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Kootenay Lake Railway Construction and Vancouver Island Work Camps

Item number (ISN):

194626

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1930/1939

Item number (ISN):

194626

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

KINNEY, L.D.

Accession:

1977-0259

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1930/1939

Production company:

George R.B. Kinney (Photography)

Production credit:

photography, George R.B. Kinney

Description:

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Footage includes: rainy construction site on the CPR line along the shore of Kootenay Lake before 1933; men building railbed by hand; grader, truck, and some cars; men digging and hacking through stone by hand; some blasting and burning; and chopping with axes.~Thetis Lake, Vancouver Island: young men working on maps; large group of young men relaxing, playing ping-pong, and one young man playing the piano while others listen; the Oyster River Dining Hall, a mess hall, with men entering, sitting down, and beginning to eat.~Elk Falls, Vancouver Island: scenes from a tree planting camp during the Depression years. These camps were set up by the provincial government to occupy young men and others who were out of work. Footage of this camp includes: the men board trucks outside their huts and leave for their work area; bundles of trees are wrapped up; tents are shown in an area to be reforested; two young men saw down a dead tree; shots of tree planting; a meal is served outside at long tables; shots of Englishmen's River; young men making rustic furniture out of peeled logs; and shots of waterfalls.

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. Reverend George Rex Boyer Kinney, the creator of this material, died 14 November 1961.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

190285

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7908-0068
7908-0069

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Max. shrinkage:

1.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

190286

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7908-0066
7908-0067

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

INTERNEG

Made from:

7908-0068
7908-0069

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

190287

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7908-1045

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7908-0066
7908-0067

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

191237

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9205-0010

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

208524

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9211-0017

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

856019

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

194626-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:13

Made from:

7908-0068
7908-0069

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

856024

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

194626.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:13

Made from:

7908-0068
7908-0069

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

856026

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

194626.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:13

Made from:

7908-0068
7908-0069

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9205-0010
V1 9211-0017

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions : with credit to Reverend George R.B. Kinney

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