Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc. One sequence shows a Kelly raft of aviation spruce being broken up; another shows logs being unloaded from the log barge "Monongahela" (formerly the ship "Balasore", whose figurehead is shown sitting on shore). The B.C. Packers cannery at Quathiaski Cove is shown. Troops arrive at Nanaimo from Vancouver on the "Princess Victoria" and parade through the streets.

Promotional film

Documentary

The sub-series consist of oral history interviews about the history of Vancouver, North Vancouver and West Vancouver from the the time of the Vancouver fire (1886) to the First World War. Secondary themes include the history of vaudeville in Vancouver (particularly the work of B.C. Hilliam) and the eccentric Vancouver journalist J. Francis Bursill.

The item is a travelogue and an official video of the Greater Vancouver Visitors and Convention Bureau. It includes some scenes of attractions outside Greater Vancouver, such as the Abbotsford Air Show, the Pemberton Rodeo and Squamish Logger's Day. Includes a sequence on Expo '86.

Travelogue. Official video of the Greater Vancouver Visitors and Convention Bureau. Includes some scenes of attractions outside Greater Vancouver, such as the Abbotsford Air Show, the Pemberton Rodeo and Squamish Logger's Day. Includes a sequence on Expo '86.

The item is a compilation videotape made in 2004 for the "Experts in the gallery" program held in the Royal BC Museum. It contains a compilation of archival films showing Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and vicinity in the 1920s and 1930s.:
Across Canada in fifteen minutes (1929), New Westminster fair, 1928 (1928), Old Hastings Mill Store moved (1930-31), Industrial Britannia (1926?), Burrard Street Bridge : Vancouver British Columbia 1931 (1931-32), The Fraser Valley public library (1932), A flying visit to Garibaldi : a story of modern mountaineering (1933), Vancouver waterfront, ca. 1935 (1935), Deep Cove days (1937?), Pier D fire, Vancouver, 1938 : Burritt footage (27-Jul-1938) and Stanley Park (1939).

SUMMARY: The second of three radio documentaries about early Vancouver, combining narration with reminiscences from older residents. "Vancouver Around 1890" includes discussion of the following: the eviction of the Squamish people from the Lumbermen's Arch section of Stanley Park, recalled by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano; the ceremonial opening of Stanley Park and descriptions of native burial sites, recalled by Sam Walker; the grounding of the HBC ship "Beaver", described by Captain Jack Canessa; Sam Walker on the building boom of 1887; and Reuben Hamilton on the "old" Westminster Highway in Vancouver's wilderness setting, and the Woodward's Block.

SUMMARY: The third of three radio documentaries about early Vancouver, combining narration with reminiscences from older residents. "Vancouver Around 1900" includes discussion of the following: street cars and chain gangs, recalled by Reuben Hamilton; chain gangs, city police and road work by Sam Walker; Captain Canessa on the impact of the Klondike gold rush impact on Vancouver; Carl Timms on early businesses, the first bridge and the harbour; Captain Canessa on boat travel across Burrard Inlet; Sam Walker on saloons and gambling houses; Sam Walker, Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton on the mistreatment of the Chinese and the "Chinatown riot".

The item consists of a reel of unedited original film footage and a print copy. Content includes opening ceremonies (?), introduction of new construction vehicles, first stage construction work, and opening ceremonies at the Chilliwack end of the Trans-Canada Highway. Premier W.A.C. Bennett, Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi, and other dignitaries are shown at the various ceremonies.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Victor MacDonald discusses traveling across Canada to Chilliwack in 1897; various jobs he held; incidents and memories of Chilliwack and Five Corners; recollections; living in the Okanagan in 1903; other employment; Morris Valley; stories about Dick Ward. TRACK 2: Mr. MacDonald continues with stories about Dick Ward; Sasquatch stories; Morris Valley life; farming; families; Morris Creek school; preachers and churches; Fraser River boats; the fire in New Westminster.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Draycott talks about his background and his coming to Canada in 1907; his early years in Canada; his move to Victoria; Vancouver and Lynn Valley in 1911; the real estate boom and clearing; his property. He describes early settlers, Swedes, and the development of Lynn Valley; Chinese workers at the Lynn Valley Mill; "Shaketown"; the depression of 1914; the BC Music Festival in 1912; life in Lynn Valley; flora and fauna of the area; the fire of 1914; transportation; Harry Holland, and the Lynn Valley suspension bridge. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about his parents, John Murdoch Gillis and Sammie Ann Gillis, who came from P.E.I. in 1888; they homesteaded in Tynehead. He talks about the family farm; family members; William and Donald Gillis; early life in the area; settlers in the area; travel on the Fraser River; roads in the area; Hjorth Road; his father's work as a logger; his mother's work on the farm; the New; Westminster Market; winter incidents and anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis talks about his father's work on the Great Northern Railway; Liverpool Station; Bonnacord Station; Port Kells; Johnny Wise's ;hotel; Brownsville; bridges over the Fraser; Great Northern Railway; incidents; school; derailment of a circus train; childhood; school activities; Annadale School; childhood; recreation; church.;

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about fishing and hunting; chores and work for children; Barnston Island settlers and description; Port Kells; Port Mann; land boom; Surrey; incidents during road work; caterpillar plague in 1909; mosquitoes; D.M. Robertson. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis continues with reminiscences about the Tynehead Church; D.M. Robertson; William Bothwell; lost in the woods in 1902; Green Timbers area; incidents involving the local policeman; Alec Mathieson.

The item is a reel of film footage of waterfowl in the Fraser River delta.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: "Bridge" Bailey recalls early mines and miners in the Chilliwack area. Red Mountain from 1912 to 1932; Silver Chief Mine; prospectors; Brock Reid; Tommy Leigh; Charlie Lindeman; Red Mountain; workings; stories about Charlie Lindeman; Jack Post; Frank Hailey; prospecting stories; Anderson. TRACK 2: Mr. Bailey continues with stories about prospecting; Anderson; Billy Sepass in 1900; packing station; pack trails; Indian stories; Indian camp at Elk Creek; berry picking and hunting; stories about Old Man John Ryder; settlers in the area; squatters; Indians; Pierce Mountain; Jim McGuire; Old Man Hipco.

CALL NUMBER: T0765:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1963-03?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Johnson recalls arriving in New Westminster in 1879; living in Yale; an incident involving a steamboat trip on the Fraser; traveling to the family homestead in Halls Prairie in 1882; the; White Rock area circa 1882; picnics on the beach; the logging operations of Murran and Elwood; anecdote about beavers; roads in Surrey; the Semiahmoo Trail; customs at Elgin. TRACK 2: Mr. Johnson continues with discussion about the customs office at Elgin; his father's farm at Halls Prairie; life on the farm; early residents in the area; Hazelmere; the Thrift family; anecdotes about Judge Begbie; stage transportation; schooling; customs regulations; the murder of Murran; his work in the mills and later in the customs for the Great Northern Railroad; his customs work at the Cloverdale depot ;and later for government customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T0765:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1963-03?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Johnson talks about his Canadian customs work; the Great Northern Railroad; living in White Rock in 1909; shopping in Blaine; the railway customs house at White Rock; the customs house at; the Pacific Highway; customs incidents; the White Rock Water Works Company; early White Rock; subdivision. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Topographic map with recreation information added.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Reid recounts her parents coming to the Matsqui area about 1885; the family farm; her father [Dan Nicholson]; the homestead; clearing land; quilting bees; clearing land; mosquitoes; dances; food; grist mills; meals; Christmastime; schooling; her mother's life on the homestead; the McCallum family; spinning wool. TRACK 2: Mrs. Reid continues with her discussion about clothing; transportation; mail delivery, Mount Lehman; electricity; local characters; pranks; chivarees; peddlers; BC Electric; social life; ministers and churches; Dr. Dunn; settlers.

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 01 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William C. Jones : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-05-10 SUMMARY: Mr. Jones came to Powell River in 1926. Electrician. Discusses CCF Party, communists.;

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 02 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold and Margaret Doran : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-05-14 SUMMARY: Mr. Doran, an electrician, grew up in Powell River; worked on tug boats; business [in] Vancouver; started furniture store 1935.;

CALL NUMBER: T1384:0001 item 03 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack and Elenora Fletcher : reminiscences about life in Powell River RECORDED: Powell River (B.C.), 1973-03? SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher managed a clothing business from 1926.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cornock recounts his father's background in Ontario; he purchased a pre-emption in Glen Valley and the family settled in 1900. He discusses dyke schemes for Glen Valley; early settlers; the family's journey from Ontario; homesteading; building the house; building the barn; school; farm life; river boats; fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Cornock continues with his discussion about early life ;in Glen Valley; winter supplies; development; financing and construction of the dyke; May 24 celebrations; anecdotes of pioneer life; fisherman's life; and the floods of 1894 and 1948.

CALL NUMBER: T0697:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pinson recalls his early years (1910 to the 1950s) railroading in BC. He talks about many incidents and events which occurred while railroading on the BC Electric; bootleggers; freight; passenger trade; winter storms; the route through the Fraser Valley; the "Owl"; scheduled trains; freight trains; special trains; train accidents; and "the juice line". TRACK 2: Mr. Pinson continues discussing the route through the Fraser Valley; bootleggers; farm freight; BC Electric and the building of the Alaska Highway; passenger service; excursions; Bradner and the Japanese gardeners; farmers and characters along the train line; famous trainmen; motorman skills and train terms.

CALL NUMBER: T0697:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pinson recalls problems with gangs of kids; miners on the E & N route; the "Nanaimo Street Gang". He talks about the years 1910 to 1915 on the E & N; building the line; industries and communities along the route. He discusses wildlife along the line; hunters and fishermen's special trains; game wardens; fishing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hammond Cedar Company, 1921-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-16 SUMMARY: Started work at Hammond Cedar Mill in 1921; operation of the Hammond Cedar Mill on the Fraser River; modifications to the mill in the 1920s; the Hammond Cedar baseball team; problems for the mill in the early 1930s; Hope was a councilman starting in 1929; problems of relief and unemployment; more on the mill's economic problems during the Depression; changes in the mill during the Second World War; wages; takeover by BCFP in 1946.

CALL NUMBER: T0755:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan relates some amusing early incidents from Langley; family history about his father, Samuel McClughan, who came from Ireland to Ontario, then Fort Langley in 1877; life of earl;y settlers; clearing land; the log cabin; homesteading; hunting; fishing; crops; fruit; steamboat travel. TRACK 2: Bill McClughan continues with recollections about steamboat travel; childhood memories; schooling; chores; driving oxen; clothing; churches and preachers; Reverend Bell; Reverend Dunn; peddlers and stores; description of Port Kells; Barnston Island; interesting characters.;

CALL NUMBER: T0755:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan continues with stories about interesting characters; MacLartey; the Chinese labourer on the farm; the BC Electric Railway and surveying for the line; agricultural land and soil; conditions in Langley. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the pre-emption by his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in 1884 in Delta; his family history; the family farm; dyking projects on the farm; family houses; flooding; his father's early appointments; his father's provincial politics from 1900 to 1927; early life in Delta; farming in the area; railways; farm produce; mixed farming; weather; flooding; oyster farming; hi;s father's character; the family's sawmill in 1899. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Abbotsford (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: Mr. Ross tells stories of early life in the Fraser Valley. Mr. Ross was born in 1896 in a home on Ross Road, which had been named after his father. In 1907, the Great Northern Railway came through the Fraser Valley; he was twelve years old before he saw New Westminster, only 30 miles from his home. When electricity came to the Fraser Valley in 1910, people had to install their own power poles if they lived too far from the main line.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill Voight discusses the quality of farmland around the Ryder Lake area; the early settlers; first impressions and life in the Ryder Lake Valley, circa 1906; his family's coming to the area; their first house; clearing land; making a living; growing up in the valley; Indians; Elk Mountain; community life. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a newsreel compilation on a black and white film print. It contains an historical compilation of international news items: the Rise of Mussolini 1922-36, 1919 Schubert show girls, 1921 personalities, 10,000 homeless by fire 1930, "The Spacehunters 1919-36" [Mt. Wilson observatory], 1921 aviation [USN dirigible C-7], 1927 fashions and 1933 sports. It also includes BC material spliced into the prin]: 1948 Fraser Valley Floods [ca. 30 secs.] and 1950 BC Electric opens new Horne-Payne substation [ca. 2 mins.]. The latter item discusses BC Electric's new system of substations in the lower mainland.