Travelogue. A video souvenir of Vancouver, including sequences on Expo '86, Chinatown, Stanley Park, the Sea Festival, the Japanese Festival, etc. Includes day trips to Victoria, the Cloverdale Rodeo, and other locales in the Lower Mainland.

The item consists of a film record of BC Electric passenger railway routes and interurban service in the Fraser Valley. It shows the line's last run before it shut down in 1950. One sections documents the entire route, from the Interurban Train Depot at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver, through New Westminster, across the Fraser River, through Surrey, Cloverdale, Langley Prairie, Clayburn, Abbotsford (and other way points) to Chilliwack. Derelict cars are scrapped and burned at the Kitsilano yards under Burrard Street Bridge.

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick Whiteside recalls his parents, Helen and Guy Whiteside, and their arrival in BC in 1888; they homesteaded in Surrey, [at?] Pike and Yale Roads. He talks about the school at Tynehead in; 1900; subdivision of the homestead, today known as Fleetwood; his father's work as a fisherman in the Sunbury district; Port Mann; the land boom of 1913; Surrey Centre; the family homestead; clearing; land; logging; McNair and King Shingle Mill; other mills in Surrey; Jimmy Robson; South Westminster; Murphy's Dairy; Kennedy; Indian reserve; Johnny Wise. TRACK 2: Mr. Whiteside continues with recollections of Johnny Wise and his hotel, the Clarendon; Brownsville Hill; the Green Timbers area; the New Westminster Market; Murrayville; peddlers, Kidd & Israel; stoves; roads; Surrey Centre; John Churchland; settlers in Surrey Centre; Reverend Bell.;

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Whiteside talks about Cloverdale; the Boothroyd family; Alec Matheson, a constable and blacksmith; Joe Drinkwater; Harry Bose; Tynehead; Port Kells; recreation; Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit; farming; roads and trails; D.M. Robertson; Tynehead Nurseries; the Boothwell family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jack Bothwell recounts the early Bothwells that pre-empted in the Tynehead area in 1884; early settlers; roads; shingle and sawmills; lumbering; transportation; New Westminster; community life; dances; churches; the Reverend Bell; farming life; Dr. Fred Sinclair; Alec Matheson. TRACK 2: Mr. Bothwell continues by discussing circuit ministers; Alec Matheson; community life; logging; shingle mills; the Anderson family; D.M. Robertson; "Hop Lee" at Cloverdale; hunting.

The item is a reel of film footage. Part of this film compares old and new methods of starting beekeeping, utilizing wild bees versus package bees. It was shot in part at Scott's Apiary in Cloverdale. Also includes shots of Ashcroft and a field day or "bee meeting" there, on September 13, 1964.

SUMMARY: "Central Surrey", the fourth episode, describes the logging industry and the settlements of Cloverdale and Surrey Centre.

The recording is incomplete.

CALL NUMBER: T0326:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Margaret Stewart, nee Brown, recounts her father's [David W. Brown] early life and her parent's arrival at Halls Prairie in 1878. She talks about early life at Halls Prairie; Archie Brown; ;the first settlers; setting up the homestead; clearing the land; her mother's life and homemaking skills; butter production; her father's request to Government to build a road to Cloverdale; the New Westminster Market; her father's role as justice of the peace and postmaster; fruit growing and the Semiahmoo Spit. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart continues with her discussion about early days on Halls Prairie; schooling in 1885; teachers; Chief Semiahmoo; George Kinley; Indians in the area; family homes; Blaine, Washington; the customs officers; smuggling; July 4 celebrations at Blaine; anti-British sentiment; the U.S. depression of 1893/94 and the consequences for BC; and St. Leonard's Hotel.;

CALL NUMBER: T0326:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Stewart continues with her recollections about local incidents; two eccentric Brown brothers, their horticultural interests and their property; the Henry T. Thrift family; the post office; Hazelmere; Christmas celebrations; churches; community life; the Hinch family; logging; incidents; early New Westminster; miner's supplies; the Cariboo Gold Rush. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart recounts ;family stories; first impressions of New Westminster; river transportation; incidents; reminiscences and poems.

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Teskey recounts her family's history; her grandfather; her father's early life and work in Yale as a brick maker for the CPR in 1879; her mother's trip to BC with the family in 188;1; family life in Yale; the town of Yale; their trip and settlement in Clover Valley, as Cloverdale was known; Surrey; other settlers in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Teskey talks about establishing the first school in Cloverdale; her father's appointment as Reeve; the family move to Hazelmere; the family farm; school; Indian graves; Joe Semiahmoo; schools in the area; her father's work for the Yorkshire Guarantee Company in England as a settlement agent; sawmills; the Great Northern Railway; mail; stage coach routes; Halls Prairie.;

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Teskey continues with stories about other settlers in Surrey; anecdotes; the naming of Hazelmere and Glenwood; childhood recollections; her work at age eleven in New Westminster and Gastown; English Bay in 1893; the family's hop farm; strawberries. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a composite print of a travelogue film from 1973. It contains footage of aspects of the province as seen in Beautiful B.C. Magazine; the British Columbia Boys Choir is featured. Also includes sequences on the Cariboo-Chilcotin region; the Williams Lake Stampede; Hell's Gate Aerial Tramway in Fraser Canyon; sculptor Arnold Michaelson of White Rock; skiing by aircraft in the Purcell Range (Kootenay area); Queen Elizabeth Park (Vancouver); Three Valley Gap; Festival of "Medieval Sports" at Cloverdale and activities in Stanley Park.

Newsreel. Eleven stories from around the world, including three from British Columbia. The eighth story, entitled "Rodeo: Cowboy's Holiday -- Wild and Western," shows bronco and Brahma bull riding at the Cloverdale holiday rodeo. The ninth, "Indian Regatta: West Coast Tribes Vie in War Canoes," shows native Canadians competing in the annual war canoe races at Esquimalt; the Chemainus team wins. The tenth, "End of Era: Timber Festival Marks End of Logging Trains," shows the shutting down of the logging railway at MacMillan & Bloedel's Franklin River operation. The train, pulled by a steam locomotive, is shown loading and dumping logs, and its replacement -- the logging truck -- goes to work.

CALL NUMBER: T0765:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1963-03?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Johnson recalls arriving in New Westminster in 1879; living in Yale; an incident involving a steamboat trip on the Fraser; traveling to the family homestead in Halls Prairie in 1882; the; White Rock area circa 1882; picnics on the beach; the logging operations of Murran and Elwood; anecdote about beavers; roads in Surrey; the Semiahmoo Trail; customs at Elgin. TRACK 2: Mr. Johnson continues with discussion about the customs office at Elgin; his father's farm at Halls Prairie; life on the farm; early residents in the area; Hazelmere; the Thrift family; anecdotes about Judge Begbie; stage transportation; schooling; customs regulations; the murder of Murran; his work in the mills and later in the customs for the Great Northern Railroad; his customs work at the Cloverdale depot ;and later for government customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T0765:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1963-03?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Johnson talks about his Canadian customs work; the Great Northern Railroad; living in White Rock in 1909; shopping in Blaine; the railway customs house at White Rock; the customs house at; the Pacific Highway; customs incidents; the White Rock Water Works Company; early White Rock; subdivision. [TRACK 2: blank.]