City of Vancouver Archives

AM1614-: 2011-002.13
Item
[between 1922 and 1940]

Item consists of a motion picture film which chronologically documents the construction of an embankment built to support a set of wooden railway trestles. The embankment was constructed by S.S. Magoffin and Company Railway Contractors for Canadian National Railways in what appears to be an area near Mt. Robson.

Progress on the construction is seen over time. Special attention throughout is paid to the machinery, which includes a 70 tonne Bucyrus steam shovel on caterpillar tracks, with substantial footage of scooping and dumping earth and other parts in action, and a small steam locomotive pushing rail carts. There are many shots of the workmen, the surrounding environment, and the work camp, as well as footage of workers recovering from storm damage including rockslides on tracks, flooding, and a steam shovel knocked over and buried in dirt, badly damaged.

Magoffin, Samuel S.

[B.C.E.R. construction of lines on the west side of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) near 20th Avenue]

AM1376-: 2011-065.1
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the shops and businesses in the background

Foodways : How sweet it is

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0348
Item
[ca. 1978]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a documentary that describes sugar beet farming and harvesting for the manufacture and production of granulated sugar. The film was produced in cooperation with Manitoba Sugar.

From sunshine to sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0350
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an educational film documenting the farming, harvesting and refining of the Canadian sugar beet for the production of sugar.

This is Manitoba Sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0415
Item
[ca. 1958]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an industrial film produced for the Manitoba Beet Growers Association and the Manitoba Sugar Company Limited. The film documents the sugar beet farming process in Manitoba, its harvest, transport, sugar processing and manufacturing. Focus is given to farming technology, the various extraction stages in the sugar factory, and the many uses for sugar in diets and the food industry. Photography by M.J. Sym and D. Campbell.

Cultivating and thinning

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0420
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film containing footage of a tractor tilling, preparing, and thinning sugar beets.

Seeding and land prep[aration]

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0421
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film documenting a tractor tilling, preparing, and planting sugar beets. The film also contains panning shots of the farm and individual workers preparing the crop with their hands.

6 seed per meter

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0422
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film documenting beet seed sowing equipment as six seeds per meter are planted into the soil. The film shows a monozentra precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, followed by a palm precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, then a monozentra precision drill sowing a pelleted seed and finally a palm precision drill sowing a pelleted seed. Film shows the process in both slow motion and at standard speed.

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0534
Item
[ca. 1976]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

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.

Trucks - Ford/Ryder - donated furniture - homesite saws Lumber [9 of 20]

AM1671-: 2011-130.0052
Item
[1975]

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