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Item part is a photograph of the downtown Vancouver skyline and waterfront, looking south across Coal Harbour from the seawall path in Stanley Park. Boat storage units are visible along the coast.

Item part is a photograph of the downtown Vancouver skyline and waterfront, looking south across Coal Harbour from the seawall path in Stanley Park. Several fuel barges (National, Home, and Esso) are visible in the harbour.

Item part is a photograph of the downtown Vancouver skyline and waterfront, looking south across Coal Harbour from the seawall path in Stanley Park.

Item is a documentary film documenting Stanley Park including recreational activities and special events in the park. The film contains footage of traffic entering Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge viewed from the park, totem poles, as well as scenes of trees and flower gardens that show the park in bloom. The film documents people engaging in a variety of the park?s recreational activities as well such as horse back riding, walking, playing cricket, purchasing ice-cream from the ice-cream stand, golfing, swimming and playing in the water at the beach. The film also contains footage of track and field sports taking place at Brockton Oval including shot-put, discus, running races, high jumping, and pole-jumping. In addition, the film documents a visit to the park by Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as well as people building the sea wall. Children are also featured in the park playing on the playground equipment, riding the Stanley Park Miniature Railway, and interacting with the animals at the petting zoo. Various animals in Stanley Park and the zoo are also documented including swans, ducks, raccoons, monkeys, sea lions, penguins, sea otters and a peacock.

Item is a documentary film documenting Vancouver's parks in 1940. This film names Vancouver the "Playground City of the North West" and contains footage of Stanley Park, Connaught Park, Douglas Park, Devonshire Park, Shaughnessy Park, Memorial West Park, Memorial South Park, Almond Park, Hastings Community Park, Grandview Park, Trout Lake, Queen Elizabeth Park, Tatlow Park, Thornton Park, Hadden Park, Burrard View Park, Maple Grove Park, Sunset Nursery, Victory Square Park, Beaver Lake Park as well as Vancouver's beaches including English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Second Beach, Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach. The film also features Stanley Park including footage of typical scenes at the entrance and causeway, the Administration Offices of the parks system, primeval forest scenes, blossom time in the rockeries and gardens, Lost Lagoon, Prospect Point, Lions Gate Bridge, the totem poles and a view of Stanley park from afar. As well, the film documents the locations of the free swimming classes provided by Vancouver Sun newspaper at Lumberman's Arch Pool, Kitsilano Pool, New Brighton Pool and Maple Grove Pool. Vancouver's playgrounds are also documented with footage of children playing in the playgrounds at Memorial South Playground, Norquay Playground, Robson Playground and McLean Playground. In addition, this film documents a variety of recreational activities that take place in Vancouver's parks including swimming, sunbathing, boating, diving, folk dancing, tennis, golfing (at Fraser Golf Course), walking, lawn bowling, horse-shoe pitching, model yacht racing, cricket, playing games, enjoying the park's fauna and flora (in both summer and autumn), picnicking and having BBQs. Special events such as symphonies, Dress-up Day, the Annual Sandbox Contest, and the annual Soap-box Derby are also documented.

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.

Item is a postcard printed with an image of the Stanley Park entrance to the Lions Gate Bridge. A few vehicles are pictured driving across the bridge.

This postcard includes personal correspondence but no mailing address.

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mrs. E. Milton Small of Gillingham, Kent, England, from her son Harry in Vancouver.

Item is a photograph from Oak and 41st Ave, looking north, with a large partially cleared green area at the bottom of the frame, with downtown, Stanley Park, and the North Shore Mountains in the upper frame.

Item is a photograph of the first duck pond in Stanley Park. Ducks and swans swim in the pond as a man walks along side, in the background can be seen the duck pond fountain and a railing on a path around the pond.

Item is a photograph of an individual standing on a roadway surrounded by evidence of logging activity and large standing trees.

Item is a photograph of three bison walking in their enclosure in Stanley Park. The photograph was taken from the road to Brockton, looking northwest. A cabin is visible in the upper right background.

Item is a photograph of three bison grazing in their enclosure in Stanley Park. The photograph was taken from the road to Brockton, looking northwest. A cabin is visible in the upper right background.

Item is a photograph of Second Beach at Stanley Park. The photograph was taken from a walking path above the beach, looking west. Park visitors and horses can be seen on the beach, and the bathing house is visible at the middle right of the frame.

Photograph shows a roadway at the side of Stanley Park Pavilion with a horse-drawn buggy, motor vehicles and people walking.

Photograph shows the Marine Building and the Hotel Vancouver in the background

Photograph shows two separate images: one showing two roads and the other large trees

Photograph shows a view towards Siwash Rock

Photograph shows a covered open-sided log structure

Most of the people in the photograph are members of the military, in uniform.

Photograph shows a ground level view of people walking through Lumberman's Arch in Stanley Park.

Item is a photograph of women and girls at the Queen Victoria fountain in Stanley Park. Other patrons on benches or walking in the park are visible in the background.

Item is an amateur film documenting family life and a sawmill fire in Vancouver. The film consists of home movie footage filmed by Jake Loeppky, including footage of Queen Elizabeth Park, the Stanley Park Zoo, children playing at the family home in Burnaby, children swimming, and the family entertaining at home. The film also includes footage of a logging camp, a large dam, bears, and people waterskiing. Of particular note is several minutes of footage of the five-alarm fire that destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility at 999 West 6th Avenue on July 3, 1960.

Item is a documentary film documenting views and tourist attractions at Stanley Park (B.C). Film documents the Brockton Point Lighthouse, the south end of the Lions Gate (First Narrows) Bridge (1932-) with heavy vehicle traffic, the exterior of the Stanley Park Dining Pavilion, the seawall with cyclists, and the totem poles at Brockton Point. The film also contains footage of a float plane, cargo ship, squirrel, and several views of downtown Vancouver.

Item is a documentary film documenting views of Vancouver and a number of tourist attractions. Film includes footage of the Vancouver skyline from the False Creek area looking north, the Vancouver Harbour Centre, the Vancouver Planetarium with crab sculpture and fountain in front, a sailboat passing by the Vancouver Rowing Club, a sign for Stanley Park (B.C.), boats at Coal Harbour Marina, and people walking among the totem poles in Stanley Park.

Item is a color film which details the steps involved in constructing the Lions Gate Bridge (First Narrows Bridge) across the First Narrows of the Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, B.C.) in 1937 and 1938. The film, which appears to be professionally produced, captures the entire construction and assembly process, including the cutting of a road through Stanley Park, preparation of cofferdams and caissons, foundation pouring, erection of the main towers, hoisting and attaching cables, insertion of stiffening trusses, bridge surface pouring, application of protective paint, and other finishing touches, including the installation of sculptor Charles Marega's lions. The film also captures shots of key contributors A.J.T. Taylor and John Anderson, as well as the first cars to cross the span from end to end.

Photograph was taken in the summer.

Photograph was taken in the summer.

Photograph was taken in the summer.