Travelogue. Made two weeks after the opening of the Big Bend highway and the Banff-Jasper Highway, this film depicts the scenery of British Columbia as seen from the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Field, with side trips from Jasper to Banff and into the Okanagan Valley.

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?).

Travelogue. Highlights the Thompson and North Thompson regions, the Yellowhead and the Rockies, approaching from Vancouver via the Fraser Canyon. Footage includes white water rafting, Nicola Valley cattle ranching, fishing, Kamloops, North Thompson Overlander Raft Race, Wells Gray and Mount Robson Provincial Parks, Shuswap Lake, Three Valley Gap, Canyon Hot Springs, Rogers Pass, mountain climbing.

The item is a video travelogue. Highlights the Thompson and North Thompson regions, the Yellowhead and the Rockies, approaching from Vancouver via the Fraser Canyon. Footage includes white water rafting, Nicola Valley cattle ranching, fishing, Kamloops, North Thompson Overlander Raft Race, Wells Gray and Mount Robson Provincial Parks, Shuswap Lake, Three Valley Gap, Canyon Hot Springs, Rogers Pass, mountain climbing.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-05-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence Reedman describes how she came from England with her husband John Reedman in 1905; the story of how they came to Canada, including a bill that was passed in England, and a family friend who went bankrupt. With the deterioration of conditions there, the family decided to move to Canada, led by their son Harry Reedman, who moved to Edmonton; the voyage by ship through fields of icebergs; their first experiences in Canada; moving out west past Shuswap Lake to Blind Bay; what it was like when they arrived, and the supplies they needed to start a life there; living in a tent; for twenty-six weeks; the beginnings of clearing the land; a story about how they got a roast of meat once a week; ordering flour from Enderby, and the process of receiving ordered supplies; how they; chose Blind Bay as their spot to settle; how the Columbia River [Lumber?] Company tried to get them off the land after they had homesteaded for five years; how after ten years they finally got a deed; to the land; lumber in the area, and deciding which lumber to use to build their home; anecdotes about what life was like; using boats on the lake; the first planting of fruit trees; and getting a school built in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Reedman continues by discussing a story of her husband taking supplies to Sorrento, and an ice storm which started on the way home; dealing with frozen feet and having to go to Notch Hill for help; stories about taking supplies across the lake via the first motorboats; the first settlers who came to Celista; jobs her children worked at stories about more storms on the lake and people in the area; and how Blind Bay got its name.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John F. Bischoff describes how he came to Vancouver in 1893 from Minnesota, and went to school in Vancouver until 1895; how the family was landed in Scotch Creek Flat by the CPR in July of 1895; how his father Henry Bischoff had gold fever and thus lived in Scotch Creek until 1901; how the rest of the family went to school in Notch Hill; what life was like in that area at that time; anecdotes about various characters in the area; how his family was the first white one in the area; his grandfather named Red Buse who was a sawmill owner; stories about prospectors including a man named Jimmy Ross; more on the Scotch Creek days, including details about the population that lived there; what it was like growing up in the area; a character named Fowler and another named Billy the Trapper, real name Billy Henstridge; other people in the area; his brother Henry who was known as Cook; the first few years of farming in the area and other jobs they would do such as building houses; an;d Steamboat Bay. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Amateur film. May Day celebrations at Kamloops in 1928. Scenes from road trips along the Merritt road, along the highway to Shuswap Lake, and along the Monte Lake route to Vernon area.

The item is a film print of unedited footage from 1957. Salmon Arm area scenery. Large crowd of local people, dignitaries, Brownies, etc., gathered on a road for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Afterwards, they enjoy a big outdoor buffet. Farm scenes; stacking hay. Cattle show or auction; carnival rides in background. Parade of bulls. Kids buy ticket, board a ferris wheel; view of event from camera aboard the moving ferris wheel. Sheep. View of lake (Shuswap, presumably). Power boats. Water skiing. Volleyball game on beach.

Amateur film. Family summer leisure activities at Shuswap Lake and other sites in the Kamloops-Shuswap area.

Amateur film. Boat trip up Shuswap Lake from Sorrento to Seymour Arm. Views of the lake, including the Sorrento Regatta. Opening of Fall Fair at Kamloops. Visit to Victoria. Hiking trip up Grouse Mountain. Visit to UBC campus.

Travelogue. Scenery and recreational features of the Okanagan Valley, travelling south from Kamloops to the Canada/USA border. Includes: Interior Exhibition at Armstrong; seed growing; cherry growing; sequence on water sports and Kelowna Regatta (including Lady of the Lake pageant); sequence on apple orchards and packing plant; Okanagan Falls cattle auction; Osoyoos area vegetable crops.

Recreational. Sports fishing in BC. Includes footage of Fraser Canyon fish ladders; government trout hatcheries; fishing for Kamloops and steelhead trout, Dolly Varden, and spring and coho salmon. Also Polson Pool at Vernon, designed to teach youngsters good fishing habits.