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Unedited footage. Probably material shot for the historical documentary A PROUD PAST.

The item consists of two reels of original film footage from 1969. It shows Premier W.A.C. Bennett at the opening of the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum in Duncan, 17 May 1969; at Prince Rupert [ferry terminal?], 19 May; visiting the Terrace & District Hospital, Terrace Municipal Hall, and B.C. Vocational School, 21 May; and laying the cornerstone for the new Bulkley Valley Forest Industries Ltd. lumber mill at Houston, 22 May. R.G. Williston, H.R. MacMillan & Waldo Skillings also appear.

Stock shots. Shows a group of school children touring the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Includes classroom scenes, the museum's railroad, and shots of old logging machinery.

Stock shots. Footage of museum displays and artifacts, including switcher and shay locomotives, various cars and crummies, etc. Dignitaries at opening ceremonies.

Television stock shots

The item is a reel of film footage of the Duncan Forest Museum, originally called the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. It is part of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests stock shot collection.

Industrial film. The life and work of the modern logger is contrasted with the rough-and-tumble era of 40 years earlier. The latter is evoked through effective narration, archival photographs, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Forest Museum (including extensive footage of a steam locomotive on a logging railway, plus shots of a logging crummy and of a steam donkey yarding logs). In the modern sequences, loggers are shown falling a tree and setting chokers; faller Nick Semchuck [?] leaves his Port Alberni home and travels by crummy to the work site, where he falls, measures and bucks a tree; and logs are loaded onto a truck and followed along a logging road to Kelsey Bay to be dumped into the ocean. There is also excellent "mood" footage of derelict logging camps, bunkhouses, steam donkeys and equipment, and an abandoned village.

Industrial film. The life and work of the modern logger is contrasted with the rough-and-tumble era of 40 years earlier. The latter is evoked through effective narration, archival photographs, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Forest Museum (including extensive footage of a steam locomotive on a logging railway, plus shots of a logging crummy and of a steam donkey yarding logs). In the modern sequences, loggers are shown falling a tree and setting chokers; faller Nick Semchuck [?] leaves his Port Alberni home and travels by crummy to the work site, where he falls, measures and bucks a tree; and logs are loaded onto a truck and followed along a logging road to Kelsey Bay to be dumped into the ocean. There is also excellent "mood" footage of derelict logging camps, bunkhouses, steam donkeys and equipment, and an abandoned village.

The item is an audio recordings of the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Includes sounds of locomotives and logging machinery (recorded from the cow catcher of the locomotive and beside various equipment) at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Gerry Wellburn and Hudson Blake provide the commentary. Recording made on the day before the museum opened to the public. A special invitation to the Vintage Car Club of Victoria.

Documentary. The "glory days" of logging in B.C. are evoked through dramatized sequences, archival footage and photographs, oral history interviews with old-time loggers, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. The latter scenes feature vintage equipment, including a steam locomotive and steam donkey. The nature of the pioneer logger's life, and the impact of technological change upon that way of life, are also discussed. In one sequence, an old-time high-rigger climbs and tops a spar tree.

The item consists of film out-takes. Various shots of a bus tour from Victoria to Port Alberni as it travels along the highway, over the Malahat, and arrives at a lodge or hotel. En route, passenger visit the Forest Museum in Duncan and take a ride on a sightseeing boat.