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Vancouver Island (B.C.) Roads--British Columbia--Design and construction
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Bert Marriott interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Marriott describes the building of the first road from Coal Harbour to Hardy Bay in 1923. He recalls his early impressions of the Courtenay area; logging; early settlers; farming; local characters. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Correspondence relating to roads in Victoria district

  • GR-1153
  • Series
  • 1900

This series contains correspondence relating to roads in the Victoria district. It includes a request for new road construction from the Victoria Driving Club and the Victoria Tourist Association, and correspondence about cows wandering at large in Oak Bay. Also includes a small sketch. Reverse of sketch not on microfilm.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Works

Forest highways

Documentary. The importance of roads to a timber management program; the plotting and construction of road networks for forestry projects in the Gold River and Peace River pondage areas. The historical method of log transportation by waterway is also shown.

Frank Hole interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Hole describes his father, Albert Hole, who came to Canada in the early 1900s, and to Nahwitti in 1912. Then he discusses various Danish, Finnish and Swedish communities in the area. He describes his family's move to Coal Harbour in 1918; the telephone line being built in 1913; how WWII brought the armed forces to Coal Harbour; how the town became a whaling station after WWII; and building roads in the 1930s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hole describes the pulp mill at Port Alice in 1917, and the road between Port Hardy and Coal Harbour in 1916.

Henry Cuthbert Holmes interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Major H. Cuthbert Holmes speaks about J.D. Pemberton's early life; his arrival in the colony of Vancouver island in 1851; his education; his work as surveyor; his membership in the executive; council; early trips made on Vancouver Island; and the Pemberton farm properties. He continues with a discussion of the Holmes family and his grandfather's property; the Augustus Pemberton family; qualities of the pioneers; Victoria's buildings; residential areas and property booms. TRACK 2: Major Holmes talks about the beginnings of the Island Highway; F.B. Pemberton's athleticism; the Royal Navy; prosperity booms; local incidents; the Yarrow Building; business slump after World War I; the future of Victoria and Vancouver Island; and the importance of regional planning.

Men, mountains and the challenge

Documentary. Highway construction in BC. Includes planning and surveys; opening of contractors' bids by Highways Minister Gaglardi; clearing of route by heavy equipment; culvert assembly; drilling and blasting rock; road bed preparation; paving. Also: traffic control; overpass construction. Sections of Highways 1 and 1A are shown, and Premier W.A.C. Bennett presides at an official opening.

Men, mountains and the challenge

The item is a composite print of a documentary film made ca. 1957. It shows highway construction in BC. Includes planning and surveys; opening of contractors' bids by Highways Minister Gaglardi; clearing of route by heavy equipment; culvert assembly; drilling and blasting rock; road bed preparation; paving. Traffic control and overpass construction are also discussed. Sections of Highways 1 and 1A are shown, and Premier W.A.C. Bennett presides at an official opening.

[Road construction work and equipment]

Stock shots. Shows tree felling, land clearing, and construction of road(s), probably in the vicinity of Gold River and/or Elk River. Much footage of construction equipment, including bulldozers, scrapers, drills, cranes, etc.

Road to the Pacific Rim ; Island builders

The item is a documentary video from 1993 containing two programs. They show the history, construction and improvement of Highway 19, from Campbell River to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, during the 1970s. The road opened on September 21,1979. The story is told through studio interviews with retired or long-time Highways employees, including Dan Bowen, George Dodge, Dennis Dodsworth, and Al Tranfield, as well as former Port McNeill mayor Gerry Furney. Also includes archival Super 8 footage of the construction, shot by George Dodge.

The new Island Highway

The item is a composite print of a travelogue film made 1958-1959. It compares the Vancouver Island highway of before World War I with the new highway completed in 1959. The film opens with archival b&w footage of Victoria and the Malahat Drive. Modern footage shows the planning, surveying and construction of the new highway, especially the Malahat section. Some of the attractions along the new highway are also shown, including shots of scenery, resorts, fishing and petroglyphs.

Trans Canada video press kit and Vancouver Island highway project : update summer 2000

The item is a videocassette containing news footage from 1997 and an industrial video from 2000 which includes an update and overview of construction on the Vancouver Island Highway Project. The VIHP included highway and bridge construction and improvement from Victoria to Campbell River, and was scheduled for completion by 2002. Footage includes the opening of the Sable River Bridge, June 1998; the opening of the Mud Bay-Courtenay section by Premier Dan Miller, September 1999; and the management of environmental concerns such as stream protection and fish habitat creation.

[Vancouver area road construction ; Port Hardy ; Watson Lake]

Unedited footage. B&W. Vancouver area road construction, 1920s [252 feet]: "Consists of many scenes of bulldozers, graders, trucks, shovels and construction workers building a road from scratch, possibly near UBC, according to Mr. Mackenzie's cousin. Later in the film a group of men and equipment are paving a street in Vancouver, smoothing asphalt, steam rolling it, building sidewalks, etc. In this sequence a CN freight train grinds by as the men lay concrete forms along a short stretch of the tracks, a Dunbar streetcar comes up the hill barely missing a man sprinting across the road with two bottles of milk, and two other streetcars pass by while construction work is in progress. A man in a suit poses, takes off his hat, scratches his head, and puts his hat on again." (Colin Browne) COLOUR. Port Hardy, ca. 1940 [255 feet]: Cleared area with stumps and slash pile. Donkey engine and spartree; yarding logs. Topping a tree. Logging (or construction?) camp scenes. Wharf and sawmill. A seaplane lands. Aerial views of Port Hardy. COLOUR. Watson Lake (presumably in the Yukon), early 1940s [253 feet]: Views of settlement. Motor scow and barge on lake. Airstrip under construction; various aircraft. Townsite in winter with log buildings. Twin-prop seaplane. Motor barge with freight. Moored barges. Clearing small trees with a cat tractor. More aircraft.