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The item is a photostat copy of a plan of a part of West Point Grey in Vancouver, B.C., that shows lot D.L. 176, the School for Deaf and Blind, otherwise known as Jericho Hill School. The property is bounded by Discovery St, Fourth Ave., Highbury St. and Eighth Ave.

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.

Footage. A travel film presenting outdoor attractions and community life along the highways linking the Fraser Canyon to Clinton and Lillooet. Featured are swimming, fishing, hiking, sightseeing, motoring through the Fraser Canyon and accommodations such as hotels, resorts and auto courts. Community subjects include children clowning and swimming, ranching, railway trains, a covered wagon, native basketry for sale, building and students at St. George's Indian Residential School (Lytton), abandoned roadhouses, and the towns of Lytton, Spences Bridge, Ashcroft, Clinton and Lillooet. In the last sequence on the reel, townsfolk in Lillooet extract a vintage automobile from an old garage, push it onto the town’s main street, and start it up.

Amateur film. Footage of the Kootenay Lake and Lardeau area, including views of and from a steam train en route to the region; arrival at Argenta steamboat wharf (?); a passenger train pulled by Motor Car M600 (a Ford Model B Truck on flanged railway wheels, which ran on the CPR line between Gerrard and Lardeau); the sternwheeler "Moyie"; children at a local school; a log cabin at lakeside; men hauling in a fishing net.

Footage. Probably scenes from a school inspector's trip through the Gulf Islands. Shots of Texada, Lasqueti, and Denman Islands, and of sports day activities at Nanaimo.

Amateur film. Pan of Ucluelet (houses, businesses, St. Aidan's-on-the-Hill church). Sequence showing construction of new church: [COLOUR] clearing a new site for old church; construction foreman Ted E.A. Welland removing bell from old church; moving old church on skids; clearing old site for new church; Reverend Arthur Holmes blessing site; [B&W] members of Diocese Women's Auxiliary; fish packer "Naomi" at Ucluelet wharf delivering cement; cornerstone-laying ceremony with Archbishop Sexton; also a confirmation service, building of foundation, building frame. A Sunday school class. Horse logging of knotty pine for church basement. A congregation picnic at Long Beach, including children's races, a close-up of Tofino parishioner Mrs. Alma Sloman, and a service on the beach. View of Tofino surroundings. School kids in front of Ucluelet Secondary School. Indian Village of Opitsat. Children on school steps.

News item. School for children with mental disabilities. Teacher explains how the classes are run. Short footage of a student doing woodwork.

News item. Centennial of Victoria High School, which first opened 01-May-1876. Poor background sound.

News item. IWA is on strike for better wages and working conditions. CUPE Local 606 supports the IWA. Rally includes elementary school children. Placards read: "Get back to the bargaining table"; "Why stay if you don't like the pay?"; "Help the needy not the greedy". CUPE's support of the IWA is keeping children out of school -- some parents object.

Television stock shots. Footage includes: moving of Pioneer School; moving of Stavley School; Fort Rodd Hill artillery; Empress Hotel; [statue of?] Captain Vancouver; the New Year's baby, 1974 ; dismantling of Victoria Machinery Depot; Causeway up-date; historic buildings; Remembrance Day, 1974.

Television stock shots