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Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Item is photograph showing the interior of a passenger airliner.
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Item is photograph showing the interior of a passenger airliner.
Part of Dunbar History Project fonds
Item filed under Unique people. Courtesy of Liz Rowley.
First airplane in Vancouver at Minoru Park
Float plane flying over Stanley Park
Hong Kong - airplane, men playing
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures a biplane flying; expatriates in suits and local soldiers in uniform sitting together; and the expatriates playfully tossing a ball around.
Panchromatic demonstration reel
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is a Kodak commercial reel, demonstrating the capabilities of Kodak Panchromatic black and white film. The demonstration consists of shots of a variety of natural scenes (including waterfalls, rivers, and ponds); animals (including horses, dogs, and cats); boats (including canoes, sailboats, and a warship); an airplane; and a game with men attempting to capture a flag which sits atop a greased pole.
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures an airplane performing loops, banks, and barrel rolls.
Hong Kong - airplanes, Margaret
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures expatriates as they take turns being passengers on a plane. Shots include the plane taking off from a field, onlookers talking, and people embarking and disembarking from the airplane. Shots were likely made at Kai Tak airport. Later shots include Margaret smiling for the camera with the family dog in her arms, a view of the water through the trees, and Margaret posing with her mother.
Hong Kong - Far East Aviation Co.
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures a pilot explaining the features of an Avro type 637 airplane; three Avros flying in formation and performing stunts; and an unidentified Fairey plane being similarly introduced in a hangar.
Hong Kong and Victoria -miscellaneous
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong and Victoria, British Columbia, which captures the Scott family at their Hong Kong home; boats in a crowded Hong Kong harbour and various ships; a Texaco station; fireworks at night; the lights of downtown Hong Kong; the streets of Hong Kong, with a man giving a performance or a speech, street vendors, merchants, cars, rickshaws, and signs; a cricket match; the Cenotaph in Hong Kong; a military parade and people near the waterfront to see off an unidentified dignitary (perhaps a British Navy admiral based on his uniform); and airplanes flying in formation. In Canada, the footage includes fishing in boats; sailing, possibly in the Gulf Islands; a sunset over the mountains and trees; animals, including deer, chickens, and a bear; a garden and flowers. The film then returns to China, and captures parts of an airplane being transported, followed by shots of an airplane flying.
Hong Kong - potters, ships, street vendors
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures buildings; local potters at work; sampans, junks, and ships on the water; an airplane; waterskiing and a slow motion backflip into the water; street vendors selling food, toys, small statues, art, flowers, pottery, and goldfish; and locals on sampans.
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Hong Kong which captures various airplanes flying and taxiing.
Part of Harry Lin Chin fonds
Item is a home movie which documents Stanley Park and the outer harbour of Vancouver. It pictures pedestrians in Stanley Park and on the sea wall, and various animal exhibits in the Stanley Park Zoo in early spring, and includes pan views of the lighthouse and North Vancouver from the Stanley Park sea wall, the collapsed 2nd Narrows Bridge in the harbour (collapsed June 1958) and Navy ships.
The film documents the April 23, 1952 United Grain Growers fire from different angles and a different fire on the North Shore near Lion's Gate Bridge. The film also shows scenes of Queen Elizabeth Park in Spring with views of over Vancouver. The film ends with an airforce aerial show from a view on the ground in a field and one of "Vancouver's last streetcars" giving free rides on the Hastings East Line on April 24, 1955.
L[as] V[egas] and Air Travel to Van. Airport - Sept, 1973 and UBC Japanese Garden
Part of Harry Lin Chin fonds
Item is a film showing travel to the Las Vegas strip including hotels, casinos and desert. Film also contains air travel footage showing airport security, flight attendants serving beverages and aerial views of the US and San Francisco. Towards the end of the film, there is footage of the Vancouver Airport from the plane, and the arrivals terminal. The film ends with footage of the UBC Japanese Garden (Nitobe?) and parking lot.
B.C. Peat, Stanley Park, Indian River, Airport
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing footage of the BC peat plant construction in Delta, the Vancouver Airport featuring Lew Parry rocket structure, planes taking off and landing with North Shore Mountains in the background, scenes of Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge, Scenes from somewhere else outside Vancouver (Howe Sound?). Hikers walking through a river valley.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing aviation scenes from with an airplane cockpit and aerial views of warships, snow scenes, on duty and candid street shots in Europe, the excavation of lot at 2316 W. 22nd Avenue, and the 1946 PNE Parade. People identified are Jean and Kenny McCuaig, their dog Perky, and Owen Wheatcroft.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing European travel footage, scenes from within an airplane cockpit and aerial views from the plane, candid scenes taken on foot of European buildings and street scenes, a military water drill and tourist footage.
Flying scenes B.C. Coast, 1946-1960
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing airplane scenes of the B.C. Coast including a seaplane parked near cabin on lake, aerial footage of mountains, rivers and populated regions along the B.C. Coast, float planes and aerial footage of Vancouver and the Lion's Gate Bridge.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing Jean and Kenny McCuaig's trip south to Las Vegas and the Santa Anita horse races, Annette Island and Ketchikan Alaska, Mount Waddington, playing baseball, surf boards, camping at Penticton, the Grey Cup Parade in 1962 and Harrison Hot Springs.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing various home movie scenes with the McCuaig family members and dog (Jocko) at home and at the cabin with friends, new Valiant convertible, Vincent Kendan McCuaig flying a plane, over the cabin and later over Seattle, Ucluelet and Tofino, moving to new home at 5078 Marguerite Street, Patricia McCuaig's debut at the Military Ball in 1966, water skiing and fishing.
[McCuaig home movie] 1966-1967
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing members of the McCuaig family fishing, water skiing and boating, a trip to California, the Sage Hotel, surfing, driving in a convertible, skiing, swimming, the family dog, aerial views from an airplane and the Abbotsford airshow.
[McCuaig home movie] 1967-1968
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing the Abbotsford airshow in 1967, a trip to California and Universal City [Studios] tour, Esmond and Ina Johnston with their dogs, Tijuana, television footage of Jean and Kenny McCuaig dancing on the Lawrence Welk show.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing an aircraft carrier in English Bay, the sun rise from Fontainebleau (Apt. 5455 Balsam Street, fishing in Campbell River, Nanaimo Bath Tub Race, and children running through sprinkler, swimming in an outdoor pool [at Fontainebleau].
Kendan McCuaig and two men in front of plane propeller
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a photograph showing Vincent Kendan McCuaig (left) and two unidentified men standing in front of a plane propeller.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of a motion picture film containing Fox Movietone Newsreel footage of the opening of the Sea Island airport in Vancouver. The footage begins with a man prop-starting a small plane. Some shots of a group of men standing next to the plane are followed by the plane taxiing on the runway (VH-UPS on the side). Another shot of the same group of men [possibly including Mayor L.D. Taylor?] is followed by a cockpit shot of the pilot in the plane. Shots of the hanger and terminal building are followed by an unidentified speaker addressing the audience with a microphone and a brass band behind him.
Fox Movietone News
Lady Kee Van Luncheon - Whaling Station at Coal Harbour - River Inlet - Knight Inlet - Jervis Inlet
Part of Harry Lin Chin fonds
Item is a film showing the boat (“Lady Keevan”) loaded from a dry dock at Main and Union Streets to a truck to be transported to the water. Film also shows a whale being pulled from the water onto a dock and is cut apart, dock at Telegraph Cove, scenes on the water at River, Knight and Jervis Inlets, and the exterior of the Malibu Club House at Egmont, B.C.
Vancouver Airport & Admin buildings
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing home movie footage filmed by Allan Crocker. The film shows Stanley Park including the Stanley Park zoo, birds and the Dining Pavilion; Coal Harbour; the Lion's Gate Bridge; Queen Elizabeth Park; a trip to [Caribou?]; an airport; and Christmas celebrations at the Crocker residence, 7347 West Boulevard.
Part of BC Gay and Lesbian Archives
Langley, B.C., Skyway Air Services, Ltd.
This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Major J.S. Matthews from Marlene (possibly his niece).
Odyssey 86 : 'Spirit of Vancouver'
Vancouver, British Columbia : Richmond, British Columbia
[Exterior of Boeing Plant building two Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Three Catalina Patrol Bombers on test flight]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Catalina Patrol Bomber float plane on the water]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Boeing Plant, building one, Sea Island
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows planes in various stages of assembly.
[Aerial view of] The New International Air Terminal - Vancouver, Canada
Part of Major Matthews collection
Oblique view. Photograph shows Canadian Pacific Airlines and Air Canada planes at the terminal.
[Replica Boeing B&W-1 float plane on Coal Harbour]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first mail flight from Canada to the United States.
[Replica Boeing B&W-1 float plane and pilot Clayton Scott]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows William E. Boeing Jr. (in the white coat). The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first mail flight from Canada to the United States.
[Airport administration building and airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
["The Gilmore Lion" a Gilmore Oil Co. Ltd. airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Airplane regisration number NR-3057. Man identified as Col. R. Turner.
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Arbor Grace, Newfoundland
Part of Major Matthews collection
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland
Part of Major Matthews collection
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland
Part of Major Matthews collection
[The "Southern Cross" with spectators at Harbour Grace]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[The "Southern Cross" airplane and spectators at Harbour Grace]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Rear view of the "Southern Cross" airplane at Harbour Grace]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows a head and shoulders portrait of Sir Charles in an aviators helmet and Sir Charles standing on the propellor of an airplane