Sound documentary, The Vancouver Soundscape, including; sounds of the Pacific Ocean surf recorded at beaches on Vancouver Island, and at Point Atkinson, and Wreck Beach in Vancouver; talk (in Squamish) by Herbert George, Indian canoe builder, about canoe building, recorded at his home on the Burrard Reserve and nature sounds recorded at the Reiffel Waterfowl Refuge; sounds of foghorns recorded at Point Atkinson, Calamity Point and Prospect Point and sounds of the CPR ferry, Princess of Victoria, recorded at Coal Harbour; sounds of the horns of a tug boat and other boats, seaplanes, a man casting a fishing line, and a factory whistle recorded in Vancouver harbour; sounds of children's voices and train whistles recorded in the playground of Seymour school , adult voices recorded in the Vancouver Stock Exchange, old-timers singing recorded in Gastown, and baseball players shouting recorded in Mundy Park; sounds of steam shift whistle recorded at the loco Oil Refinery, the steam whistle of the CNR ship, Prince George, recorded at the foot of Main Street, the air-powered steam shift whistle recorded at the CPR yards at the foot of Drake Street, the air horn of the ship S.S. Federal 7 recorded under the Lions Gate Bridge, the air horn of a tug boat recorded on the Fraser River, the air horn of a CPR freight train recorded in the Fisherman's Wharf area, the air horn of the CPR ferry, Princess of Victoria, recorded at Coal Harbour, the air horn of a B.C. Hydro train recorded between the Granville and Burrard Bridges, the air horn of a freighter recorded under Lions Gate Bridge, the air horn of a B.C. Hydro train recorded at the foot of Fir Street, the air horn of a CPR train recorded at the foot of Mai n Street, the air horn of the B.C. Government ferry, Queen of Tsawwassen, recorded at Horseshoe Bay, and B.C. Hydro's “0 Canada" air horns recorded at the corner of Burrard and Robson streets; the sound of B.C. Hydro's "O Canada" air horn recorded at Stanley Park, the Nine O'Clock Gun recorded at Stanley Park, the bells of Holy Rosary Cathedral , recorded on 16 June, 1973, Balkan singing by the Vancouver International Dance Society, the Sweeney Cooperage music by the Chinese Musical Society, a mechanical saw and a chipper recorded at the Bay Forest Products sawmill, Greek dancing recorded at the Greek Islands Restaurant, the Hoolack Gibbons (animal) recorded at the Stanley Park Zoo, music by the "Sunshyne" group recorded at the Royal Center, the launching of the CPR ferry, Carrier Princess recorded at the Burrard dry docks on 20 February 1973, the Lion's Dance performed by the Chinese community in Vancouver, a mechanical crane and automobile traffic recorded under Granville Street Bridge, and the tuned horns of the freighter Burnaco playing "Alouette" and "How Dry I Am" recorded from the Burrard Street Bridge; a discussion between R. Murray Schafer, Director of the World Soundscape Project, and Howard Broomfield, Bruce Davis, Peter Huse, and Colin Miles, recordists for The Vancouver Soundscape with extracts of sounds of a tree being felled, the B.C. Hydro's "O Canada" horn, a woman packing beans in a Chinese store on Pender Street, a sailboat rigging in the wind, a Chinese merchant expelling one of the recordists from his store, animal life at Pitt Meadows, campanologists calling changes during the ringing of the ''Eight-Splice Surprise Major" of Holy Rosary Cathedral bells, and the siren of the 1912 La France fire engine; a talk by R. Murray Schafer, Director of the World Soundscape Project about sounds with readings by unidentified persons of the Vancouver Noise Abatement By-law No. 2531, moozak at the Oakridge Shopping Mall, electrical hum at Simon Fraser University, an elevator at Simon Fraser University, a D.C. elevator in the Empire Building, a ventilator at Eaton's department store, the waterfall and generator at Nitobe Gardens, a bamboo bridge and bird-song at the Conservatory of Queen Elizabeth Park, echoes on the Parabolic bridge at Stanley Park, ambience in a Pender Street store, and frogs at Pitt Meadows. <1h 30mn>
