Wine and wine making--British Columbia

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Agriculture today : reel 22, part 2

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

  1. Orchard views; apples; young tree trunk protected with wire mesh.
  2. Winter landscape; creek, irrigation works; building a pipeline, Oyama Irrigation District.
  3. Apple orchard; workers picking apples.
  4. Harvesting grapes.
  5. Home-style winemaking in test kitchen [?]: crushing grapes, adding yeast, fermentation, racking, tasting.

Annual reports and correspondence

Established in 1928 as Brentwood Products Ltd. by some members of the Saanich Board of Trade to produce a market for loganberry products and thereby stimulate the Saanich peninsula loganberry growers, the company expanded into a wine making operation and, in April 1929, changed its name to Victoria Wineries (British Columbia) Ltd. This company, which produced Slinger's wines, British Columbia Logan Port and others, later became a subsidiary of Growers' Wine Company Records consist of annual reports and correspondence, 1928-1931.

Miscellaneous film footage

The item consists of six film reels including:

  1. Liquified petroleum gas to Japan, shots of storage tanks; the cargo ship "Mundogas West"; aboard ship; ship departing, 1966: negative
  2. New winery Penticton: negative outs
  3. B.C. Government tours, airplane taxiing; passengers disembarking; etc: negative
  4. Carter report, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, 1967: negative picture with optical sound
  5. Vigor Mines, 1967: negative
  6. Pacific Centre opening, 1971: negative.

Pasquale Capozzi interview

The item is an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in 1964.
T0194:0001 track 1: This interview is the story of how an immigrant went from a railway labourer to being a multi-millionaire. Mr. Pasquale 'Cap' Capozzi was born in Italy on July 13 1889. He discusses his family background; how he attended school in Italy and traveled to New York, and from there to Nelson when he was 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the CPR. He discusses various jobs he held in the BC interior before he eventually settled in Kelowna, where he established the town's second grocery store.

Track 2: Mr. Capozzi describes the conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. He describes the town of Phoenix and the copper mining boom there. He explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store he built another one. He discusses how he got involved in the wine business and how he was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. He offers his impressions of Mr. Bennett and various aspects of his own business career.

T0194:0002 track 1: Mr. Capozzi discusses a service station which he bought in the Kelowna area, the hotel/motel business, his philosophy on business, what Canada means to him, how he learned to speak English in Nelson, how being an immigrant was never hard for him, how he loves Kelowna, some famous people whom he has met, his sons and how they decided the grocery business was not for them, his future plans and more on his life's philosophy.

Pasquale Capozzi interview

The item is an audio interview with Pasquale "Cap" Capozzi, interviewed in Kelowna by Bill Herbert of the CBC in 1964. It is a duplicate copy of T0194:0001-0002.

Scrapbooks of liquor-related newspaper clippings

  • GR-0062
  • Series
  • 1921-1963

The series consists of 37 scrapbooks created by the Liquor Control Board between 1921 and 1963. The 37 volumes contain clippings about liquor related matters from various newspapers (mostly from British Columbia) and some photographs of liquor stores.

British Columbia. Liquor Control Board

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