May Day

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  • Previously Holidays--May Day Source: Visual Records database

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168 Archival description results for May Day

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[Mexico ; King's visit, 1939]

Amateur film. Mexico: outdoor dancing, horses, bullfight. Royal visit to Vancouver, May 1939: street scenes, pipe bands, shots of the city (Burrard Street Bridge, etc.); May Day, Queen's Park, New Westminster; beach, afternoon tea (Bowen Island?); Lions Gate Bridge; Stanley Park; King and Queen drive past; royal yacht sailing past Brockton Point, under Lions Gate Bridge; Indian canoes.

New Westminster May Day celebrations

The item is a reel of film footage. "Four girls in uniform spelling TECH. Girl's drum-and-bugle corps marching onto field and playing. Scarlet jacketed pipe band playing while marching past crowded grandstand. New and old Queen arriving with dignitaries. Abdication speech. Dancing about Maypoles in the field. Old Queen placing crown on head of new Queen, new Queen smiling. TECH marching squad marching by. Fancy drill by TECH girls. Folk dancing by kids -- large crowds watching. Girl's drill team with staves. Boy's drill team doing semaphore. Making patterns on the field with shirt colours -- boys. Mt. Baker Union High School banner preceding their Highland band, which marches past. Boy's drill team with red, white & blue flags performing field-wide precision marching." (Colin Browne)

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