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Alaska and the Yukon

Item number (ISN):

377501

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1939

Item number (ISN):

377501

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN PACIFIC

Accession:

2006-0131

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1939

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

scenario, Margot Blaisdell; photography, Norman Hull; sound, Maurice Metzger; music, Harold Eustace Key; narrator, Corey Thomson

Sponsor:

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Description:

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Film detailing a steamship voyage aboard the Princess Louise up the west coast of Canada to Alaska and the Yukon and a rail trip from Skagway, sometime in the 1940s. A map at the beginning of the film highlights the cities the tour will pass. These include Vancouver, Victoria, Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Ketchikan, Skagway and Carcross. Shots include: downtown Vancouver; a home surrounded by a lavish garden; steamships leaving port; steamship going under the Lions Gate Bridge; shots of passengers disembarking from the Princess Louise at an unknown port; fishing boats docked; numerous totem poles; two women examining a totem pole detailing an eagle; Prince Rupert and its halibut fishing industry, including: a wharf with fishing ships and tug boats; fish being cleaned and sorted in a cannery; a catch being hauled on board a fishing trawler with nets; fishing trawler heading out to sea; totem pole; women talking to crew member as the steamship travels further northward; two men leaning against the ship's railing; view from ship. Arrival in Alaska. Shots include: a "Welcome to Visitors" sign over looking the street in [Ketchikan]; wooden streets with cars parked down either side; water pouring over rocks; salmon swimming upstream; view of sun on the water; another steamship; playing shuffle board on deck; panorama from ship; ice bergs; "Alaska Steamship Company" building as seen from ship; ship docked in another town, possibly [Skagway]; trolley with advertising on the side; "The Pack Train Inn and Beer Parlor"; shots of yellow and orange flowers; a rock face spray painted with logos and a compass face; aerial views of mountains and a gorge; mountains and snow; mountains and open water; train winding around the mountains; a gorge surrounded by vegetation; White Horse Pass with its Dead Horse Gulch - a monument with two pack horses on it is focused on; "Trail of '98" sign posted in some rocks; train crossing wooden bridge; passengers inside; train pulling into [Carcross]; sourdough log houses and buildings; women preparing food; close-up of a dog; panorama of land from steamship; shot of Lake Tagish and a rotting sternwheeler; and sun setting against a panoramic shot as a man and woman look out over the water. <11mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Listed in the Canadian Pacific Railway Catalogue of Motion Picture Films, dated October 1948.~2. For additional elements, see ISN 5053 and 273933

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

431570

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-10-0077

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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