The item consists of a reel of reversal film footage from 1973. It shows conditions on Arrow Lake reservoir (at low water) at Shelter Bay and Galena Bay, caterpillar tractors clearing and piling forest debris on beaches, the Dept. of Highways ferry, tug and boom collecting water-borne debris, Corra Lynn Dam and the beginning of excavation of a canal.

The item is video copy of news footage of aerial stockshots and fire retardant stations. Contains unedited aerial footage of fire. Meeting re efforts concentrated on fire near Kootenay River. Workers, helicopters, areial views. Dropping fire retardent. Prescribed burning with drip torch. More aerial views of burned areas. Water bombers -- loaded, boarded, filled with water and retardant, delivering loads, etc.

The item is a reel of spliced film footage from 1961. It shows flooding of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers in early June, 1961. Includes footage of: rivers in flood, dikes and inundated streets in Trail, flooded land and roads in the vicinity, Bonnington and Corra Linn dams on the Kootenay River and Robson (?) ferry at dock..

The item is a short sequence that appears to be part of an industrial film about Cominco dams and power plants on the Kootenay River. Shows power plants at Lower Bonnington Falls, Upper Bonnington Falls, and South Slocan. This section of film was removed from a reel containing loose sections of film with sequences on different Cominco subjects.

Amateur film. "For the first 90 feet there are many poorly exposed scenic pans of flowing rivers, hills with snow, men walking, and one construction site. Other shots include: a steam train roaring by; a huge explosion in a river (blasting!); men inspecting results of blasting; shovel digging away at blasted rock; rail lines by side of river; a large speeder with rear car and operator; snow; buildings and boxcars along railroad tracks, man leaving (along tracks) for work; shovel working in snowy rock cut; large speeder with open car behind; rock fill being dumped into river in wooden-framed areas by open car pulled and pushed by large speeder; shovel chewing away at rock and loading it onto open car; worker playing with dog; shovel loading open car while another little diesel engine and car pass by; two cars roll up to be loaded by shovel, shovel responds; two men looking on; cars travel along rail and dump their rocks into the water; view of other side of the river, roads, a railway grade possibly, and back to shovel again; good [close-up of] shovel loading cars, cars move off to un-load; long shot of] worksite and river; man with jackhammer working in rock; [long shot of] river with mountain above; another explosion -- more blasting; looks Like some of the railway rock transporting equipment has been damaged, men inspecting; scene of blasting; another series of blasts, debris falls into river; pan along results of blasting; men walking across narrow bridge; two more blasting scenes; a raft casts loose from the shore with rowboats attached, men aboard, and a piece of equipment; scenes along the river, then blasting, again; camera records changed landscape." (Colin Browne)

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John H. Jerome remembers the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, and the South Slocan region. He came to work for the company in 1916 at the age of eighteen. He describes the West Kootenay Power and Light Company from 1898; modern hydro and dam development; Mr. Jerome as an operator for forty-seven years; the past versus the present; the people of the South Slocan region; early roads and transportation; settlement around 1912; the eccentric British immigrants; the South Slocan Chalet; the Doukhobors; mines and the Nelson City Power Plant. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a composite print of a documentary made between 1972 and 1975. It is a look at the construction of a unique power project -- a canal to harness the flood waters of the Kootenay River. The film highlights the environmental aspects of this engineering achievement, which harnesses needed energy from the river while protecting the environment of beaver, fish and deer. (Power Perspectives 1979.)

Item consists of one bound atlas measuring 52 x 34 cm, created by the Canadian Hydrograph Service. It contains one index map and 14 detailed charts of the Kootenay River, from mile 0 to mile 29, and areas of Kootenay Lake. Also included are sailing directions and a waterway mileage table.

Shows reclaimed land in Kootenay River Valley in British Columbia and Idaho. Extension of dykes in Township 8, Kootenay District, shown in ms.

Travelogue. From Osoyoos to Trail and Nelson by the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. Footage includes: Cominco smelter; the sternwheeler "Minto" on the Arrow Lakes and at Castlegar; Kootenay River power station; lumbering scenes; car ferry on Kootenay Lake; and Nelson scenes (including the Curling Bonspiel parade).

Footage. Shows various communities and activities in southeastern B.C. Several shots of a hydro-electric dam (possibly Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay River). Nakusp lakefront, with the retired sternwheeler "Bonnington" at dock; local residents, streets and buildings (Arrow Lake Hotel, Arrow Lakes Hospital); a sawmill. Brief shot of sternwheeler "Minto" approaching dock. Edgewood General Store. Lake fishing; resort. Parade and sports day in Salmo (joint Dominion Day and Independence Day celebration?), with long sequence showing a performance by a uniformed girls' drill team. Main street of Greenwood, where a baseball team warms up and poses with locals. A nearby mining community (probably Phoenix), with mining operation and many dilapidated buildings; residents and a bearded old timer pose for the camera. Scenery with river and waterfall (possibly Cascade Falls on the Kettle River?). New Denver Fire Hall.

Stock shots. Shows the areas that would be flooded by construction of the Libby Dam on the Kootenay River and the Mica Dam on the Columbia River. Wildlife, farmland, sawmills, land clearing, and settlements along the Kootenay River, at the border and to the north. Up the Columbia River from Kinbasket Lake; Surpise Rapids; logging with a sky-line along the Columbia; river boat; Canoe River.

Stock shots. Street scenes in Prince George, Victoria, and Kamloops; forest cover map at the P.N.E.; Indians in traditional dress at Banff; Upper Bonnington, Grand Coulee and Waneta dams; mine site near Salmo; Prince George Airport; buildings under construction in Prince George; trains and railroad cars in the Prince George freight yards.