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Film and Photographic Branch travel industry and tourism photographs

  • GR-3425
  • Series
  • 1943-1985

The series consists of photographic negatives and prints produced by the Film and Photographic Branch and its predecessor agencies including the Dept of Trade and Industry and the photographic branches of the Dept. of Recreation and Conservation and Dept. of Travel Industry between 1943 and 1985.

The series consists of still photographs, both colour and black and white, created for tourist promotion and provincial publicity; for the requirements of other departmental branches; and for the requirements of other government departments. The records document people, scenery, local industry and events in BC. Subjects include fishing, logging, agricultural and manufacturing activities, facilities and equipment, employees and craftspeople, cities, towns, and villages, citizens, ferries, historical buildings and tourist sites, schools, museums and tourist bureaux, offices, fairs and parades, livestock, geographical features (such as mountains, rivers and seascapes), bridges and highways, stops of interest signs, recreational activities (such as skiing, fishing and boating) and aerial photographs of settlements and regions.

There are also promotional images of a varied non-geographical nature, subjects include politicians and civil servants, BC products, flags, government facilities and staff, unidentified RCMP officers, industrial activities, and wildlife. There are three main subsets of the records, colour photographs arranged by the regional category and non-geographic subjects and then by number; black and white photographs arranged by the regional category and non-geographic subjects and then by number with a "B" prefix; black and white "archived" photographs arranged by regional category and non-geographic subjects and then by number with a "B" prefix and an "A" attached to the number.

There are printed item level indexes to the colour and the "archived" black and white photographs and a list of photographs and black and white copy prints of politicians and civil servants. These indexes and copy prints are in container 002340-0510.

British Columbia. Ministry of the Provincial Secretary and Travel Industry. Film and Photographic Branch

Film production file photographs

  • GR-3303
  • Series
  • [ca. 196-]

Series consists of photographs acquired by the Film and Photographic Branch of the Dept. of Travel Industry sometime in the 1960's. The photographs in this series were taken from the reference files of Yukon Archives. Contact prints and negatives were made from these prints by the branch. The contact prints made from the new negatives were glued into story boards with captions and other information. These photographs originally formed part of accession G-86-117. They were removed from the accession by BC Archives staff and reaccessioned by the Visual Records Unit as 198702-017.

British Columbia. Dept. of Travel Industry. Film and Photographic Branch

Tourism and promotional films and videos

  • GR-3370
  • Series
  • 1941-1986

The series consists of films and videotapes produced or acquired by the Ministry of Tourism government film unit (and its predecessor bodies) responsible for creating and distributing tourism and promotional films about British Columbia.

British Columbia. Ministry of Tourism (1980-1986)