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Vancouver (B.C.) Gardens--Household With digital objects
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[Group assembled in garden in rear of 74 Cordova St.]

Photograph shows the first electric light plant and the unit block Hastings between Carrall and Abbott Street. Individuals identified (left to right): Mrs. Percy Venables, Mr. Mazoni, Miss Thomas, Mr. Dizromi, unidentified, Mr. Gabe Thomas, Mrs. Brown, Peter Clair, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Vashon, Mrs. Mazoni, Mrs. Peter Clair, Mrs. Woods. Front: Mazoni boy.

Odds & ends: Goldheart 1948, 865 Wildwood 1979, K[nox] Lake 1979, people W[est] Van show 1950, garden 1980, G.T. jumping 1947, Grouse Mountain 1930

Item is a film consisting of at least seven separate pieces of amateur film footage spliced together. Film includes black and white footage taken at Grouse Mountain in 1930 showing men and women skiing, a snowplough clearing snow, a dogsled, and a black bear cub playing with a dog. The remaining film footage is in colour, and includes George Thompson jumping obstacles on horseback in 1947; 1948 footage of the Thompson's champion horse Goldheart and two men riding in a chariot pulled by Goldheart and another horse; a large number of spectators sitting in stands to watch an unidentified event in West Vancouver in 1950; cabins and horses at Knox Lake in 1979; and the Thompson's house and gardens at 865 Wildwood Lane, West Vancouver in 1979 and 1980.

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