostitute. TRACK 2: A continuation of the story of Stella; the Stafford Hotel and the issue of money; Miss Neen took a supervisory course and McGill in 1947 and returned to coordinate the TB program; a description of the mobile TB units and their locations; the involvement at Oakalla, including the installation of the TB units; staffing and training, the hospital, problems, security, and an anecdote about arriving at the prison gates; anecdote about a Lancashire man as an example of the scope and involvement of a public health nurse; retirement in 1963 after forty years in service.
Window featuring the Princess Royal centennary, Martin's Ladies Wear, Nanaimo.
Winchelsea Islands Near Nanaimo
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Tom Hood interviews William Moss, an early radio enthusiast in Vancouver, who discusses his early start in radio in Nanaimo and recalls Vancouver's first radio broadcast.;
PERIOD COVERED: ;1875;-;1963 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), [1963 or 1967] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lewis, who is 100 years of age, relates his memories of the journey to Nanaimo in 1875; life in Nanaimo from 1875 to 1963; the trip from Victoria to Nanaimo on the steamer 'Maude" in 1875; visit by Sir John A. MacDonald to Nanaimo in 1886; the completion of the E&N Railway in 1886. TRACK 2: The 24th of May celebrations; horse racing on Nanaimo streets.;
William Kirkwood Leighton, came to Victoria 14 Sep 1863; brother of Mrs. Robert Burns McMicking.
William Earl, a Cariboo pioneer; Postmaster at Nanaimo
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T0697:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pinson recalls his early years (1910 to the 1950s) railroading in BC. He talks about many incidents and events which occurred while railroading on the BC Electric; bootleggers; freight; passenger trade; winter storms; the route through the Fraser Valley; the "Owl"; scheduled trains; freight trains; special trains; train accidents; and "the juice line". TRACK 2: Mr. Pinson continues discussing the route through the Fraser Valley; bootleggers; farm freight; BC Electric and the building of the Alaska Highway; passenger service; excursions; Bradner and the Japanese gardeners; farmers and characters along the train line; famous trainmen; motorman skills and train terms.
CALL NUMBER: T0697:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pinson recalls problems with gangs of kids; miners on the E & N route; the "Nanaimo Street Gang". He talks about the years 1910 to 1915 on the E & N; building the line; industries and communities along the route. He discusses wildlife along the line; hunters and fishermen's special trains; game wardens; fishing. [TRACK 2: blank.]