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British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Energy consumption--British Columbia
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British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority films

  • GR-3354
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  • 1945-1984

The fonds consists of industrial, engineering, and public relations films created for or by British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority and its predecessors (the British Columbia Electric Company and the British Columbia Power Commission) from 1945 to about 1984. This material includes 164 unique film items in 16 mm film, each containing one or more printing elements such as prints, sound tracks, negative reels, selected out-takes and unedited footage. In some cases, there are no edited prints, only miscellaneous reels of footage.

Most of the BC Electric and BC Hydro films are the work of Vancouver producer Lew M. Parry. The fonds also includes a number of non-Hydro films produced by Parry, as well as a selection of prints and film material relevant to BC which had been circulated through (or stored at) Hydro's film library.

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Lorne Nicolson : [press conferences, 1978]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Lorne Nicolson : calls for BC Hydro construction halt and reacts to BC Housing Corporation sale RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-02 & 04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: NDP Recreation and Conservation critic Lorne Nicholson (MLA for Nelson-Creston) calls for a halt to construction of BC Hydro projects due to come into service between 1982 and 1987. Nicolson claims that an analysis of BC Hydro projections shows that the energy produced by these new projects will far outstrip demand. By 1987, with current construction plans, Hydro will be producing 70% more energy than the province requires, Nicolson says. February 8, 1978. TRACK 2: Former housing minister Lorne Nicolson criticizes the government's plans to sell the BC Housing Corporation. Nicolson says that the corporation served as a "very good monitoring agency of the housing activity in the province". Nicolson says that he is afraid that the Social Credit government may be trying to sell the corporation to "get a little bit more capital in to balance this year's books". Pointing to the profits made by the corporation, Nicolson says that selling the corporation for this reason would be very short-sighted. April 7, 1978.