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The item is a release print of a documentary film made in 1951. The film shows Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Vancouver and Vancouver Island during their 1951 Canadian tour. Footage includes: inspection of RCAF honour guard outside CNR station, greeting by Mayor Fred Hume and the Princess's speech at Vancouver City Hall, appearance at Brockton Point Oval, visit to Shaughnessy Hospital and services at Christ Church Cathedral, crowds on West Vancouver waterfront and HMCS Crusader. In Victoria: parade with the Canadian Scottish Regiment and the Royal Canadian Artillery, Premier Byron Johnson greets the Princess at the Legislative Buildings, honour guard inspection and artillery salute, Cowichan and Alberni Indian dance performance at Thunderbird Park. Return to Vancouver harbour; motorcade up Kingsway Avenue, Burnaby Municipal Hall, Royal Train arrives at New Westminster, departure. There are also good (brief) shots of Kitsilano Boy's Band, Junior Forest Wardens, Major J.S. Matthews, Very Rev. Cecil Swanson (dean of Christ Church), and BC Provincial Police on motorcycles with sidecars.

The item is a composite print of a promotional film made in 1947. It shows the celebrations marking Vancouver's 60th anniversary to provide a framework for a short history and description of the city. Jubilee events include parades, a pageant at Timber Bowl in Stanley Park, First Nations dancing and the induction of the Governor-General (Viscount Alexander) as an honorary Kwakiutl chief. There are historical photographs which show Vancouver's early development.

Contemporary footage reveals various aspects of the city: skyline, public buildings and street scenes including Marine Building, harbour and shipyards, False Creek CPR yards and roundhouse, Lion's Gate and Burrard bridges, Vancouver airport, bus and streetcar systems, Police and Fire departments, Kitsilano Beach, Stanley Park, Bowen Island, boating, sailing, Sun Salmon Derby etc. It also includes footage of regional industries: logging, mining, smelting, fishing, farming, hydro-electric sites.

Unedited footage. Folkfest Children's Parade with BCGEU participation. F1982:8/029 includes a shot of the Kamloops Rube Band.

The item is an audio recording of the Victoria Day parade of 1963. It contains sounds of the Victoria Motorcycle Club; RCN Band; Princess Patricia regiment; Army Service Corp; Canadian Scottish pipers; RCN sea cadets; navy pipe band; navy steam float; Victoria Girls' Drill Team; Mount View High School Band; Esquimalt High School Band; Quilchena Band; horses; Chimocun High School Band; East High Band; Kuper Island Indians; Colquitz School Band; horses; Thunderbird drum corps; Scot;tish pipe band; police. TRACK 2: Oak Bay High School Band; Blaine Band; old fire trucks; Bellingham High School Band; Victoria Pipe Band; S.J. Willis School Band; Eagles Band; Chinese Masons; Salvation Army; Edmunds Washington Band; Ballard Drill team; Western square dance group; Victoria High School Band; East Indian Group; Everett School Band; Chinatown Lions; Lansdowne School Band; Mount Douglas High School Band; Monroe High School band; White Rock Band and vintage cars.

Footage. Shows various communities and activities in southeastern B.C. Several shots of a hydro-electric dam (possibly Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay River). Nakusp lakefront, with the retired sternwheeler "Bonnington" at dock; local residents, streets and buildings (Arrow Lake Hotel, Arrow Lakes Hospital); a sawmill. Brief shot of sternwheeler "Minto" approaching dock. Edgewood General Store. Lake fishing; resort. Parade and sports day in Salmo (joint Dominion Day and Independence Day celebration?), with long sequence showing a performance by a uniformed girls' drill team. Main street of Greenwood, where a baseball team warms up and poses with locals. A nearby mining community (probably Phoenix), with mining operation and many dilapidated buildings; residents and a bearded old timer pose for the camera. Scenery with river and waterfall (possibly Cascade Falls on the Kettle River?). New Denver Fire Hall.

Footage. Miscellaneous subjects, including shots of downtown Vancouver streets, the Marine Building, the CPR station, a parade, and a Bristol Bitannia (a four-engined turbo-prop) airliner at Vancouver Airport. Also includes an unrelated sequence that shows hunters taking a butchered animal carcass from the back of a pack horse and loading it into a station wagon.

The item is a reel of film footage. "Four girls in uniform spelling TECH. Girl's drum-and-bugle corps marching onto field and playing. Scarlet jacketed pipe band playing while marching past crowded grandstand. New and old Queen arriving with dignitaries. Abdication speech. Dancing about Maypoles in the field. Old Queen placing crown on head of new Queen, new Queen smiling. TECH marching squad marching by. Fancy drill by TECH girls. Folk dancing by kids -- large crowds watching. Girl's drill team with staves. Boy's drill team doing semaphore. Making patterns on the field with shirt colours -- boys. Mt. Baker Union High School banner preceding their Highland band, which marches past. Boy's drill team with red, white & blue flags performing field-wide precision marching." (Colin Browne)

Amateur film. Port Moody: train station; crowds dressed up, dignitaries on train, RCMP in red tunics, speeches. Street scenes: log houses, mud streets, wooden church; car being pulled out of the mud by horse and cart. Douglas Lodge: Douglas Lake, boat trip, swimming, Indians at the Lodge. RCMP Musical Ride (b&w and colour). Airport (Abbotsford?): airplanes, trick flying, parachuting. Parade (appears to be in Vancouver): floats, bands, etc.

The item is a reel of b&w documentary film from 1929. "Opening ceremony of the Seventeenth Parliament of British Columbia. Shot of War Memorial and Empress Hotel from west wing. Highlanders march past, band, soldiers in front of buildings. Dignitaries arriving. Lieutenant-Governor [R.R. Bruce] inspects Guard of Honour. Group of Cabinet Ministers in top hats. The Premier, Dr. S. F. Tolmie. Minister of Agriculture, Hon. William Atkinson. Children celebrate 24th of May at Parliament Buildings. Parliament Buildings greenhouse. Head gardener checking plants in greenhouse. Plants in cold frames. Bedding summer plants. Grooming beds. Sprinklers on lawns. Mowing back lawns of Parliament Buildings. Correct way of packing tulips for market demonstrated." (Colin Browne)

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.

News footage. News feature about Victoria's Chinatown, including footage of: historic buildings; shop windows; parade with dragon dance and martial arts (Chinese New Year?); Fan Tan Alley; gambling table; interviews with merchants; archival photos; etc.

The file contains a black photograph album with 343 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1947 and 1948. The albums contains photographs of holidays in Qualicum Beach, Campbell River and Alberni as well as Victoria scenes and May Day celebrations.

Footage. Baby and woman in a park. Long sequence on the "General Motors Parade of Progress" (several streamlined trucks at a fairground - presumably some kind of traveling exhibition); faded shots of various people (including Oscar Burritt and Dorothy Fowler) at English Bay beach; trip to Harrison Hot Springs [ca.1938], showing people in car, scenery en route, Harrison Lake, car ferry etc.; scenes of parade marking "May Day, A Day of International Solidarity" [01-May-1938?], including marchers with flags, banners, trade union representation, etc; brief scene of oriental man lifting weights.