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Item is an amateur film opening with footage of downtown Vancouver showing several Vancouver Fire Department trucks and engines and a lot filled with lumber, then cutting to footage taken from the back of a moving train, showing snow covered scenery, followed by Sam and Margaret Magoffin standing on a porch with several other people and a dog, Margaret and a man standing in front of a car, and additional footage taken from a moving train showing a sign for Yoho, mountain scenery and the Cathedral train station. The film also contains footage taken in downtown Victoria, B.C. showing the legislative building, Inner Harbour and CPR Steamship Terminal building, followed by dogs, likely the Magoffin’s golden retrievers, and several minutes footage of a dog show.

Item is a sponsored production produced by Yaletown Productions Inc. Item consists of ten, two minute, "Province Reports," with Fred Latrimouille, produced by Yaletown Productions for the government of British Columbia's "B.C. Enterprise" program. In the order that they appear on the tape they are:
-Province Report 2 "People Place/Jobs" (Oct. 5, 1982)
-Province Report 7 "Burden /Restraint" (Oct. 5, 1982)
-Province Report 9 "Teamwork/Employment Initiatives" with Grace McCarthy, Minister of Human Resources (Oct. 5, 1982)
-Province Report 10 "Getting around/Transportation" (Oct. 5, 1982)
-Province Report 11 "Future jobs/Education" (Oct. 5, 1982)| Province Report 1 "Mega projects/Jobs" (Sept. 20, 1982)
-Province Report 3 "Coalscene/Resource Mgmnt [management]" (Sept. 20, 1982)
-Province Report 4 "Transportation/Ports" (Sept. 20, 1982)
-Province Report 6 "Work share/Jobs" (Sept. 20, 1982)
-Province Report 8 "Foundations/Economic strategy" (Sept. 20, 1982)

Recording includes interview clips with various provincial politicians including Stephen Rogers, William Vander Zalm, James Hewitt, Don Phillips, Grace McCarthy and others.

Film consists of raw footage of Vancouver that was used in video post card "Vancouver - The World in a City." Footage includes scenes of the Lynn Valley suspension bridge, the Grouse Mountain 'Skyride' (gondola), views from Grouse Mountain of the Lower Mainland, the Expo 86 site under construction, B.C. Place Stadium, the Expo Centre (now the Telus World of Science) under construction, and people walking in downtown Vancouver, City Hall, Simon Fraser University campus in Burnaby B.C., and the University of British Columbia campus, Silent film.

Item is a tourist promotional video for travelling in Alaska. Features shots showing off the Alaskan landscape, following a train of tourists on their route to Northern Alaska. Includes footage of dogsledding and snowmobiling. Video has a predominantly country music soundtrack. Dubbed in Japanese with Japanese title screens and Japanese credits.

Item shows Coal Harbour looking toward downtown.

Photograph shows the Sir James Douglas obelisk

Item is a photograph of downtown Vancouver looking northwest from the upper floors of an unidentified building. The view includes the Marine Building, Coal Harbour, Vancouver Harbour, and the north shore.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified freighter loading lumber at a pier in Vancouver.

Item is a postcard showing Coal Harbour. Caption on back of photograph: "View taken from Stanley Park showing Coal Harbour. In the foreground are boats belonging to the Burrard Yacht Club. In the background can be seen the Marine Building, the tallest in Vancouver, and part of the skyline." The back of the postcard includes personal correspondence addressed to Mr. and Mrs. C.W. McClain.

Item is a postcard showing the Victoria Harbour. The back of the postcard includes personal correspondence addressed to Miss Buhman.

Photograph negative consists of two images, side by side. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Photograph also shows the upper floors and the roof garden of the second Hotel Vancouver, Burrard Inlet and the North Shore in the background.

File shows harbour, log boom and industrial shoreline.

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Panoramic view shows Coal Harbour, Deadman's Island

Photograph shows the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first mail flight from Canada to the United States.

Item is a sheet with three nautical charts. The main chart depicts Burrard Inlet from Atkinson Point [Point Atkinson] in the west to the "townsite of Port Moody" in the east. The inset charts depict Vancouver Harbour and the Second Narrows.

Item is a fire insurance map of the "Coal Harbour" [south shore of Burrard Inlet] area. The Hastings Saw Mill Company and Coal Harbour Fishery are shown in detail. Other businesses along Front Street are identified including hotels and stores.

Item is a map showing the Fraser River and its North Arm as well as the Westminster Waterway surrounding New Westminster. A key map shows the location of New Westminster in relation to the Greater Vancouver area.

Item is a set of maps printed on one sheet. The main map shows an isometric view of the port of Vancouver from Stanley Park through the Second Narrows Bridge (including North Vancouver). The perspective point appears to be located above the Granviile Street and West Georgia Street intersection. Note that the isometric view of locations west of Granville Street is from the south-east, rather than the south-west, as indicated in the title.
The map depicts the port infrastructure, including piers, drydocks and companies located in the port.

The inset maps are a key plan showing the location of the port relative to the Lower Mainland as a whole, and a larger-scale map entitled "Plan of the Port of the City of Vancouver from Coal Harbour to Second Narrows". It contains more detail about the names of the various piers, drydocks and companies and shows the North Vancouver port facilities as well as south shore ones.

Panoramic view showing fuel oil tanks at the foot of Bute Street, Coal Harbour, the Vancouver Rowing Club, Deadmans Island, Brockton Point, the C.P.R. freight car ferry dock, the Immigration building, C.P.R. Pier A and Pender Street west of Burrard Street

Panoramic view showing the inner harbour, The Empress Hotel and Government Street, the Grand Truck Pacific and other docks and the cupolas of the parliament buildings

Panoramic view from taken from on top of the Tower building at 500 Beatty street looking northwest and northeast showing such sites as the Universal Knitting Company, the Bank of Hamiltion, Spencers Department Store, the Dominion Building, the Leckie Boot Company, Woodwards water tower, Orpheum Theatre, Pantages Hotel, McLennan and McFeely Co., Pier D, the Union Steam Ship dock and the wharves east and Brockton Point and Burrard Inlet in the background. Photograph also shows various billboards and painted advertisements such as Britannia Beer.

Photograph shows British warships in background

Oblique view

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Panoramic view showing a pier and Stanley Park in background.

Photograph also shows two boys and boats anchored in the harbour.