[Opening ceremony for Mount Pleasant Swimming Pool]
- AM54-S4-: Sp P111.2
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- July 8, 1967
Part of Major Matthews collection
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[Opening ceremony for Mount Pleasant Swimming Pool]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Opening of 2099 Beach [Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation building]
Item is a documentary film documenting the opening of the Board of Parks and Public Recreation building at 2099 Beach Avenue as well as recreational activities and special events in Stanley Park. The film contains footage of the ribbon cutting ceremony with crowds in attendance as well as winter snow scenes with people, ducks and swans in the park. Other recreational activities documented include log rolling in a pool, diving, and poolside sunbathing. The film also documents the unveiling of the statue of Lord Stanley in Stanley Park and concludes with footage of a baby polar bear.
Item is a documentary film documenting Vancouver's parks in 1940. This film names Vancouver the "Playground City of the North West" and contains footage of Stanley Park, Connaught Park, Douglas Park, Devonshire Park, Shaughnessy Park, Memorial West Park, Memorial South Park, Almond Park, Hastings Community Park, Grandview Park, Trout Lake, Queen Elizabeth Park, Tatlow Park, Thornton Park, Hadden Park, Burrard View Park, Maple Grove Park, Sunset Nursery, Victory Square Park, Beaver Lake Park as well as Vancouver's beaches including English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Second Beach, Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach. The film also features Stanley Park including footage of typical scenes at the entrance and causeway, the Administration Offices of the parks system, primeval forest scenes, blossom time in the rockeries and gardens, Lost Lagoon, Prospect Point, Lions Gate Bridge, the totem poles and a view of Stanley park from afar. As well, the film documents the locations of the free swimming classes provided by Vancouver Sun newspaper at Lumberman's Arch Pool, Kitsilano Pool, New Brighton Pool and Maple Grove Pool. Vancouver's playgrounds are also documented with footage of children playing in the playgrounds at Memorial South Playground, Norquay Playground, Robson Playground and McLean Playground. In addition, this film documents a variety of recreational activities that take place in Vancouver's parks including swimming, sunbathing, boating, diving, folk dancing, tennis, golfing (at Fraser Golf Course), walking, lawn bowling, horse-shoe pitching, model yacht racing, cricket, playing games, enjoying the park's fauna and flora (in both summer and autumn), picnicking and having BBQs. Special events such as symphonies, Dress-up Day, the Annual Sandbox Contest, and the annual Soap-box Derby are also documented.
[Outdoor pool at Lumberman's Arch]
Part of Arthur Collier fonds
[Partially constructed Kitsilano Pool, showing beach, stone wall and excavated area]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Partially constructed Kitsilano Pool, showing excavation and construction of stone wall]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[People simming in Kitsilano Beach swimming pool]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[People swimming in Kitsilano Beach swimming pool]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[People swimming in Kitsilano Beach swimming pool]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[People swimming in Kitsilano Beach swimming pool]
Part of Major Matthews collection
This postcard includes personal correspondence addressed to Miss K Holman of Camborne.
Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds
Item is an amateur film showing Margaret Magoffin and another lady coming down some stairs to the edge of the swimming pool and standing by the ocean at the Magoffin’s residence Rockhaven at 3612 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. A man is shown casting a line into the ocean several times, followed by Sam Magoffin and another man swimming in the pool. The film then cuts to footage of a desert-like area, people at a pool, possibly in California or Mexico, and horse races, likely at the same location. This is followed by footage likely taken at Rockhaven showing a golden retriever in the yard and swimming in the ocean, a campfire, and views of the house, garden and the Magoffin’s dogs.
Preparation of Lumberman's Arch swimming pool in Stanley Park for summer
Part of Vancouver Express fonds
Radium Hot Springs pool Kootenay National Park, W.E. Payne at Pool
Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds
Ranch house party [and] farm weekend
Item is an amateur film documenting Gertrude, Isabell Louise, Victor Vance, and John Fife Spencer at the Earlscourt ranch in Lytton, B.C. Film documents family members playing tennis, performing yard work, and swimming in a swimming pool.
[Rear view of a house with a drained swimming pool]
Second Beach swimming pool, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's military parachute team, the Sky hawks. Includes footage of a Sky hawks' team cheer after the team clerk's first sky diving experience, footage taken inside the airplane and along side the Sky hawks as they sky dive and practice their routine. Also includes footage of Pierre (Pete) being thrown into a swimming pool and the Sky hawks team on the plane out of uniform and without parachutes. Original camera source tape 29.
[Spencer children at Earlscourt]
Item is an amateur film documenting the Spencer children swimming in a pool and playing on the grounds of the Spencer family ranch at Lytton, B.C. Film documents Gertrude Spencer and her children Isabell Louise, Trudean, Barbara, Diana, and Victor Vance.
Stanley Park-Second Beach (Pool)
Sun Lounge and Bathing Pool, Plymouth
[Sunbathers at Kitsilano Beach]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Kitsilano swimming pool and houses on Cornwall.
[Swimmers at poolside at Bowen Island Inn]
[Swimming at the University of British Columbia pool]
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
[Swimming at the University of British Columbia pool]
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Swimming pool construction and railway construction camp
Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds
Item is an amateur film containing footage of the construction of a swimming pool at the Magoffin’s residence, Rockhaven, at 3612 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, and Sam and Margaret Magoffin swimming in the pool with friends. The film also shows Margaret standing in front of Rockhaven. The film then cuts to footage of a sign reading “Multnomah” and then to a street scene in an unidentified city showing cars and people and a group of young boys looking up at the camera. Also included is footage of three men standing near some bunkhouses in a desert-like environment, perhaps near Magoffin’s Lyon Creek project, as well as some track and the outside of a tunnel and equipment. The film finishes with a view of a railway trestle and track and one man sitting in a car and one man standing next to the car, in what appears to be the same location.
[The] Basin [Swimming Pool in] Banff
The Basin, Hot Springs, Banff National Park, Temperature 92 degrees
The Basins Sulphur Springs, Banff
Item is photograph showing people lounging by the pool at the Bayshore Inn in downtown Vancouver.
Part of Hamber family fonds
Tourism B.C. Marketplace Progam [Program] - Expo 86
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is "Marketplace Program" produced for EXPO 86 and Tourism BC. Major exhibition in BC Pavilion for EXPO 86. Multi-screen laser disc interactive display. Laser discs were very new at this time and cost over $2500 each to manufacture. This laser disc was produced to be used with specially designed players that would allow for touch-screen interaction from visitors to the B.C. Pavilion. These machines no longer exist; to get an idea of what options were made available pause the playback to view what the touch-screen displays looked like.
Item includes visual vignettes featuring footage to represent various geographical areas of the province of British Columbia. Theme music plays in the background of the scenes; no dialogue. Brief written descriptions of each area of the province precede each section of footage. At 00:10:23 - 00:10:24 screen shots of all of the various touch screen menu screens appear - to see these please slow down the playback and pause for each. Starting at 00:10:26 the footage plays out that would have been associated and parsed out for the various selected menu choices. At 00:12:08-00:12:11 more screen shots of selections flash by, again slow or pause to view these fully. Starting at 00:12:12 more groupings of clips of British Columbia can be viewed. From 00:13:55-00:13:58 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:13:59 there are more groupings of clips of British Columbia. From 00:15:38-00:15:40 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:15:42 there are more groupings of clips of British Columbia. From 00:17:24-00:17:26 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:17:27 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. From 00:19:03-00:19:05 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:19:06 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. From 00:20:53-00:20:57 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:20:59 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. From 00:19:03-00:19:05 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:19:06 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. From 00:22:33-00:22:35 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:22:36 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. From 00:24:23-00:24:26 there are more menus and screenshots, pause or slow down the playback to view. Starting at 00:24:28 there are more groupings of clips showing British Columbia. At 00:26:14 there is the final section of menu screen shots and following that brief shots of hotels and lodgings in British Columbia. Final credits at 00:26:38.
Photograph shows Kitsilano Swimming Pool
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is "Vancouver - Spectacular By Nature;" the last in the series of video post cards; released in 1994. The film features footage of Vancouver and the surrounding area highlighting the activities and attractions available to visitors. The final five minutes of the film features a couple of minutes of archival footage of Vancouver as a way to celebrate and acknowledge its 100 year history. Directed and edited by Mike [Michael] Collier; photography Dave Geddes, Ron Orieux, Bob Rodvik, Tim Sale, John Seale, and Bob Asgeirsson; narrator Art Hives; music Ralph Dyck; technical services Alpha Cine Service and Post Haste Video. Produced by Yaletown Productions Inc. b&w from 00:21:43-00:22:40.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is "Vancouver - Spectacular By Nature;" the last in the series of video post cards; released in 1994. The film features footage of Vancouver and the surrounding area highlighting the activities and attractions available to visitors. The final five minutes of the film features a couple of minutes of archival footage of Vancouver as a way to celebrate and acknowledge its 100 year history. Directed and edited by Mike [Michael] Collier; photography Dave Geddes, Ron Orieux, Bob Rodvik, Tim Sale, John Seale, and Bob Asgeirsson; narrator Art Hives; music Ralph Dyck; technical services Alpha Cine Service and Post Haste Video. Produced by Yaletown Productions Inc. b&w from 00:21:43-00:22:40.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Film consists of raw footage used used in the video post card "Vancouver - The World in a City." Footage includes scenes of the Expo Centre with an inukshuk in the foreground, B.C. Place Stadium, the Plaza of Nations, an outdoor swimming pool, an airplane landing, and views of the future grounds of Expo 86. Silent film.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada : Second Beach, Swimming Pool, Stanley Park
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows cars parked along Cornwall Street, people gathered for Olympic swimming trials at Kitsilano Pool, crowds at Kitsilano Pool, and houses and other buildings to the northeast. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[View of Kitsilano pool] from 2330 Cornwall [Avenue]
[View of swimming and wading pools at Bowen Island Inn]
[View of the Bow River Valley from the Upper Hot Springs]
Views of Empire pool at UBC, 6081 University Boulevard
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Views of Empire pool at UBC, 6081 University Boulevard
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Views of Empire pool at UBC, 6081 University Boulevard
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Views of Empire pool at UBC, 6081 University Boulevard
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds
Views of Empire pool at UBC, 6081 University Boulevard
Part of Leslie F. Sheraton fonds