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Amateur film. Miscellaneous footage taken during the time that Miss Gerry worked as a nurse for the federal Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs. Includes footage of Indian reserves and villages, celebrations and school children; a First Communion procession at St. Paul's Indian Catholic Church in North Vancouver; hospital and clinic scenes; residential schools and Coqualeetza Indian School and Hospital; Cariboo highway and scenery; Williams Lake Stampede; etc. Also includes OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, a discrete two-reel film that depicts a 1941 automobile journey to visit Indian reserves and missions in the Cariboo. For a detailed content summary of OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, see item description AAAA5215.

Stock shots

Stock shots. Shows preparation of beds and transplanting of seedlings at Chilliwack Nursery; soil preparation and germinating seedlings at Koksilah Nursery.

Stock shots. "Subjects covered: Inmates working in sawmill. General scene of camp. Clearing brush. Planting seedlings. Cutaways include logging truck fully loaded along mountain road. Seedling close-ups. Mountain flowers."

Stock shots. Footage of Cultus Lake and its immediate surroundings, and of a helicopter using a helitorch to ignite a prescribed burn of slash and deciduous cover adjacent to the lake. The progress of the burn is shown, with some footage shot at a slower camera speed (to provide accelerated motion?).

Stock shots

Stock shots. Laying planks for the deck of the Slesse Creek Bridge. Self-dumping log barge with tugboat at Plumper Bay. Sequence showing location survey crew at work.

Footage. A film showing tourism and commerce in three areas: the Cariboo region around 100 Mile House, Vancouver, and the upper Fraser Valley. Cariboo region subjects include fishing, motoring, horseback riding, boating, hiking, pioneer buildings, a covered wagon, and ranching. In Vancouver the focus is shipping. Upper Fraser Valley subjects include Chilliwack businesses and residences, agriculture, outdoor recreation, Hope area campgrounds, Fort Hope Lodge, hiking, boating, and horseback riding. Visitors cross the Fraser River in a canoe to see a waterfall.

Documentary. An analysis of the decision-making procedures of the Ministry of Forests when confronted with ecological and other values in forestry resource management. The question was, "Should chemical sprays be used against the spruce budworm that is killing trees in the Fraser Valley?" Forests minister Tom Waterland hosts an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the issue.

Promotional film. For Vantel's application to the Board of Broadcast Governors for a television broadcasting license, company president Art Jones introduces samples of proposed programming. These include "Van-O-Rama," a TV journal of local interest; a news program; a discussion of metropolitan planning in Vancouver with Warnett Kennedy; a football game; a children's show; a variety show featuring a female singer and a barbershop quartet; a West Indian dance performed by an ethnic dance troupe from UBC; a large grad choir, etc. Includes footage of simulated TV studio operations; an Artray film crew at a tree nursery, on the waterfront and in Fraser Valley; views of Port Moody waterfront and Vancouver skyline.

Footage. Two rolls of aerial views, presumably culled from various outs for use as stock footage. The first roll, compiled from stock dated 1957 and 1960, shows Second Narrows, False Creek, Stanley Park, Fraser Valley and the Coast mountains, with some overall shots of Vancouver. The second roll, on stock dated 1954 and 1955, consists of low-level aerial views of downtown Vancouver, Burrard Inlet and a logging camp (?); "tilt-ups" from the CPR docks to the North Shore mountains; and some high-level aerial views of the city, one of which is on 1947 stock.

Footage. Mainly shows commercial and tourist activities in the middle and upper Fraser Valley. Shots include: a small freighter on the Fraser River; Brackman-Ker Milling Company (New Westminster); aerial view of an urban area; Johnston Bros. & Byrnell Freight Lines (Chilliwack); "Valley Celery" packing plant; Harrison Lake tourists and resorts; lake barges; a residential street; dairy cattle; berry picking and packing (Hatzic, B.C.); a railway platform; and the Bungalow Garage and Cafe in Matsqui.

Promotional film. Extant footage primarily shows handicapped children swimming, playing, doing arts and crafts activities, etc., at Easter Seal camp and various schools (Jericho, Oakridge, etc.). Also shots of Easter Seal buses of the BC Society for Crippled Children; use of Easter Seals; Easter Seal House; the Lower Fraser Valley Cerebral Palsy Association Children's Treatment Centre.

Promotional film. The construction and operation of the Salvation Army's Miracle Valley Detox Centre near Mission. Its quiet environs are contrasted with the temptations of the street life in Vancouver.

Industrial film. Discusses the relative merits of three proposed rail routes from the Fraser Valley to the Roberts Bank coal port.

Promotional film. Shows the relative merits of three proposed rail routes from the Fraser Valley to the Roberts Bank coal port. Composed of shots from the film RAIL ROUTES TO ROBERTS BANK (see), this silent news clip was intended for press or PR release.

News item. In the Fraser Valley, reporter Mike McCardell interviews Louis Donatelli, who as a boy witnessed a train robbery by the legendary Bill Miner.

Documentary. About Fort Langley. Features hereditary Kwakiutl music compiled and recorded by Dr. Ida Halpern, sung by Mungo Martin.

Documentary. An analysis of the decision-making procedures of the Ministry of Forests when confronted with ecological and other values in forestry resource management. The question was, "Should chemical sprays be used against the spruce budworm that is killing trees in the Fraser Valley?" Forests minister Tom Waterland hosts an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the issue.

Magazine. Feature story about the burgeoning movie industry in British Columbia, showing two feature films currently in production, with many British Columbians working as crew. Vancouver director Phillip Borsos is shooting THE GREY FOX on location in Gastown and Parksville. Gaffer John Bartlett, key grip Tim Hogan, and executive producer David H. Brady talk about the film and their work on it. Borsos is shown working with actors Richard Farnsworth and Wayne Robson. The American production HARRY TRACY: DESPERADO is shown shooting on location near Mission. Crew members Christine Wilson (continuity) and Rod Parkhurst (cinematography) talk about their work. Actor Bruce Dern is shown filming a gun battle scene.

Footage. 12 reels of film (varying in length from 20 to 100 feet) showing different locations. Vancouver Airport, where crowd greets a Lancastrian aircraft [133, 102A]; English Bay sailing [102A]; Whytecliff Lodge (Horseshoe Bay) seaside resort activities [108]; Alpine Inn at Christina Lake [18]; Jones Lake fishing and mountaineering [209]; Cherry Creek cattle round-up [94]; Merritt sawmills, businesses and nearby coalmine "Middlebora" [45]; Harrison Lake Sasquatch celebration [120A]; haying at The Willows farm (Fraser Valley?) [58]; Coldstream Ranch (?) dairy cattle [14C]; Okanagan Lake sternwheeler "Sicamous" at Penticton and shots of Incola Hotel (pre-1935), and Westbank-to-Kelowna car ferry [175]; Herbert Arm (?) government dock and nearby mountaineering, wild flowers, and a semi-abandoned mine [103A-B).

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-13 SUMMARY: Jane Downie (nee Letson) was born in 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland. She was raised, schooled and worked as a sales clerk there until 1913. She received training as a Deaconess in Methodist Church. She worked during WWI in London and in Paisley. She married a Canadian war veteran and came to Abbotsford in 1919. Description of home, United Church, detail on "set-up". Attitudes towards "moral conditions"; etc.

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-14 SUMMARY: Jane Downie's recollections of a lifetime devoted to public service. Social work and air raids in London, England (1915-1918).

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-14 SUMMARY: Jane Downie makes comparisons between the World Wars. Volunteer work with St. John's during WWII. Flood of 1948. Background. St. John's Assistant Matron at Burnaby home (United Church home for unwed mothers). Changing attitudes in society. Her opinions on child raising, etc. Woman's role in society and changes.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Acton Kilby of Harrison Mills : Early settlers on the Fraser RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Train noises. Acton Kilby is heard pointing out old tools, clothes and furniture at Harrison Mills Store. He discusses how he came to Harrison Mills. TRACK 2: Acton Kilby talks about life along the Fraser at the turn of the century, and since, including railroads, sternwheelers, and the floods of 1894 and 1948. Mrs. Acton Kilby also speaks. Footsteps and dogs barking. More train sounds.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lehman talks about her grandparents at Aldergrove; her grandfather, Philip Jackman, came out with the Royal Engineers in 1859; he settled and had a store at Aldergrove after various jobs. Mrs. Lehman recalls early Aldergrove; customs; horses; the beginnings of Aldergrove; the railway; development; naming the town; the hotel; sawmills; the town site; the Cottle family; churches; the blacksmith shop; incidents with horses; her father's farm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hammond Cedar Company, 1921-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-16 SUMMARY: Started work at Hammond Cedar Mill in 1921; operation of the Hammond Cedar Mill on the Fraser River; modifications to the mill in the 1920s; the Hammond Cedar baseball team; problems for the mill in the early 1930s; Hope was a councilman starting in 1929; problems of relief and unemployment; more on the mill's economic problems during the Depression; changes in the mill during the Second World War; wages; takeover by BCFP in 1946.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available.];

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CALL NUMBER: T1939:0001 track 1 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses families in Hatzic during the early 1900s; coming to Hatzic; and the old Henry house.;

CALL NUMBER: T1939:0001 track 2 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses people, families and places in Hatzic, Mission, and vicinity during the early 1900.;

CALL NUMBER: T1939:0002 track 1 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses people, families and places in Hatzic, Mission, and vicinity during the early 1900.;