Automobile travel--British Columbia

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Our Cariboo neighbors

Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.

Our trip through the Cariboo to Fort St. James, 700 M[iles] north of Vancouver and return -- September 1938

Home movies. An automobile trip through the Cariboo, as described in the title. Shows Fraser Canyon, Lytton, Seton Lake, Lillooet, Pavilion Mountain, 70 Mile House, Cottonwood River (gold panning), Prince George, Fort St. James, Stuart Lake, Mount Douglas Lodge, Quesnel, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House (Lord Martin Cecil), Canim Lake, Clinton, Harrison Hot Springs.

People in landscape : The Cariboo Road

SUMMARY: A program on the Cariboo Road, in modern times and in the 19th century, with stories of travel by car and stagecoach from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo. The voices heard are: Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs. R.T.Crosby, Miss Leah Shaw, Vince Gresty, Gus Milliken, Roddy Moffat, and Bryson Patenaude.

Reminiscences of a motor trip

The file contains a copy of reminiscences by Annie Elizabeth Greenfield, of a motor trip made in the summer of 1927 from Vancouver to Hazelton via the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Highway, and of the return journey made via Kamloops, the Okanagan, and Washington state.

[Ron Bennett miscellaneous footage]

Amateur film footage:
004.01: Sailboats; powerboats; ferries; urban street ca. 1950s; stage show (Canada's Centennial?).
004.02: Totem pole; view from car on Patricia Bay Highway.
004.03: Horseback riding; Flying U Ranch; LLH Guest Ranch; Victoria's Inner Harbour; Totem Park with people.
004.04: Inner Harbour; pre-Swiftsure crowds; ducks; bird bathing; penny farthing bicycle race; sailboats; pond with water lily and fish.

[Seton Lake ferry trip] : [footage]

Footage. A trip the length of Seton Lake aboard the Bridge River ferry. The footage highlights the mountainous scenery en route, and shows cars boarding and driving off the ferry at the terminals.

[Totem poles ; Hazelton ; Topley Mine ; end of trip]

Amateur film. Continuation of the 1928 summer trip which begins on F1984:01/04. Indian graves, houses and totem poles in the Hazelton-Kispiox area. View of old suspension bridge. Indian people. Rivers and lakes from Hazelton back along Highway 16.

Tourism : a British Columbia industry

Promotional film. Activities of the BC Government Travel Bureau in promoting the B.C. tourist industry, emphasizing the diverse methods used to advertise the province. Includes footage of various B.C. industries, the Minister and Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, the Bureau commissioner and office staff, advertising campaigns, design and printing of colour travel brochures, public correspondence, personal contacts, promoting autombile travel, and brief shots of a car ferry, a coastal steamer, a steam train, and an airliner. Other scenes show the B.C. exhibits at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the Los Angeles Outing Show. Of special interest is a section on filmmaking, which shows Clarence Ferris running a movie camera and splicing film, and a scene of Leon Shelly's film crew shooting the BCGTB-sponsored travelogue BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Trip to the Flying U

Amateur film. House. Changing car tire. Ranch. Squirrel. Horse on range. Cowboys. Car in woods. Guests on horses. Bucking bronco, wild cow. Lake view. Car with fixed tire: Boyd's Garage. View of mountains. Fixing car again.

[Vancouver Island and Mainland] : [footage]

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.

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