The item is an audio recording of an interview with Horace Hinton in 1975.
T0500:0001 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses early logging experience: move to Nimpkish Valley from Washington State, 1919; description of English Logging Company Camp #1; railroad personnel; aspects of railway logging; problems of isolation; logging camp life; life in Englewood, ca. 1926.
T0500:0001 track 2: Mr. Hinton comments on Shay and Climax engines; Japanese mill workers at Englewood; life in the logging camps during the 1930s; railway logging in Nimpkish Valley, 1930-70; railway maintenance and accidents, 1930-70.

T0500:0002 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses Japanese mill workers at Englewood, 1920-40; Chinese mill workers at Nimpkish Lake; floating camps (description and conditions); repairing logging equipment particularly steam locomotives. T0500:0002 track 2: Mr. Hinton discusses repairing locomotives (cont'd); working hours of locomotive engineers, 1920-40; the change from steam to diesel locomotives, 1951-52; registration of locomotives at Nimpkish; farms in the Nimpkish River area, 1920s; recreation and holidays from the camp, 1920s; travel on the union steamship line along the B.C. coast, 1930-40; description of company personnel, Frank Coleman and Russell Mills.

T0500:0003 track 1: Mr. Hinton discusses company personnel (cont'd); Eli Tibiff, 1920s; mechanical training of Hinton, 1930s; description of William "Bill" McMahon.

Documentary. This film depicts a trip from Seattle to Victoria on the S.S. Princess Marguerite, and profiles the history of the ship -- and of her namesake, an earlier B.C. coastal steamship that was sunk during World War II while serving as a troop transport.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the transportation of logs from the forest to the mill. The main part of the film follows a load of logs down the coast from Masset Inlet on Haida Gwaii aboard the self-dumping log barge "Haida Carrier", towed by the tug "Haida Chieftain". Also includes footage of logging trucks and the manufacture and shipping of forest products.

Item consists of a documentary showing outdoor gathering of five men listening to Hugh Mann and Stu Phillips talk about their experiences flying the Supermarine Stranraer flying boat on the west coast. The flying boat is anchored near shore in the background and later seen in flight. The film is an excerpt from an episode of the weekly television show.

Item consists of aerial footage showing the BC coastline from a low-flying aircraft, shot through a circular window or lens. The area shown is uninhabited.

The item is a reel of nature film. It is a compilation film illustrating patterns in nature through examples found on the Pacific coast. Includes varied tidal marine line and plants -- crabs, starfish, lobster, anemones, clams, etc. Discussion of patterns in form and structure, behaviour and natural association.

The item is a reel of nature film footage about marine mammals of the Pacific Coast including sea lions, sea otters, fur and harbour seals, porpoises and killer whales. Also: Indigenous whaling techniques; whaling ship "Westwhale"; processing of whale carcasses at Coal Harbour whaling station.

The item is a reel of nature film about seashore plant and animal life (e.g., crustaceans, anemones, worms, octopus, jellyfish, etc.).

The item is a documentary narration track. Ecologist and nature photographer Bristol Foster, Ph.D., introduces the coastal area of British Columbia, including the Queen Charlotte Islands, where we see eagles, sea lions and a Peale's falcon, as well as evidence of the ancient culture of the Haida. The Kwakiutl raise a new totem pole for the first time in 30 years, a sign that the ancient skills have not been lost.

The item is a reel of nature film. It includes footage of fur seals, a stranded Baleen whale, and a whale surfacing.

Item consists of a film depicting a zoological survey trip to Triangle Island, and shows sea lions, puffins, and other birds, plus Indigenous artifacts.

The file consists of five reels of unedited film footage/out-takes. Contains footage of commercial salmon and halibut trolling; purse seining; gill netting; fish ladders (Hells Gate); cannery interiors; tagging salmon; salmon spawning; salmon eggs and fry in laboratory; Adams River salmon run; hatchery scenes. Also includes: aerial views of the B.C. coastline; docks at Zeballos; De Havilland Dragon Rapide passenger plane on floats (registration CF-AYE).
It includes some footage from the film "Commercial salmon trolling off the British Columbia Coast."

The item consists of three reels of industrial film. Shows the salmon spawning cycle, methods of commercial purse-seine and gillnet fishing, and processing of the catch at the cannery; includes footage of an "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine. Filmed at unspecified locations on the BC coast.

The item is a compilation video. It contains excerpts selected from ethnographic films showing First Peoples of the British Columbia coast, 1910-1930, including films produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company (1910), Edward W. Curtis (1914), Pathescope of Canada (1919), Harlan I. Smith (1928-1929), Marius Barbeau and Associated Screen News (1927), and Franz Boas (1930).

Amateur film. B&W: views of Arrow Lakes scenery from a sternwheeler; arrival; the "Minto" at dock. Two men travelling by packhorse in the Lardeau. The steam tug "Beaton". Sequence on gold mining in the Cariboo, with footage of a hydraulic mining operation. COLOUR: Vancouver; Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park approach; city skyline. Trip on the steamship S.S. "Catala": views at sea; approaching settlement; people meeting the boat; log boom and sawmill adjacent to the dock. Alert Bay: views of village, store, homes, etc.; Indian children at play; schoolgirls in red sweaters [from St. Michael's Indian Residential School]; steamboat arriving; many shots of totem poles, graveyard, etc. Fishing fleet in harbour, preparing nets, and heading out to sea. Fishboat crew hauling in net full of thrashing salmon, and brailing them onto boat. Other fishboats setting their nets, hauling in salmon. Fishboat crew unloading salmon onto conveyor; shots of cannery wharf, female cannery workers. Savary Island: family vacation scenes; lodge; children at play; adults playing golf on beach at low tide; departing on a boat trip.

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.

Industrial film. The transportation of logs from the forest to the mill. The main part of the film follows a load of logs down the coast from Masset Inlet on the Queen Charlotte Islands aboard the self-dumping log barge "Haida Carrier", towed by the tug "Haida Chieftain". Also includes footage of logging trucks and the manufacture and shipping of forest products.

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.

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.

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 series consists of 9 reels of unedited footage shot by filmmakers working under an Opportunities For Youth (OFY) grant to document archaeological projects all over British Columbia. These 9 reels record the activities of Simon Fraser University archaeology field schools in the summer of 1972. Footage shows students travelling up the coast by boat (F1992:07/001); excavations, etc., at Kwatna (F1992:07/002-005) and Kimsquit (F1992:07/007-009); work in the SFU archaeology lab; and displays at the SFU Museum of Archaeology (F1992:07/006).

Television commercials. A representative collection of MacMillan Bloedel television commercials highlighting various aspects of the company's operations and corporate citizenship. Includes spots focusing on the company's activities in world trade markets; methods of transporting logs and products; the self-dumping log barge; log sorting with dozer boats; new methods of planting and reforestation; forest fire protection; pollution control; the Ash River Valley reforestation project, begun in 1942; the educational activities of wildlife filmmaker Tommy Tompkins, sponsored by MacMillan Bloedel; and a bird sanctuary near Port Alberni supported by the company. Each spots is 1-2 minutes long.

Documentary. A made-for-television episode of "American Sportsman". An American from Portland, Oregon, goes on a sports fishing trip to Rivers Inlet on the Island Tug and Barge Ltd. tug Island "Monarch". Salmon in excess of 50 pounds are caught.

Footage. This lengthy compilation comprises the earliest Booth films (mostly unedited 100-foot reels), placed in chronological order. They focus on travel and recreation in two major areas: Vancouver Island and the lower Fraser Canyon. The first reel (1931) shows an auto court and various scenes around the Fraser Canyon, including native Indians drying fish. This is followed by a series of reels (all from 1932) showing tourist spots and recreation on Vancouver Island, including Butchart Gardens, Goldstream Park, Saanich Inlet, a lake (possibly Shawnigan Lake), skating (at Lost Lagoon, Vancouver), fishing and water sports at Vancouver Island spots, the Chemainus River, Nanaimo, the CPR ferry "Princess Elaine", a pan of Comox Valley, many coastal features, and a sequence on hikers in high mountain terrain. Another reel shows details of native fishing in the Fraser Canyon. A brief sequence (ca. 1933), shows a car on a snowy road being towed by two horses. The last reel (1934) shows fishing at Campbell River.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Coming to Canada. Married 1908. Fishing at Blackfish. Trollers. Cannery operations before 1908, including the "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine. Story of a close call at sea in the Aleutians. Halibut fishing. Went to Bering Strait before 1908. First fishing boat. Ranching in Alberta after WWI; hard hit by the Depression. His grandfather settled on Orcas Island and grew hay. [Mr. Still grew up on Orcas.] TRACK 2: Probably made trip to the Bering Sea in 1903 or later. Rowboat fishing. Fish abundant. Story of man abandoned by dog team. Eskimos at cannery. More on canneries and fishermen. Fishing methods then and now. Story about towboating and breaking up a log boom.

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.

RECORDED: Lund (B.C.), 1975-02-18 SUMMARY: P.B. and Olga Sorensen discuss their life and experiences living in Lund, BC; fishing; stories of social interest and impressions.;

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: Leander Carlson came to Canada in 1905. He held various labouring jobs including construction on the prairies, rail road construction, logging etc. Became unemployed in 1914 and enlisted in the army. He "fought in every major battle the Canadian's were in". Came back to Saskatchewan and got a homestead which he left to become a prefect on an Indian reservation. He remained there for some years before finally leaving in order to be near a school his children could go to.

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: Leander Carlson's life after he left the Indian reservation as a construction worker and foreman. Time spent as a fish buyer on the coast of B.C. Becoming a Singer Sewing Machine repair man and animal; trainer after retiring. Sings a number of songs, some of which he wrote himself, about the early days in B.C.

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Harry Allison, a crewman of the "Zodiac Light" with many years' experience fishing on the B.C. coast.

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.]