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Ocean highway
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- moving images
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Island Tug & Barge Ltd.
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[ca. 1964-1966] (Creation)
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Industrial film. Operations of Island Tug & Barge. Includes: historical background on coastal towboating; company's repair & maintenance facilities in Victoria; tugboats at work; a trip with the freight barge "Island Express" to Beaver Cove, Coal Harbour whaling station and Port Alice; barges "Island Exporter" and "Island Importer" carry limestone to Oregon from quarries at Blubber Bay on Texada Island; construction and launching of "Island Yarder", the world's largest self-loading/self-dumping log barge, which is seen loading at Kimsquit and towed to Burrard Inlet for dumping; railcar barges; chemical transportation barge "Island Pine"; other uses of barges to transport bulk cargoes.
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A digital copy is available. Please contact staff for further information.
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Copyright assigned to British Columbia Archives by Seaspan International (successor to Island Tug & Barge Ltd.), 1985.
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References: Listed in Duffy, "Camera West", entry #O/02.
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Accession number(s): F1985:21
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producing agency/company: Island Tug & Barge Ltd.; photography: Carl Vermilya; sponsored/presented by: Island Tug & Barge Ltd.; editor: Hajo F. Hadeler; editor: Gundar Lipsbergs; narrator: Tom Robinson; sound: Telesound Film Recordings Ltd.; photography: Island Tug & Barge personnel; photography: Gundar Lipsbergs; script: E.G. Perrault