Special event footage. Wartime parade showing US and Canadian troops, infantry units, bands, tanks, artillery, armoured vehicles, a mobile searchlight, a civil defence unit, women's military units (WAC: Women's Army Corps and Wrens: Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service), and a propaganda display with "slaves" towing a chariot marked with a swastika and guarded by "German soldiers".

Special event footage. The military parades probably mark troops departing for World War Two in 1940, and V-J Day, 14-Aug-1945. Reel concludes with floats in the Vancouver Diamond Jubilee parade, 1946.

Footage. Various Canadian military units in field uniform marching in the area of the Parliament Buildings. Includes footage of civilian dignitaries: Lieutenant-Governor Eric Hamber, Premier Thomas D. Pattullo and the Hon. John Hart.

Amateur film. "The footage . . . shows a parade, mounted in the early days of World War II, marching down Granville Street, shot from a window high up in the original Eaton's building. All the while a Union Jack flutters back and forth across the window. Scenes include a float with a world globe and Union Jack, soldiers marching, clowns with batons, floats with soldiers and a plane, a fighter plane, and various trucks, marching men, soldiers and bands. At the end there is a shot of Granville Street and pedestrians from street level." (Colin Browne)