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Amateur film. Shows Lady Alexander (wife of Lord Alexander of Tunis, the Governor-General of Canada) visiting the Children's Garden Library; children from the program participating in a May 24 celebrations (parade and dances) at Beacon Hill Park; and the children in a "Beauty Booster Parade", encouraging people to keep Victoria's streets clean.

Amateur film. Part 1 shows a day's activities at the Children's Garden Library, including games, calisthenics, playground equipment, dancing, and reading and storytelling at the "Book House". Part 2 shows the children participating in May 24 celebrations at Beacon Hill Park, which includes a May Queen pageant, maypole dancing, and activities honouring the "Queen of Health", the "Queen of Music", the "Queen of Drama", the "Queen of Race Friendship" and the "Queen of Art". A mothers' study group, and the toymakers' group, are also shown.

Amateur film. Shows children from the Children's Garden Library program participating in May 24 celebrations at Beacon Hill Park, and other activities. Also includes shots of Sea Cadets, Girl Guides, broom in bloom, ducks in pond, and a deer fawn.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.

Amateur film. Apple blossoms (at 10 Bushby Street, home of George F. Lowe). May 8, 1945: V-E Day victory parade in downtown Victoria, with huge crowd surging onto Douglas Street at the parade's end. Victoria's Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian communities are represented in the parade. The final shot shows the V-E Day crowd gathering at Beacon Hill for an outdoor service of thanksgiving.

Amateur film. Sport fishing for herring on the Gorge; Beacon Hill Park; ship; girl guides; Craigdarroch Castle; church; men on dock in front of the boat "Kitimat"; radio towers [Lulu Island?]; girl guide parade and rally [possibly a war bond drive]; gathering at Government House.

Amateur film. George and Elsie Lowe on holiday trip aboard a Union Steamship vessel: shore line near Bella Coola; fish boats; Butedale with Indian children on docks; naval parade, Victoria; Barkerville sights; motel; horses; highway; swimming pool; shore line; RCMP historical site; scenery; Butchart Gardens; Beacon Hill Park.

News item. Controversy over the possible addition of more attractions to Beacon Hill Park. Footage gives a cross-sectional view of the park as it was in the summer of 1976.

News item. A spokesman says that little planning or thought has been given to Beacon Hill Park development over the past 20 years. Group wants to keep the park in a more natural state; less emphasis on cars, parking and concrete additions, and more on people and animals in a less spoiled environment.

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Television stock shots. In the first section, a crowd watches from Beacon Hill Park as naval vessels and coastal patrol aircraft (including an Argus) maneuver nearby, possibly in some kind of demonstration. The second section shows the supply ship H.M.C.S. "Provider" and the aircraft carrier H.M.C.S. "Bonaventure" underway at sea. "Provider" refuels another naval vessel while they cruise side by side.

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Footage. Painting of St. Ann's Academy, Victoria, ca. 1950s - circular shot of Victoria from roof, sign "J.T. Devlin & Co., General Painting Contractors" superimposed on view of St. Ann's. Beacon Hill Park - flowers and ducks. California trip including Sacramento, Donner Pass, ca. 1953 (theatre sign for "Shane", which was released that year), Oregon, picnic scenes, truck with sign "Ed Widmer/Vancouver, B.C." Moscow City Limits. Sign "entering Creston" (shows main street); Kootenay Flats (sign "last reclamation in 1952"; classroom, girls doing copper work, boys doing industrial arts? (building model planes); playing field scenes; road sign "International View Point" Oroville/Osoyoos; Anarchist Mountain; truck with water bags; orchard; family eating meal outside; brief fishing/coast scene.

Amateur film. Family; kids, zoo, Beacon Hill Park; house and family. Victoria; springtime; naval ships in harbour; view from Government House; rowing and canoeing regatta (in the Gorge?). Vancouver; sailing to English Bay; fireworks; royal visit, 1939 (quick drive past with King and Queen); departure of royal yacht with naval escort; kids at beach.

The item is a travelogue film. 'Sunshine and flowers - thus it is that one thinks of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. Its enterprising business district is only overshadowed by its beautiful gardens. Such places of interest as Beacon Hill Park, the Mayor's Garden, the Dominion observatory (which houses the second largest telescope in the world) and the Butchart Gardens, are famed across the continent.' Scenes include a map of Victoria and Vancouver with a line shoring the ferry route, and an aerial view of Victoria, Inner Harbour and CPR ferry entering. Parliament Buildings. Empress Gardens and Hotel. Pan of cars driving along Causeway toward Belmont Building. Two shots of busy street corner (Yates & Douglas?). Beautiful homes and gardens along Rockland Avenue (?). Mayor Pendray's topiary gardens with visitors. Exterior shots of Dominion Observatory. At Butchart Gardens: Italian Garden, child with clay rabbit and Sunken Gardens. Very picturesque shot of the Parliament dome through the veranda portal of the Empress Hotel. (Colin Browne).

Out-takes?. Seascapes, shoreline and docks [Victoria area?]; Forbes Landing Hotel; logging scenes; boating scenes. Delegation visiting a lumber mill. Hunter butchering a moose carcass and loading it onto a packhorse. Canadian Scottish Regiment on parade and at the opening of the Legislature, 27 October 1936. Man and boy feeding deer. Beacon Hill Park scenes. Man feeding seagulls from deck of ferry.

Travelogue. Mainly recreational attractions of the island. Highlights Victoria and area, including view from steamship entering Inner harbour; streets and shops; Beacon Hill Park (cricket and lawn bowling); golf, riding and tennis facilities; harness racing; Thunderbird Park; Saanich peninsula farmlands; swimming at Thetis Lake. Also Island Highway and other areas, including Malahat Drive; making of Cowichan sweaters at Koksilah trading post; resort scenes at Parksville and elsewhere; Forbidden Plateau; coastal and river fishing; autumn hunting for game birds; brief logging scene. Also of interest: Friendly Cove village at Nootka Sound, and BC Provincial Police Highway Patrol.