The item is a film print of unedited footage from around 1958. It contains winter scenes with heavy equipment at work, surveying, plowing snow, office interior, power plant, substation exteriors, etc. and tunnel or penstock construction at Ash River project on Great Central Lake.

The item consists of reel of film footage from 1958-1959. It contains a spliced-together footage compilation showing various Power Commission operations: mobile 500KW diesel generating unit arrives in Revelstoke, cable-laying barge, boats and shore crew lay underwater line to Thetis & Kuper Islands, island residents celebrate at a picnic, where First Nations dancers perform, power plant construction & tunnel work at Ash River project on Great Central Lake [similar tunnelling shots in Men at Work], continuing through winter, completed Ash River Generating Station and penstock, shots of Chemainus sawmill and new power station.

B&W footage: official opening of Georgia Gas Turbine Generating Station at Chemainus -- people touring station, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Commission chairman Hugh Keenleyside addressing crowd and on-site CHEK-TV interview [b&w, sound] with Premier Bennett re Power Commission development.

Industrial film. Shows construction of powerhouse, tunnel and penstock on Great Central Lake at the Ash River Project; general views of construction site and vicinity.

The item consists of a reel of reversal film footage from the 1970s. It shows various shots of the John Hart dam in Campbell River including the power plant, control room interior, river, reservoir, etc., plus some aerial shots.

Amateur film. Depicts various aspects of dam construction, including concrete work, heavy equipment, construction workers and camp, etc.; shots of the power station, turbines, penstocks and electrical grid; and scenes of the surrounding area.

The item consists of a reel of footage from ca. 1959. It contains stock shots of switchyard, transformer, main dam, spillway/rapids and row of generators inside powerhouse, all at the John Hart development. Sequence appears three times on the roll, with slight variations.

The item is a release print of an industrial film from ca. 1958. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island, a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir, work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River, transmission tower construction, a crew hanging warning markers on power lines, inspection of power lines via helicopter and Spillimacheen generating station. There are also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

Industrial film. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island; a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir; work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River; transmission tower construction; a crew hanging warning markers on power lines; inspection of power lines via helicopter; and Spillimacheen generating station. Also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

The series consists of photographs which document the activities of Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd. between 1911 and 1922, primarily in the Comox Lake area, Cumberland, and Union Bay, B.C. A large portion of the photographs document the construction and operation of the Puntledge River power project. The company developed the hydro-electric potential of Comox Lake and the Puntledge River to supply electricity for their mining operations and settlements in the Cumberland area and Union Bay. "Switched on" in August 1912, the project consisted of an impoundment dam on Comox Lake, a diversion dam and intake structure, a flume and penstock system, pipelines, a powerhouse, and spillway. The photographs include views of this hydro-electric infrastructure in construction and operation.

The records were originally in seven Kodak negative albums, accompanied by two inventories (lists done by the creator of the albums). A complete inventory was housed with each of the seven albums. The other inventory covers only photographs 1 to 358. It is in a separate notebook labeled "Photographic Record" and signed "L. Netland, Res. Engineer." Notations indicate that Netland, a Canadian Collieries engineer in Cumberland, maintained and catalogued these photos. Whether he took the photos is not known. Netland records in his inventory that he was sending some of the photos to Henry Kinder Owens (1858-1919) of Seattle, who was a consulting engineer on the Puntledge River power project.

The photographs also document company operations in Union Bay, including: coal sizing and cleaning at the coal washery plant, the port and ocean-going ships, and the machine shops and coke ovens. The series also documents mining operations at Comox Number 7, Number 8, and Number 6 mines. A smaller number of photographs relate to Comox No. 5 and 4 mines, and No. 5 South Wellington. Photographs include views of: the mine sites and equipment; rail line construction; the community of Bevan, townsite construction, and immigrant workers.

Amateur film. 3-6 June 1936: English public school boys (mainly from Harrow) visit the Hillcrest Lumber company plant near Duncan, the Todd Fish Traps at Sooke, the dam and BC Electric powerhouse at Jordan River, and Butchart Gardens. 1 August 1936: A visit to the Vancouver Air Show, including flights to and from Vancouver; parachuting demonstrations by George Bennett of Hamilton, Ontario; shots of small aircraft, a Lockheed Electra airliner, stunting by a glider, and skywriting; an RCMP Musical Ride performance; aerial view of the "Empress of Asia"; aerial views of Victoria. 17 August 1936: The Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, inspects a Guard of honour from the 16th Canadian Scottish at the Parliament Buildings.

The item is a original picture reel of an industrial film, made around 1945. It shows how electricity is supplied to Victoria households. It shows Jordan River storage dam; 5.5 mile flume to storage reservoir at Forebay, penstocks to Jordan River power plant, exterior and interior of plant; Brentwood Bay steam generating plant, operations of Bay Street substation in Victoria, line crew at work in rural area, testing of power meters and electrical appliances in the home.