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Item is a photograph of a group of men and horse carts posing outside of the Hudson's Bay Company general merchants at 150 Cordova Street, the first Hudson's Bay Company store in Vancouver.

Item is a photograph of the demolition of G.A. Roedde Ltd., Bookbinders, Printers, etc., premises at 616 Homer Street.

Item is a photograph of the Hudson Bay Company's on Granville and Georgia taken on March 26, 1926, the day before the old corner unit it was to be demolished. The connections between the three additions to the store, at Georgia and Seymour, on Seymour and on Granville Street are visible. The Granville Street extention is nearing completion. The photograph was taken from the south-west.

Item is a photograph of The Windsor hotel with the proprietor, W.H. "Billy" Allen standing in the entrance. Visible to the left is a Coca Cola soda fountain stand with men standing at it.

Item is a photograph of the CPR Depot and docks, with ships at port in Vancouver harbour. In the foreground is Waterfront station and the north shore mountains in the background.

Item is a photograph of the second Hotel Vancouver, owned by CPR.

Item is a photograph of the Shriners pipe band marching up Howe Street, the east facade of the Court House is visible behind them and the Georgia Hotel in the background.

Item is a photograph of downtown Vancouver looking northwest from the upper floors of an unidentified building. The view includes the Marine Building, Coal Harbour, Vancouver Harbour, and the north shore.

Item is a photograph of a high angle view looking northeast over the C.P.R. train tracks at Vancouver Harbour.

Item is a photograph of Granville Street at night, looking southwest down Granville street. In the foreground the neon signage for the Castle Hotel (760 Granville Street) and Palm Ice Cream are clearly visible. The neon signage further down Granville Street is less clear, but the signs for the Capital Theatre (820 Granville Street) and the Orpheum theatre (884 Granville Street) are still distinguishable.

Item is a photograph of the southeast facade of the Hotel Vancouver (900 W Georgia Street) from Howe Street near W. Georgia Street, across Howe Street and the Court House grounds. The view includes the Provincial Court House building (750 Hornby Street) on the left, and the Devonshire Hotel (885 W. Georgia Street) and the Dental-Medical building (925 W. Georgia Street) on the right.

Item is a photograph of Victory Square and the Cenotaph, looking northeast from Victory Square across W. Hastings Street. The Dominion Building (207 W. Hastings Street) is visible in the background.

Item is a photograph of English Bay and the west side of Downtown Vancouver, looking northeast from somewhere along the south shore of English Bay. The view includes the Hotel Vancouver at the far right, and the beginning of Stanley Park on the far left.

Item is a photograph of the Seaforth Highlanders pipe band marching on Cambie Street outside the west facade of the Daily Province building (198 W. Hastings Street), across from Victory Square.

Item is a film showing a family vacation in Vancouver. The film contains title cards. People in the film include: Joe Sellers, Helen Sellers, Brenda Sellers and Wayne Sellers. Film contains scenes showing downtown Vancouver, Canadian Pacific passenger trains, Stanley Park, children swimming in outdoor pool, Mount Seymour Park, gondolas [at Mount Seymour], Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, and a picnic with men playing ukulele.

Item is a film containing highlights of British Columbia's centennial year in Vancouver. Includes shots of an antique car parade, a tall ship at dock, naval vessels, street decorations in Vancouver, Chinese Freemasons parade (with drill team, dragon dance, etc.), a powwow, horse racing at Exhibition Park, PNE parade, and the last of the region's interurban streetcars. Film also includes footage showing the aftermath of the Second Narrows Bridge collapse.

Item is an amateur film showing the 1936 Jubilee Pacific National Exhibition parade. Film contains footage of the Burrard Bridge, Stanley Park, an RCMP musical ride at near Jericho Beach, Vancouver Fire Department stunt with the firetruck ladder.

Item is a film containing both black and white and colour footage. Colour portion of film shows rural area, a body of water with tugboat and barge, horse back riding at the Silver Lodge Riding Academy and candid shots of people on horses. Black and white portion shows a residential area (possibly Vancouver), kids and young men playing catch in the backyard, woman feeding treats to cats and a dog doing tricks, Hastings street showing various hotels and retail buildings, the BC Electric building, the Carnegie Library, playground with people on teeter-totters and swings (probably in Stanley Park), grizzly bears at the zoo (probably Stanley Park, the entrance to the Stanley Park Causeway and Vancouver City Hall.

Item is a film containing footage of the Howe Sound cruise ship leaving the Burrard Inlet harbour in downtown Vancouver, the Marine Building, Hotel Vancouver, a cruise ship passing by Lighthouse Park and docking in Howe Sound, Britannia Beach, the Britannia Mine, the Grand Coulee Dam construction and land excavation. Film also shows a sequence at a zoo with tigers and bears, a car driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, Vancouver street scenes with flags and banners in preparation for the royal visit, City Hall and views looking north from the Burrard Bridge at downtown Vancouver.

Item is a film showing various scenes around Vancouver. The first half of this film documents a Gray Line Tours bus trip through Vancouver and second half contains scenes showing landmarks of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Film contains footage showing: Empress of Japan Figurehead in Stanley Park, U.B.C., Chinatown, Hotel Georgia, Lion's Gate Bridge, Court House, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Capilano Golf and Country Club, Prospect Point, Stanley Park, views of downtown and North Shore Mountains from Little Mountain, City Hall, sailboats in Burrard Inlet, and Swimmers at Kits Beach.

Item is a film containing home movie footage showing people on the deck of a boat, views of Georgia Street and Hotel Georgia, Burrard Inlet, trees, children eating on a bench and swimming, unidentified home and garden, and aerial views of Vancouver.