RECORDED: [location unknown], [19--] SUMMARY: George Van Der Straeten tells the "story of the deloader at Englewood". [No further documentation on file.];

Unedited footage. B&W. Vancouver area road construction, 1920s [252 feet]: "Consists of many scenes of bulldozers, graders, trucks, shovels and construction workers building a road from scratch, possibly near UBC, according to Mr. Mackenzie's cousin. Later in the film a group of men and equipment are paving a street in Vancouver, smoothing asphalt, steam rolling it, building sidewalks, etc. In this sequence a CN freight train grinds by as the men lay concrete forms along a short stretch of the tracks, a Dunbar streetcar comes up the hill barely missing a man sprinting across the road with two bottles of milk, and two other streetcars pass by while construction work is in progress. A man in a suit poses, takes off his hat, scratches his head, and puts his hat on again." (Colin Browne) COLOUR. Port Hardy, ca. 1940 [255 feet]: Cleared area with stumps and slash pile. Donkey engine and spartree; yarding logs. Topping a tree. Logging (or construction?) camp scenes. Wharf and sawmill. A seaplane lands. Aerial views of Port Hardy. COLOUR. Watson Lake (presumably in the Yukon), early 1940s [253 feet]: Views of settlement. Motor scow and barge on lake. Airstrip under construction; various aircraft. Townsite in winter with log buildings. Twin-prop seaplane. Motor barge with freight. Moored barges. Clearing small trees with a cat tractor. More aircraft.

Industrial film. Scenes of visiting officials, logging area, logging railway, steam locomotive and donkey, presumably at Bloedel, B.C. Company bridge at Campbell River, and footage of Campbell River Falls. Visitors tour dam at Great Central Lake. Also logging scenes and log booming area.

Footage. "This reel was photographed by a crewman of the "Columbia", the flagship of the Columbia Coast Mission boats. . . . The location is likely the Hastings Mill Logging Company's operation at Rock Bay, 50 miles north of Campbell River on Vancouver Island. The film opens with an aerial shot of an inlet. There is snow on the hills and the clouds hang low above the sea. Various panning shots (filmed from the water) of a small village or logging camp at the foot of a hill just above the beach. There are log booms in the water and a log-dumping wharf protrudes from the camp. A logging locomotive moves toward the camera. Snow between three sets of railway tracks. Steam locomotive is followed by several flatcars loaded with logs. Men pull off chains fastening logs to cars and the logs clatter into the sea. Water tank in [background]. Shot of Locomotive. Group shot of two women and a child and a man with a tripod. Two men outside door of infirmary, one on crutches. Sequence of two logs being yarded into landing by high-lead method, many other cut logs lying on the ground, snow all about. Two steam donkeys operating, one each side of the railroad tracks in the middle of the forest, one loading logs onto railway flatcars. Pan up spar tree and down again. [Long shot of] high rigger up spar tree working on rigging. Pan down tree to men working at the landing and the steam donkey puffing away. Good [medium shot] steam donkey, man sawing wood in [background] with Swedish fiddle. CU men chopping at a log with double-bladed axes. Turn of Logs coming in and being dumped on a pile. Chokerman walks down from setting choker around a pile of logs and waves to the donkey operator. Pan donkey operator, Chinese man sawing up log with Swedish fiddle, and loggers on their break. [Long shot] steam donkey at base of spar tree. Pan of logs on rail cars, steam donkey billowing in distance, logs being loaded onto cars. Two loggers outside shed pointing." (Colin Browne)

Amateur film. 3-6 June 1936: English public school boys (mainly from Harrow) visit the Hillcrest Lumber company plant near Duncan, the Todd Fish Traps at Sooke, the dam and BC Electric powerhouse at Jordan River, and Butchart Gardens. 1 August 1936: A visit to the Vancouver Air Show, including flights to and from Vancouver; parachuting demonstrations by George Bennett of Hamilton, Ontario; shots of small aircraft, a Lockheed Electra airliner, stunting by a glider, and skywriting; an RCMP Musical Ride performance; aerial view of the "Empress of Asia"; aerial views of Victoria. 17 August 1936: The Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, inspects a Guard of honour from the 16th Canadian Scottish at the Parliament Buildings.

The item is a video tape containing footage of Mayo Lumber Co. operations, including the mill at Paldi, the development of Hill 60, and the building and operation of the railroad. The photographer was a friend of the Mayo family.

The item is a documentary film. "Logging at Cowichan, Vancouver Island. Many scenes of logging operations, natural forest reproduction, forest fires, and wild Life. A lesson on forestry as recounted by an old-time logger. The old-time logger appears at the beginning and the end and is a white-bearded old fellow named John Newell Evans who smiles a lot, an MLA in the BC Legislature from 1903-1906. The Cowichan Log was originally 800 feet long, but has been cut down to aid more recent productions." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. Shows activities at a summer camp for forest rangers, possibly in the Cowichan Valley. Scenes of logging trucks, steam donkeys, sign from "Mayo Lumber Co. Ltd."

Amateur film. Franklin River logging camp near Port Alberni. Felling and bucking trees. Close-up of power saw. Two men cutting down a tree with the power saw. Transporting logs. Loading rail cars (slack line unit). Mess hall. Sky line with lead moving logs. Logs dumped into the sea for sorting. "A modern mill": bull saw, splitters, graders, filing, drying, labelling, shipping. More sawmill footage.

Footage. Unidentified logging camp. Loaded logging truck on elevated road. The McKone truck turntable. Pioneer Timber Company.

Amateur film. Baptism service inside home in Sarita River. Trucks and road building. Cable logging; steam donkey; loading a truck. Float plane takes off from bay at Sarita River.

Amateur film. Cable logging operation. View of Port Renfrew from a boat -- docks and fishboats. Gardens. Baptism service at Port Renfrew. Close-up of Mrs. Tugwell, Ucluelet parishioner.

Promotional film. Activities at Camp Thunderbird: a bulldozer working on a road; boys swimming; a "Potlatch," with boys and counsellors dressed as Indians; boys raising flag, chopping wood, etc. Also some shots of logging in the Sooke area, with a truck being loaded and a spar tree yarding logs.

The item is an industrial film. A young man who is skeptical about the future of the forest industry is taken to see various plants and operations. Illustrates the processes used and the diversity of wood products. Most of the film depicts MacMillan & Bloedel's Harmac plant and logging operations on Vancouver Island. There are also brief sequences aboard a ferry from Vancouver to the island.

Out-takes. A young man who is skeptical about the future of the forest industry is taken to see various plants and operations. Illustrates the processes used and the diversity of wood products. Most of the film depicts MacMillan & Bloedel's Harmac plant and logging operations on Vancouver Island. There are also brief sequences aboard a ferry from Vancouver to the island.