Amateur film. B&W: Parade. MacMillan Bloedel lumber yard. COLOUR: Beach. People, bagpiper, rocks, etc. Boat trip; passes fishing town, some sort of plant. Train trip (by CPR to Qualicum from Parksville?); scenery; a fair with races, games, eating, etc. Royal visit: Victoria (Douglas and Yates); Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip [?]; good shots of street and buildings; the Empress Hotel in full decoration. 1958 May Day, dancers, parade.

Amateur film. "First Narrows Bridge, Vancouver, under construction. Vancouver shots. Mounted RCMP in front of Courthouse. Granville Street with Orpheum Theatre. Miniature Golf in Stanley Park. Shawnigan Lake. A.C. DesBrisay, Chief Justice of B.C. Shovelling snow on Balfour Avenue. Qualicum Beach Hotel. Jack Constantine & friend. T.G.S. Chambers. Vancouver at night. House and garden. Ernest Gourlay fishing. River. Power dam at Bonnington Falls. Wharf for ferry at Kootenay Lake. Trail. Osoyoos Lake taken from the old highway. Looking down onto Christina Lake. Beach scene. St. Malo, France and Carnac. Going into Belle Isle. Brittany. Welwyn Garden City (England?). Weston. Southampton with [the liner] "Empress of Britain". [Automobile trip over Continental Divide in USA. Salt Lake City -- Mormon Temple and Tabernacle.] Snoqualmie Pass." (Colin Browne)

Documents in this collection pertain to both schools and include: Collegiate School (CS) students' register (1892-1929); CS students' roll book (1910-1929); CS Cadet corps orders book (1910-1919); CS scrapbook (1898-1929); and samples of CS hat ribbons and blazer crests. Muskett's personal account book and Qualicum College students' register (1935-1936) also included.

The item consists of a film reel containing edited footage. It has an overview of the 1957 season at the Walker's Cold Fish Lake Camp and guiding operation. It begins with the journey from the Walker home at Qualicum Beach to Cold Fish Lake, via Dawson Creek, Lower Post, Watson Lake and Dease Lake. It shows the unloading of supplies at Cold Fish Lake, construction scenes, breaking pack horses, building a bridge, a birthday party and guests and mail arriving via floatplane from Telegraph Creek. There are trail, hunting and fishing scenes including Mountain or Stone sheep at Sanctuary Ridge, camping out on the trail, Marion Creek, party hunting sheep on Spatsizi Plateau, skinning trophy ram, scenes showing chipmunk, mountain goats, eagle, caribou, hunting goat. Packing up at hunting camp, shooting practice, hunting moose; meat packed back to Cold Fish Lake, where it is butchered by Mrs. Jack and dried. Hunting with bow and arrow, chopping wood, departure of guests, closing camp for the season and horses leaving for Hyland Post. Tommy Walker making a last ride to the plateau to photograph caribou.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jimmy Kingsley describes how his family settled in Parksville in 1899; later his family traveled to the Yukon in 1901 and stayed for four years at Grand Forks, Yukon; they returned to Parksville in 1905. He describes early years in the Parksville area; early settlers; transportation; the stage; the railway; early settlers; schooling; logging; settlement in 1890; early Parksville; churches; Qualicum Beach; Coombs; Errington; farming; and logging. TRACK 2: Mr. Kingsley describes the social life of the area; Indians; "Nanoose Bob"; "Qualicum Tom"; Englishman River; local employment ;building bridges; public property; anecdotes; Whisky Creek; stagecoaches; and resort development in Parksville.

The item consists of a letter from Leonard Humphreys to his mother in Vancouver written June 1, 1913, from Qualicum Beach where he and his brother had just pre-empted land.

Children playing.