Photograph depicts long wood building speculated to be the Community Centre at Cassiar, B.C. Sports net stands in right foreground. Flag pole, barrel, and stand of trees can be seen in front of building. Mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".
Photograph depicts four houses in line behind trees and steel drums. Road in foreground, mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "1961".
Photograph depicts man with badminton racket playing to right of net in gymnasium. Stage, doors, chairs, and basketball hoops visible in background. Door to right of stage led to squash court and upper balcony.
Photograph depicts man with badminton racket playing to right of net in gymnasium. Stage, doors, chairs, and basketball hoops visible in background. Door to right of stage led to squash court and upper balcony.
Photograph depicts woman with badminton racket playing to right of net in gymnasium. Stage, doors, chairs, and basketball hoops visible in background. Door to right of stage led to squash court and upper balcony.
Photograph depicts two men with badminton rackets in foreground of gymnasium, net visible on far right. Doors, tables, and chairs visible in background.
Photograph depicts men seated at tables in snack bar, counter and shelves in background, fluorescent lights hanging from ceiling. Women believed to be Hilde Voss semi-visible behind counter. Two men are circled with pen. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "BACK MORRIS[sic?] BISSON / FRONT PETE VOSS".
Photograph depicts three unidentified individuals browsing magazine section of store.
Photograph depicts six unidentified individuals in interior of curling rink.
Photograph depicts outdoor sign on side of building: "LIONS POOL".
Photograph depicts group of children standing in front of diving board, watching a peer dive into water below. Group of swimmers visible in background below domed roof of pool.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men playing tennis in foreground. Buildings stand in midground, including what appears to be the All Saints Anglican Community Church. Forest and mountain in background.
Photograph depicts man and woman standing on either side of dart target mounted on wall.
Slide depicts young figure skaters in what is believed to be the Cassiar Arena.
Photograph depicts group of nine men standing on lawn in front of building known as "House 130" or "Director's Lodge". Left to right: Andre Beguin, unknown, Charles Rainforth Elliot, Jack Christian, W. Harold Connell, Plato Malezemoff (from Newmont Mining), Tam Zimmermann, Ken A. Creery, Fred Martin Connell. Daffodils and tulips planted in foreground, trees and mountains in background. Most men featured in photo are believed to be members of Cassiar's Board of Directors; Beguin was a General Superintendent.
Photograph depicts three men with fishing gear. Trees and mountains in background. Left to right: Plato Malezemoff (holding fish), Jack Christian, Tam Zimmermann.
Item is a photograph of Gladys Williston sitting at a campfire during her and Mr. Williston’s Hope to Princeton trek in the summer of 1939.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston completing 500 miles in his personal centennial project of running the equivalent of the distance to Prince George. The run took place on the YMCA track in Victoria.
Footage of a large caribou bull in what is believed to be the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of a man filleting a fish on an ocean-going boat.
Footage of man fishing near rapids. Speculated locations include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Footage of Robson and Josephine with their domesticated deer. The location of the filming is believed to be in Bella Coola or in the Atnarko region.
Footage of people sitting around a campfire and cooking meat. The location is believed to be somewhere in the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of man fly fishing on river shore and catching steelhead salmon.
Possible locations of the film include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Footage of Nimpo Lake Lodge.
The footage begins with a man hauling a rubber boat to shore. The man displays the fish that he has caught to the camera. The film cuts to a pontoon plane for Coast Mountain Flight Services Ltd., and then back to the man placing his fish into a bag. The filming then returns to the plane taking off over water. There is aerial footage of the river and mountains, most likely the Bella Coola Valley. Also include is footage of duck with ducklings.
Possible other locations that are seen in the footage are Gitcha Mountains, Ulkatcho Mountains or Rainbow Mountains.
Footage of fly fishing on a river, possibly the Bella Coola River or Dean River, fishing in river canyon, footage of deer, footage of Alert Bay, village, marina and totem poles on shore, footage of a white robin, and a woman holding her salmon catch. Also include is recordings of the Anahim stampede and the bucking bronco event.
Footage of a "stink box" used in Ooligan grease production in what is assumed to be Bella Coola. Also there is footage of some men fly-fishing on a river shore, either the Bella Coola River or the Dean River. There is a close-up clip of them baiting a hook, and then a shot of the men using gaff and hook to haul fish to shore. The men display their catch for the camera and there is a panoramic view of the mountains behind them. Included are some clips of Robson's deer, and a white robin.
Possible other locations in this film include the Atnarko region, Rainbow Mountains, Ulgoatcho Mountains and Chilcotin area.
Footage of ducks on a lake and flying away, horses in a corral, a campsite, caribou in the high country of the mountains, probably the Rainbow Mountains, a campsite where men are packing horses and game kill and their journey home in pack train.
Possible locations of filming include Anahim Lake, Chilcotin area, Holt Homestead, Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, or Wells Gray Provincial Park.
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.
Footage from a small plane overlooking the landscape of what is believed to be either the Bella Coola Valley, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Rainbow Mountains, or Chilcotin area.
Footage of hunting party setting up camp in the high country of the mountains. There is a herd of caribou and footage of caribou trophy kill. There is filming of two marmots and additional recordings of camp cooking and socializing.
The film ends with the hunters entering the plane again and returning to their original camp, believed to be Nimpo lake.
Film begins with aerial footage of mountains believed to be around Bella Coola. Then recording of men loading barrels, supposedly of gas, into a boat using a "home made" winch and boom construction. They ferry the barrels up stream, the river is assumed to be Dean River. and use a similar construction to bring the barrels to shore.
There is also footage of men fishing in the river.
Al Elsey compiled his original footage from 1965 to produce this commercial film that deals with fly-fishing for Steelhead Salmon on the Dean River and Bella Coola River. The video provides a compilation of film footage shot by Elsey and is narrated by him describing the activities documented in the footage.
Photograph depicts a man diving off a wooden dock while a man and woman and two young children watch from the dock.
Photograph depicts small boats tied at dock on lake with mountains visible in background.
Photograph depicts colour map displayed in unknown area, second poster semi-visible on left. See item 2008.3.1.22.34 for image believed to depict lava bed.
Water and opposite shore visible in background. Handwritten annotation on verso: "Miracle Beach - March 31/80".
Photograph depicts three tents covered with snow are visible in a forest clearing.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man is lying on the ground next to a roaring campfire. Some clothes are visible on the ground next to him while some woolen socks are slung across a branch above him.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man sitting on a log skinning a goat that is laying on a blanket in front of him.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man (?) sitting on a mountain slope searching for game through a pair of binoculars in a snow-covered valley.
Photograph depicts an unidentified guide lying in the snow on top of a mountain peak searching for game through a pair of binoculars. In the foreground footprints in the snow are visible while the background features a snow-covered mountain range.
Photograph depicts Prentiss Gray sitting on a log skinning his trophy mountain goat.
Photograph depicts a felled moose on a snow-covered hillside.
Photograph depicts the side profile of a packhorse loaded with Prentiss Gray's camera equipment with a snow-covered forest in the background.
Photograph depicts hunting guide Bruce Otto standing next to a felled moose on a snow-covered hillside with trees in the background.
Photograph depicts a felled moose on a snow-covered hillside.
Photograph depicts an unidentified guide lying on a snowy peak searching for game in the valley below using a pair of binoculars.