The item is a promotional film. It describes the joint Canada-British Columbia Industrial Development Subsidy program, an initiative to improve employment opportunities and balanced development.

The item consists of a promotional film. It describes the joint Canada-British Columbia Industrial Development Subsidy program, an initiative to improve employment opportunities and balanced development.

The item is a reel of unedited film footage of Premier W.A.C. Bennett making a speech. Vancouver Mayor Tom Campbell and the Hon. L.J. Wallace are also shown, as well as a choir and the Beefeater Band.

Two volumes of news clipping books, the first from 1941-1943 arranged chronologically; the second, from 1947-1951 arranged alphabetically, mainly by settlement or location, but occasionally by subject. The clippings cover most aspects of mining, including petroleum and coal, such as exploration, operation, demand, labour relations, taxation, war effort and production.

The series consists of the general office files of the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Alexander (Sandy) Peel, created between 1974 and 1979.
The files are arranged in file code number order from 5127 to 5444 and are a mixture of subject and general correspondence files covering all aspects of the Deputy Minister's activities including: conferences, Federal-Provincial relations, economic policy and plans, Minister meetings and speeches on economic development and copies of Orders-in-Council resumes.

Three ledgers kept pursuant to the Department of Industries Act providing for an "Industrial Development Fund", 1919-1956 [R.S.B.C., 1919, c.34. S.7].

News item. Premier Bill Bennett talks with the press after the throne speech. He says BC will continue to build an economic and industrial base, but it will also "take on the type of directions that are more specified than the general commitment." The forest industry, he says, must be "preserved and maintained" through major commitments, with "a secure cut" that can be kept for the present generation and for future generations. He briefly discusses the Bill of Rights. He talks about the role of the Ministry of Economic Development in opening discussion for an agreement with the federal government on B.C.'s northeast coal fields, transportation studies, port facilities, etc.

The item is a VHS promotional video from 1985. It promotes business and industrial development in British Columbia's six inland regions -- Peace River/Liard, North Central (Cariboo-Fort George), South Central, Okanagan/Similkameen, West Kootenays and East Kootenays.