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Royal Visit 1971

Item consists of one film entitled "Royal Visit 1971" and appears to be raw footage, shot for the Fraser River Harbour Commission. The film depicts a flotilla of boats, tugs, and the royal yacht Britannia on the Fraser River. The film footage also depicts the harbour, a motorcade, footage of crowds at the New Westminster City Hall, and the emabarkation of the Queen onto Britannia.

Star Shipyard (Mercers) Ltd. fonds

  • PR-0260
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1970; predominant 1940-1965

The fonds consists of the records of Star Shipyard (Mercers) Ltd. and includes textual records, photographs, architectural plans and drawings, and audio recordings. The records date from just after the founding of the company in 1908 until it was sold in 1970, however most of the records date from after the late 1930s.

Textual records include general correspondence, financial and employment records, and records concerning contracts for the construction, repair and refit of ships. These include bound office record books (journals and ledger books), which record information such as employee time worked on projects, specific construction projects or “jobs,” salary and payroll records, cheques paid out, ledgers organized by account holders, bank books, monthly time books, and annual statistics reports.

Photographs, almost all black and white, include images of ship exteriors and interiors, ship construction and repair, views of the shipyard, workers, owners, launching/christening ceremonies, dignitaries, and the New Westminster and Vancouver waterfronts. A large number of photos were produced by the Stride Studios of New Westminster.

The fonds consists of many records relating to ship launchings, including photographs, audio tapes, a radio script, invitations and event programs.

Star Shipyard (Mercers) Ltd.

Stan Meadows interview : [Orchard, 1967]

CALL NUMBER: T1347:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Meadows talks about his recollections of early Vancouver in the 1890s, including: streams, roads and a physical description of the city; his work as a messenger for the CPR telegraph, delivering to the saloons; the Westminster Road; New Westminster Exhibition, ca. 1900; the real estate boom 1911 to 1912; life in the city; Dominion Day Parade; the red-light district; development of the city; the West End; Stanley Park; False Creek; shipping and sports. TRACK 2: Mr. Meadows continues with recollections about sports in Vancouver; residential neighbourhoods and social classes; silk; imports and the silk trains to Montreal; neighbourhoods in the city; ethnic communities; mills; impressions of the city; childhood activities from 1895 to 1905; sports; youth organizations, like the ;YMCA; and juvenile problems, ca. 1910.;

CALL NUMBER: T1347:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Meadows continues with comments about education; thoughts about Vancouver; Victoria; Chinese; ships; shipping and travel; race riots; the McGeer family; Gerry McGeer; the land boom; vaudeville theatre in Vancouver; sports in the city; and False Creek. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Photographs of institutions operated by the Mental Health Services

  • GR-3419
  • Series
  • 1948-1967

The series consists of approximately 5250 black and white photographic negatives taken by Mental Health Services between 1948 and 1967. The negatives are acetate and are mostly in a 4 x 5 format with some 35 mm. There are 62 black and white prints interfiled with the negatives.

The photographs are of various British Columbia mental health institutions including the Boys Industrial School, Colony Farm, Colquitz Mental Home (Saanich), the Home for the Aged in Vernon and in Terrace, Woodlands School, Essondale (Coquitlam) and the Crease Clinic.

The photographs depict the grounds and buildings (both internal and external views) of the mental health institutions as well as photographs of construction and equipment. There are photographs of staff and patients involved in a variety of activities including medical treatments, events, ceremonies, leisure activities and other programs.

The negative files are arranged numerically in seven boxes: 1-657, 658-1004, 1005-1135, 1136-1242, 1245-1325, 1326-1409 and 1410-1499.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

Staff and patient photographs

  • GR-3421
  • Series
  • 1950-1967

The series consists of approximately 1005 black and white photographs taken by Mental Health Services between 1950 and 1967. The photographs consist of black and white prints and 4 x 5 acetate negatives.

The photographs are of Mental Health Services staff based at Essondale, Crease Clinic and Woodlands School. Some patient photographs are included. Some of the photographs show staff at work and were used for annual reports and other publications and some are "passport" style portraits. Most of the people in the photographs are identified and many include photograph classification numbers.

The photographs are arranged alphabetically by last name. The prints are in container 890935-0012 and the negatives are in container 890935-0010.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

Pathological master file photographs

  • GR-3420
  • Series
  • 1946-1967

The series, called the pathological master file, consists of ca. 1483 photographs and their card index file created by the Mental Health Services between 1946 and 1967. The photographs consist mostly of black and white prints and 4 x 5 acetate negatives. There are also a few colour negatives and transparencies and 2 glass negatives.

The photographs are of the patients at Crease Clinic, Essondale and Woodlands School and document adults and children with various conditions, both physical and mental. There are whole body shots as well as close up's of specific conditions and injuries. In addition there are numerous photographs of brain samples to illustrate the pathology. The photographs have been numbered and the prints are filed within the card index, which is arranged alphabetically by condition. There is a card for each file which identifies the patient, date the photograph(s) were taken and the condition. The negatives are arranged separately by file number. There are also some unnumbered and unidentified photographs. The negatives are in containers 890935-0008 and 0009 and the prints and card file are in containers 890935-0011 and 0012.

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

Centennial birthday : the visit of the Right Honorable Lord Mayor of London, Sir Robert Bellinger, to celebrate the Union of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and the Mainland as British Columbia

The item is a print of a documentary film. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Robert Bellinger, visits British Columbia to celebrate the centenary of the union of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Film shows ceremonial events at New Westminster, Fort Langley, Government House in Victoria, and elsewhere. People shown include Centennial officials, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, actor Raymond Burr, etc.

H. Norman Lidster interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lidster came to BC with his family from England in 1902; Lister, his father, was an early technical teacher in Vancouver. Mr. Lidster recalls New Westminster; various streets; Columbia ;Street; social life; schools; the Chinese cemetery; and the New Westminster Exhibition. He discusses his law practice in New Westminster and his position as first permanent Solicitor for the City of ;New Westminster. He compares Vancouver and New Westminster. He describes his employment at the Royal Bank of Canada; New Westminster lumber mills; canneries and fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Lidster continues with a discussion of New Westminster industries; the harbour; ships and shipping; bridges and railways. He discusses the importance of New Westminster for the Fraser Valley; the New Westminster; Market circa 1913; Burnaby circa 1900; Sir Richard McBride, and Frank Degrey. He tells anecdotes about politicians. He talks about the Gifford family, and the New Westminster lacrosse team.

Samuel Dawe interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Samuel Dawe relates his seafaring career; his birth in Newfoundland; his arrival in New Westminster with his family in 1892; his time living in Vancouver; his father Captain Albert Dawe; halibut fishing; school in Vancouver and New Westminster; his work on tugs; more on his father; his work on tugs and other ships, including the ships "Capilano" and "New England". [TRACK 2: blank;.]

Assize calendars from various locations

  • GR-1926
  • Series
  • 1870-1965

Criminal assize calendars for Victoria. Also includes criminal assize calendars for Yale, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Clinton, Richfield, Kamloops, Quesnellemouth, Cassiar, Laketon, Glenora and Lytton, 1870s.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Victoria)

Mary Teskey interview

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Teskey recounts her family's history; her grandfather; her father's early life and work in Yale as a brick maker for the CPR in 1879; her mother's trip to BC with the family in 188;1; family life in Yale; the town of Yale; their trip and settlement in Clover Valley, as Cloverdale was known; Surrey; other settlers in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Teskey talks about establishing the first school in Cloverdale; her father's appointment as Reeve; the family move to Hazelmere; the family farm; school; Indian graves; Joe Semiahmoo; schools in the area; her father's work for the Yorkshire Guarantee Company in England as a settlement agent; sawmills; the Great Northern Railway; mail; stage coach routes; Halls Prairie.;

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Teskey continues with stories about other settlers in Surrey; anecdotes; the naming of Hazelmere and Glenwood; childhood recollections; her work at age eleven in New Westminster and Gastown; English Bay in 1893; the family's hop farm; strawberries. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Port Mann Bridge

The item is a composite print of an industrial film, made ca. 1964 showing the engineering and construction of the Port Mann Bridge -- the last link in BC's portion of the Trans-Canada Highway -- and its official opening on 12 June 1964 by Premier W.A.C. Bennett. Also includes historical footage of 1930s traffic and the opening of Pattullo Bridge in 1937 by Premier T.D. Pattullo.

Olivia Cade interview

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade, nee Yeomans, recounts her family's coming to Deroche in 1890; their arrival in New Westminster; construction of the family home; the murder of Mr. O'Shea in 1891; floods; church; ;Reverend Lovering; Nicomen Island; Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Deroche; entertainment; settlement; incidents from her childhood; other settlers; Felix Parent; the Deroche family; childhood at Nicomen; Indians; Sam MacDonald.

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche; Indians; Mission circa 1900; Italians; Silverdale; the Cade family; the first telephone at Mission; Japanese farmers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Dick Whiteside interview

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick Whiteside recalls his parents, Helen and Guy Whiteside, and their arrival in BC in 1888; they homesteaded in Surrey, [at?] Pike and Yale Roads. He talks about the school at Tynehead in; 1900; subdivision of the homestead, today known as Fleetwood; his father's work as a fisherman in the Sunbury district; Port Mann; the land boom of 1913; Surrey Centre; the family homestead; clearing; land; logging; McNair and King Shingle Mill; other mills in Surrey; Jimmy Robson; South Westminster; Murphy's Dairy; Kennedy; Indian reserve; Johnny Wise. TRACK 2: Mr. Whiteside continues with recollections of Johnny Wise and his hotel, the Clarendon; Brownsville Hill; the Green Timbers area; the New Westminster Market; Murrayville; peddlers, Kidd & Israel; stoves; roads; Surrey Centre; John Churchland; settlers in Surrey Centre; Reverend Bell.;

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Whiteside talks about Cloverdale; the Boothroyd family; Alec Matheson, a constable and blacksmith; Joe Drinkwater; Harry Bose; Tynehead; Port Kells; recreation; Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit; farming; roads and trails; D.M. Robertson; Tynehead Nurseries; the Boothwell family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Warren Gillis interview

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about his parents, John Murdoch Gillis and Sammie Ann Gillis, who came from P.E.I. in 1888; they homesteaded in Tynehead. He talks about the family farm; family members; William and Donald Gillis; early life in the area; settlers in the area; travel on the Fraser River; roads in the area; Hjorth Road; his father's work as a logger; his mother's work on the farm; the New; Westminster Market; winter incidents and anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis talks about his father's work on the Great Northern Railway; Liverpool Station; Bonnacord Station; Port Kells; Johnny Wise's ;hotel; Brownsville; bridges over the Fraser; Great Northern Railway; incidents; school; derailment of a circus train; childhood; school activities; Annadale School; childhood; recreation; church.;

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about fishing and hunting; chores and work for children; Barnston Island settlers and description; Port Kells; Port Mann; land boom; Surrey; incidents during road work; caterpillar plague in 1909; mosquitoes; D.M. Robertson. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis continues with reminiscences about the Tynehead Church; D.M. Robertson; William Bothwell; lost in the woods in 1902; Green Timbers area; incidents involving the local policeman; Alec Mathieson.

Albert Drinkwater interview

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater recounts his parents' arrival in Langley Prairie, and later Surrey, in the 1890s. He describes schooling; early life; childhood experiences; incident with a bear; New Westminster fire of [1898]; potlatches at Semiahmoo; Indian encampments; family life; farm chores; fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with a discussion about fishing; winter; logging in Surrey; sawmills; Ross McLaren Mill; Yale Road; traveling store, Kidds and Isaac; sounds common at the turn of the century; a cougar incident; railways.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; logging methods; equipment; working horses; teamsters; oxen teams; selection of timber; loggers; the scaler; skid roads; transportation of logs. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; life in the logging camps; skid roads and donkey engines. He talks about Surrey Centre; early residents; Reverend; Bell.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his recollections of early residents of Tynehead; the Bell family; Halls Prairie settlers; the MacKenzie family; the Robertson family; incidents; the Brown family; Johnny Wise and the Clarendon Hotel; riverboats. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater talks about the Yale Road; dredging and dyking, methods, procedures and equipment; Sumas Prairie dyking; constructing the; route for BC Electric; logging.

Margaret Blackstock interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Blackstock recounts her father's [John Gillis] arrival in BC in 1883 from P.E.I. to Tynehead; the homestead on Hjorth Road; clearing land; family life; church; school; the family house; incidents; World War I; Port Mann land boom in 1913; a train derailment in New Westminster; incidents in Surrey; cranberries; anecdotes about residents in the area; a trip to Barnston Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. Blackstock continues with the Barnston Island incident; other residents in the area; the Charnley family; Bobby Gordon; school days; school teachers; Tynehead community; local incidents; other characters in the area; D.M. Robertson family; naming Tynehead; a description of the area; Port Kells; roads to New Westminster.

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