Shows Juan de Fuca Strait. Puget Sound not shown. Location of Haro Strait indicated.

The item consists of a photocopies of the manuscript of the first report of Captains Galiano and Valdes regarding the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in the schooners Sutil and Mexicana, 23 October 1792.

Item consists of bound atlas measuring 35 x 52 cm. It contains one admiralty chart (number 2689) of the Haro and Rosario Straits as surveyed by Captain G.H. Richards and the officers of H.M. S. Plumper in 1858-1859 and Juan de Fuca Strait to Admiralty Inlet by Captain H. Kellet in 1847. The map was published in July 1859 and hydrographer corrections were made in September 1864 and February 1865. The map also includes four inset elevations: (View A) Patos Island and Monarch Head, (View B) Mount Constitution and Puffin Island; (View C) Galiano Island and Mount Parke; and (View D) Mount Benson, Narrow Island, Thetis Island, and Hall Island.

Series consists of correspondence inward, reminiscences, diary of a trip through the Cariboo to Stuart Lake (1913); research notes and drafts of Howay and Scholefield's History of British Columbia.

The series consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, clippings and photographs on Beacon Hill Park (1921-1935), Mt. Douglas Park (1930-1935) and Walbran Park (1923-1929). There is also a history of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and diary of Frances Barkley; correspondence of Tourist Trade Development Association of Victoria and Vancouver Island, and of its Historic Objects and Natural Features Committee (1930-1941), with correspondence on the grave of Capt. George Vancouver (1935-1937), and with Denys Nelson re Indian fort at Crescent Beach.

Also included are correspondence, articles, notes on tree growth and oddities; documents concerning Fairfield Farm Estate (1910-1935), Frederick George Walker (1890, 1931); mementoes, European War 1914-1918; reminiscences, notes, invitations (1891, 1899, 1936) and notes on experiences as law clerk.

Documentary. Life cycle of the sockeye salmon, especially their return to the headwaters of the Fraser River to spawn. Shows efforts of scientists and engineers to facilitate the salmon run, and the contribution of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission. Includes shots of fishing boats setting their nets, cannery operations, Vancouver's Chinatown, salmon fighting the rapids at Hells Gate, and the development of fish ladders or fishways to aid the salmon.

SUMMARY: Presumably radio coverage of Marilyn Bell's second and successful attempt to swim the Juan de Fuca Strait (from Edix Hook, near Port Angeles, Washington to Clover Point, Victoria, B.C.) on 23 August 1956.

Film depicts Marilyn Bell (later DiLascio)'s swim across the Strait of Juan de Fuca on August 23, 1956. Film was commissioned courtesy of Victoria-area businessman Harold B. Elworthy.

Out-takes. The life cycle of the sockeye salmon and the work of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission in protecting that cycle and the salmon fishing industry. Footage includes: Fort St. James salmon run; seining and gillnetting for sockeye; fishways, fish ladders at Hell's gate, Bridge River and Seton Creek dam; etc.

Newsreel tootage. The record commercial salmon season of 1958 is illustrated with a sequence showing a seiner setting its net and hauling it in, brailing the salmon aboard, and unloading it onto a packer ship at the BC Packers wharf in Steveston. Gill netter feleet at anchor.

The file consists of a photocopy of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (Vancouver) reasons for judgement in the reference by the B.C. Lieutenant-Governor in Council concerning the ownership of the bed of the Strait of Georgia and related areas as set out in Order-in-Council No. 3459 approved the 31st day of October, 1974. It includes written reasons by the Hon. The Chief of Justice of B.C.; The Hon. Mr. Justice Bull; The Hon. Mr. Justice McFarlane; The Hon. Mr. Justice Seaton; and The Hon. Mr. Justice McIntyre; June 25, 1976.

News item. In summer, the Canadian Coast Guard's search and rescue methods include the use of a high-powered pontoon boat which can tow a disabled vessel to shore in record time. In winter, the Coast Guard uses the pilot boat for these missions. Footage of the summer operations in Juan De Fuca Strait.

News item. Footage of the 1978 Swiftsure Yacht Race.

Documentary. This film depicts a trip from Seattle to Victoria on the S.S. Princess Marguerite, and profiles the history of the ship -- and of her namesake, an earlier B.C. coastal steamship that was sunk during World War II while serving as a troop transport.