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Amateur film. Unedited film of Remembrance Day parade, observers and ceremony at Victory Square in Vancouver, including laying of wreaths. Other shots include children on field gun exhibit and woman in Red Cross uniform. Some of this footage may have been used in FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE.

SUMMARY: Broadcast a few days before the fifth anniversary of the beginning of World War II, this program presumably looks back at the key events of those five years.;

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in Montreal. Move to Naramata, B.C., in 1909. His father and grandfather. Education. The first church at Naramata. Decision to become a minister. More about Naramata community. Effects of World War I. Life as a student minister. Ordination, 1926. TRACK 2: Young people's organizations in Vancouver in the 1920s; student Christian movement. Marriage. Work in Coalmont field. McBride and Giscome fields. Characteristics of the church in B.C. Community activities. Effects of the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ministers' financial problems in the Depression. The church's attitude to war, and to World War II. Serving the soldiers near Sardis. Outstanding figures in the church; Hugh Dobson and social concerns. TRACK 2: Dobson and social concerns (continued). J.S. Woodsworth, M.J. Coldwell, and Stanley Knowles and their backgrounds. The Sanford brothers. Re-location of Japanese (during WWII). The church in the 1970s.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 3 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: The need for a new sense of brotherhood.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. : raising a family in the 1930s and 1940s PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hector Cote (timber cruiser, scaler, plumber, contractor, millworker) was born in Terrace on May 21, 1924. Medical services and mishaps. School days, description of Kitsumkalum School. Fire drill. Racial and cultural background. Bilingual. Haying for George Little. Career opportunities. TRACK 2: The Depression. Father snaring rabbits. Hobos on the C.N.R. to Prince Rupert. Effects of the Depression on the native people. Working in Prince Rupert in the construction business. Joining the Army, training in Nova Scotia. Overseas occupation. Falling cedar poles which were sent to New York. Hauling poles with a lead truck and a second truck. Loading poles on trucks and then onto railcars. Selective logging.

The item consists of two film reels; a workprint and an internegative, containing special event footage. "Parade marching along Hasting Street. American band (?). Highland band. Shriners. Pageant in Stanley Park (colour): ladies in crinolines. This may have been a PNE parade, but is not identified. MAY DAY PARADE: This is quite exciting, and contains groups of men and women marching under several different banners. The banners read, in order: "Stop Hitler -- Save Peace"; "[?] Support Democracy"; "Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion"; "White Lunch - Eden - Waldorf - On Unfair List"; "Communist Party of Canada -- B.C. District - Jobs - Recovery - Democracy and Peace"; "Relief Project Workers Union Workers Demanding Jobs"; "Spain Vets - Welcome Home"; "We Are Against Militarisation -- The Youth"; "Demand Hands Off Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavian Progressive Movement"; "Down With Imperialist War"; and "Bread Not Bullets". The film also shows a newsboy selling the "People's Advocate" newspaper, and a group from the baker's union, as well as several bands." Also includes "This is a film Mr. Bowdery shot and edited into a form of home newsreel called The Second World War--The Hand of Tyranny. It is captioned with headlines from the "People's Advocate" newspaper. The footage contains scenes of the exterior of the Vancouver Post Office at Hastings and Granville. Employees being checked at the entrance. Interior of building, protestors in sit-down strike. [Close-up of] trio of protestors, other good [close-ups]. Protestors singing "The Red Flag", [with] banjo and accordion accompaniment. Unemployed march."(Colin Browne)

SUMMARY: Excerpt from newscast about developments in the Pacific and European theatres of war.;

Out-takes?. Shows a Remembrance Day parade on Burrard Street Bridge and through downtown Vancouver streets. Probably out-takes from FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE.

SUMMARY: Radio coverage of visit by Viscount Alexander, Governor General of Canada, to Vancouver, with reporters Bill Herbert, Dennis Sweeting and Marce Munro. Includes singing and dancing by British Columbia Indians; part of speech by Viscount Alexander (to native people of British Columbia) about: World War II, investiture of medals, heroism and native people, and British Columbia; Viscount Alexander being made "honorary chief of Pacific Coast Indians".

SUMMARY: A musical program promoting war savings stamps, featuring George Olsen [and His Music of Tomorrow]. Featured musicians include Don Ellis (clarinet), Bernice Brown (soprano), John Avison (piano). Prese;nted from the Vancouver Court House on CKMO, CKWX, and CJOR. W.C. Mainwaring talks about war savings stamps.;