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)

The item is a reel of documentary film. "B&W: New Westminster celebrates her 66th May Day, May 2,1936. Procession of old Queen, Mary Doyle, and new Queen, Margaret Clark, and their court, to park and grandstand. Colour: bandstand, crowds, band, various Queens from the Fraser Valley. Ceremonial abdication and coronation. New Queen drives off in carriage to greet subjects. Kids at 30 Maypoles perform Maypole Dance. B&W: Dance continues; kids perform folk dances, physical education drill and calisthenics." (Colin Browne)

The item consists of two film reels; a workprint and an internegative, containing special event footage. "Parade marching along Hasting Street. American band (?). Highland band. Shriners. Pageant in Stanley Park (colour): ladies in crinolines. This may have been a PNE parade, but is not identified. MAY DAY PARADE: This is quite exciting, and contains groups of men and women marching under several different banners. The banners read, in order: "Stop Hitler -- Save Peace"; "[?] Support Democracy"; "Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion"; "White Lunch - Eden - Waldorf - On Unfair List"; "Communist Party of Canada -- B.C. District - Jobs - Recovery - Democracy and Peace"; "Relief Project Workers Union Workers Demanding Jobs"; "Spain Vets - Welcome Home"; "We Are Against Militarisation -- The Youth"; "Demand Hands Off Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavian Progressive Movement"; "Down With Imperialist War"; and "Bread Not Bullets". The film also shows a newsboy selling the "People's Advocate" newspaper, and a group from the baker's union, as well as several bands." Also includes "This is a film Mr. Bowdery shot and edited into a form of home newsreel called The Second World War--The Hand of Tyranny. It is captioned with headlines from the "People's Advocate" newspaper. The footage contains scenes of the exterior of the Vancouver Post Office at Hastings and Granville. Employees being checked at the entrance. Interior of building, protestors in sit-down strike. [Close-up of] trio of protestors, other good [close-ups]. Protestors singing "The Red Flag", [with] banjo and accordion accompaniment. Unemployed march."(Colin Browne)

The item is a video magazine program. This broadcast features a special about May Day Queens, entitled "Queen for a day". It includes BC Archives film footage.

The file contains a black photograph album with 343 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1947 and 1948. The albums contains photographs of holidays in Qualicum Beach, Campbell River and Alberni as well as Victoria scenes and May Day celebrations.

Amateur film. The town of Ymir and the nearby Yankee Girl gold mine. Mining concentrator building (with aerial tramway) beside the Salmo River. Mine site, high on mountainside; buildings; small electric train of ore cars; dumping tailings on hillside; dumping ore into aerial tramway; tramway buckets descending very steep hillside to concentrator, and emptying into hopper there. B&W: interior shots (some dark): ore on conveyor belt; refining processes [cyanidation and flotation]; etc. COLOUR: bridge across river for ore cars. B&W: interior of assay office; staff with instruments, performing tests, etc. COLOUR: May Day celebrations: baseball game; rock-drilling contest; presentation of prizes; May Queen pageant and crowning; children maypole dancing. Scenery: gravel road, creek, waterfalls. Nelson: general views, streets, buildings, Kootenay Lake. Family group on lawn; members posing for camera. Lake scenes: boat pushing barge; water-skiing (skier passes the sternwheeler "Moyie" at dock); speedboat. Kettle Falls on the Columbia River.

The file contains a black photograph album with 381 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher in 1947. The album contains photographs of Victoria and area including the Gulf Islands, Shawnigan Lake, Cowichan Lake, Sooke, Esquimalt and Vancouver. It includes photograph of houses and May Day parade floats.

The file contains a black photograph album with 368 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1926 and 1946. The albums contains photographs of Victoria scenes including buildings, parks and parades, and Cowichan Bay.

The file contains a black photograph album with 280 b&w photographs taken or acquired by Frank Boucher between 1924 and 1946. The albums contains photographs of holidays in Prince Rupert and Quesnel, 1944-1946; Victoria scenes including parades and fairs, and celebrations during V.E. and V.J. day; photographs from Africa in 1924, and May Day parades.

Amateur film. May Day: parade (mostly children); May Queen, etc. Gardens, beach, house at Parksville. The vessel "Uchuck I" travels from port (Ucluelet?) to places on Barkley Sound; people on board, scenery, etc.; Port Albion Cannery; return trip; Port Alberni Chamber of Commerce trip. Okanagan visit: Kelowna; city streets; 45th Regatta [i.e., 1951] - Ogopogo float; parks, people, fruit. Royal Visit to Parksville; motorcade with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip [1951]. Small parade. Waterfalls. Port Alberni fishing derby, held by the Tyee Club: fishing; men displaying their catches; weighing in the fish, etc.

Footage. Baby and woman in a park. Long sequence on the "General Motors Parade of Progress" (several streamlined trucks at a fairground - presumably some kind of traveling exhibition); faded shots of various people (including Oscar Burritt and Dorothy Fowler) at English Bay beach; trip to Harrison Hot Springs [ca.1938], showing people in car, scenery en route, Harrison Lake, car ferry etc.; scenes of parade marking "May Day, A Day of International Solidarity" [01-May-1938?], including marchers with flags, banners, trade union representation, etc; brief scene of oriental man lifting weights.

The series consists of five reels of amateur film created by the Billwiller family. Includes scenes of Britannia Beach townsite and the surrounding area, as well as a trip on the PGE Railway, building a road to Britannia Beach, May Day celebrations at Britannia (including crowning of the "Copper Queen"), Cub Scout gatherings, sports day events, and family scenes (Christmas, babies, children, friends and neighbours, fishing trips, etc.).

The item consists of a video copy of a film that was part of a four-reel compilation of May Day celebrations and miscellaneous scenes of Salmon Arm, British Columbia during the 1930s. The original 35 mm silent films were deaccessioned and transferred to the Public Archives of Canada ca. 1983; the BC Archives received a video copy in exchange for the films.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Medd talks about his father's coming from Yorkshire to settle in Langley in 1876; clearing land; growing up on the farm; selling produce; the local cheese factory; BC Electric; farm ;life; a cougar incident. Mrs. Medd talks about coming with her parents from New Brunswick; she taught at Milner School in 1912 and describes school conditions, the original school building, and the new school building; the community of Milner; social events; Murrayville; local incidents; May Day celebrations; a court case.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Philip Winter Luce came to Canada in 1900, lived in Winnipeg, and worked as a junior reporter. By 1904, he moved to New Westminster to continue his journalism career. This tape begins with ;Mr. Luce's recollections of the home he shared with five other bachelors in New Westminster in 1910; he talks about their Chinese servant, "One-Two", and various incidents that occurred during their o;ne-year tenancy. Mr. Luce continues with recollections about Bill Miner and various incidents at Haney, Hedley, Kamloops, and Douglas Lake. He relates information about the Ducks train robbery, and ;the subsequent trial and incarceration of Bill Miner at New Westminster. TRACK 2: The interview continues with Mr. Luce recounting incidents surrounding Bill Miner and Shorty Dunn; the New Westminster Penitentiary; and the escape of Miner. Mr. Luce talks about his impressions of New Westminster when he arrived in 1904, including roads; buildings; stores; the real estate boom; Jim Cunningham; Mayo;r Carey; old families; old timers; Pete Biladeau; Joe Armstrong; May Day celebrations; fishermen; the library; CPR trains to Coquitlam; saloons; hotels; Oriental exclusion; horse racing; and George Kennedy.

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].

Footage. Miscellaneous shots. The liner "Empress of Japan" and a West Vancouver Ferry pass through First Narrows; Burrard Street Bridge opening and crowds; a seaplane at Coal Harbour; a pet bear; high pan of Vancouver from the north shore; a May Day celebration with Lt. Gov. Hamber and other dignitaries, followed by a parade [New Westminster?].