Footage. Colour [Dufaycolor process]: shots of Vancouver skyline and Hotel Vancouver (the latter matching a shot in the film 'AND-'). B&W [Agfa stock]: underexposed night shots on and from a streetcar passing through downtown Vancouver on New Year's Eve, 1937 - passengers (including Dorothy Fowler), some in party hats; big Christmas tree, theatre marquees and electric signs. Scenes in nightclub with jazz band; trick shot of man "sucking in" smoke rings. Dorothy, Oscar Burritt and others swimming; Dorothy taking photos. Colour: brief shots of Oscar posing with unidentified man and woman in front of a sightseeing bus [Kodachrome, edge code 1938].

SUMMARY: Half-hour radio program featuring a historical review of how British Columbia joined Canada in 1871, and an introduction to Centennial '71 Committee projects for the year. Includes New Year's message from B.C. Lieutenant-Governor John Robert Nicholson.

SUMMARY: Lawrie Wallace presents A New Year's Day message for the 1971 Centennial of B.C. joining Confederation.

SUMMARY: Sponsors include House of Beauty, Townhouse, Home Oil, Van City Savings, Firbank's Jewellers, Roger Motors, and Wolfe Motors; Squadron Leader Sheridan offers greeting from the Royal Canadian Air Force;. SIDE 1: cuts 1-11. SIDE 2: cuts 12-13.;

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: cuts 1-13 -- Holland, Finland, Norway (North), Poland, Iran, Japan, Germany, Norway (South), Sweden, France, Italy, Ghana, Yugoslavia. SIDE 2: cuts 15-18 -- Mexico, Palestine, Nigeria, Ukrain;e, Fiji.;

Television stock shots. Footage includes: moving of Pioneer School; moving of Stavley School; Fort Rodd Hill artillery; Empress Hotel; [statue of?] Captain Vancouver; the New Year's baby, 1974 ; dismantling of Victoria Machinery Depot; Causeway up-date; historic buildings; Remembrance Day, 1974.

SUMMARY: A radio talk by John Emerson.;

SUMMARY: Audio recording of a television program. "Night Beat" was a Vancouver-produced review of entertainment and the arts. This episode, the last in the series, includes John Emerson's resolutions for 1962.; Last of series.;

Documentary. Recreates the revival of change-ringing of the bells at Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral, after a five-year hiatus. Shows the training of bell-ringers and the ringing-in of the New Year. The bells of Westminster Abbey in Mission City are also heard. Members of the Vancouver Society of Change Ringers are featured. Winner of a Canadian Film Award in the amateur category (1961).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thomas Cole Hurley remembers early days in the Lillooet district. Mr. Hurley recalls how his father, Daniel Edward Hurley, arrived from Nova Scotia around 1883; his uncle Thomas Jameson Cole; more about his father; Bridge River mines and its amalgamation into Bralorne in later years; working at the mine in 1912; his father's Victoria Hotel built in 1900; the town of Lillooet in the 1890s; the Chinese miners; more about Lillooet; the Depression; more on Lillooet in the 1890s, the industry, the town; anecdotes about Halley's Comet; Old Bill; and a New Years Eve prank.

TRACK 2: Mr. Hurley tells two stories about law and order; Lillooet's Chinese section; more anecdotes; Frank Gott; Lytton in the 1890s; the stopping houses; the stages between Lillooet and Lytton; arrival of the PGE Railway from Squamish; hunting; minerals; travel by road; steamers and river traffic in the early years; and the opening of the Golden Cache Mine.

SUMMARY: This program was performed on December 28, 1983 at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre. Franz Allers conducted the VSO with guest artists Michelle Boucher, soprano and John Walker, tenor. The program feature;s pieces by Ziehrer, Zeller, Milloecker, Strauss, Kalman, and Lehar.;

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Iona Campagnolo hosts the show and talks with her guests about predictions for the new year. Iona speaks with Jim Matkin, President of the Business Council of BC; Richard Allen, Chief Economist of BC Central Credit Union; and Economist David Shrek.