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Unemployment relief works under Department of National Defence, Canada : British Columbia and Alb...

Unemployment relief works under Department of National Defence, Canada : British Columbia and Alberta

Item is a map showing the locations of and details associated with unemployment relief works projects in British Columbia and western Alberta. An inset map shows the Peace River highways. The location of projects, project number, and information of staffing numbers, accommodation and in some cases man-days of the project are noted.

Map of Manitoba, Kewaydin, British Columbia and North West Territory shewing the country traverse...

Map of Manitoba, Kewaydin, British Columbia and North West Territory shewing the country traversed by the Canadian Pacific Railway

Item is a map showing the extent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (C.P.R.) in Canada in 1883. Map shows boundaries, roads, trails, telegraph lines, towns, rivers, lakes and mountainous terrain in British Columbia, the North West Territory (Alberta, Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Assiniboia), Manitoba and Kewaydin, as well as some of Ontario and Western Quebec. Map is folded inside a book titled "North West Territory, Canada."

Oil country - [L.D. Taylor and Dr. Grossman in front of Dingman well, Turner Valley, Alberta]

Oil country - [L.D. Taylor and Dr. Grossman in front of Dingman well, Turner Valley, Alberta]

L.D. Taylor is the man on the right. Inscription by L.D. on the verso reads: "Dingman well stands - holds 3000 barrels. Only well of its kind in the world. Producing oil 92 [percent] gasoline. fill your auto tanks right from well. Millions of feet of wet gas. just discovered that under compression 1000 cubic ft. produce 5 gal. gasoline. besides leaving a valuable dry gas. you can smell gasoline 1/4 mile away."

A story

A story

Item is a photograph showing a man telling a story to Jane Banfield and Alix Louise Gordon.

Going

Going

Item is a photograph showing Jane Banfield, Alix Louise Gordon and John Banfield being pulled in a horse-drawn cart.

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

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.

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

Item is a film which contains several color commercials from B.C. Sugar Refining Company's 1975 television advertising campaign. According to the list accompanying the reel, the contained commercials are as follows: 1. Sugar - Sweetness - Manitoba Ending, :60; 2. Sugar - Birthday Cake - Manitoba Ending, :30; [3. Sugar - Sugar Daddy - Manitoba Ending, :30]; [4.] Sugar - Birthday Cake - Alberta Ending, :30; [5.] Sugar - Birthday Cake - B.C. Ending, :30; [6.] Sugar - Sweetness - Alberta Ending, :60. The third commercial was not included in the list, and the title has been supplied from a list accompanying a different reel with the same commercial. All six commercials feature the same backing song, "Call On Your Sweetie, Sugar," and depict family moments made better by sugar.

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

Item is a film which contains several color commercials from B.C. Sugar Refining Company's 1975 television advertising campaign. According to the list accompanying the reel, the contained commercials are as follows: 1. Sugar - "Sugar Daddy - B.C. Ending," :30; 2. Sugar - "Sugar Daddy - Alberta Ending," :30; 3. Sugar - "Sweetness - B.C. Ending," :60; 4. Sugar - "Birthday Cake - B.C. Ending," :30; 5. Rogers Golden Syrup - "Chicken Wingding," :30; 6. Rogers Golden Syrup - "Couple," :30. The sugar commercials feature the backing song "Call On Your Sweetie, Sugar," and depict family moments made better by sugar. The syrup commercials feature a number of recipes made with Rogers Golden Syrup.

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