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[CHAN-TV 8 Vancouver]

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.

Ringers required : [long version]

Documentary. Recreates the revival of change-ringing of the bells at Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral, after a five-year hiatus. Shows the training of bell-ringers and the ringing-in of the New Year. The bells of Westminster Abbey in Mission City are also heard. Members of the Vancouver Society of Change Ringers are featured. Winner of a Canadian Film Award in the amateur category (1961).

Pacific harvest

Industrial film. A survey of the Pacific coast fishing industry. Follows a commercial fishing vessel on a typical trip along the BC coast, and shows the various fishing methods used. Also includes footage of cannery operations, fish ladders at Hells Gate, spawning grounds, the cleaning of fish on a processing ship, fishery by-products (such as fish meal used for stock feed), the manufacture of nets and other equipment, fishing boat maintenance, etc. Features fishing boats Pacific Raider and Western Provider.

Vancouver diamond jubilee

Promotional film. The celebrations marking Vancouver's 60th anniversary provide a framework for a short history and description of the city. Jubilee events include parades, a pageant at Timber Bowl in Stanley Park, Indian dancing and the induction of the Governor-General (Viscount Alexander) as an honorary Kwakiutl chief. Historical photographs show Vancouver's early development. Contemporary footage reveals various aspects of the city: skyline, public buildings, street scenes; Marine Building; harbour and shipyards; False Creek CPR yards and roundhouse; Lion's Gate and Burrard bridges; Vancouver airport; bus and streetcar systems; Police and Fire departments; Kitsilano Beach; Stanley Park; Bowen Island; boating; sailing; Sun Salmon Derby; etc. Also includes footage of regional industries: logging, mining, smelting, fishing, farming, hydro-electric sites.

Kate McQueen interview : [Ruskin, ca. 1975-1976]

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [ca. 1975-1976] SUMMARY: Kate McQueen is interviewed by Olga Ruskin about early Vancouver. Her family came out to B.C. on the CPR in the 1890s to settle her uncle's estate. She discusses early real estate development in Vancouver. She graduated from McGill and taught languages at King Edward for 33 years.

Eric R. Thomson interview

CALL NUMBER: T1660:[0006? - 0009?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson (cont'd) RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974 & 1975 SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses his memories of the First World War; memories of Vancouver; and the history of Hopkins Landing. [NOTE: Not transcribed.]

CALL NUMBER: T1660:0001 - [0005?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974-07-30 & -08-01, etc. SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses: a 1902 trip up the Skeena with his father, James Thomson, of the Hudson's Bay Company; a 1911 trip up the Stikine; and his recollections of growing up in Victoria, 1896-1904.

Vancouver city digest

SUMMARY: "Vancouver City Digest" was a "talking magazine" series produced in Vancouver in 1977. It featured stories about Vancouver city and B.C. provincial politics and public affairs; information about upcoming public events and public services; reviews of consumer products; etc. It included readings from recent newspaper editorials and columns and magazine articles; interviews; and special features. It appears that episodes were about 90 minutes long. They were also broadcast on Vancouver Co-Op Radio on Sunday afternoons. The BC Archives holds five or six programs.

Lizzie Houston Armstrong interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of life in British Columbia, 1888-1910 PERIOD COVERED: 1888-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with her son, Duncan Mackenzie, Lizzie Houston Armstrong recounts incidents related to her early years in British Columbia. The story of "The Fingal". Surviving a fall into the hold of the S.S. "Henriette". Recollection of Emily Carr. Trips to Ucluelet, 1897-1898, and teaching native children. Treasure-hunting on Cocos Island, off Costa Rica, 1901. Pig story. Recollections of details of family history. TRACK 2: Further details of family history. Arrived in Haney, B.C., 1888. Recollections of family life in Haney. Life in Vancouver from 1898 on. Recitation of two poems. (End of interview).

Abortion discussion

PERIOD COVERED: ;1920s;-;1940s RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-25 SUMMARY: Three women discuss abortion in Calgary and Vancouver, ca. 1920s - 1940s.;

Romance of Vancouver : [episodes 3, 4, 5, 6]

SUMMARY: Four episodes from a series. Reading and dramatization of events in early Vancouver history, based on Alan Morley's newspaper series "The Romance of Vancouver". Episode 5 tells the story of the 1886 V;ancouver fire. Features a "cast of Vancouver artists". Presented by the Vancouver Sun newspaper.;

Grand Jury report on various public facilities

The file contains a report of a Grand Jury from May 1906. The report is submitted by Henry Pim to Chief Justice Hunter and reports on an inspection of various facilities including City Jail and Police Court, offices, the Chinese hospital, the new General Hospital, the Alexandra Orphanage, the new Industrial School at Greer's Beach and the bridges over False Creek.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Vancouver)

Hermon letters

The file contains letters kept by Ernest Bolton Hermon, surveyor including one from R.E. Gosnell, Vancouver, dated Aug. 5, 1925, describing his introduction to Vancouver life on his arrival in 1888 and some of the early surveyors in the province (ca. 1888-1898). Covering letter from Hermon to A.S. Musgrave, 1934.

Petition

The file contains a photocopy of a petition from residents of Village of Granville and vicinity requesting incorporation under the name "The City of Vancouver".

British Columbia. Legislative Assembly

Diary of a trip "out West" in 1933

The item consists of an illustrated typed transcript of a diary of a trip "out West' taken by Kit A. Sauvary from June 22 to July 30, 1933. Kit Sauvary and her party traveled across the Northern United States by automobile from Toronto, entering British Columbia South of Kootenay Lake. They took the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway to Princeton, North to Spences Bridge, and down the Fraser Canyon. They visited Vancouver and Vancouver Island before returning via the Banff Windermere Highway and the Rockies, through the United States and back to Toronto. The diary was written as a series of letters to Sauvary's parents in Guernsey, typed up in 1979 and contains photographs and marked route maps of the journey from 1933.

Born 1902 - like Johnny Walker, still going strong / Arthur G. Builder

The item is a 38 page autobiography by Arthur G. Builder titled "Born 1902 - like Johnny Walker, still going strong". Mr. Builder emigrated from England to Canada in 1923, worked at various jobs in the Kootenays, Vancouver and Port Coquitlam and the Okanagan, and in Nova Scotia. He served in the Canadian army in England during World War II and spent much of his time in England until 1973 when he returned first to the Okanagan and then to Victoria.

The impact of social belief on landscape change: a geographical study of Vancouver / Edward Mark Walter Gibbs

The item is a copy of a thesis on microfilm by Edward Gibbons titled "The impact of social belief on landscape change: a geographical study of Vancouver." 1971. xiii, 237 leaves: figs., illus., maps, tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, 1972. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 185-199. Canadian theses on microfilm number 11218.

Railways, politicians and the development of the city of Vancouver as a metropolitan centre, 1886-1929 / Patricia E. Roy

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Patricia E. Roy titled "Railways, politicians and the development of the city of Vancouver as a metropolitan centre, 1886-1929." 1963. ii, 266, viii, x leaves. Thesis (M.A.), University of Toronto, 1963. Bibliography: leaves i-x. Canadian theses on microfiche, 22775.

The road to receivership: unemployment and relief in Burnaby, North Vancouver city and district and West Vancouver, 1929-1933 / Bettina Bradbury

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Bettina Bradbury titled "The road to receivership: unemployment and relief in Burnaby, North Vancouver city and district and West Vancouver, 1929-1933". 1975. vii, 193 leaves: tables. Thesis (M.A.), Simon Fraser University, 1975. Bibliography: leaves 185-193. Canadian theses on microfiche, 25627.

Stability and change in electoral patterns: the case of the 1972 British Columbia provincial election in Vancouver / Dennis Rumley

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Dennis Rumley titled "Stability and change in electoral patterns: the case of the 1972 British Columbia provincial election in Vancouver. " 1975. xii, 265 leaves: figs., maps, tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 212-231. Canadian theses on microfiche, 25258.

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