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Vancouver (B.C.) Jubilee celebrations
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Alaskan Scenery and the Chinese Exhibit at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee

Item is a moving image/film documenting a Chinese performance at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee celebration that includes a theatrical stage show, a trapeze artist, and moving images of the Chinese Arch erected at Pender Street near Carrall Street. There are also images of an unknown beach. This section is preceded by the title frame: Chinese Exhibit Golden Jubilee at Vancouver, B.C.. Film also includes footage taken from a passanger ship moving up the Alaskan coast. The stops are separated by the title frames: Ketchikan, Alaska; Castle Rock; and Peril Straits.

[Demonstration of an assault landing by an LCM (landing craft, mechanized) at Kitsilano Beach during the Diamond Jubilee]

Item is a photograph. Typewritten notes with the photograph read: " ASSAULT LANDING - A beach assault landing such as took place in the various theaters of war will be demonstrated when these same LCM's will make an opposed assault on Kitsilano Beach at 4PM the 7th of July. Personnel of all units of Greater Vancouver will take part in demonstration as well as in the other Diamond Jubilee events depicted by the Army: the Inagural [sic] Parade 1st July, The huge Services Day Parade 7th July, the gigantic display at Seaforth Armouries 1st to 13th July, and the army's part in the colourful Pageant at Brockton Point Oval 1st to 13th July."

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