News item. Shows operation of B.C.'s jet air ambulance service in conjunction with ground ambulance services.

CALL NUMBER: T3214:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joe Bertalino discusses: background; how he got interested and involved in aviation; Lulu Island experience; doing both flying and mechanical work at this time; started a flying school in Kamloops; barnstorming; training procedure when he was learning to fly; out at the new airport in Vancouver in the '30s; United Air [Transport?] job, 1934-39; switched to Air Canada (i.e., Trans-Canada Airlines) at outbreak of war; joined Air Force -- organized flying schools; time in the Army; Abbotsford airport, job as inspector in 1947 until retirement, 28 years later. Discusses his work with flying schools, especially the training students received during the war. Flying up the coast before WW I. Procedures in case of an accident. Accidents. Dobbin brothers -- Dominion Airways. TRACK 2: Joe Bertalino: the Dobbin brothers (cont'd); the Travelaire; Dominion Airways -- what happened to staff when it folded; gliding; social life in the airline business; difficulties in the Depression -- hard to convince government to spend money on aviation, but no active opposition; Hal Wilson and his flying of the tri-motor (based in Victoria); his first flight; why he got involved in aviation -- the excitement; adventures in flying in the bush; anecdote about getting lost; pilot-mechanic partnership on flights; wooden props -- took awhile to ship; no radios in planes until 1934 in Canada. CALL NUMBER: T3214:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joe Bertalino discusses: beginning to use radios in airplanes; advent of night flying; large aircraft first came in early to mid 1930s; icing problems when he was flying -- worst was with the Beechcraft traveling up the coast; first jets in B.C. -- the De Havilland Comet, Douglas DC-8; relationship between TCA and CPA in the early days; the 'Flying Seven' -- a group of seven women who got their aviation licenses. [TRACK 2: blank.] CALL NUMBER: T3214:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1978?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: A continuation of Paul Stoddart's interview with BC aviation pioneer Joe Bertalino. Mr. Bertalino recalls his experiences barnstorming in the B.C. interior in a Fleet biplane with Humphrey Madden in the 1930s; the beginning of his involvement in aviation; navigating by following roads and powerlines; taking people up for short airplane rides; visit to Douglas Lake Ranch; Grant McConachie's early freight service into the north; etc. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item consists of seven reels of footage created between 1968 and 1969.

1. CP Air jet landing and taking off from Vancouver International Airport. Shots of control tower, jet interior, November 7, 1968.
2. Hon. Kenneth Kiernan, Minister responsible for tourism explains government programs to encourage domestic tourism, April 29, 1969.
3. Canadian Jeep: field trial or demonstration of jeeps.
4. BC California tours : BC promotions taking place in California.
5. Leslie Peterson announces a $10m fund to aid sports and recreation.
6. Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Hon. Donald Brothers inspect flood damage in Trail, BC, 1969. In an interview, Bennett says that he has proposed a joint federal-provincial effort to aid victims of the flood, May 9, 1969.
7. Premier W.A.C. Bennett in a platform speech discusses his proposal for a negative income tax and guaranteed annual income which would replace the current social welfare system, May 9, 1969.

The item consists of a negative reel of news footage showing the Queen Mother's visit to Vancouver and Edmonton in January 1963 including shots of people planning tour (looking at a map); ship's (?) officer studying map; snowfall in Vancouver; people getting out of cars in snowfall and being greeted; flight attendants boarding airliner; deplaning from CP Air "Empress" airliner (in Edmonton?); various comings and goings on the Queen's BOAC jet; jet taxis away.

News footage: Burke Machine Works fire, January 31, 1963: scenes of fire being fought. Close-ups of street signs.
News footage: Aftermath of a holdup at the Canadian Bank of Commerce on Main Street, Vancouver, February 1, 1963. Shots of police with dogs, close-ups of street signs, the bank, people being interviewed, police inspecting the scene, people inside the bank.

Footage. Shows various supply and construction activities associated with the project of tunneling under Seymour Narrows and placing dynamite under Ripple Rock. Includes shots of coastal features near the site, a freighter in Seymour Narrows, Painter's Lodge (Campbell River), construction of wooden frame buildings, and a sequence showing a turkey dinner being served to a work crew. No shots of the actual explosion are included. One sequence shows the freightboat "Cloverleaf IV" being loaded and en route (possibly to Ahousat, on the west coast of Vancouver Island). Unrelated material (in two segments) shows a De Havilland Comet Mk. 3 airliner with BOAC markings (registration G-ANLO) landing, taxiing, and disembarking passengers at Vancouver Airport.