Theatrical trailer. Promotional short including footage of the B.C. coast, Vancouver, the Expo site, and the celebrations for the opening of Expo Centre. Sound track comprises narration and theme song, "Something's Happening Here".

The item is a film reel of out-takes from 1967. It contains footage of the motor vessel "Queen of Prince Rupert".

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reading from autobiographical piece, "One Foggy Morning", prepared by Mrs. Joy Duncan, medical historian in Alberta; arriving at the Bella Bella hospital on 22 October 1944; Dr. George Darby; R.W. Large; Matron Marjorie McDowell; Dr. Darby was a "ten talent man"; native Indians; night duty; anecdote of Beatrice, a patient; staff; holiday; first radio-telephone in 1947; births; burns anecdote; 1948 government takeover of hospital finances; antibiotics; the Kitimat flu epidemic; ear infection anecdote; donations; rare diseases; fragile bones; Vince Ton Van Coni syndrome; Von Reckle Heim's disease; cysts; summer hospital at Rivers Inlet; five babies delivered in five nights; immunization; summer hospital closed in 1957; first aid post at Wadhams Inlet [Landing?]; cold snap; Dr. Darby's work; Dr. Ruth Allison was the first full time assistant to Dr. Darby; Dr. David Chisholm; Dr. Page, now Dr. Henderson; little Nellie from Takoosh; skin condition; Adenbrook lighthouse; premature baby; shin abscess; food poisoning of three sisters and the analysis and discovery of the toxin by Dr. Dolman at the provincial lab; trip to Vancouver with a boy with a club foot; storm in Queen Charlotte Sound; statistics for the Bella Bella hospital in 1958; burial of dead patients; off duty activities; social life at Bella Bella. TRACK 2: Social life of Bella Bella; Indian lifestyle; anecdote about a grounded boat; medical student at Bella Bella; Dr. Clarence Coho and his poem celebrating a birth on the high seas; farewell party for Dr. Darby in 1959 when he left Bella Bella; Dr. Peter Kelly's words for Dr. Darby; her birth in Ontario; Detroit hospital nurses training; why Bella Bella?; Dr. Bob Henderson; various other doctors; Dr. Darby's illness and funeral.

CALL NUMBER: T2103:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-05-26 SUMMARY: Fred Smith was born in England in 1888 and moved to Vancouver after training as an engineer. Started working on towboats in 1911, took one trip on the Dollar Line, did road work on Kingsway in Burnaby, worked for Cates Towing. Describes Dollar Line, Union Steamship Company, waterfront in Vancouver, and Tommy Roberts, proprietor of the Grand Hotel in Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T2103:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-29 SUMMARY: Fred Smith was an engineer with the Union Steamship Company from 1913-1959. Describes homesteading on Calvert Island, at Kitimaat, and the Queen Charlottes, a visit with Chief Harry Edenshaw, mines at Anyox, Surf Inlet. Remembers mates stealing boom chains, pursers stealing food and selling meal tickets twice. Was aboard "Coquitlam I" when it burst a plate in Drumlummon Inlet. Describes changes in the company after World War II. CALL NUMBER: T2103:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-14 SUMMARY: Fred Smith joined the Union Steamship Company in 1913. He worked on the "Venture" and the "Coquitlam". Describes Chinese men making cans in the spring at salmon canneries, Chinese workers, Grand Trunk Railway into Prince Rupert, Japanese firemen in the engine room, navigation by the whistle, southern runs of the Union Steamship Company, grounding of the "Coquitlam II" and time the "Coquitlam I" burst a plate in Drumlummon Inlet. Also Tommy Roberts and the Grand Hotel and rum-running.

The item is a documentary film. "A man waving beside three stretched halibut skins. Map of B.C. showing coast to Kodiak Island in Alaska. Aboard a fishboat, men clean and gut a halibut, dress it for packing and salt it away for shipment. Fishboats alongside a cannery or processor's wharf at Prince Rupert. Halibut being lifted out onto the wharf. Men in hold loading halibut into net. In more southerly waters, a small halibut boat at sea and description of how to catch the fish. Fisherman chucks a barrel-buoy overboard, followed by a coil of line, and he makes ready to feed out the long-line. The long-line is paid out slowly, with bundles of hooks, or 'skates' being baited before they slip under the sea. [Long shot] and [close-up] of halibut being pulled in over the side. Halibut in the hold. In northern waters, small boats are taken to the fishing ground by larger boats on their decks, then lowered into the sea where they hoist sail and row to their area. A Large boat from Seattle arrives, lowers its boats onto the ocean, and they row away with two men in each. The Line is let out by hand over the stern, then hauled in by hand. The mother ship picks up the small boats, their crews and their catch, and sails away. [Long shot of] Prince Rupert from the sea. Crowded wharfside scene with many fishboats. Halibut being lifted by net onto a wharf. Men on deck unloading the fish. Halibut being received in interior of packing shed, and being placed in fresh ice in crates. The lids are nailed securely and the crates are wheeled away to the Prince Rupert railway station, where the crates are loaded into a refrigerator car. A fifteen-car train, "The Fish Express", leaves Prince Rupert hauled by Grand Trunk Pacific Locomotive #603. In immediate [background] is a sign reading: "Kelly Douglas and Co. Ltd. -- Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes." The train approaches, then cut to caboose moving away." (Colin Browne)

The item is an audio recording produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract. After the First World War, it was necessary for enthusiastic airmen to demonstrate the worth of their machines to the non-military world. The British Columbia coast was ideal for this purpose. Previously accessible only by boat, it was opened anew by flying boats and float planes, which proved themselves not only valuable but virtually indispensable. "From Jericho Beach to Swanson Bay" presents stories of coastal flying in the 1920s and 1930s. The airmen recall the operations at Jericho Beach Air Station in Vancouver and the fisheries patrols on the northern coast, as well as other episodes. The program is based on interviews recorded by Paul Stoddart.

SUMMARY: "The Inland Sea" is number 12 in the series. A tour of the Gulf of Georgia, with stories of the people and places on the Gulf; including the Gulf Islands, Nanaimo, Comox, and inlets on the mainland. Stories of the coastal boats. Voices heard include: Ruth Jackson, Ada Dawe, Ida New, Freda New, Constance Swartz, Bea Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Geraldine Hulbert, Jud Johnstone, Clarence Joe, Joe Kneen, Ronald Norris, Donald New and Bill Law. The opening narrative about a sailboat in the gulf is drawn from reminiscences of Harry Roberts of Cape Coburn.

SUMMARY: "Tidewaters", number 13 in the series, is about the people who lived at different parts of the British Columbia coastline. The outer coast of BC, and the story of some of the wrecks around Cape Beale. Settlers on the coast: the Finns of Sointula, the Norwegians of Bella Coola, and the people who settled at the north end of Vancouver Island. Also the coastal Indians: the Haidas and their huge canoes, and the Nootka whale-hunters. Voices heard include: Ethel Cadorin, Edward Joyce, Annie Hayes, Ted Levelton, Milo Fougner, Arvo Tynjala, Frank Hole and Chief William Scow. The Hamatsa songs were performed by Mary Johnson, Annie Hayes, and Arvo Tynjala; another song was sung by Dick Willy.

Amateur film. Family group on docks; ship "Catala"; passenger ship leaving Alert Bay [?]; view of Alert Bay [from Cormorant Island?], totem poles; station personnel; loading facility rail track; pulp mill; 3-funnel passenger ship "Prince Rupert"; herring barge; station personnel, dock and facilities.

Amateur film. Supply ship "Estevan" at Bull Harbour; Roller Bay (opposite Bull Harbour.); views of coast line from ship; construction crew [building the Officer-in-Charge residence at Bull Harbour?]; high seas; Christmas traffic in downtown Victoria; Bull Harbour personnel (Gordon Gilliland & others); buildings on floats (Bull Harbour).

Amateur film. View of Cape Scott lighthouse; supply or work boats on Spring Island; Prince Rupert harbour; Lions Gate Bridge; high seas; work crew; loading supplies from boat onto pickup truck at Estevan Point.

Amateur film. Radio operator Herb Holt petting deer at Dead Tree Point radio station; ship; view of coast guard radio station; high seas from supply ship "Estevan"; personnel and pickup truck [at Hesquiat?]; supplying Estevan lighthouse.

Amateur film. Coastline from S.S. "Prince Rupert"; William Bowerman (District Superintendent of Radio, Department of Transport) and officer on deck; Prince Rupert harbour; arrival of the "Prince Rupert" at dock; construction at Digby Island radio station; unloading salmon; Christmas shopping at Spencer's Department Store, Victoria; Department of Transport office staff on Government Street.

Amateur film. Clearing bush for fence at Alert Bay, 1940; crew working on radio mast (Lazo Island radio station and lighthouse), 1941; ploughing.

Amateur film. Passenger train; Cape Lazo radio station; Kye Bay; radio station buildings and mast; coast line; station personnel; ships; coast line; Prince Rupert harbour; ship at dock; plank road from Masset to Dead Tree Point; pan of Skidegate; officers of SS "Prince John"; etc.

Amateur film. Pet rabbit; radio mast [at Bull Harbour?]; coast line from S.S. "Cardena"; docks; Zeballos building; coast line; waves and rocks.

Amateur film. Lions Gate Bridge; inlet; family picnic; shore line; row boats; passenger train; boat "Katherine A."; baby in crib; ship or boat; small rail track landing; radio mast; ship; boys on ship.

Amateur film. George and Elsie Lowe on holiday trip aboard a Union Steamship vessel: shore line near Bella Coola; fish boats; Butedale with Indian children on docks; naval parade, Victoria; Barkerville sights; motel; horses; highway; swimming pool; shore line; RCMP historical site; scenery; Butchart Gardens; Beacon Hill Park.

Amateur film. Station personnel at [Bull Harbour?]; picnic; unidentified men [of Shantymen Christian organization?].

Amateur film. Coastal village; unloading fish; views of Bull Harbour [?]; ship "Kitimat"; 1947 calendar; cemetery [?]; sunset; shore line; commercial fishing boat.

Amateur film. Pan of radio mast; felling of mast; waves; radio station in winter; men board boat; rabbits; mast on ground.

The item consists of 20 camera original, unedited films created by Georgiana Ball between about 1957 and 1970. Original films 1-11 and 12-20 were combined onto 2 film reels by the BC Archives upon acquisition.

The film are "home movies", primarily of ranching activities in the Stikine and Liard regions, particularly showing the communities of Telegraph Creek and Trutch. Other locations include Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Ocean Falls, Dawson Creek, Dease Lake, Stikine River, Mount Edziza and Banff, Alberta. Activities shown include Ball family Diamond B Ranch game guiding operations, ranching, haying, packing and various types of transportation including horseback, pack horses, river boats (incl. Judith Ann), cargo ships (incl. Northland Prince, Skeena Prince), bush planes (North Coast Airways) and helicopters.

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews with B.C. float-house dwellers. [No content summary available.];

Stock shots. The self-dumping log barge "Haida Monarch" is shown underway and dumping a load of logs.

Stock shots. Shows hand loggers at work in a coastal inlet. Scenery; sawmill; log boom; hand loggers' shack, boat, domestic scenes; a visiting gill-netter; traveling by by rowboat to shoreline timber site; falling tree into the water; de-limbing the tree; towing log to boom.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold Iverson RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1976-02-26 SUMMARY: Harold Iverson was born in 1912, the son of a long line of fishermen. Fishing in skiffs at 7 and 8 years old in the river for salmon. At age 16 he got a powerboat, a 5 HP one cylinder engine. Powerboats came in the 1920s, and power winches came in 1938. Fished mostly in the Fraser River until the 1950s, then the off shore Japanese fleet and fishery closures made it necessary to go further a field. Used to fish at San Juan and Queen Charlotte Sound and the Skeena River. As a kid, he remembers the stern-wheelers that used to deliver to farmers up and down the river. Not much farming on River Road, too expensive and too boggy. Came from a family of 6. Long lined halibut for 20 years, trolled and also gillnetted salmon. Changes in fishing and equipment. Lost a 50 ton boat in 100 mph gale in 1970 in Queen Charlotte Sound, and his partner ship came to pick him up in the thick spray. He was wired to the rigging, and had to dive to free himself and then swim to the other boat. His clothes weighed about 100 pounds with water. Just about quit fishing, but changed his mind. Discussion of fish prices. The Americans don't practice conservation, but they take more than their share of the Fraser River salmon. Discusses fishing history, unions, practices and restrictions. At one time there were 40 canneries in the Fraser, but now (1976) there is only one. He fished for the Canadian Fish Co. for 20 years. The Vancouver Co-op worked for a while but it went bankrupt due to people being greedy. Shellfish such as crabs and oysters were ignored until after the War because there was lots of other fish to eat. Discusses the old Union Steamships, they were very comfortable. Discusses canneries. Discussion of wild life around his River Road home. Discussion of the herring fishery and reasons why it depleted before 1971. Wants a Minister of Fisheries from B.C., not back east. Discusses halibut fishing. Fishing in Smiths Inlet. Pollution in water. Rum running during prohibition.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Harry Allison, a crewman of the "Zodiac Light" with many years' experience fishing on the B.C. coast.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Roberts recalls his arrival in Vancouver in 1900; his grandfather, who founded Roberts Creek; the Vancouver Yacht Club; the HBC ship "Beaver"; the original Woodward's store; his uncle Bill Roberts; his impressions of his visit to Victoria in 1903; his move to Roberts Creek in 1910; his life there for twenty-five years; his work as a postmaster; and an anecdote involving a lady and an umbrella. TRACK 2: Harry Roberts discusses why he left Roberts Creek for Nelson Island; a description of his boat "Chack Chack I"; a voyage in it to Nelson Island; building his home at Pender Harbor on Nelson Island; a series of anecdotes involving his home and visitors; and Harry's next boat, "Chack Chack III".

Throughout this interview a woman, who may be Marjorie Lillian Roberts, prompts Mr. Roberts' memory with several questions and suggestions.