Southern British Columbia - travel railroad film (1934)


Title:
Southern British Columbia - travel railroad film (1934)

Description:
Fantastic quality amateur home movie - travel film by rail from the Selkirk Mountains near Alberta down the Fraser Canyon to Vancouver and then over to Vancouver Island. Catalogue details: Albert Canyon in the Selkirk Mountains. Bear Creek. Stoney Creek Bridge. Connaught Tunnel. Snowsheds. Illecillewaet River. Sicamous, British Columbia. In the dry belt near kamloops B.C., Allong Shuswap lake. Canadian National grade, Spence's Bridge. Canadian national Fraser River bridge, CPR. Fraser Canyon. People on the beach on English bay, near Stanley Park , North Vancouver: Fell reclamation. Second narrows bridge under construction. Taylor property. Vancouver and narrows. Site of golf course and club house. Grouse mountain. Road materials. Buttar, Chienie and Anderson. Among the islands in Howe Sound. First narrows. Active Pass. Beacon hill in Victoria. Entering Victoria harbour. Victoria, British Columbia. The Empress hotel. British Columbia Parliament buildings. Nanaimo. Duncan. Zahalem Hotel in Duncan. Cowichan River.

Author:
HuntleyFilmArchives

Tags:
british columbia, canada, albert canyon, selkirk mountains, stoney creek, connaught tunnel, railroad, train, illecillewaet river, sicamous, kamloops, shuswap, fraser river, fraser canyon, stanley park, vancouver, victoria, rail track, cowichan, howe sound, beacon hill,

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