Topographic map with recreation information added.

Promotional film. For Vantel's application to the Board of Broadcast Governors for a television broadcasting license, company president Art Jones introduces samples of proposed programming. These include "Van-O-Rama," a TV journal of local interest; a news program; a discussion of metropolitan planning in Vancouver with Warnett Kennedy; a football game; a children's show; a variety show featuring a female singer and a barbershop quartet; a West Indian dance performed by an ethnic dance troupe from UBC; a large grad choir, etc. Includes footage of simulated TV studio operations; an Artray film crew at a tree nursery, on the waterfront and in Fraser Valley; views of Port Moody waterfront and Vancouver skyline.

Amateur film. Local sights and events in the White Rock area, such as parades, celebrations at the International Peace Arch, fashion show, recreational activities, etc.

Industrial film. A survey of the Pacific coast fishing industry. Follows a commercial fishing vessel on a typical trip along the BC coast, and shows the various fishing methods used. Also includes footage of cannery operations, fish ladders at Hells Gate, spawning grounds, the cleaning of fish on a processing ship, fishery by-products (such as fish meal used for stock feed), the manufacture of nets and other equipment, fishing boat maintenance, etc. Features fishing boats Pacific Raider and Western Provider.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by John Mark Read titled "The pre-war Japanese Canadians of Maple Ridge: land ownership and the "ken" tie." 1975. vii, 96 leaves: figs., illus., maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 85-96. Canadian theses on microfiche, 25975.

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.

The item is a video copy of a promotional film from 1949. It shows the annual Mission Strawberry Festival, including its celebrated parade (with visiting girls' drill teams) and soap box derby.

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).

The item is an industrial film showing the construction of the Annacis road system and the Alex Fraser Bridge, which was officially opened in 1986.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: George Ellerbeck discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill, which became a division of Canadian Forest Products in 1943. He joined the mill as a shingle packer in 1939, and in 1974 was Assistant Supervisor and Personnel Supervisor. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The George Ellerbeck interview continues for the first half of track 1.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 (item 2) & TRACK 2: Stan Douglas discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill from about 1934 to 1967. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Continuation of the Stan Douglas interview.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

RECORDED: Chilliwack (B.C.), 1983-09 SUMMARY: Frank Edwards, who flew as a pilot in World War I, discusses post-World War One aviation in the Chilliwack area.;

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of Vancouver and region PERIOD COVERED: 1892-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Born on a farm in Ladner in 1892; growing up and attending school on Lulu Island; Chinese residents; move to Eburne; discovery of Indian relics; moved to Granville Street and 60th; father's background; father's work building the BC Electric Railway; Granville Street and trips to downtown Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Comments about Anderson Island and fishing on the Fraser River; English Bay; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; ships and shipping; summers at Bowen Island; anecdotes about life around Vancouver; marriage in the 1920s; work in hotels and the hotel strike in the 1930s; modelling; the Cordova Street shopping area.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of early Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: More about Marpole excavation; West Vancouver; end of the Second World War; early strikes; visiting circus; safe streets; tea parties; calling children; wild life; family worries; Harrison Hot Springs; comments on First Narrows Bridge; Mayor McGeer; Grouse Mountain. [Note: BC Archives does not hold a copy of T2350:0003 and the contents of this recording are not available]

Sound recording is on track 1 of each recording only; track 2 is blank.

Shows area from Vancouver north to Whistler. Main map shows relief; overlay shows watercourses, place names and NTS grid

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.F. Lewis (CM/A376). The title is not in a cartouche, and place names differ.

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.C. White (CM/A375). The title is in a cartouche, and place names differ.

[Map exhibits of the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform].

[Map exhibits of the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform]

Accompanied by text listing the types of recreation areas and explaining the demand and limitations of these areas

Includes maps of the south mainland coast (Gibsons Landing to Redonda Islands). Volumes 1-1 to 1-4 (v.2-5) cover subdivisions of the study area. Maps are diazo prints.

Shows relief of Vancouver, North Shore and Howe Sound areas

Boundaries, added in ms., show proposed electoral district boundaries, 1975, regional district boundaries, present electoral district boundaries and municipal boundaries.