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The item is a four part colour film documentary about agriculture in the Okanagan, from 1942.
Part 1: Okanagan Fruit-Growing: fruit and vegetable growing -- irrigation, harvesting, packing and delivery, plus valley scenes.
Part 2: Okanagan Livestock: cattle, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep; dairy products; Okanagan Valley Co-Op Creamery; Interior Exhibition at Armstrong.
Part 3 Okanagan Seed Growing.
Part 4 Okanagan Agricultural Activities including footage of Valley scenery (especially farmland), demonstrating variety of agricultural production; Interior Exhibition, including parade with pipe band, novelties and livestock; Armstrong's "Victory Torch" monument and possible Victory Loan parade.

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1928. "Illustrates the method of cultivating strawberries from clearing the land to planting, tending, harvesting, packing, crating and trucks driving away with fruit to the Saanich Fruit Growers Association shed at Keating, B.C. Scenes include: A visit of the District Horticulturist. Laying straw before fruiting. Good [close-up of] labels on crates: 'Victoria Strawberries.' Pose by groups of pickers before tents -- 'tired and hungry.' Good shot of fruit being delivered to Saanich Fruit Growers Association's shed at Keating. The manager of the Association helping to nail and sort crates of berries. Dominion Government inspectors at work opening crates and checking. Grower's book being signed. Berries leaving Association shed in trucks for pre-cooling shed and jam factory." (Colin Browne)

The item is a b&w answer print of a documentary film from 1929. "'A bird's-eye view of our Okanagan fruit section.' Long Lake, on way to Kelowna from Vernon by train. Storefront window (Kelowna?) of Department of Agriculture, Horticultural Branch, office. A shipping point on Okanagan Lake -- wharves, buildings, ferry dock. Vineyards, irrigation systems. Orchard without irrigation, and with flume and furrow irrigating. Alfalfa growing in orchard to help crop. Horse-drawn spraying of fruit trees. Tank-truck with arsenate of lead and sprayers. Codling moth traps pulled up into trees, buckets of poison. Banding trees against codling moths. Thinning pears and plums. Wire screen protectors around base of tree to deter mice. Greenhouses. Family life -- kids, mother, car and dog in the Okanagan." (Colin Browne)