Amateur film. Miscellaneous footage taken during the time that Miss Gerry worked as a nurse for the federal Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs. Includes footage of Indian reserves and villages, celebrations and school children; a First Communion procession at St. Paul's Indian Catholic Church in North Vancouver; hospital and clinic scenes; residential schools and Coqualeetza Indian School and Hospital; Cariboo highway and scenery; Williams Lake Stampede; etc. Also includes OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, a discrete two-reel film that depicts a 1941 automobile journey to visit Indian reserves and missions in the Cariboo. For a detailed content summary of OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, see item description AAAA5215.

Amateur film. "B&W: H.M.S. "Apollo" in Vancouver Harbour. S.S. "Empress of Japan" in Vancouver Harbour. Train at Seton Lake. Fraser Highway. Highlining in the woods. Malahat Drive. Roses at Butchart Gardens. Thompson River. Oliver. Kalamalka Lake. Hospital at Tranquille. Dr. Kingsley Terry. COLOUR: Bridge River. Mt. Halcyon. Upper Arrow Lake. Trail. Elk Falls. Logging camp at Campbell River in 1937." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of travelogue film taken from Vancouver B.C. through Canada to the Atlantic provinces. B.C. footage consists of Vancouver street scenes and waterfront, passenger train in mountain range, and logging shots.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962 or earlier] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Douglas talks about his early years on the sea; his impression of the harbours in Vancouver and Steveston in 1897; a concert at Steveston; and the Klondike Gold Rush. He describes Vancouver in the 1890s, streetcars; roads; the fire; and transportation. He recalls his cousin, B.C. Lieutenant Governor Sir Henri Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere. He discusses his career with the English merchant marine. TRACK 2: Captain Douglas continues with his recollections about his career in the merchant marine; he describes the CPR liner "Empress of Asia" [on which he served as chief officer]; recalls the war years; describes the Victoria of 1905, and the north shore [of Burrard Inlet?].

Footage. A film showing tourism and commerce in three areas: the Cariboo region around 100 Mile House, Vancouver, and the upper Fraser Valley. Cariboo region subjects include fishing, motoring, horseback riding, boating, hiking, pioneer buildings, a covered wagon, and ranching. In Vancouver the focus is shipping. Upper Fraser Valley subjects include Chilliwack businesses and residences, agriculture, outdoor recreation, Hope area campgrounds, Fort Hope Lodge, hiking, boating, and horseback riding. Visitors cross the Fraser River in a canoe to see a waterfall.

SUMMARY: A portrait of Vancouver, written by Bill McCarthy. The program investigates what it is that holds the citizens' loyalty to the city, its surroundings and its moods.

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)

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Donald Peck discusses changes in Vancouver and its harbour. He begins in 1897 when his family lived at English Bay and his father built a boat for use on the Fraser River during the financial crisis, a description of the over fishing that year, a description of the boat as compared to others at that time, how some streets in Vancouver were made from logging roads, how sawmills helped to develop the demographics of the city, anecdote about a man at the Hastings Mill named Captain Bailey, details on Bailey and his life, a boat called the "Senator", what the harbour was like at that time including various boats and Captains, anecdotes about what life was like in 1897, the filling of False Creek in 1910, the navigational hazard of the Narrows, how his family came to Canada in 1742 to New Brunswick from the USA and how they were ship builders, details on his family lineage including boats they built, details on his father's life and boats he worked on, the first machines which revolutionized the cannery industry were partially developed by his father, how his father sold the first salmon cannery to Japan, internal combustion engines which ended up being a failure, how in 1898 the family moved to Rivers Inlet so his father could help build the machinery at the cannery there, then the family moved back to Vancouver in 1901 so the kids could go to the Mount Pleasant School, more details on his father's work at sawmills, his reminiscences of the Fort Simpson area including the tugboats he used and Captains there, an anecdote about liquor laws involving Indians. and the invention of the Davis raft.

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Peck discusses and describes the chances he took in his youth, Captain Alf Lewis who towed a boat called "The Progressive", his experiences towing in 1918, buying the "Topaz" and moving back to Vancouver when the mill closed, a story about Haida canoes in Port Simpson and Metlakatla, his impressions of and details about the Haida people. TRACK 2: Captain Peck describes the transport of coal from B.C. to California around the turn of the century by the use of tugboats, what it was like at Hastings Harbour at that time, cargo ships that were lost including one in 1906 and a Russian ship called the "Volentia", more on the Narrows, an explosion on a small boat in 1902 at Port Simpson, Father Hogan who was the minister at Port Simpson at that time who gave his skin to those who were burned, a story about a stone mason named Mr. Rudge who dumped a tombstone overboard where a Haida man had drowned, the activity in salmon fishing on the Skeena River in the days before Prince Rupert was established in 1907, including details on the canneries near Port Essington, and the 186 mile journey along the Skeena from Prince Rupert to Hazelton aboard sternwheelers.

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Peck discusses how boys in those days had to be self-dependant and had to learn to hunt and take care of the home, his friend Walter Wick's father who was the first foreigner he met while he lived at Inverness, a description of the Wick boys, he then describes his early memories of life at Metlakatla including details about people there. [Note: there is a splice in the tape so track 2 on this CD is a continuation of T0389:0003.] TRACK 2: Captain Peck offers a description of a woman named Miss West whom he met in 1904 in Georgetown, he discusses the history of Georgetown and the sawmill there including its establishment before Confederation, Mr. Morrow of Metlakatla who was a butcher at Metlakatla and was a former Indian agent, a description of the landscape at Metlakatla, the Rudge family, the origins of Port Essington including the type of place it was and people there. TRACK 3: Captain Peck discusses boats constructed for the Stikine and for the Yukon gold rush, the limitations of sternwheelers, experiences on the Nelson River, the people and geography of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the settlement of Sointula, and the elk on Graham Island, QCI.

Footage. 28 November 1968: In Vancouver harbour, large logs are loaded onto the "Ho-O Maru" for shipment to Osaka, Japan, where they will be used in the construction of the BC Pavilion.

Footage. From an unidentified film. Includes fishing boats at dock; crewmen examining and mending nets and preparing boats; Vancouver skyline from waterfront; many shots of fishing fleet under way and leaving Vancouver harbour (passing under Lion's Gate bridge); a CPR ferry; blocks of ice en route to the boats. (The fishing boats include "Aleutian Queen", "Combat" and "Pacific Belle".) The roll concludes with footage showing a fisheries technician counting fingerlings at Cultus Lake.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1971] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Watson came to Vancouver from Manitoba in 1905, and started in the shoe business. At the time of this interview, he was still selling shoes at the age of eighty-two in White Rock. He talks about some early recollections; his family homestead; growing up in Manitoba; coming out to Vancouver; impressions of the city; shoe stores in Vancouver; Woodward's; shoe salesmen; shoe fitting; shoe styles; early Vancouver in the 1900s; the business area; streets; the CPR; the harbour; and his thoughts on youth. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Footage. Footage from an unidentified film. Includes views of Vancouver [and North Vancouver?] from the harbour; many scenes of herring fleet under way; shots of and on board various herring boats (including "Norcrown", "Irana", "Waldero" and "Western Cruiser"); the packer "Norcrest" unloading fish at a cannery on the North Shore; herring in nets and being brailed into hold; seagulls swarming.

The item is release print of an industrial film made by Canadian Bechtel Ltd. between 1955 and 1957. It shows the
construction of Westcoast Transmission's natural gas pipeline from the Peace River gas fields to Huntington in the Lower Mainland. It includes views of the Peace River region, Fraser Valley, Fraser River and Thompson River, construction of pipeline river crossing in Coquihalla Canyon, land clearing, shipload of pipe arriving at Vancouver Harbour, views from PGE train carrying pipe north and procedure of welding and ditching pipe.

The item is a composite print of an industrial film, from 1961. It shows the construction of Western Pacific's crude oil pipeline from the Peace River region to Kamloops. Includes shots of Barkerville; seismic blasting; drilling for oil; laying of pipeline (with crossings of the Fraser and Quesnel Rivers); BC oil refineries (including Ioco); Prince George; Vancouver (harbour, Lion's Gate Bridge, skyline); Cariboo range land and family recreation.

File consists of a film and cashbook (undated) of the Hastings Mill Store in Vancouver.

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.

Footage. Detailed depiction of the fire that engulfed the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pier D on Vancouver Harbour on 27 July 1938. Includes shots of fire-fighting, crowds of onlookers, and adjacent buildings.

Footage. Good general and close views of the spectacular fire which destroyed the CPR's Pier D in Vancouver.

SUMMARY: A word and sound picture of the Port of Vancouver as it is today. The program opens with a panoramic description of the Port of Vancouver from minesweeper HMCS Cordova as it steams through First Narrows. The program includes visits to Point Atkinson Lighthouse; the Department of Transport lookout tower on Lions Gate Bridge; HMCS Discovery, the naval reserve training base on Deadman's Island; shipyards; the yachts and fishing vessels moored in Coal Harbour; a coastal tanker; grain elevators; the Harbor Master's office; fire boats and police boats.

Documentary. A profile of the Port of Vancouver and its history, using contemporary footage and still photographs.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hamilton recalls his early years in Vancouver; his family arrived in 1890. He describes the city; the streetcars; the Mount Pleasant area; his family; his childhood; work at the mills; anecdotes; his work in logging camps; impressions of the city between 1890 and 1900; Carrall Street; saloons; stores; schools; development of the city; Granville Street; English Bay and Indians. TRACK; 2: Mr. Hamilton continues with recollections of the Vancouver Harbour; mills in the city; sounds of the city; dairy farms; streams; the Chinese community; race riots in 1907; bridges; False Creek; T;rout Lake; Cedar Cottage district; Victoria; anecdotes about the McGeer family and reminiscences.

Amateur film. "In Stanley Park, a girl walking under and posing beside Japanese bridge. [Long shot of] boat on [First Narrows]. Throng of kids on roundabout. Costumed actress from Vancouver's 50th anniversary pageant. Charter yacht used for travelling about the harbour, etc., name ["Friendship"]. Crowd on beach at English Bay, bath house in [background]." (Colin Browne)

Documentary. A profile of the Port of Vancouver and its history.