The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Gardening procedures: pruning, planting. Colour views of flower garden, roses. Planting a shrub. A settlement. Young farm workers. Picking fruit. Picking beets. Harvesting potatoes. Building a root cellar [?]. Selecting beets. Children watching television. Picking fruit. Workers. Workers' camp.

Footage. 14 reels of film of varying lengths, containing footage and outs as follows: a trophy party in a restaurant for a group of young people [221D, 9D]; family fishing in coastal inlet (Booth family?) [245B]; lakeside scenery and aspects of a vegetable farm [185]; bird's nest, family outdoors in a yard with many flowers [178]; rodeo events including bronco and bull riding, lasso display, races [96]; glimpses of a mining operation -- possibly North Thompson River area [129]; planting a vegetable field [169, 87A]; four-horse ploughing team [195A]; four-horse team pulling a thrasher (?), and shot of sow and piglets [210]; various activities around a commercial flower farm [59]; boats, ships, dock, floats, brief scene of a May Day celebration, rhubarb trimmers [165]; car ferry and dock, possibly on the Fraser River [41 B]; activities around a fur farm, including feeding mink [86, 113].

The item is a reel of film footage from the 1950s. Views of fields of flowers.

The fonds consists of photographs created by Gus A. Maves in his commercial business between ca. 1920 and 1944. At this time Maves, and his wife Margaret, lived in Oak Bay, near Victoria. Maves created most of the negatives using 8 x 10 nitrate film and these were numbered and entered into his index books by number and by subject. He also created two separately numbered negatives series for negative sizes 4 x 5 and 5 x 7. Many of these negatives were copies of the 8 x 10 negatives and were used to create postcards and other commercial products. A selection of copy negatives masked and titled for printing cards, calendars and other commercial products exist within the fonds. Maves created photographic prints and proofs from most of his negatives and arranged many of them in either number or subject order in four albums. These albums, which often include the negative number and caption under the print, may have been used as order or sample books for his commercial business. There are also a considerable number of loose photographs with many duplicates including some glass plate negatives, lantern slides, transparencies, prints and artworks hand coloured by Margaret Maves. The main subject of the photographs are landscapes, particularly Butchart Gardens, Beacon Hill Park, Oak Bay Golf Club and mountain and ocean scenic shots; still life photos of fruit, vegetables and flowers, agricultural and industrial photographs and interior and exterior photographs of homes. Most of the photographs were taken in the Greater Victoria and Vancouver Island area but there are also some photographs taken in the Okanagan. The fonds also includes textual records including three indexes to the 8 x 10 negatives (two arranged by number and one by subject), an order book, publications featuring artwork by Gus and Margaret Maves, miscellaneous advertising signs, two wood printing frames, a stand for darkroom work and a “No parking” stand with coloured transparency of still life with fruit.

The item is a composite print of a travelogue from 1964. It depicts a film journey retracing the 1862 route of the Overlanders from Jasper to Kamloops, showing the attractions along the way: wildflowers; wildlife; a snowmobile trip to Columbia Icefield; cattle ranching at Douglas Lake Ranch; Mt. Robson and Wells Gray Provincial Parks, and the three-day summer rodeo at Kamloops. Also scenes of trail riding, fishing, boating and swimming.

Unedited footage. Shows mountains, wild flowers, and men trail riding, probably in the southern BC interior.

The item is a reel of unedited film footage/outtakes. Alpine flowers and mountain scenery, possibly at Manning Provincial Park. Skiing, park headquarters (log cabin), snow gauge, and building a cabin, all apparently filmed at Mount Seymour Provincial Park.

Amateur film. Garden shots, including time lapse shots of flowers opening, and a 1962 parade in Sidney or Victoria.

Nature. Spring flowers on the Saanich Peninsula and the nearby Gulf Islands.

Item consists of one film depicting spring-blooming wild flowers of the Pacific coast, shown in their natural surroundings.

Amateur film. Spring flowers, 1941; tagging salmon at Skutz Falls, Cowichan River, 1941.

The item is a reel of colour nature film made sometime in the 1930s. "Includes shots of Easter lilies (dogtooth-violets), peacocks, dogwood, daisies, trilliums, periwinkle, Indian paintbrush, honeysuckle, yellow daisies, broom, Oregon grape, yarrow, fireweed, and many others. It appears as if most of this film was shot on Vancouver Island." (Colin Browne)

Stock shots. Includes footage of wildlife, birds, flowers, alpine meadows, trail riding, snow and skiing on Mount Seymour, other outdoor recreation shots and scenery.