Agriculture

Duck and ducklings at Minnekhada

AM1036-S5---: CVA 703-5.3.2
Item
[between 1934 and 1944]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Chickens at Minnekhada farm

AM1036-S5---: CVA 703-5.3.1
Item
[between 1934 and 1944]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Minnekhada stables

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.2.3
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.2.2
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Minnekhada lodge and farm

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.2.1
Item
[ca. 1934]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.6
Item
[ca. 1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.5
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.4
Item
Aug. 25, 1954

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.3
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.2
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Aerial of Minnekhada

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.1.1
Item
[between 1934-1954]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Minnekhada hayfields

AM1036-S5-: CVA 703-5.9.6
Item
[between 1934 and 1944]

Part of Hamber family fonds

Minnekahda Ranch [Minnekhada, Pitt Meadows] - [tilling soil]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-266
Item
[191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0534
Item
[ca. 1976]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an industrial film presented by the Canadian Sugar Factories Company. The film documents the agricultural process of beet plantation and sugar beet extraction and manufacturing processes. Locations appear to be at farms in BC, and at a sugar factory in Alberta. Individuals involved include: Rod Parkhurst (camera), Rick Allen (lighting), Lou Williams (lighting), Paul Abram (grip), A.L. Lazenby (script), Al Jordan (narration), Tom Ashdown (animation) and Lloyd Strump (producer/director). Original reel also contains 59 seconds of "Summer sunshine for winter menus" at beginning of reel.

Foodways : How sweet it is

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0348
Item
[ca. 1978]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a documentary that describes sugar beet farming and harvesting for the manufacture and production of granulated sugar. The film was produced in cooperation with Manitoba Sugar.

Ozama Sugar Co.

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.1783
Item
[ca. 1950]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film showing a fire in the field north of the Ozama Sugar Co. mill. The mill is visible in the background.

From sunshine to sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0350
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an educational film documenting the farming, harvesting and refining of the Canadian sugar beet for the production of sugar.

Sugar : The energy food

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0219
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an educational film about the beet sugar industry in Alberta. It includes an animation illustrating the growth of sugar beets. The film follows the full year cycle of researching and preparing for, planting, harvesting and processing sugar beets.

Summer sunshine for winter menus

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0423
Item
1956

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an instructional film presented by the Fruit Growers of the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia. The film uses sugar from the Canadian Sugar Factories. Dorothy Britton demonstrates canning BC peaches. The film is narrated by Don Cameron. Other individuals involved include: K.L. Johnson (direction), A. Jones (cinematography), V. Spooner (cinematography) and K. Cutler (editing).

6 seed per meter

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0422
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film documenting beet seed sowing equipment as six seeds per meter are planted into the soil. The film shows a monozentra precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, followed by a palm precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, then a monozentra precision drill sowing a pelleted seed and finally a palm precision drill sowing a pelleted seed. Film shows the process in both slow motion and at standard speed.

Seeding and land prep[aration]

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0421
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film documenting a tractor tilling, preparing, and planting sugar beets. The film also contains panning shots of the farm and individual workers preparing the crop with their hands.

Cultivating and thinning

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0420
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film containing footage of a tractor tilling, preparing, and thinning sugar beets.

Irrigation system [for] potato patch

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2960
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Irrigation system [for] potato patch

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2959
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Irrigation system [for] potato patch

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2958
Item
July 1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Note on negative envelope "Near Chilliwack / Indian memorial / Stallo Indian burial"

King Tor, Dartmoor.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1455
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to [Arthur J. Rud] of Vancouver, B.C.

Tulip bulb farm

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4774
Item
Oct. 11, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a man and woman planting bulbs

Orchard, David : crisis of Canadian farms

AM1549-S01-: 2009-116.0844
Item
Jan. 10, 1992

Part of Co-op Radio fonds

Item is an audio reel containing a recording of an interview with David Orchard, farmer and co-founder of the organization Citizens Concerned About Free Trade.

Community Radio Education Society : perspectives on development : community linking - forestry and agriculture : side A

AM1549-S01-F28-: 2009-116.0539-: 2009-116.0539.1
Part
[ca. 1990]

Part of Co-op Radio fonds

Brown Bagger : plenary section : tape 2/3 [part two]

AM1549-S01-F03-: 2009-116.0546-: 2009-116.0546.2
Part
[ca. 1989]

Part of Co-op Radio fonds

Part is a recording of an episode of Australian Agriculture with host Judy Canon.

Chinese market gardens

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4014
Item
Sept. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Stacks of hay near] Chinese market gardens

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4013
Item
Sept. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Bordeaux [Company employee working in a garden]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1681
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Bordeaux [Company employees looking at plants]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1665
Item
1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Harvesting scene]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-304
Item
1940

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a tractor, thrashing machine and workers. Inscription on verso of print "#1426 - Alberta Harvest scene near Calgary, Alberta. / Don Coltman Photo"