Documentary. Union officers (John Shibley, Heinz Korn, Al Staley, Art Kilgore) talk about Local 1598 and the Carpenters and Joiners Union . Union "old timers" (John Neilson, Jack Perrin, Reg Babbin) reminisce. The union museum at 2750 Quadra Street, Victoria.

11 black and white and 1 colour photograph depicting construction of the whaling canoe tableau made for the entrance to the bulidings of the Provincial Museum.

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Stock shots. Shows a group of school children touring the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Includes classroom scenes, the museum's railroad, and shots of old logging machinery.

Stock shots. Footage of museum displays and artifacts, including switcher and shay locomotives, various cars and crummies, etc. Dignitaries at opening ceremonies.

Unedited footage. Probably material shot for the historical documentary A PROUD PAST.

Television stock shots. The reel begins with brief sequences on the Sooke Region Museum and on Helmcken House. The balance of the reel (shot 06-Dec-1977) deals with the old Immigration Building at the corner of Dallas Road and Ontario Street in Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood. The building is in the process of being demolished. In the years 1908-1923, it was used as a detention centre for processing and confining Chinese immigrants. Dr. David Lai tours the building, talks about Chinese immigration and the head tax, and transcribes some of the old Chinese writing from the walls of the cells, which comprise messages and poems written by the immigrants confined there.

Promotional film. Includes segments on: The Canadian Scottish Museum; Maritime Museum of BC; Sooke Regional Museum; Goldstream Museum; Sidney Museum; CFB Esquimalt Museum; 5th (BC) Regiment RCA Museum and Archives; University of Victoria Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery; Emily Carr Gallery; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Provincial Archives; Ross Bay Cemetery; Craigdarroch Castle; Point Ellice House; Helmcken House; Metchosin School Museum; Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse; Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Park; Witty's Lagoon Regional Park; Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary; Dominion Astrophysical Observatory; Goldstream Provincial Park.

News item. Director of the Maritime Museum has asked for financial assistance from the provincial government so museum can be kept at its present site. Some excellent close-ups of exhibits.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [195- or 196-] SUMMARY: An interview with Joseph Edward Lewis Muir (1875-1963), Nanaimo pioneer and curator of the Nanaimo Bastion museum.

The item is a video copy of a documentary program about the history of the British Columbia Provincial Museum.

SUMMARY: Bill Herbert reports on the opening of the new British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria. Speech by Premier W.A.C. Bennett: origins of the museum, acknowledgements to various institutions, people;, etc. Bill Herbert interviews BCPM director Clifford Carl. They discuss the architecture of the museum building and the Heritage Court complex, then tour the museum, describing and discussing: the relief map of B.C.; the "rain curtain"; the Nootka whaling sculpture; the totem poles by the escalators; natural history exhibits on the second floor --dioramas, climactic regions [to be developed], specifically "the dry interior"; classrooms. Says it will take "several years to fill our exhibit space". Third floor: "Man in B.C." Conclusion by Herbert. Sound of the carillon playing.

News item. The museum's new First Peoples Gallery on Northwest Coast Indians opens. Some good close-ups of totem poles and petroglyphs. The museum director is briefly interviewed about exhibit.

News item. Footage showing exhibits of various tools, machines and household equipment as used in the 19th century. Reporter talks about west coast geological formations in front of an exhibit which explains them. Close-up shots of Cornish water wheel. Also, interior exhibits of ship "Discovery", Grand Hotel and Livery.

SUMMARY: [No content information available.] Probably duplicates the content of T1778:0001.

Television stock shots. Includes footage of a thrashing machine.

Television stock shots

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1974] SUMMARY: In this undocumented interview, Willard Michell presumably discusses the creation of a small working farm using antique machinery on an 18-acre site in Central Saanich. Michell was the president of the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society, incorporated in 1969, and started its collection of antique farm machinery and artifacts.