The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Cattle ranch; log cabin; snow-covered hilltop. A rancher tends a newly-born calf. Cattle. Two bulls ready for a fight. A dressed-up young cowboy. Cowboys round up and drive cattle.
2. Orchard. Cherry picking. Making preserves in a test kitchen. Drying apricots: sulphuring, preparation, drying box. Preserving pitted cherries with syrup, raspberries with sugar. Boiling berries for freezing.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. Sorting apples; fruit processing machines. Laboratory for research on preparation of fruit products, new equipment, and packaging. Label: "Sun-Rype Sliced Fresh Peaches". Apple-peeling machine. Apple pulp press. Grinder. Sign: "Barkwills Ltd. Fruit Processors". View of plant. Peach canning operation, including processing machinery and boxing. Boxes marked "Royal City Peaches Halved" and "Brentwood Peaches Sliced".
2. Automatic sprinkling system: control panel; sprinkler heads in operation. Various orchard sprinkler systems.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following: Picking apples; filling bins; bins to fruit processing plant. Apple juice production: floating, selecting, pulping, pressing, treatment, concentrating juice. Peeling and coring of apples; slicing; making apple sauce. Pressing and drying apple slices. Quality control testing laboratory. Canning apple juice. Labelled "Sun-Rype Apple Juice". Shipping. Various canned products. Children drinking juice.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bertha Souderholm : fruit and vegetable workers organize at Websters Corners RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Souderholm was active with Finnish community organizations in the Maple Ridge area during the war. The tape describes that community during the Depression; the cooperative movement; women's organization in the community; work and organizing at Berryland; women in the war industries; conditions in the fish canneries. Websters Corners, where she lived, had a long history of progressive organizing. Women in the Finnish community traditionally had their own organizations. Men in Websters Corners worked in industry, while women built and maintained the community. The Women's Defense League organized a defense of political prisoners during the 1930s. Later organizations gathered clothing for Finnish war relief. The unions in the 1940s established old age pensions and unemployment insurance; workmen's compensation, family allowance and medicare. The labour at Berryland was very difficult as there was little automation. Women were called in to work and received only an hour's pay if little fruit was available. TRACK 2: Women worked at Berryland on a seasonal basis, without the benefit of seniority to supplement their household income and pay taxes. Women tried to organise and several women were fired. A wildcat strike occurred later on and the union was established. This created a seniority system and year-round work.

SUMMARY: Radio program with Bill Herbert and John Sherman (?), announcers, with Syd Hubble ?), chief dispatcher for British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization; part of farm radio broadcast from CKOV by Harry Mitchell (?), announcer; A.K. Lloyd (?), President and General Manager of British Columbia Tree Fruits Organization, including sounds from machines producing apple juice; Paul Wallbruchk (?), General Manager of British Columbia Food Processors Plant; George D. Fitzgerald (?), fruit farmer, about: British Columbia, Okanagan Valley, fruit farming, cooperatives, marketing, fruit products, irrigation.