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Main street, Barkerville

Main street, Barkerville

Item consists of a photograph of the main street of Barkerville, taken sometime before the fire of September 16, 1868. The photograph shows an elevated boardwalk, buildings on either side with signs for Occidental Hotel, Brewery, Cunio Saloon, New England Bakery and Coffee Saloon, Mundorf Livery & Feed Stable, Pearson Bros Tin Shop, Baths, etc.

Barkerville after the fire of September 16, 1868

Barkerville after the fire of September 16, 1868

Item consists of one photograph of Barkerville the day after fire destroyed the town on September 16, 1868. Groups of men stand amid rubble, smoke, and tree stumps. An unopened safe from The Bank of British Columbia can be seen at the centre of the image.

[Beginning of trip to Hazelton, 1928]

Amateur film. In summer 1928, two carloads of travellers drive from Kamloops to Hazelton and return, filming highlights of their trip. These include the Cariboo Road, Barkerville, Bear Lake, Summit Lake, Stuart Lake, Fort St. James, Bulkley River, Telkwa River, and Skeena River. Footage from this trip is continued on film F1984:01/05.

[Browning family collection, part 3] : [items 24 to 34]

Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

  1. At Browning Lake cabin.
  2. Sports Day June 1932 St. Clare.
  3. Beach hotel after fire; log boom; rough day on Howe Sound -- December 1933.
  4. Wedding at Britannia, August 1933.
  5. California?, April 1935.
  6. July 1 1936 at townsite.
  7. Browning children & others at play, etc., [192-].
  8. Father Flanagan's boys' home and other New York locations, [ca. 1940].
  9. West coast forest.
  10. Beach May 24 1940.
  11. PGE Quesnel Cariboo mines 1933. A trip to the Cariboo via the steamboat "Lady Alexandra" and the PGE railway. Quesnel, Barkerville, 70 Mile House. The Cariboo Quartz and Island Mountain Mines (?). Fraser Canyon views.

[George F. Lowe collection, reel 22 : Union Steamship trip, 1962 ; Naval parade, 1962 ; Barkerville, 1963 ; Victoria, 1963]

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.

Tomorrow's timber

Documentary. The importance of Canada's forests to the economy. Includes scenes of logging; log drives; huge trees felled by crosscut saw; sawmill and pulp mill operations and the various uses of forest products. Forest fire prevention and forest fire fighting techniques are shown, with shots of a huge forest fire in a mountainous area. No locales are specified, but the footage is clearly shot in BC. In the first sequence, dealing with a prosperous town which becomes a ghost town after a nearby forest fire, Barkerville is the ghost town location.

Jack Caruthers interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Caruthers : World War One ; New Barkerville RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-11-20 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for tape T0134:0001.];

A view from the inside : [3 parts]

SUMMARY: Three parts of a radio program entitled "A View from the Inside", by Robert Cummings of Prince George radio station CJCI. The three parts focus on the history of Prince George and Barkerville.;

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