The item is the left half of a panoramic black and white photograph taken by W.V. Ring sometime between 1940 and June 1948. It shows the Nickel Plate Mine road in Hedley, BC.
The item is the right half of a panoramic black and white photograph taken by W.V. Ring sometime between 1940 and June 1948. It shows the Nickel Plate Mine road in Hedley, BC.
Jack West & Frank Harris of Vernon News, Albert Abrahanson of Revelstoke Board of Trade - Earle Dicky of Rev[elstoke] Board of Trade as contact man on trip. At or entering gate at Columbia Crossing [Boat Encampment] Bridge 99.3 miles n[or]th of Revelstoke. [text on back of photo]
Left to right: Dr. W.H. Sutherland former Minister of Public Works, Prov. Gov.; Mrs. Fred Fraser first (respectable white woman to arrive in Revelstoke; Premier Pattullo; Charlie [Charles A.] Cotterell CPR official of Western Lines & a former Chief Despatcher (of early days) of Revelstoke. All were at the opening of Big Bend Highway June 29/40. Picture on Columbia Crossing [Boat Encampment] Bridge 99.3 miles from Revelstoke. [Text from back of photo.]
Stock shots. Shows a crew painting road signs promoting forest fire prevention. Stencilled directly on the road surface, the signs read: "USE YOUR ASHTRAY / KEEP B.C. GREEN".
Stock shots. Sternwheeler arriving at dock. Views from Stamp lookout, and from the Grouse Mountain gondola lift. Lumber trucks on freeway. Fraser River and rapids. CPR and CNR freight trains travelling along the Thompson River. Aerials views of islands, coastline, beaches, etc., near Tofino.
Amateur film. Exterior views of the Provincial Gaol and the Provincial Home at Kamloops, including the grounds and orchards behind the buildings. Continues with footage showing the highway and countryside between Kamloops and Clearwater, as well as road and bridge work crews and a moose pasture. Murtle River and Dawson Falls (in Well Gray Park). Recreational activities at a corrections forestry work camp. Filmed April-May, 1959.
Footage. Miscellaneous shots: boat heading along a shore, highway beside a river, a couple beside their cabin, horses in corral, fall foliage, women and horses, fishing on a lake. Also shows the first helicopter owned by Okanagan Helicopters (an open-cockpit Bell 47B-3, registration CF-FZX) being viewed by curious residents. (The helicopter pilots may be Carl Agar and Bill McLeod.)
Stock shots. Compiled by Parry Films from the outs of various productions, these rolls includes extensive footage of Vancouver (e.g., general views, English Bay, Georgia Street, Granville Street by night, shopping centres, street scenes, etc.), as well as scenes of fruit orchards, cattle ranching, highways and railroads in the interior of the province.
Educational. What is being done in Vancouver to alleviate traffic flow problems and promote traffic safety. Shows the three main elements of traffic safety (enforcement, engineering and education), and illustrates various causes of traffic accidents. Includes aerial views of Vancouver; sequence on accident scene at south end of Burrard Bridge; fire-fighting, road repairs and parades as causes of traffic congestion; Cambie Street bridge swing-span in operation; Vancouver Motor Vehicle Inspection Station; driver training (McKinley Driving Schools Ltd.); Vancouver Police; etc.
Out-takes. What is being done in Vancouver to alleviate traffic flow problems and promote traffic safety. Shows the three main elements of traffic safety (enforcement, engineering and education), and illustrates various causes of traffic accidents. Includes aerial views of Vancouver; sequence on accident scene at south end of Burrard Bridge; fire-fighting, road repairs and parades as causes of traffic congestion; Cambie Street bridge swing-span in operation; Vancouver Motor Vehicle Inspection Station; driver training (McKinley Driving Schools Ltd.); Vancouver Police; etc.
Television stock shots. Footage of automobile traffic on the highway near Victoria; on Bay Street and Point Ellice Bridge. Also traffic and parking in downtown Victoria, especially Yates Street and Yates Street parkade.
Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cariboo recollections RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Reg Beck, Spencer Hope Patenaude discusses early Williams Lake, Horsefly, 150 Mile, and 153 Mile House. Bullion Mine described. Telegraph lines in the Cariboo. Anecdotes about telegraphy and the life of a telegraph operator. 150 Mile House pioneers. Chinese in 150 Mile House. Ox teams and freighting on the Cariboo Road. Grist mills and grain growing. Sawmilling. TRACK 2: Description of the engines and workings of the Miocene mine. Anecdotes about maintaining the telegraph lines. [End of interview]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chilcotin ranching in the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Dude Lavington. He talks about starting a cattle ranch 60 miles west of Quesnel in 1931; cutting roads; hunting; and the origin of his name "Dude".
CALL NUMBER: T2792:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Brown's family; Dairy farming in the Fraser Valley before the Depression; selling milk to individual buyers; organisation of Fraser Valley Milk Producers; moving to the Cariboo, Likely; and Horsefly; ranching in Beaver Valley during the 1940s; what the place was like when he bought it; getting the ranch going; haying; feeding cattle; daily chores and routine; milking cows and shipping; cream to Williams Lake and Quesnel. TRACK 2: Ranching Beaver Valley; leisure time in the winter; feeding cattle in the winter; travel by horse and cutter in winter time; condition of roads; cattle drives to Williams Lake; Williams Lake in the 1940s; operating a general store in Horsefly in the 1950s; managing a men's clothing store in Williams Lake; Horsefly in the early 1940s; the general store in Horsefly from 1950 to 1958. CALL NUMBER: T2792:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Harry talks about his years living in the Corner House, a large rambling log house in the centre of Horsefly; taking in boarders; feeding people; the General Store in Horsefly in the 1950s; bringing in beer for the local population; Niquidet's freight line from Williams Lake to Horsefly in the 1950s; customers; trappers, hunters, locals, tourists, forestry people; store goods; on the ranch in Beaver Valley; chores, fencing, irrigation; buying seed; pigs; the log home that was on the place when Harry moved in; building a barn; comparison between farming in the Fraser Valley and the Cariboo; winter on the ranch; Melba's father, Harry's father-in-law; food on the ranch.
CALL NUMBER: T2798:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Boyhood of a young trapper ; trapping around Hobson Lake and Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arrival of the DeWees family on foot from Washington when Dick was 10; the family camped for a while, then settled in an old cabin at Antoine Lake, northwest of Horsefly, where they lived for two years in the 1920s; life when Dick was a young boy; story of fishing on Horsefly Lake; trapping at Antoine Lake; schooling at Horsefly at the first and second schools there; how he earned $60.00 a month as a janitor while going to school; school at Black Creek. TRACK 2: Trapping as a young boy at Hobson Lake; his family winters on Quesnel Lake at Killdog Creek; story of trapper Bill Miner and trapping with Lloyd Walters. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stories of old-timers and of the local dances, Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick DeWees talks about the old Miocene Mine in 1918; mining at Jawbone Pool; mining near Joe Williams' house, east of the river, in 1923. Dick tells the story of cooking for a suppression crew when he was 13; trapping with Fred and B. Hooker and Lloyd Walters; stories about Tom Hooker and the Hooker family; blacksmith; sawmill; hunting lodge. TRACK 2: Stories of old timers in Horsefly; Spencer Hope Patenaude and the telegraph office; John Wawn, a central figure in the community; Justice of the Peace; school trustee; his shoe repair shop; Alec and Matilda Meiss of the Meiss Hotel; the Bull Moose Club as bachelor's headquarters; dances at the community hall. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Transportation and hunting in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The trip from the United States to Horsefly in 1918; early roads; Horsefly in 1918. TRACK 2: Trapping around Horsefly Lake and Quesnel Lake. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Big game hunting in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: Big game hunting around Horsefly, B.C. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.] CALL NUMBER: T2798:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Prospecting and mining in the Horsefly area; both placer and hard-rock. TRACK 2: Mining around Horsefly; dances in the community hall.
CALL NUMBER: T3093:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early life and education PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ralph Loffmark discusses: his family background; his early life in the interior of B.C.; his education in Chase, B.C., Kamloops, B.C., at the University of B.C., and at the University of Toronto; his election to the student council at the University of Toronto as athletic director; and his enlistment in the Canadian army. TRACK 2: Ralph Loffmark discusses: his service in the armed forces, his close encounters with death; his first experience with a conscious political policy; his law and business education experiences as a veteran; his first employment as a lawyer; his interests in accountancy; teaching commerce at UBC; his experience writing in areas of the law and commerce; his first interests in politics. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Loffmark's first election and some of his political ideas PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ralph Loffmark discusses: his first exposure to politics; his entry into politics as a Social Credit candidate in 1963; the 1963 election campaign; his perceptions of the Social Credit Party at that time; his concern over the state of roads in B.C. during that period. TRACK 2: Ralph Loffmark discusses the expropriation of B.C. Electric as a major issue in the1963 provincial election; the nature of the Social Credit membership in Point Grey; the nature of nomination and candidacy procedure; dams on the Peace and Columbia Rivers; the crippling effects of cost overruns in government projects; some of his perceptions about the political parties in B.C.; and his primary occupational objectives. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Being elected and joining the cabinet PERIOD COVERED: 1963-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Loffmark discusses: the role of the backbencher in the legislature; joining the cabinet as Minister of Industrial Development, Trade and Commerce in 1964; attempts at influencing cabinet ministers; his priorities as a cabinet minister; and transportation problems in Canada. TRACK 2: Loffmark discusses: Canadian freight rates; trade promotion activities; Japanese business connections; contrasts between doing business with Japan and India; his appointment to Treasury Board; the duties of Treasury Board; and inter-departmental relations. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Minister of Trade and Commerce PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Loffmark discusses: the development of the Bank of British Columbia; the run on B.C. bonds after the expropriation of B.C. Electric; the opportunities for tax reductions open to a business man; foreign investment in B.C.; secondary industries in B.C.; the poor state of dominion-provincial relations; B.C. separatism; the contention over the adequacy of Vancouver harbour; the possible over-production of pulp and paper. TRACK 2: Loffmark discusses: the redistribution of seats prior to the 1966 provincial election; the 1966 election campaign in Vancouver South; his travels on trade missions; joint American-Canadian development around the area of the Alaskan Panhandle. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Minister of Health PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1972 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Loffmark discusses: his move from the Ministry of Trade and Industry to Health; Phil Gaglardi's removal as Minister of Highways and its effect on the Social Credit Party; the problems he perceived in the field of health; his priorities as Health minister; the ban on liquor and tobacco advertising; the death penalty for persistent drug traffickers; the operation of government liquor stores; the debate over pollution control; the necessity to maintain some kind of control over doctors who were abusing medicare; Scott Wallace's position in the Social Credit Party; and pharmacare and dentacare. TRACK 2: Loffmark discusses: dentacare and pharmacare; the publishing of doctors' earnings; the resource development vs. social services debate; the Clearwater incident; B.C. government efforts to fight heroin addiction; the government's power to allow certain doctors to use hospital facilities; the effects of Scott Wallace's crossing the floor; and the 1972 provincial election. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Health care and some general political perceptions PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1972 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Loffmark discusses: the 1972 election; the Dease Lake railway extension; his major accomplishments as Minister of Health; his decision to retire from politics; his impressions of politics in general and of the party system; his relationship with W.A.C. Bennett; and cabinet meetings. TRACK 2: Ralph Loffmark discusses the timing of elections; the nature of the relationship between the civil service and the government; decision-making in his ministries; all-night sittings of the Legislature; his relationship with the press; government-organized group relations; opposition party unity; the effectiveness of opposition parties; and his perception of persons in the opposition parties. CALL NUMBER: T3093:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Some general political perceptions PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1978 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Loffmark discusses: his views on the Dease Lake railway extension; cost reductions in health care; the home medical care scheme; his present activities; religion in politics; the effectiveness of a good political leader; the role of an MLA; the reasons behind W.A.C. Bennett's success; the Social Credit party as a coalition; reforms in the procedure of the House; the nature of the makeup of the Social Credit government; the nature of Social Credit policy-making; the proper functions of government; the rise of administrative tribunals; the decline of the Legislature. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : military occupation, changes in sawmilling PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Wilfred Benoit was born on March 18, 1927 in Terrace B.C. Background about parents until their settlement in Terrace in 1920. Description of early life on Queensway. Food storage. Life during the depression. School life from 1934. Games. Jobs during the war as water boy in the construction of military camps and workman in the electrical installation at the airport in 1943. Changes in Terrace in the war years. Postwar growth in the sawmill industry. Other changes caused by the military. People's feelings towards Japanese Invasion and precautions taken against it. Skeena Mutiny. Mining of the Skeena Bridge. Departure of the Army. Feelings toward the departure of the military. Effects of the military on social life in (town) Terrace. Description of the business community in Terrace during military occupation. Postwar sawmill development approximately 1947, 1948. Forest Management and Tree Farm License. Location of sawmills. Work at Copper River Mill owned by Cooper and Haggen. Sawmill machinery. TRACK 2: Changes in the forest industry. Processes of making boards. Automation of industry. Changes in loading. Changes in Terrace. Teenage lifestyle in the early 1940s as compared with today. Farming. Food storage. Fertilizers and insecticides before the war. Strawberry growing in the late 1920s. Communication before and after the war. Power facilities in the 1940s. Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Road development to Kitimat. Use and development of hot springs.
CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leo Edward L'Estrange (truck driver, skidder, miner, owner of Red's Billiards) was born on June 12, 1937 in Prince George. Background about parents. Arrived in Terrace first in 1949 for work. Drove team of horses. Visited Terrace again in 1952. (blank gap). Came to live in Terrace in 1956. Changes in Terrace during these visits. Various jobs after settling in Terrace. Sports and other social activities. Roads and automobiles. Hiking and hunting. Houses and where they were situated. Sewage and power facilities. Medical facilities. Business community in 1956. Worked for Ernie Sandy. Changes that occurred around house on Straume. Changes across tracks near Agar, proposed shopping plaza. Farming near Terrace. Fruit growing. Evidence of the military occupation. Location of some military buildings. TRACK 2: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. (blank).
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Helen and John Stevenson : Lardeau Valley, 1952-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1964 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Helen and John Stevenson discuss moving to Argenta from California in 1952. Reasons why they moved. Helen was a teacher and they set up the school at Argenta. Discusses others that moved to the area at the same time. Community members. The Delta Farmers Co-op. Living in California. Number of families grew in the mid-1950s. Organization of Delta Co-op. Contracted to build rural centre. Planned to centre settlement on the flats. Bridge built across the Duncan River at Cooper Creek. Before bridge was built, people would signal for a ride from Lardeau using headlights or a fire. Boarding school develops out of visiting young people.
RECORDED: Argenta (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Peter Chapman, Ruth Boyd discusses her family came to British Columbia in with some other Quaker families to look for a place to settle. They were concerned about militarism in the United States. The Boyds had famed in Tracey, California, in the 1930s and 1940s. They arrived in the Lardeau Valley in August 1952. Details of travelling with their household goods in trailers. Roads and bridges in the area. Other families that settled there, including Congregationalists and Unitarians. TRACK 2: Building a house. The Delta Co-Op: farming and logging. Hardships: cramped living quarters and dirt. Isolation. Schooling. The fire that destroyed the Pollard home.
SUMMARY: Interview with Richmond mayor Gil Blair over the use of the Arthur Laing Bridge (between Sea Island, Richmond and South Vancouver) as a commuter route. The interview was done in the mayor's car as he demonstrated how to use the bridge. Includes five seconds of a radio newscast at the end of the interview.
