City of Vancouver Archives

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.

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.

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.

Energy packed : the story of cane sugar

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0347
Item
1975 (copied ca. 1982)

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a documentary film entitled "Energy Packed: the Story of Cane Sugar," presented by B.C. Sugar Refining Company and directed/produced by Lloyd Stump. The film, originally shot in 1975, documents the process by which consumer sugar products, such as white sugar, brown sugar, syrup, sugar cubes, and sucrose, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products.

Ozama Sugar Co.

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.1783
Item
[ca. 1950]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a film showing a fire in the field north of the Ozama Sugar Co. mill. The mill is visible in the background.

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.

Sugar : The energy food

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0219
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is an educational film about the beet sugar industry in Alberta. It includes an animation illustrating the growth of sugar beets. The film follows the full year cycle of researching and preparing for, planting, harvesting and processing sugar beets.

Rogers Golden Syrup commercial

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0550
Item
[1959?]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a silent film believed to be outtakes from a Rogers Golden Syrup commercial. The film captures cans of syrup moving along a conveyor belt, bags of sugar in transport, boxing of sugar cubes, bagging of sugar, and an assortment of B.C. Sugar products on a shelf.

The picture-story of sugar…

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0536
Item
[1948?]

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a silent film entitled "The Picture-Story of Sugar as related by Vancouver's Own Sugar Refinery" which documents the process by which consumer sugar products, including sugar, icing sugar, sugar cubes, and golden syrup, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products. The documentary closes with examples of domestic uses of sugar.

One lump or two

AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0535
Item
[195-] (copied ca. 1961)

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

Item is a documentary film entitled "…one lump or two…," presented by the B.C. Sugar Refining Company and produced by Lew Parry. The film, produced most likely in the 1950s, documents the process by which consumer sugar products, such as granulated sugar, golden sugar, syrup, icing sugar, and sugar cubes, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products. The restaurant scenes were filmed at the Cock 'n' Bull restaurant in Vancouver (B.C.).