Victoria - approaching Seagull Island
- AM1591-: 2011-089.20
- Item
- [1959?]
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Victoria which captures a boat's approach to "Seagull Island".
Victoria - approaching Seagull Island
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Victoria which captures a boat's approach to "Seagull Island".
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film which captures Remembrance Day proceedings in Victoria, British Columbia. A ceremony is being held on the grounds of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings and the Inner Harbour area, where soldiers and veterans in ceremony stand around the War Memorial. The soldiers march and line up, various men in formal dress take turns placing a wreath at the base of the statue (including Premier Duff Pattullo), and a military band plays. The film closes with a blurry shot of Margaret.
Victoria - flowers, Camera Craft sign
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is an amateur film from Douglas Scott's time living in Victoria, British Columbia, the first half of which primarily captures many shots of young apple trees in bloom, and flowers in a garden (possibly Beacon Hill Park). The second half of the film captures Scott's neon Camera Craft sign blinking at night.
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.
Victoria - Government House, royal visit footage, and soldiers departing
Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds
Item is a film which contains some of Douglas Scott's footage of the royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Victoria, British Columbia, in May of 1939. The film captures a car approaching Government House; Margaret by the water; intertitles reading "We leave their majesties steaming Eastward, back to their family at the Heart of the Empire - while Canadians from the Atlantic to Pacific unite in loyalty and affection for our Sailor King and his gracious consort," and "The Straits of Juan de Fuca : In the foreground Canada - in the background the towering Olympic Range in the United States - two great nations living together in peace and Amity;" a large pole being painted by a man elevated by a pulley; the fountains and structures of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings illuminated for the royal visit; the parade, a marching band, and Mounties; a golf game; flowers; and youths riding horses. The end of the film captures soldiers marching.
24 beautiful views of the Canadian Pacific Rockies
Item is a folder containing a set of paper panels printed with images of sites in the Canadian Rockies. The folder also contains textual descriptions of the subjects of each image. The Canadian Pacific Railway's logo is printed on the folder's cover. Two images of scenery are also printed on the folder's cover.
British Columbia is celebrating - join us... for two centenaries : 1966 and 1967
Butchart's Gardens, Victoria, B.C. - Knome refreshing on a vantage point, Japanese Gardens
C.P.R. Empress Hotel and Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.
C.P.R. S.S. "Princess Victoria," Victoria Harbour, B.C.
Dallas Road, Marine Drive, Victoria, B.C.
This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Vancouver General Hospital.
Gonzales Bay, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Inner harbour [showing] small boats and Union Steamship's "Camosun"
Part of James Crookall fonds
[H.M.S. "Shearwater", Victoria]
Part of James Luke Quiney fonds
[Launching of Union Steamship "Chilkoot II"]
Part of James Crookall fonds
[Launching of the S.S. "Chilkoot"]
Part of James Crookall fonds
[Launching of the S.S. "Chilkoot"]
Part of James Crookall fonds
MLAs [at Provincial Legislature]
Part of Francis Carter-Cotton fonds
Item is a photograph showing MLAs at the Provincial Legislature. Francis Carter-Cotton is pictured in the front row, seated 5th from the right.
Unidentified harbour with industrialized foreshore [View of Ogden Point, Victoria, B.C.]
Part of Imperial Oil Company fonds
Item is a photograph showing a view of Ogden Point taken from the shore of MacAulay Point. The B&K Rolling Oats mill building is in the background.
1960 Alert Bay - Trip to Victoria Sept. '60
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing Alert Bay, a trip to Victoria and Weir's Beach on Vancouver Island, Elk Falls, Sproat Lake, Grey Cup Parade, Easter 1961 in Portland, Canadian Memorial United Church Sunday School Picnic at Peace Arch Park, summer at South Beach, fishing, Wayne McCuaig's tenth birthday party, family holiday to Kelowna and the boys that lived on W. 22nd Ave.
H-21, Victoria [Victoria bungalow]
Item is a photograph showing a Victoria bungalow designed by Central Mortgage and Housing.
State Ball guests, group photo
Item is a group photograph of State Ball guests, including Sherwood Lett (leftmost), Mrs. Evelyn Lett (third from left), and Mr. & Mrs. F Ronald Graham (centre).
[Vancouver Amateur Swimming Club group photograph]
Part of Stanley H. Warn fonds
Stan Warn is seated front row center.
[S.S. "Chilkoot" (II) launching at Victoria Machinery Depot]
Photograph shows the stern and propeller
[S.S. "Chilkoot" (II) launching at Victoria Machinery Depot]
[S.S. "Chilkoot" (II) launching at Victoria Machinery Depot]
Greasing the runways for launching [of S.S. "Chilkoot" (II) at Victoria Machinery Depot]
Map showing the line of boundary between the United States and British possessions
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a map showing four proposed boundaries between the United States and British possessions in the Salish Sea region. The explanations of the lines read in part: "[1] Boundary line contemplated by the Treaty as shown by contemporaneous evidence; [2] Boundary line as claimed by the British Commissioner; [3] Boundary line proposed by the British Commissioner as a compromise ( . . . ); [4] Boundary line in accordance with the strict letter of the Treaty ( . . . ). Item also shows soundings, and the "track of steamers plying between Victoria and Fraser river since discovery of gold."
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Part contains a map showing major roads from the North Shore to Bellingham, Washington; a map showing major roads in the Victoria area from Cobble Hill in the northwest to Sooke in the southwest; and traffic rules for Vancouver.
Street map of Greater Victoria, B.C., map cover, and street index of Greater Vancouver
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Part contains a map of Greater Victoria showing highways, streets, parks, golf courses and country clubs, institutions, block numbers, city and municipal boundaries and Shell marine stations, and a street index for the Greater Vancouver map on the other side of the sheet.
[Men playing cricket in] Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Group portrait of Canadian Army Medical Corps - No. 5 Canadian General Hospital]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Panoramic view of group portrait of men and women recruits
Part of Major Matthews collection
Studio portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Full-length studio portrait
[Most Worshipful Grandmaster H.N. Rich]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Studio portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Mrs. W.H.G. Willis standing outside the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, Victoria]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Head and shoulders portrait
[Parliament Buildings shortly after opening]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.