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The new Island Highway

The item is a composite print of a travelogue film made 1958-1959. It compares the Vancouver Island highway of before World War I with the new highway completed in 1959. The film opens with archival b&w footage of Victoria and the Malahat Drive. Modern footage shows the planning, surveying and construction of the new highway, especially the Malahat section. Some of the attractions along the new highway are also shown, including shots of scenery, resorts, fishing and petroglyphs.

Toketie makes another cruise summer 1940

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc. One sequence shows a Kelly raft of aviation spruce being broken up; another shows logs being unloaded from the log barge "Monongahela" (formerly the ship "Balasore", whose figurehead is shown sitting on shore). The B.C. Packers cannery at Quathiaski Cove is shown. Troops arrive at Nanaimo from Vancouver on the "Princess Victoria" and parade through the streets.

Wilfred Christensen interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Wilf Christensen : life in the Bella Coola Valley -- the Bella Coola road and Ralph Edwards PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Wilfred Christensen begins with a discussion about various Indian rock carvings in the Bella Coola area, including details about Harlan H. Smith who took plaster casts of the carvings, and a man named McIlwraithe. Then he offers a story of a canoe left at Restoration Bay, the building of the Bella Coola Road (1951-1953), Lord Tweedsmuir's visit in 1937, and progress in Bella Coola. TRACK 2: Wilf Christensen continues with more on progress, the Indian population, and stories about Ralph Edwards.

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