BC History

Some photos of CP Princess Ships

Motor Princess in 1930 - Motor Princess in 1962 - yes, this is the same ship as the one above Princess Charlotte in the foregrou...
BC Social Credit brochure for the 1949 provincial election

Social Credit was not a factor in the 1949 BC election and in fact had split into three competing parities. These are two of the nine S...
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 f...
1936 Victoria Map showing the Street Car Routes
1958 - the record year for Forest Fires in BC - 835,850 ha or over 2,00...

1958 was the worst year ever for area burned in BC Wildfires at 835,850 hectares. This is 200,000 hectares more than the second worst in the...
Big Timber - 1935 Canadian Government film about BC's Forest Industry

The film follows the timber industry from logging through to export The sawmill is in Chemainus, this version was built in 1924. At the t...
1966 Delta to Penticton Road Trip - Home Movie by Lita von Schulmann

This is a home movie my mother shot in the summer of 1966. She filmed sections of the drive from our home in Tsawwassen through to Pentic...
Late 40s federal Social Credit Brochure for talks about the philosophy of the party

Eric Martin was elected in 1952 for BC Social Credit and was a loyal member of the party till he died in 1973 even though the WAC Social Cre...
Taking the Union Steamship Lady Cynthia from Vancouver to Squamish in ca...

Lady Cynthia was a steel-hulled passenger ship converted from a minesweeper, (formerly HMS Barnstaple), which served in the coastal waters...
Black Sunday in Gastown - June 13th 1886 - Survivors speak

On June 13th 1966 CBC Radio interviewed five survivors of the fire 80 years earlier. The audio is very clear, it does not sound like a bro...

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