Naval parade and review [Cambie and West Hastings]
- AM1535-: CVA 99-1887
- Item
- 27 Aug. 1928
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Naval parade and review [Cambie and West Hastings]
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of a motion picture film depicting highlights of the Military Searchlight Tattoo at Empire Stadium as a part of the Vancouver International Festival marking the city's 75th anniversary. The film also includes scenes of the SS Canberra entering the harbour, aerial views of the city, members of the New York Ballet Company playing on the beach, soldiers on a trampoline, and scenes of fishing in a river.
The tattoo itself includes bugle calls, military marching bands from around Canada and the UK, pipe bands, Scottish dancing, and a Royal Air Force gymnastic exhibition. The finale of the tattoo involved all 1066 performers on the field of Empire Stadium.
City of Vancouver
Personal - [Br--?] 1925 - Vancouver 1926 - Prince George - Prince Rupert
Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds
Item is an amateur film beginning with footage of a man playing with dogs; wild horses running; Margaret Magoffin driving a car; Sam Magoffin, Margaret and various people and dogs standing on the front stairs of a house; and Sam and three men exiting the S.S. Magoffin & Co. Railway Contractors Tie Department building (possibly in Prince George).
The film also includes footage of Prince Rupert, B.C., including the Prince Rupert Hotel and Sam and Margaret Magoffin on Sixth Avenue with several of the downtown buildings in the background. Also included is footage taken along the waterfront and from aboard the S.S. Prince Rupert, as well as views of the city taken from a high vantage point. Buildings shown in this footage include the fire hall and elevator.
Also contained in the film is footage of a parade in Vancouver taken from a bird’s eye viewpoint. The parade includes footage of mounties on horses, sailors, a pipe band, clowns, animals, and many floats, including floats for Point Grey, the City of Vancouver, the Loyal Order of Moose, Burns Shamrock Brand Products, Vancouver Ice Cream, and a stampede. The film also includes several minutes of footage of a rodeo at Hastings Park, including bronco and bull riding and chuckwagon racing activities. The film also shows Sam and Margaret with other people in front of the Court House and having a picnic on Grouse Mountain. Also included is footage of a military parade by Victory Square, a military review, and a medals ceremony; Mayor L.D. Taylor is shown in attendance at this event.
"An Investiture of V.C.'s at Buckingham Palace". Tableau in Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, London
Military ceremony - Crowd watching
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Military ceremony - Flag draped over an object, possibly a casket
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Military procession on the street - Marching band
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Military procession on the street - Man in uniform carrying a wreath
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Placing a wreath at the vimy Ridge monument
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Crowd watching a military ceremony
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Governor General Bessborough Presenting Medals at Court House
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Governor General Bessborough Presenting Medals at Court House [Row of Highlanders in uniform]
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Governor General Bessborough Presenting Medals at Court House [Row of Highlanders in uniform]
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
[President Warren Harding inspecting the guard of honour.]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews notes on print and negative. Brigadier General Odlum is following President Harding in the photograph.
The horse guards - Whitehall, London.
This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss Hilda Baggs of Bath, England.
Royal horse guards, changing guard, Whitehall, London.
Victoria Memorial, Buckingham Palace, and guards, London.
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Regiment, Canadian Garrison Artillery, marching past Brockton Point]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Mayor L.D. Taylor with men in military uniform and spectators at the Cambie Street grounds]
Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds
Mayor L.D. Taylor is wearing a coat and standing at the front of the group of men at the left of the photograph.
7th Victory Loan parade [at] Pacific Mills
Photograph shows a casket on a gun carriage
[Launch of the first PBY Catalina from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of the first PBY Catalina from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of the first PBY Catalina from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of the first PBY Catalina from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of the first PBY Catalina patrol bomber from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of first PBY Catalina from the Boeing plant on Sea Island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone", Boeing employees, and crowds outside the plant building.
[Launch of first PBY Catalina produced at the Sea Island Boeing plant]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of first PBY Catalina produced at the Sea Island Boeing plant]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Launch of first PBY Catalina produced at the Boeing plant on Sea island]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
[Close up view of flags draped over first PBY Catalina produced at the Sea Island Boeing plant]
Photograph shows the aircraft "Athlone".
Governor General Bessborough Presenting Medals at Court House
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Photograph shows Seaforth Highlanders
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds
Part of Stuart Thomson fonds