The item is a video copy of a travelogue film from around 1946. It shows a scenic tour across Canada featuring tourist attractions, provincial capitals, and CP hotel facilities. BC scenes: across the Great Divide to Lake O'Hara; Field; Takakkaw Falls; Emerald Lake; Kicking Horse River; Vancouver (skyline, streets, Lion's Gate Bridge, English Bay, harbour, CP Princess ship departing), and Victoria (aerial view, ship arriving, harbour view).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-05-27 SUMMARY: A presentation by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson, authors of "Greetings from Canada: an album of unique Canadian postcards from the Edwardian era, 1900-1916".;

Diary of R.G. Grey, 1879-1881, giving account of two voyages from London to Melbourne, typescript extracts from diary, 1906-1913, diary 1923-1932, papers on family history, re Josephine Butler (aunt), drafts of essays and letters to editors on world affairs, socialism; reminiscences of Winnifred Grey, 1895-1946, mainly re life on South Pender and Samuel Islands, school exercise books; letter to Evelyn (Grey) Smith, 1917, from army officer.

Educational. A film about the desirability of people developing their talents to the full. Includes shots of scenery and activities (sports, farming, shipping, etc.) across Canada. No identifiable shots of British Columbia.

The file consists of photocopies of two letters written by Mary E. (Nicol) Bennett to her sister Agnes in 1902 describing her journey across Canada by train and her arrival and first days in Hastings, B.C. (According to information received from the donor, Mary was from Bathurst, New Brunswick. In 1906 she taught school in Mara, B.C., and the following year married Ernest Bennett.)

Documentary. A montage showing the people of Canada, their activities and their varied cultural heritage. There are clearly a number of shots or scenes from BC, but the only one identified as such shows totem poles at Kitwanga. The film includes a brief discussion of Indian art, with some examples of West Coast styles. The narration emphasizes the nation-forming power of the Canadian mosaic of people with various ethnic origins, based on democratic traditions.

Travelogue. Impressions of Canada as seen by an American couple travelling from Newfoundland to BC, a sports fisherman, an American schoolboy and a landscape painter. BC footage includes views of Mt. Robson, Vancouver and Victoria; fishing at Amethyst Lake in the Thompson Valley; logging for pulpwood (including falling, trucking of logs, log jam being cleared with explosives); totem poles at Kitwanga.

Amateur film

The item is a microform copy of a thesis by Richard Clark Davis titled "Voyages of discovery: 20th century evolution of the narratives of wilderness travel in the Canadian North." 1979. 261 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of New Brunswick, 1979. Bibliography: leaves 262-268. Canadian theses on microfiche, 41044.