Footage. "Probably members of the Columbia Coast Mission visiting the mission boat ['Columbia'] in Vancouver harbour during the Royal Visit. Includes ladies and two nurses. Scenes up the coast taken from the Mission boat: blue sky and sea, islands, and an unidentified [floating] settlement and its residents. Lion's Gate Bridge [long shot], looking out Vancouver Harbour. Lighthouse up the coast. Scenery through the islands, [fishing] boats & settlements. [Logging sequence.] Flowers in an unidentified garden and a little stone fountain in a pond with swans. Two women on deck of Mission boat look out over small village up the coast. Fishing boats, settlements. Man painting hull of Mission boat. Nurses. Boat at dock with other boats nearby, probably in Inner Harbour, Victoria. Empress Hotel. Ladies [disembarking]. Fishermen picking fish out of hold, Mission boat nearby. Scenery and settlement with fish-boats up the coast. At a Lighthouse (Pachena?), a small boat is transported across the top of the water by a cable, then lowered into the water when out of danger. The boat is then rowed out to the Mission boat. More scenery, settlements and islands. Scenery up the coast, islands, settlements, tugboat passing, destroyer passing. Point-No-Point Lodge and beach. [Logging scene.] [The yacht 'Taconite'] in Vancouver Harbour for King and Queen's visit. Many flags and pennants. Lion's Gate Bridge in background. Hundreds of boats in Harbour: fishboats with flags, cabin cruisers, motorboats, and RCN destroyer H48, 'HMCS Fraser'. Biplanes fly over bridge very close to cables. 'Princess Marguerite' hoves into view then sails away under bridge to Vancouver Island, carrying the King and Queen. Village church with wedding party emerging. Settlements, scenery and people up the coast." (Colin Browne)

Documentary. "The Columbia Coast Mission boat making its rounds near Alert Bay, Vancouver Island. A number of small settlements, with fishboats, are seen in the distance. They are visited, then left. Bones Bay is visited. Shots of fishermen working on wharf outside Bones Bay Cannery. Village Island is visited, as is Mrs. Kathleen O'Brien, M.B.E., who lives on the Reserve and works for the Anglican Church. Shots of the church and the main street. Logging show with steam donkey. Scenes of logs being felled, yarded with a spar tree and donkey, and loaded onto rail cars pulled by small diesel locomotive. Logs being delivered to a long pier and dumped into salt-chuck. Ship, the 'Venture', at the end of the wharf, and leaving. Burial at sea, performed on the Mission boat with flag at half-mast and with red ensign covering body. Families up the coast living on floats in sheltered bays while the men are away logging. Kids going to school on motor launch. A long caption details how accidents are reported to the hospital ship 'Columbia' from an isolated logging camp via the Dominion Government Radio Station at Alert Bay, and how the boat is despatched immediately to lend assistance. The exact story concerns a picnic during which a young boy hurts his foot badly. Probably the whole episode was dramatized, but only the opening sequences remain: the wounded boy in a launch with his family, a man running along rails to a logging camp where he makes use of the radio telephone, a man in Alert Bay on the other end sending an alert out to the 'Columbia'." (Colin Browne)

Industrial film. Transportation of limestone by barge from Blubber Bay, Texada Island, to the Columbia River. This film could be an earlier, unreleased version of OCEAN HIGHWAY.

Amateur film. Barbecue. Car ferry crossing. Victoria harbour. Family yacht scenes. Boating around the Gulf Islands. Crabbing. Passing ferry. Harbour scenes (San Francisco? Vancouver?). Scenes aboard the liner "Canberra". Boats at sea. Harbour scenes, Long Beach, California; welcoming ceremony at dockside.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dennis Walker recalls the journey from England to Vancouver with his parents in 1892, and their eventual move to the head of Bute Inlet; his father's name was William George Walker. He ;then describes building a homestead; the slow influx of other settlers; the growth of the community around Mr. Walker's original home site; social events in the community of Bute Inlet; various attempts by his father to sell farm produce in Vancouver; the problems which arise from being so far from the market; and stories of other families in the town. TRACK 2: Mr. Walker continues by describing; a trip with other youths up the Southgate River to the Chilcotin; a description of the salmon spawning season; comments on wildlife in the area; the death and burial of three Walker children; the destruction of the township by fire; an anecdote about original settler Tony Bernhardt; the death of Shorty Hibbs at the hands of the Indians; comments on coast and interior Indians; the unused Mallard Company Tannery; the climate and physical setting of the township; his father's departure for work in Vancouver; the gradual departure of the other settlers when the railroad failed to materialize; and; his travels through BC, especially Barkerville, as a machinist.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dominic Bussanich RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-19 SUMMARY: Dominic Bussanich was born in 1904 and started fishing when he was 13 years old with his father on a gillnetter. Used to fish 5 or 6 days a week in Canoe Pass and Rivers Inlet. Built his own boats. Fished up at Rivers Inlet for 10 or 12 years. River has changed, the channels are different and fishing on it is very difficult now (1976). No fishing at all in North Arm of Fraser any more because of too much traffic. Pollution in river is terrible. The catch has decreased in the river because the gear is so efficient but also the Americans are taking most of the fish: Canadians get only 12 hours a week to fish, Americans fish 4 and 5 days. He worked on seine boats and also built boats for a living. He prefers wood boats to fibreglass and aluminum. New equipment on boats makes fishing easier. Discusses gillnetters and seiners. Talks about Japanese fishermen and their treatment during the War. Indian fishermen. Herring fishing. He fished for B.C. Packers, Canadian Fish, Bell Irving, Nelson Bros. Formed a co-op, Canoe Pass. Co-op in 1941- 1942, gillnetters. Co-op is now (1976) about 70 members and still going. Lots of changes in Delta area. Sports fishermen also take more than their share. Need to have higher prices to pay for expensive boats. He used to drive a truck in the off-season to make ends meet and then he went into boat building. Discusses reasons for poor herring fishery of 1975: greed the main reason, trying to pack too many fish. There is a need for a 200 mile limit. Discusses fishing in the north out of Prince Rupert.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-07-01 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for these tapes.];

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-12-20 SUMMARY: Dorothy McDonald talks about growing up at Kingcome Inlet and about her family, including Ernest Halliday.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Douglas B. Taylor : early life, 1895-1914 PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1956 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background. Arrived in Vancouver, 1902. Born in Refrew, Ontario, 1895. Family from Scotland. Description of boat trip to Alaska, 1902. Trip from Skagway to Atlin. Taylor became a surveyor. Memories of Victoria from 1904: the causeway, James Bay, Fairfield. Mills in Victoria. Kelowna in 1910. Conditions in survey camps. Working as a surveyor for Green Brothers. Description of trip from Victoria to Hazelton. Town site surveys of South Hazelton, Smithers, Fort George. Comments on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. TRACK 2: Surveying and cruising Timber Licenses, 1913-14. Frank Green, A.H. Green and Fred Burden, surveyors. Surveying methods. World War I broke out while Taylor surveying in the Interior. Taylor joined armed forces in fall of 1914. Had been enrolled in forestry at the University of Washington. Taylor's reasons for entering forestry. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Cortes Island (B.C.), 1976-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Douglas Morton of Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island, was born in Wales and came to Canada in 1919. Farming at Salmon River. Logging work at Menzies Bay and Seymour Inlet. Fishing. Work and experiences on the mission boat "Rendezvous" with Canon Alan Greene. Fishing, fish packing, and canneries. Union Steamships. Owen Bay. TRACK 2: Indian legends. Buying and selling clams. Fish camps: Egmont, Lund, Cortes Bay. More on Canon Greene and mission boat. Tourists. Store at Big Bay.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-08-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-09-23 & 25 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for these tapes.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Dudley Bartels explains how he uses common sense to stay out of trouble and navigate. He states that he came to B.C. in 1924 because of business with General Electric, then describes how he took to the sea, the hundreds of voyages he has made along the coast, his boat "The Underwing", his first voyage in 1927, how he eventually made it to Skagway in 1938, why the Gulf Islands were more interesting before they became too populated. He tells a story about a bed going overboard, a description of his 16 foot boat, and sailing the upper coast without getting exposed to too much open sea. [TRACK 2: Blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Duncan Robertson comments on the people who live on Cortes Island today. Then he tells a story about an islander named August Schnaar, before discussing taxes and management of the island. He then discusses his own refusal to be tied to a clock, working in a logging camp, the price structure of timber, big business versus the little man, and logging 'arches'. TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts;on continues his talk about logging arches and then discusses the early years of his life in Vancouver and on Cortes, more on logging, characters including John Manson and Ellingston Jacks and his brother Gilchrist Jacks, an account of a 1966 flood, climate in the area of Bute Inlet, and general subsistence on the island.

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson continues with anecdotes about eccentric settlers: and an Italian settler and an ice skating party, an onion crop, wolves, university men, and a story about a man and a yacht. ; Then he discusses the lure of the island for settlers, the peak period for settlers from 1912 to 1914, changes since WWII, Ed Dolby stories. and Shoal Bay is described. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson offer;s anecdotes from August Schnaar concerning: kidnapping the Kaiser, a Luger pistol, raccoons, and wolves. Then he recalls growing up on the island including hunting, swimming, fishing and chores. Then he recalls his working life including work on the railroad and sounds of the woods.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. D.W. Hodgson talks about his experiences in the Cariboo, coast, and southern Okanagan regions of BC, 1904 to 1946. He describes how he came to BC in 1904 and offers his impressions of Vancouver and Victoria at that time; various early jobs; encounters with Indians; automobiles in the Cariboo in 1910; looking for a railway pass in the Chilco area; impressions of Lillooet; stories abo;ut working with a survey crew for the BC Electric Railway; a discussion of early railway surveying; stories about survey crews; a discussion of work on the BC coast; examining inlets for hydro electric power possibilities in the early 1920s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hodgson continues with more stories about work on the coast in Rivers Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Knight Inlet, including details on the ;coastal landscape; looking for irrigation water for the south Okanagan before World War I; irrigation in the area; details of the soldier settlement scheme; irrigation; and orchard development in the Oliver/Osoyoos area after World War I.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Interviews with 34 early float-house dwellers of British Columbia.;

CALL NUMBER: T2342:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Ed Johnson recalls his father and uncle, who came to Vancouver in 1895 and worked in the towboating industry on the B.C. coast and the Fraser River. Captain Johnson's first waterfront job was a mess boy on the "Venture"; he joined her in 1923, a few months before his 15th birthday. Then he moved to the "Camosun". He returned to school, then joined the Navy League. He worked on the Empress boats for two years, then switched to tugboats, serving on the "Sea Lion", the "St. Clair", and the "DBM". He worked for various companies, including Pacific Coyle Navigation, Champion and White, Cliff Tugboat Company, Vancouver Tug, and Kingcome Navigation. His experiences on the "Empress of Australia"; the working conditions of the Chinese crew members, and the impact of their strike. Experiences working on the "Venture". TRACK 2: The "Venture", continued. Towboating work. The Vancouver waterfront and False Creek. The Great Northern and CN Railway stations. Towing coal scows from Vancouver Island to False Creek. His progress on the tugboats and first job as skipper. CALL NUMBER: T2342:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Story of how Johnson threw a pie in an officer's face aboard the "Venture". Towboating on the B.C. coast; the lumber camps and the characters. Towing the floating lumber camps. Navigation on the coast, include the difficulty of navigating without lights or radio during World War II. A bad towboating trip on the tug "Northshore". The fate of independent towboat men on the coast. TRACK 2: Seamen's unions and union organizers.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-06-23 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-09-05 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for these tapes.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Bendickson discusses the circumstances surrounding her birth. Then she discusses her father Hans Hansen, 1877 to 1885, including his post office at Port Neville; Port Hardy in 1900; her father's two wives; more on the post office and her father's dairy; and Alexander Burchett and his family. TRACK 2: Mr. Harold Bendickson discusses his father Ben Bendickson and his logging ;exploits; moving logging camps from Jervis Inlet to Hardwicke Island in 1918. Then Edith discusses Roberts Knob; relations between her father and Indians; the cabin he built in 1920; the post office/;general store at Port Neville; the Fyfe brothers; Martin and Havelock; and Alex Burchett and mining.

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Cadwallader describes Kingcome Inlet in the first decade of the 1900s, the danger of flood in the area, settlers in the area including Lawrie Lansdowne and Ernest Halliday, the Powell River Logging Company in 1909, Indians at Kingcome and potlatches, Lawrie Lansdowne and his brother Baron, early life at Kingcome Inlet in 1903, education, oxen used on the farms and chores. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cadwallader continues with more on chores and leisure activities such as swimming, picnics, dances, and a story of a wolf scare incident.

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

CALL NUMBER: T0967:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Elmer Ellingsen begins with anecdotes about a "flying log" at a logging camp, and salmon fishing. Then he discusses in great detail the many incidents surrounding the community dances [on Cortes Island?] in the 1930s including the music; loggers and liquor; and changes on the island. TRACK 2: May Ellingsen recalls her early life on Hernando Island; then later; Cortes Island, including details about the Union Steamship service. Then Elmer recalls his first experience on Cortes Island in 1935; and describes the floating homes and logging camps.;

CALL NUMBER: T0967:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: May discusses the pronunciation of the name "Cortes"; and the grapevine telephone service. Then she discusses the 1946 shipwreck of "Gulfstream"; and the development of hydro power for the island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Lasqueti Island (B.C.), [1975-02-01?] SUMMARY: "Quite a comprehensive social study of growing up on Lasqueti Island during the [1930s], and a wide gamut of anecdotal references." Social life, the Depression, etc.;

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

Theatrical trailer. Promotional short including footage of the B.C. coast, Vancouver, the Expo site, and the celebrations for the opening of Expo Centre. Sound track comprises narration and theme song, "Something's Happening Here".