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Francis Barrow fonds
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[Yachting & Kootenay footage, 1940]

Amateur film. "P.I.Y.A. [Pacific International Yachting Assn?] Cowichan Bay July 3rd 1940": several shots of sailboats under way. "Autumn tints in the Kootenay Country 1940": autumn scenery; old buildings; sternwheeler; elderly couple and young woman pose for camera and go rowing; flowers; car ferry [Kootenay Lake?]; view from train of passing scenery and town(s); old Vancouver Court House; visitors outside a building at UBC [the library?].

Toketie makes another cruise summer 1940

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc. One sequence shows a Kelly raft of aviation spruce being broken up; another shows logs being unloaded from the log barge "Monongahela" (formerly the ship "Balasore", whose figurehead is shown sitting on shore). The B.C. Packers cannery at Quathiaski Cove is shown. Troops arrive at Nanaimo from Vancouver on the "Princess Victoria" and parade through the streets.

Spring 1940

Nature. Spring flowers on the Saanich Peninsula and the nearby Gulf Islands.

Photographs

Series consists of 45 photographs (copies), presumably taken by Francis Barrow. The photographs depict petroglyphs, totem poles, boats, coastal scenes, logging activities, and photographs of individuals.

Our 1939 summer cruise

Amateur film. Cruise on Toketie. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging, other vessels, etc. Notably, there are good shots of the abandoned villages of Gwayasdums, Karlukwees, and Mamalilaculla, as well as the burial ground on Klaoitsis Island.

Our 1938 summer cruise in Toketie

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc.

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