The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Codling moth & turkeys, Nov. 1965": animated footage about insecticides. Live footage showing development of the codling moth. Testing fruit. Collecting insects. Turkeys on turkey farm. Loading them for shipment. Christmas tree farm.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:

1. A turkey farm. Feeding and shipping turkeys.
2. Greenhouse interior. Picking tomatoes -- workers and machine. Planting in greenhouse. Tomato picking, selecting, boxing, shipping, weighing, storing. Tractor with sowing trailer.
3. Potato picking machine, workers. Building a silo [?]. Potatoes in storage.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Rodeo scenes; large poultry farm (at Westbank); selecting and packing eggs; men inspecting fields, farm buildings, installations, old steam-tractor, cattle in pasture; lumber mill at lake; town of Fraser Lake; Endako Mines Ltd. display, a working model, ore samples, etc.

The item is a 16 mm b&w, silent documentary film from the 1930s. It is about poultry raising.

Executive committee minutes, 1913-1915; membership book, 1910-1911; correspondence, 1913-1921; papers relating to annual meetings 1913-1914; account books, receipts and financial statements, 1911-1922; correspondence of John Ridge Terry, British Columbia Chief Poultry Instructor, relating to poultry breeding stations, 1913.

News item. BC Egg Marketing Board cuts egg quota by 10 percent; cost of eggs increases by 3 cents a dozen. Footage shows how eggs are packaged at the Claremont Poultry Farm, Victoria, B.C.

News item. Claremont Poultry Ltd.: interior footage which shows how chickens are fed, watered and cooped up for maximum egg production. Shots of the largely automatic machinery which does the cleaning, size sorting and packaging of the eggs. A spokesman for Claremont says producers have provided the company with too many small and medium size eggs. The sale of these eggs will have to wait until there is a demand for them -- not a serious problem.

The item consists of an audio interview with Elizabeth Clement recorded in Victoria B.C. on June 30, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Elizabeth Clement was born in Vancouver on November 5, 1908. Lived on Robson St., Cambie St., and later moved to Somenos (near Duncan). The interviewee talks about the incredible difference between living in an urban area and a rural area. She discusses the work involved in running a chicken farm, involving every member of the family. She describes the difficulties her mother endured, specifically cooking, laundry, gardening, feeding chickens, sorting eggs, etc. Description of the house they lived in.

Track 2: Elizabeth Clement relates what her mother taught her about what a girl's role should be. Talks about domestic science in Duncan -- what she learned to sew and cook. Also reveals the attitudes of male doctor towards female nurse and the fact that it had to be questioned.

The item is a documentary film on two reels:
Reel one: Choosing a cockerel at a Fall Fair (looks Like Saanichton Fall Fair). A chicken yard. How to set eggs on the family farm. Making a hatching nest. Three weeks later - hatched chicks. A successful hawk trap from England. Four-week-old chicks drinking milk. Feeding greens to chicks. Culling sick ones. An autopsy reveals congested lungs from chilling. Cutting a tire in half lengthwise makes two watering rings. Feeding water to chicks. Culling slow-feathering chicks. Cleaning out the poultry shed. Poultry inspector visiting and helping farm wife select the best cockerels. The rest will be fattened. The correct feed explained for fattening. A young boy on his wagon.
Reel two: Taking eggs to hatchery. Hatchery man inspects eggs then pays farmer. Special incubator made in B.C. Toes punched on some little chicks. Flocks of chicks & pullets in hatchery. Chicks drinking clabbered milk. Smearing chicks with lard & snuff to prevent cannibalism. Pullets in a farmyard pen. Stages of growth for two young chicks, Jiggs & Maggie, from 1 week to 12 weeks old, although Jiggs is not present for the last shot, having "got the rolling pin." How to get roosting fowls down from a tree - make a Long stick with a "T" at the end. Mother hens with chicks on the free range. Pullets in a pen. Marketing eggs at the Co-op, truck pulls up to COWICHAN CREAMERY TRADERS. Man unloading and checking crates of eggs. How to skin a chicken - better than dry-picking or scalding - a complete demonstration. Show winners - cockerels and hens -- Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, White Wyandottes, Light Sussex, Barred Rocks." (Colin Browne)

The item is a drawing of a hen and rooster drawn in 1914 by Frank Eastman as an illustration for Successful Poultryman magazine.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wyngaert discusses his father, Alfred Wyngoert, and his arrival in Vancouver, and then in Gibsons Landing in 1909. Then he discusses his own move from the retail business to chicken ranching; skid roads, from 1880 to 1910; various settlers in the area; exposure to the Finnish settlers from Sointula; more on skid roads; the postal service at Gibsons Landing; W.W. Winn and his store an;d post office in 1915; and the beginning and growth of Gibsons Landing in 1886. Finally, Mr. Wyngaert describes J.S. Woodsworth and Dr. Fred Inglis. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a drawing of a Golden Wyandotte chicken drawn in 1914 by Frank Eastman as an illustration for Successful Poultryman magazine.

CALL NUMBER: T3710:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Low : Chinese at work in British Columbia : poultry business PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1930 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Low describes background: born 1903; married in China, 1923; father's immigration to Canada. Father's work in Canada: farming, chopping wood, poultry wholesale business. Discusses: government "clamp-down" on illegal immigrants -- raids and spot checks; purchasing of documents such as birth certificates for citizenship; immigration procedures; description of trip to Canada on the Blue Funnel Line -- living and social conditions on board. Discusses early life in Canada: learning English at night school after work; first impression of Victoria; did not predict permanent residence in Canada and had planned to return to China after Sino-Japan War. Immigration process: graft by Chinese interpreters; description of Immigration Building in Victoria. Again describes living conditions aboard ship: most shipmates were young men, late teens to early twenties. TRACK 2: Discusses: poll and road tax, and the collection of it from the Chinese; refers to Lee Dye Son and Co. and other wholesale market gardeners in Victoria area; business expansion of the poultry wholesale by him and his father. He came to Canada after 1923 and made first trip back to China after four years in Canada. Work experience included: picking strawberries in Saanich (description of living on the farm during the season and the farm labour contract system); harvesting cauliflower for $1 a day. Discusses system of transporting poultry from farm to city with help by a milkman named (Joe) Casey. Describes typical work day buying chicken. He had to pay $60 for peddler's license while merchants with shops paid less. CALL NUMBER: T3710:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Low : Chinese at work in British Columbia : poultry business PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1965 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Explains the butchering of chicken by hand before mechanized assembly line process. Talks about employee/employer relations during Christmas and New Year gift giving. Japanese-Canadian poultry farmers on Salt Spring Island. Buying pigs wholesale and keeping holding pens on a farm on McKenzie and Douglas. Expansion of his poultry business, moving to a new location, the closing of the business, and retirement. Description of the restaurants in Chinatown, the Cantonese opera and the Chinese Theatre in Victoria. System of importing/buying girls from China by merchants for restaurant work. TRACK 2: Discusses various aspects of life in Victoria for a Chinese immigrant: gambling in Chinatown; socialization amongst localities (villages); dialect; kinsmen; certain localities occupy certain industries in Victoria, i.e.. Pun Yi locality in laundry business, Sun-wei locality looks after funeral arrangements and sending back of bones to China. Personal views of Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's money management of the Association and their charge of $2 exit fee. Talks of the functions of the Lung Kong Association (family); Chinese-Christian churches in Victoria; Chinese temples in Victoria. Discusses opium dens in Victoria in the 1920s; deportation of Chinese using opium. Description of the streets in Chinatown: vegetable peddlers from the Toy San district; anti-Chinese feelings amongst the white people; sewing machine shops in Chinatown; labour contracts and labour contract office for fish canneries. Discusses families with children in Victoria. (End of interview.)

The item is a reel of documentary film made between 1927 and 1929. "shows scenes on a large professional poultry farm in British Columbia with many views of the barns, sheds, pullets, feeding and ranging hens. There are shots of champion Layers contributing over 300 eggs per year. The finale is an idyllic porch scene with the poultry farmer's family sitting in the warm evening surrounded by lovely gardens and neighbours, and watching a sunset over the sea." (Colin Browne)

Instructional video. Doug Hamilton, poultry specialist with the BC Ministry of Agriculture, discusses the various stages of commercial egg production, from breeding and hatching to grading and packing.

Travelogue. The Fraser Valley from White Rock to Hope, via Vancouver and the Trans-Canada Highway. Includes footage of: King George VI Highway; White Rock; Peace Arch Park; Canada customs inspection; dairy, poultry and vegetable farming; brickmaking; Stave falls power plant; the Fraser Valley Union Library; Chilliwack Cherry Carnival Parade; Chilliwack Air Show; fishing on Vedder River; Harrison Lake resort; etc. Also shows use of an Avro Anson (registration CF-EKM) to transport live baby chicks by air, and use of a Republic Seabee seaplane to fly in to Chilliwack Lake for an afternoon's fishing.

The item is an answer print of a travelogue film from 1947-1948. It shows the Fraser Valley from White Rock to Hope, via Vancouver and the Trans-Canada Highway. The film includes footage of: King George VI Highway; White Rock; Peace Arch Park; Canada customs inspection; dairy, poultry and vegetable farming; brickmaking; Stave falls power plant; the Fraser Valley Union Library; Chilliwack Cherry Carnival Parade; Chilliwack Air Show; fishing on Vedder River; Harrison Lake resort; etc. Also shows use of an Avro Anson (registration CF-EKM) to transport live baby chicks by air, and use of a Republic Seabee seaplane to fly in to Chilliwack Lake for an afternoon's fishing.