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Footage of a horse ranch called "Cless Pocket Ranch" and hay fields surrounding. There is men at work using a sawmill to cut wood into planks and men working in the hay field with their young sons on the ranch. Cless Pocket Ranch is located in the Chilcotin area of BC near Anahim Lake.

Also included is footage of the Anahim Lake stampede, the people watching and playing, the arena and the concession stand.

Film begins with recording of geese flying in sky as introduction. Then there is footage of community life in the general store, believed to be "Christensen's General Store," including a man lighting a pipe, children buying snacks and families buying groceries. Afterwards there is filming of the Anahim Stampede, depicting wild cow riding, bronco riding and the spectators.

The second portion of the film begins with the title slide "Caribou Return" and in consists of clips of ducks on a lake, scenery of trees and the lake, men packing up horses as they prepare for a journey into the high country. They travel as a pack train up into the mountains and eventually set up camp. There is footage of the men cooking, and also various shots of wildlife including a white grouse, herd of caribou, moose wandering through the snow, and a porcupine. The hunting party eventually kills a bull moose and there is footage of them examining the kill and loading the pack train with meat.

The third portion of the film begins with two young girls playing in a boat and then playing in a garden, and then a young boy pulling his sister in a wagon. There is a family barbeque and more footage of children playing and going fishing in a lack. The film ends with a recording of a grouse or pheasant in a bush.

Locations believed to be filmed in on this reel include Gitcha Mountains, Ulkatcho Mountains, Holt Homestead, Lassard Lake, Rainbow Mountains or Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.

This film reel of original footage depicts various views of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, including:

• Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Budd Car from Shalath and Seton Lake to Kelly Lake
• Laying Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Track in Northern British Columbia
• Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Track Inspection with V-10 Vehicle
• Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Track Inspection with V-8 Vehicle
• Cariboo Williams Lake Stampede and Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) Track Inspection

Collection consists of three original color film reels that compile footage clips from various dates. Subjects include the following:

Premier W.A.C. Bennett on the PGE Railway:

• Vancouver to Prince George Trip with Premier Bennett, 1958
• Fort St. James Opening of Line with Premier Bennett, 1 August 1968
• Opening of Squamish Car Shop with Premier Bennett, 1970
• Fort Nelson Opening of Line with Premier Bennett, September 1971
• First Revenue Train South from Fort Nelson with Premier Bennett, 1971

  PGE Track Inspection and New Construction:

• V-8 PGE Track Inspection
• V-10 PGE Track Inspection
• V-10 Track Inspection
• Fort Nelson South to Fort St. John, October 1971
• Cariboo, Williams Lake Stampede, and PGE Track Inspection

  Seton Lake:

• Seton Portage Steam Train Wreck Recovery, 1 April 1954
• Open Air Passenger Cars riding along Seton and Anderson Lake
• Budd Car from Shalath and Seton Lake to Kelly Lake
• Budd Car running along Seton Lake

There are three different sections of film footage on this reel.

The first is of two men and a young boy going fishing from a river bank, gutting and cleaning the fish they catch and baiting their hooks with mill eggs. There is more filming of three other men going down the river in a small boat and then banking it to fish. They gut and clean their fish as-well. They load their small boat into the back of a red pick-up truck after they are finished their day.

The second part of this film reel begins with a map of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. Men on snowmobiles traveling to an abandoned log home and acreage. They then break through the ice on the nearby lake and begin to retrieve their previously set beaver trap, which has a caught beaver. The men then travel to a different location and set up a beaver trap. There is some additional footage of two moose in the snow as the men travel to a third location and retrieve another caught beaver from under the ice. The men return to their cabin and skin the beavers.

The third part of this film is footage of Anahim Lake village, birds in the area, wild flowers, cattle drive, children fishing on the river and swimming, a pelican on a lake, and people in a boat traveling.

Possible other locations of filming include Bella Coola River, Dean River, Ulkatcho, Ulkatcho Mountains, and Tweedsmuir Provincial park.