Okanagan Region (B.C.)

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3 Archival description results for Okanagan Region (B.C.)

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[Armstrong, Enderby, Salmon Arm] : [footage and out-takes]

Footage. Various shots of businesses, factories, farming, and social life in the North Okanagan and Shuswap regions. Armstrong shots include: overview of valley, Triangle Poultry Farm, main street businesses, rail yard and station, prosperous family at home, Golden Gate Cafe, Interior Provincial Exhibition livestock competition, horse race, fairgrounds. Enderby footage shows main street, including Sutherland's Bakery and King Edward Hotel, bus on highway, pasturing of cattle, celery packing. Salmon Arm subjects include Safe Community Store and other store fronts, box mill, fruit packing, a bottling plant, a man guzzling soft drinks, men examining a crop field, apple packing, railway station, more packing, Shuswap Lake. Last shots show a display of Okanagan apples and fruit (in the Okanagan or at the PNE, Vancouver?).

[Tom Sidney films] : [Armstrong Fair, DEW Line construction, Kelowna airport and family scenes]

Amateur film. (1) Armstrong Fair and Interior Provincial Exhibition, 1956: agricultural exhibits; performing dogs; gymkhana; livestock parades and judging; marching pipe band; Armstrong and vicinity; street scene. (2) DEW Line construction, Northwest Territories, ca. 1957-1958: construction of radio masts and radar dome at a DEW radar site; winter landscape; aerial views of snowy terrain; shots inside, from and of Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 (designated CF-CPY); CPA Terminal (Yellowknife?); US Air Force cargo plane (a C-124 Globemaster II?) lands on snow-covered airstrip; a Sno-Cat tractor is unloaded, and the cargo plane takes off; sled and dog team pause near DEW Line site; crash site and wreckage of the same C-124 (broken-off tail, wings, etc.); CPA plane lands on a gravel strip; DEW line site. (3) Kelowna airport: light planes taxiing, taking off and landing; heavy equipment at work nearby. (4) Family boating and fishing scenes.