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Hastings-Sunrise (Vancouver, B.C.) With digital objects
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PNE Parade - Start of the RCMP Musical Ride

Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver Pacific National Exhibition Parade and British Columbia scenery. The film begins with footage of floats in the P.N.E parade. Identified floats and performers include the train from Montreal to Port Moody 1886, New Westminster, Comox Valley, Sannich, Vancouver Fire Department, Fraser Expedition, Canadian Order of Foresters, The Moonlighters, Horseshoe Bay, and the P.N.E Minstrel Band. Businesses and buildings shown include Standard Stations, British American Oil Company, Canadian Pacific Railroad, Radio CKWX 1130, Hotel Vancouver, Georgia Hotel, the Provincial Courthouse, and Pacific Western Airlines. Footage also shows downtown street banners. The second half of the film includes footage of the RCMP riding onto Hastings Park racetrack in formation in front of an RCMP band being conducted and a crowd. Houses in the Hastings-Sunrise area to the east of Hastings Park are also shown.

[Aerial view of Burrard Inlet, Hastings-Sunrise, Burnaby and the District of North Vancouver]

Photograph shows Exhibition Park and P.N.E. Golf Course, Second Narrows Bridge, New Brighton Park, Callister Park, Burrard Inlet, Lynn Creek, Lynn Park, Seymour Creek, Vancouver Harbour Commissioners Railway, Inspected Shingles Ltd., Cascade Rock and Gravel Co. Ltd., Canadian Shingle Co. Ltd. (Capilano Timber Co. Ltd.), Alberta Pool Elevator, Columbia Grain Elevator Co. Ltd., Canadian Pacific Railway, Girls Industrial School and Old Peoples Home sites.

[Aerial view of Mount Pleasant, South Strathcona and Kensington-Cedar Cottage]

Photograph shows aerial view of the east end of False Creek, Thornton Park, Great Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway yards, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, Trout Lake, Kingsway, Vancouver Technical School grounds, Renfrew playing fields, John Hendry Park, British Columbia Electric Railway Right of Way, Clark Park, Grandview Highway South, Great Northern Railway.