Saturday, November 29, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Pictures of CP Empress Ships
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| Empress of Russia entering Vancouver Harbour June 7th 1913 |
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| CPR RMS Empress of Indian circa 1900 |
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| Empress of India at the cocks in Vancouver circa 1898 |
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| CP Pier B-C in 1935 with the Empress of Japan (1929) in the background and the Aorangi in the foreground |
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| Empress of Canada approaching Pier B-C in 1930 |
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| Empress of Canada entering Vancouver Harbour circa 1927 |
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| Empress of Japan (1890) at the outer harbour in Victoria in 1903 |
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| Empress of Japan (1929) entering Vancouver Harbour circa 1930 |
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| Empress of Russia leaving Vancouver circa 1928 |
Some photos of CP Princess Ships
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| Motor Princess in 1930 - |
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| Motor Princess in 1962 - yes, this is the same ship as the one above |
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| Princess Charlotte in the foreground and Princess Kathleen behind, Esquimalt Graving Dock |
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| Princess Elaine in Ganges |
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| Princess Maquinna in Bamfield 1948 |
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| Princess Marguerite in three different liveries |
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| Princess of Nanaimo in the Inner Harbour in 1959 |
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| Princess of Vancouver leaving Vancouver in 1974 |
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| Princess Patricia in 1965 |
Friday, August 22, 2014
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Monday, May 5, 2014
"Frazer Canon" the Fraser Canyon near Yale BC filmed from a train Octobe...
This seems to be the oldest film still in existence of any location in BC.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Pacific Hovercraft "Sure", an SR.N6, landing at Nanaimo Harbour in 1969
Here is film footage from 1969 of the only public hovercraft service that I know of from BC.
This was a passenger hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo. The Saunders-Roe SR.N6 (Winchester class) hovercraft could carry 38 passengers at up to 60 miles an hour in calm weather.
Pacific Hovercraft operated the service from Sunday February 23rd to June in 1969 with two trips per day between Vancouver and Nanaimo. The fare was $7 per passenger and the trip took between 45 and 60 minutes. Correcting for inflation over that period this would a $50 2014 fare.
If the service has been successful Pacific Hovercraft would have purchased one of the much larger SR.N4 which would have carried cars as well as passengers.
The hovercraft was built in 1966 at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the UK. It was called the Sure (GH-9001) while in service in BC. This hovercraft was retired in 2002 and as of November 1st 2004 is at the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-Solent in the UK.
More details about this ship at this link:
Original footage is courtesy of the Nanaimo Archives and can be seen at this link:
http://youtu.be/RYFQidtU4Gk
Here are three articles about the service from the late 1960s
This was a passenger hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo. The Saunders-Roe SR.N6 (Winchester class) hovercraft could carry 38 passengers at up to 60 miles an hour in calm weather.
Pacific Hovercraft operated the service from Sunday February 23rd to June in 1969 with two trips per day between Vancouver and Nanaimo. The fare was $7 per passenger and the trip took between 45 and 60 minutes. Correcting for inflation over that period this would a $50 2014 fare.
If the service has been successful Pacific Hovercraft would have purchased one of the much larger SR.N4 which would have carried cars as well as passengers.
The hovercraft was built in 1966 at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the UK. It was called the Sure (GH-9001) while in service in BC. This hovercraft was retired in 2002 and as of November 1st 2004 is at the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-Solent in the UK.
More details about this ship at this link:
Original footage is courtesy of the Nanaimo Archives and can be seen at this link:
http://youtu.be/RYFQidtU4Gk
Here are three articles about the service from the late 1960s
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| Article from December 4th 1967 |
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Article from February 21st 1969
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
MacMillan Bloedel's Van Ply plywood division in 1958
This is mill where my father Axel von Schulmann worked from 1954 till the fall of 1983 when he was offered early retirement. My father worked graveyard shift for most of his time at the mill. He said it was because graveyard was only a seven hour shift but he got paid for eight.
I never got a tour of the VanPly division, but in 1977 I took a tour of the MacBlo plywood mill in Port Alberni with my father. My father knew a lot more about the mill operations than the summer student hired to lead the tour.
This footage comes British Pathe, the online source material has no sound but clearly this clip would have originally been narrated.
I never got a tour of the VanPly division, but in 1977 I took a tour of the MacBlo plywood mill in Port Alberni with my father. My father knew a lot more about the mill operations than the summer student hired to lead the tour.
This footage comes British Pathe, the online source material has no sound but clearly this clip would have originally been narrated.
Friday, April 18, 2014
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
May 1907 William Harbeck movie of the streets of Victoria
There are a number of good websites with lots of information about this film and William Harbeck.
The film is out there in two different forms, one is only three minutes long and ends when they reach the Empress. The full version is just about six minutes long and goes up the Gorge to the Tillicum Bridge
What I am adding is the full article that appeared in the Colonist on May 5th 1907 about William Harbeck's filming day on May 4th 1907
From the Daily Colonist of May 5th 1907 - page three
The beauties of Victoria, just as they really are, will in future be shown for the benefit of stay-at-homes in half a hundred places throughout the civilized world. By means of a lifelike cinematograph pictures they will represent will be spread over the whole of the States, as well as throughout the principal cities of the old country and of Europe, and the work of the Tourist association in drawing attention of the world to the capital of the west will be supplemented by views showing the city and its surroundings realistically.
All day yesterday there toured round the city a man. On a street car specially loaned for the purpose by the British Columbia Electric Railway company he traveled through the streets, and on a launch he journeyed up the Arm and along the water front, and all the while he devoted himself to a queer box-like piece of apparatus, turning a crank and adjusting it so that the powerful lenses situated at the front could command the best views that were to be had.
The man was W.H. Harbeck, traveler for the Hales Tourist association of Portland, and the apparatus was a camera for the taking of films for use in cinematorgraphs. When the sun set and it was impossible to take any further pictures, Mr Harbeck had exhausted some six hundred feet of film and had transferred to the long ribbon some of the most beautiful scenes round Victoria.
On his street car tour, Mr Harbeck started out from Douglas street. He caught a picture of the city hall, and then travelling along Yates street he went down to Government, whence he journeyed, taking pictures all the time to the postoffice. At this point My Harbeck was so struck with the view that he stopped the car, and starting at the Empress Hotel, swung his camera so as to take one huge panoramic picture, including the government buildings, James bay and the harbor. Thence he went on past the government buildings and there terminated his street car ride.
In the afternoon Herbert Cuthbert, secretary of the Tourist association, took possession of Mr Harbeck and his machine, and carried him out to the Point Ellice Bridge. There Mr Harbeck took a picture of the harbor and the sealing fleet, and then J. Hinton opportunely appeared on the scene. Mr Hinton was immediately much interested in the proceedings and offered to take the camera and operator for a ride up the Arm in his fine electric launch. The offer was gladly accepted and up the beautiful stretch of water went the moving picture man and the machine.
My Harbeck was delighted at the beautiful vista which was opened as the launch carried him up the Arm, and had it not been for the fact that it was too busy "sawing wood" the very machine would probably been moved to speak. As it was it occupied itself transferring to the film the splendid scenery.
On arrival at the Gorge bridge, it was found that the tide was running out and that it would be impossible to go any higher. My Harbeck, however, was delighted. The reversible water falls was something he had never previously struck in his travels and he had to have a picture of it. Accordingly the little launch was pushed in among the whirling waters, and while the vessel racked and pitched, Mr Harbeck steadily turned the handle, and obtained a truly unique picture of the fall and the turbulent current that sweeps under the bridge.
On his way back Mr Harbeck took pictures of the east side of the Arm, including the Isle of the Dead and the saw mills, which were obligingly in full operation. Altogether he was immensely pleased at the results of his trip.
Today he is going along the line of the E&N to Nanaimo. Starting from the deport on Store street, he will get pictures of all the beautiful scenes along the railway on the way to Nanaimo. Arrangements have been made for the train to stop for a few minutes a Shawingan Lake, and there a picture will be obtained of the glittering sheet of water, and the pretty little hotel. In particular Mr Harbeck promises himself some interesting pictures of the scores of fishermen who will leave the city this morning for the lake.
From Nanaimo, he will go on to Vancouver, where he will take some 400 feet of pictures, and thence he will travel up the CPR until he has exhausted about 1,000 feet of film. He expects to get splendid views of the Fraser canyon, and the glorious scenery between Yale and Lytton.
On his travels on railways, Mr Harbeck places his machine in the last carriage, and by turning the crank backwards, obtains just such a picture as unrolls itself before a traveler on the cars.
"The only trouble," said he, in describing his method to the Colonist reporter, "is that if you happen to pass a man on the tracks he appears to be walking backwards. Otherwise the illusion is perfect."
Mr Harbeck is kept continually travelling, getting views for exhibition all over the world. Of the pictures of Victoria alone, some hundred different ribbons will be made, and these will be shown in all the four corners of the earth. Mr Harbeck has recently returned from a trip to Mexico, where he had some hair-raising experiences in taking pictures from railway trains hanging over cliffs 3,000 feet in height. He even ventured into the arena while a bull fight was on, and almost came to conclusions with the bull. He is now planning a trip across Canada on the CPR and next month expects to be going to Europe, where he will obtain pictures of the cities and sights of the old country and the continent.
The pictures which are thus obtained are exhibited in such a way as to give the illusion of a railway journey. The room in which the cinematograph works is fitted up like a railway car, noise, rocking and all, and as the panorama is unfolded the passing scene are explained to the audience. Mr Harbeck states that this form of amusement has become very popular in American and Europe, and that exhibitions are running in all the chief cities of the States and in the capitals and large towns of Europe. It is anticipated that the exhibition of the films of Victoria will prove a splendid advertisement for the city.
Sites related to the film
Hallmark Society
Welcome to Victoria 1907 at UVic
Ross Crockford's 2007 piece on the film
Ross Crockford's 2008 update
Bio of William Harbeck on the Titanica website
This is the footage from Vancouver
The film is out there in two different forms, one is only three minutes long and ends when they reach the Empress. The full version is just about six minutes long and goes up the Gorge to the Tillicum Bridge
What I am adding is the full article that appeared in the Colonist on May 5th 1907 about William Harbeck's filming day on May 4th 1907
From the Daily Colonist of May 5th 1907 - page three
Views of Victoria in Realistic From
Many Pictures of City and Surroundings Taken by Cinematograph Expert
The beauties of Victoria, just as they really are, will in future be shown for the benefit of stay-at-homes in half a hundred places throughout the civilized world. By means of a lifelike cinematograph pictures they will represent will be spread over the whole of the States, as well as throughout the principal cities of the old country and of Europe, and the work of the Tourist association in drawing attention of the world to the capital of the west will be supplemented by views showing the city and its surroundings realistically.
All day yesterday there toured round the city a man. On a street car specially loaned for the purpose by the British Columbia Electric Railway company he traveled through the streets, and on a launch he journeyed up the Arm and along the water front, and all the while he devoted himself to a queer box-like piece of apparatus, turning a crank and adjusting it so that the powerful lenses situated at the front could command the best views that were to be had.
The man was W.H. Harbeck, traveler for the Hales Tourist association of Portland, and the apparatus was a camera for the taking of films for use in cinematorgraphs. When the sun set and it was impossible to take any further pictures, Mr Harbeck had exhausted some six hundred feet of film and had transferred to the long ribbon some of the most beautiful scenes round Victoria.
On his street car tour, Mr Harbeck started out from Douglas street. He caught a picture of the city hall, and then travelling along Yates street he went down to Government, whence he journeyed, taking pictures all the time to the postoffice. At this point My Harbeck was so struck with the view that he stopped the car, and starting at the Empress Hotel, swung his camera so as to take one huge panoramic picture, including the government buildings, James bay and the harbor. Thence he went on past the government buildings and there terminated his street car ride.
In the afternoon Herbert Cuthbert, secretary of the Tourist association, took possession of Mr Harbeck and his machine, and carried him out to the Point Ellice Bridge. There Mr Harbeck took a picture of the harbor and the sealing fleet, and then J. Hinton opportunely appeared on the scene. Mr Hinton was immediately much interested in the proceedings and offered to take the camera and operator for a ride up the Arm in his fine electric launch. The offer was gladly accepted and up the beautiful stretch of water went the moving picture man and the machine.
My Harbeck was delighted at the beautiful vista which was opened as the launch carried him up the Arm, and had it not been for the fact that it was too busy "sawing wood" the very machine would probably been moved to speak. As it was it occupied itself transferring to the film the splendid scenery.
On arrival at the Gorge bridge, it was found that the tide was running out and that it would be impossible to go any higher. My Harbeck, however, was delighted. The reversible water falls was something he had never previously struck in his travels and he had to have a picture of it. Accordingly the little launch was pushed in among the whirling waters, and while the vessel racked and pitched, Mr Harbeck steadily turned the handle, and obtained a truly unique picture of the fall and the turbulent current that sweeps under the bridge.
On his way back Mr Harbeck took pictures of the east side of the Arm, including the Isle of the Dead and the saw mills, which were obligingly in full operation. Altogether he was immensely pleased at the results of his trip.
Today he is going along the line of the E&N to Nanaimo. Starting from the deport on Store street, he will get pictures of all the beautiful scenes along the railway on the way to Nanaimo. Arrangements have been made for the train to stop for a few minutes a Shawingan Lake, and there a picture will be obtained of the glittering sheet of water, and the pretty little hotel. In particular Mr Harbeck promises himself some interesting pictures of the scores of fishermen who will leave the city this morning for the lake.
From Nanaimo, he will go on to Vancouver, where he will take some 400 feet of pictures, and thence he will travel up the CPR until he has exhausted about 1,000 feet of film. He expects to get splendid views of the Fraser canyon, and the glorious scenery between Yale and Lytton.
On his travels on railways, Mr Harbeck places his machine in the last carriage, and by turning the crank backwards, obtains just such a picture as unrolls itself before a traveler on the cars.
"The only trouble," said he, in describing his method to the Colonist reporter, "is that if you happen to pass a man on the tracks he appears to be walking backwards. Otherwise the illusion is perfect."
Mr Harbeck is kept continually travelling, getting views for exhibition all over the world. Of the pictures of Victoria alone, some hundred different ribbons will be made, and these will be shown in all the four corners of the earth. Mr Harbeck has recently returned from a trip to Mexico, where he had some hair-raising experiences in taking pictures from railway trains hanging over cliffs 3,000 feet in height. He even ventured into the arena while a bull fight was on, and almost came to conclusions with the bull. He is now planning a trip across Canada on the CPR and next month expects to be going to Europe, where he will obtain pictures of the cities and sights of the old country and the continent.
The pictures which are thus obtained are exhibited in such a way as to give the illusion of a railway journey. The room in which the cinematograph works is fitted up like a railway car, noise, rocking and all, and as the panorama is unfolded the passing scene are explained to the audience. Mr Harbeck states that this form of amusement has become very popular in American and Europe, and that exhibitions are running in all the chief cities of the States and in the capitals and large towns of Europe. It is anticipated that the exhibition of the films of Victoria will prove a splendid advertisement for the city.
Sites related to the film
Hallmark Society
Welcome to Victoria 1907 at UVic
Ross Crockford's 2007 piece on the film
Ross Crockford's 2008 update
Bio of William Harbeck on the Titanica website
This is the footage from Vancouver
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