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Traveltour of the west coast of Vancouver Island
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- moving images
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Pathescope of Canada
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[1919?] (Creation)
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1 videocassette (00:11:50) : video master, b&w, VHS, silent with inter-titles ; 13 mm
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The item is a video copy of a travelogue. Depicts some highlights to be seen during a steamship cruise along the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound. Footage includes: a tourist information office; mountain and shoreline scenery; First Nations man carving a dugout canoe from a cedar log at "Ahooset" [i.e, Ahousat]; Friendly Cove lighthouse; Tulpana [i.e., Tlupana?] Canyon; exploring the shores of Nootka Island [?] by small boat; the "quaint Indian village" of Friendly Cove; totem pole honouring Captain Cook; Women making and selling baskets at Quatsino; Port Alice; a nearby whaling station [probably Coal Harbour]; seal colony on Salander Rock [i.e., Solander Island]; injured eagle, and hunters posing with dead eagles.
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National Film, Television and Sound Archives, National Archives of Canada : via A. Kesteris.
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A VHS reference copy is available for this item, V1986:20 REF.
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Copyright expired. Credit Ernest Belton Collection, NAC.
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"May have been made for the British Columbia Patriotic and Educational Picture Service, which would date it between 1920 and 1923." (Colin Browne) End credit reads: "British Columbia Government Films". This copy was made from an item in the Ernest Belton Collection at the National Archives of Canada.
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References: Listed in Browne, "Motion Picture Production in B.C.", entry #A58.
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Accession number(s): V1986:20
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Previously described as AAAA2932.
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producing agency/company: Pathescope of Canada; sponsored/presented by: Government of British Columbia