Queen Elizabeth's [School] Sports Day 1958 & 1959
- VSB-S668-: MI-225
- Item
- 1958-1959
Part of Vancouver School Board fonds
Item is a moving image/film documenting school children and teacher involved in various sporting events.
Queen Elizabeth's [School] Sports Day 1958 & 1959
Part of Vancouver School Board fonds
Item is a moving image/film documenting school children and teacher involved in various sporting events.
Part of Vancouver School Board fonds
Item is a moving image/film documenting school children and teachers involved in various sporting events.
Sport's Day - Queen Elizabeth School 1960
Part of Vancouver School Board fonds
Item is a moving image/film documenting school children and teachers involved in various sporting events.
Plan for Warren Harding memorial
Item is a blueprint copy of an architectural drawing showing a cross section and site plan for the memorial to the deceased U.S. President Warren G. Harding in Stanley Park. It has been annotated and signed in the top right corner in ink. It is numbered "Sheet 1".
Perspective of Coal Harbour and proposed causeway [looking west toward Stanley Park]
Item is a photograph. Included are two labels from the original housing which have been assigned numbers LEG40.05 and LEG40.06. The photograph shows armouries, Stuart Building, and Rowing Club clubhouse.
Carron Company
Ravine bridge Stanley Park : Foreshore treatment
Vancouver Park Board
Vancouver Park Board
Item is an architectural drawing depicting the design of the road underpass and Stanley Park Drive bridge adjacent to the Ceperley Park playground in Stanley Park. The drawing depicts plans, sections, a rendering of the bridge and a materials schedule.
Vancouver Park Board
Plans of proposed pavilion for Stanley Park
Plans of proposed improvements for Stanley Park [zoo]
Item is a sketch of a bridge or footbridge, possibly for Stanley Park.
Proposed new bathhouse, Kitsilano
Item is an architectural drawing showing the front facade of the bathhouse.
Proposed new bathhouse, Kitsilano
Item is an architectural drawing showing floor plans for the first and ground floors.
Kitsilano Park : steps at end of bleachers
Item is an architectural drawing that depicts plans and sections.
Vancouver Park Board
Portions of pier plan [Kitsilano?]
Item is a portion of an architectural drawing that depicts plans of a pier. The right-hand side of the drawing is missing.
Vancouver Park Board
Lavatory west end of Kitsilano pool
Item is an architectural drawing that depicts plans, sections and elevations.
Vancouver Park Board
Natatorium, English Bay : Details of ladies' dressing boxes and lockers
Item is an architectural drawing depicting plans, elevations and section of stalls and lockers in the women's dressing rooms of a proposed swimming pool building.
Natatorium English Bay : Details of men's dressing boxes and lockers
Item is an architectural drawing depicting plans, elevations and section of stalls and lockers in the women's dressing rooms of a proposed swimming pool building. Item is an architectural drawing depicting plans, elevations and section of stalls and lockers in the men's dressing rooms of a proposed swimming pool building.
Floor grates in dressing rooms natatorium
Public hall, restaurant and palm court, and swimming pool on Beach Avenue
Item is a site plan of a proposed swimming pool and leisure facility on Beach Avenue between the bathhouse and English Bay pier.
Plan of public hall, restaurant, winter garden and swimming pool on Beach Avenue
Item is a site plan for a proposed public swimming and entertainment facility on Beach Avenue between Denman and Morton streets.
Public hall, winter garden, swimming pool and restaurant
Item is a site plan of a proposed swimming pool and leisure facility on Beach Avenue at Chilco Street.
Proposed swimming bath : plan of ventilation and heating
Item is a copy of drawing LEG1969.13, which has been annotated to show the location and configuration of heating and ventilation systems.
Proposed swimming bath : plan of electrical lighting
Item is a copy of drawing LEG1969.13, which has been annotated to show the locations and type of interior lighting fixtured.
Item is a copy of drawing LEG1969.13, which has been annotated to show more detail in the design of interior spaces.
Item is a complete, copy of drawing LEG1969.13, without annotations.
Sharp & Thompson, Architects
Item is a drawing depicting three floor plans and a section of a proposed building to house a swimming pool at English Bay.
A.S. Wootton, Civil Engineer
Elevations, floor plan and cross-section of swimming baths
Sharp & Thompson, Architects
Site plan and lower ground floor plan
Sharp & Thompson, Architects
Sharp & Thompson, Architects
Sharp & Thompson, Architects
Item is a map of the Prospect Point area annotated to show a suggested bypass road at the south end of the First Narrows Bridge. Base map shows roadways approaching the proposed First Narrows Bridge, locations of hydrants, topography, and details of landscaping in some areas, and includes two elevations of a proposed skew bridge.
Sketch plan showing suggested area for municipal golf links, Vancouver, B.C.
Item is a map showing layout of proposed golf course and topographic contour lines for the area bounded by Victoria Drive, Kerr Street, 59th Avenue, and Marine Drive.
Item is a documentary film documenting people participating in recreational activities in Montreal?s parks. Some of the recreational activities documented in the film include children?s playground activities, a parade, races, baseball, tug-of-war, swimming, gymnastics, ice-skating, hockey and a toboggan run.
[Chicago and Minneapolis parks and playgrounds]
Item is a documentary film documenting parks and playgrounds in Chicago and Minneapolis in the United States of America. The film is shot in the winter and contains footage of parks and mostly vacant recreation playgrounds and playground equipment such as a miniature train and horse and carriage. The film also documents people engaged in recreational activities at an ice rink, animals and children in a playground as well as several identifiable locations including the Alder Planetarium (Chicago), the Keith R. Olsen Memorial Recreation Centre, the Stuart Field Minneapolis Park Board building, and Barnum Park. This film may have been used by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation for reference purposes.
"Morning show" Park Board part #2
Item is a documentary film documenting The Morning Show's coverage of visits to Vancouver parks with interviewer Ross Mortimer and host Doug Campbell. This film is the continuation of film MI-116 'Morning Show' - Stanley Park and Queen Elizabeth Park Part #1. The program was aired on CBUT (Channel 2) in 1963 and contains footage of Ross Mortimer's interviews with the Chairman of the Parks Board who discusses Stanley Park and Queen Elizabeth Park. This film also contains footage of Nelson Park and Ross Mortimer's interviews with seniors and children in the park about the uses and functions of parks. The film concludes with comments from Stuart Lefeaux, Superintendent of Parks and Grace McCarthy, Parks Board Commissioner.
"Morning show" - Stanley Park and Queen Elizabeth Park part #1
Item is a documentary film documenting The Morning Show's coverage of visits to Stanley Park and Queen Elizabeth Park with interviewer Ross Mortimer and host Doug Campbell. The program was aired on CBUT (Channel 2) in 1963 and contains footage of Ross Mortimer's interview in Stanley Park with Stuart Lefeaux, Superintendent of Parks in greater Vancouver. Lefeaux discusses various aspects of the interaction between parks, the Parks Board and the public as well as Parks Board personnel, Stanley Park history, recreational activities, and services offered to the public such as supervised playgrounds and refreshment services. In addition, the film documents a visit to Queen Elizabeth Park including footage of Century Rock, which is a time capsule located there that is to be opened in 2054. During the visit, Ross Mortimer interviews Grace McCarthy, Parks Board Commissioner, about the park's history, current uses and future visions and planning. The film also documents Ross Mortimer's interview with the park's landscape designer who discusses garden design as well as various types of trees and flowers in the park.
"Morning show" - Kerrisdale Community Centre part #2
Item is a documentary film documenting The Morning Show's coverage of the Kerrisdale Community Centre with interviewer Ross Mortimer and host Doug Campbell. This film is the continuation of film MI-114 'Morning Show' - Kerrisdale Community Centre Part #1. The program was aired on CBUT (Channel 2) in 1963 and contains footage of the recreational activities that take place at the Kerrisdale Community Centre as well as interviews with the centre's instructors, users, and administrators. The film documents Ross Mortimer's interview with Marshal Smith, Director of Supervised Recreation, who discusses the connection between community centres and the Parks Board. In addition, the film documents a variety of the centre's recreational activities as Ross Mortimer interviews the instructors and participants of various programmes including children's Judo, floor hockey, gymnastics, Christmas craft making, painting and women's Christmas arts and crafts.
"Morning show" - Kerrisdale Community Centre part #1
Item is a documentary film documenting The Morning Show's coverage of the Kerrisdale Community Centre with interviewer Ross Mortimer and host Doug Campbell. The program was aired on CBUT (Channel 2) in 1963 and contains footage of the recreational activities that take place at the Kerrisdale Community Centre as well as interviews with the centre's instructors, users, and administrators. The film documents Ross Mortimer's interviews with Mrs. Joan R. Grey, who is an employee of the Parks Board and is responsible for the centre's programmes, and Mr. Hal Milton, who is the President of the Kerridale Community Centre. In this interview, Milton and Grey discuss how the centre is jointly operated with the Parks Board as well as other topics including fundraising, volunteers, and the role of women in the centre. In addition, the film documents a variety of the centre's recreational activities as Ross Mortimer interviews the instructors and participants of various programmes including a children's exercise class, a senior citizens carpet bowling group, an adults clay sculpting and pottery class, a women's art class, a women's French class, and a children's Judo class. There is also footage of an interview with Francis Bodey, who is the secretary of the Kerrisdale Community Centre.
Item is a documentary film documenting the Stanley Park Zoo. The film contains footage of various animals at the zoo including Nanook the polar bear, penguins, Oscar the baby seal living with the penguins, seals, sea lions, monkeys, peacocks, pigeons, flamingos, and ducks. The footage of the animals is narrated by Fred Davis. Davis also interviews the curator of the zoo, Alan Best, who talks about his career, his Labrador retriever, and the challenges of diet and climate change for some of the animals at the zoo.
Playground films -- special events
Item is a documentary film documenting various recreational activities and special events taking place in park playgrounds in Vancouver. The film contains footage of special events such as the 1967 Sandbox Project, the Annual Kids Fishing Derby, and the Soap-box Derby. The recreational activities documented include baseball, children?s fishing, Ukrainian dancing, outdoor ballet dancing, boxing, bicycle riding, basketball, volleyball, outdoor gymnastics, children?s games, and musical performances. The film also documents a children?s parade involving children carrying signs with various Vancouver park names, a children?s puppet show, a parade with children marching their bicycles and a marching bag-piping band as well as a children?s trophy ceremony. In addition, the film contains footage of children driving mini cars at the Playground Traffic School as well as footage of Camp Capilano and children participating in recreational activities such as hiking, eating lunch and tug of war.
Visit of Queen Elizabeth - dogwood - playground
Item is a documentary film documenting Queen Elizabeth's 1959 visit to Vancouver. The film shows preparation of a presentation for her visit to Queen Elizabeth Park as well as the presentation being viewed by Queen Elizabeth. The presentation consists of an assembly of children creating a dogwood-flower-shaped formation in the park.
Item is a documentary film documenting John Lawson Park in West Vancouver. The film contains footage of the proposed playscape model for the playground as well as footage of the completed playground with children playing on it. The film also documents an interview between two unidentified men at the playground.
Handicapped summer playground program
Item is a documentary film documenting the Handicapped Summer Playground Program of 1963. Film contains footage of the B.C. Society for Crippled Children?s bus which transports the children to the park as well as footage of the children participating in activities such as playing games and eating lunch.