Wives and children wait to greet HMCS Cayuga at Esquimalt.
- I-02353
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- 1951
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
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Wives and children wait to greet HMCS Cayuga at Esquimalt.
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
Wives and children on the jetty as HMCS Cayuga docks.
Part of Duncan Macphail fonds
With the Season's Greetings : H.M.S. Warspite
Warships at naval station, Esquimalt. harbour.
Visit of Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough; HMS Naden at Esquimalt.
Victoria, Gonzales Area, Showing A Naval Sailpast.
Vancouver Harbour showing HMCS Canada and Komogata Maru
Vancouver Harbour; North Pacific Naval Squadron.
Unidentified vessel arriving at Naden.
Torpedo party aboard H.M.C.S. Niobe
To the ports of the world through Vancouver
The item consists of three reels of promotional film.
Reel one: Captain Vancouver's monument, entrance to Vancouver harbour, the Lions, ship approaching, Siwash Rock, boathouse at harbour entrance, freighter passing, view of ships, piers and buildings. HMS "Hood" and HMS "Repulse" in the harbour. Pan over downtown section of Vancouver. Making hemp rope in factory. Woman making woolen products on loom. Huge herd of cattle on a flat prairie. Stockyards. Tank car unloading oil. Mattresses being made. Plants along the waterfront. Apple trees in the Okanagan; apples being picked, packed and stored. Cars on the Pacific Highway. Bathers on a crowded beach. Cars and people entering Stanley Park. Mine and ore cars; concentrators; milling of ore. Trail smelter, ore cars and silver ingot.
Reel two: Coal cars in freight yard. Waterfall and powerhouse. Sports fishermen. Fishermen hauling in salmon-filled seine nets. Dumping herring into ship's hold. Man sitting astride giant tuna. Shots of mountain goat, white-tailed deer, mountain sheep, and giant brown bear (dead with hunter atop it). Trapper and dog team in front of cabin. Seals diving and swimming. Douglas firs being cut, felled, topped and yarded. Dumping logs from train at mill. Tug towing log raft. Sawing logs into lumber. Making furniture. Loading lumber onto ships. Three-masted whaler in harbour. New freighter tied up. Shot of original Vancouver wharf and new Ballantyne Pier. Cargo cranes. Loading cargo onto ships. Cars lined up on pier for shipping.
Reel three: Workers completing CPR pier at Vancouver; tug hauling a section. Passenger ship "Empress of Asia" arriving in port . . . Steam engine ploughing prairie. Men seeding from horseback. . . .Threshing wheat. Horses haul wheat to elevators. Freight train crossing prairie, then in the Rockies. . . Vancouver freight yards and grain elevators; one elevator being built. Waterfront with ships tied up. . . . Loading wheat into ship's hold. Freighter and passenger ship leaving harbour. . ." (Colin Browne)
The U.S.S. San Franciso near Victoria
The stokehold aboard H.M.C.S. Niobe
The SS Cardiganshire at the Dardanelles, near Gallipoli.
The ship's company of H.M.C.S. Niobe on parade
The port gun battery aboard H.M.C.S. Niobe
The poop; HMCS Rainbow; A.C. Pitts collection.
The officers of HMS Cameleon on its poop deck.
The officers and crew of HMCS Rainbow.
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
SUMMARY: An hour-long documentary marking the Golden Jubilee of the Royal Canadian Navy. The RCN's history is traced through interviews with: Rear Admiral Walter Hose; Rear Admiral Victor Broduer; Rear Admiral; Kenneth F. Adams; Rear Admiral J.C. Hibberd; and other ranks who served aboard HMCS "Rainbow", HMCS "Niobe", on Canada's first submarines, and at the Royal Canadian Naval College in Halifax. Politicians H.H.Stevens and Senator Charles Bishop are also interviewed.