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Fraser rails that glow : [B.C. trolleymen's addenda, vol. 1]
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary5928
Reuss, David.
[Cloverdale, B.C.]:
David Reuss
, 2003.
(Book)
388.46 REU
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV013.27
- Call No.
- 388.46 REU
- Author
- Reuss, David
- Place of Publication
- [Cloverdale, B.C.]
- Publisher
- David Reuss
- Publication Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 124 p. : ill. ; 22 x 29 cm
- Inscription
- Verso of the cover: "To the Friends of #1223 who by now have both sides done! Splendid! David E. Reuss" [handwritten in black ink on bottom of the page in the centre]
- Subjects LoC
- Trolley cars--British Columbia--Lower Mainland
- Electric railroads--British Columbia--Lower Mainland --History
- Street-railroads--British Columbia--Lower Mainland--History
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Progress report
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary7355
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (13 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Type
- Moving Images
- Call No.
- 388.46 BCH VR
- Contributor
- British Columbia Electric Company
- Place of Publication
- [British Columbia, Canada]
- Publisher
- BC Hydro
- Publication Date
- c1947
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (13 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Subjects LoC
- British Columbia Electric Company
- Dams--British Columbia--Bridge River Region
- Bridge River Hydroelectric Development
- Natural gas industry
- Local transit--British Columbia--History
- Local transit--British Columbia--Vancouver--History
- Trolley cars--British Columbia--Lower Mainland
- Streetcars--British Columbia--Vancouver
- Electric substations--British Columbia--Lower Mainland Region
- Vancouver (B.C.)--Central business district
- Vancouver (B.C.)--Streets
- Geographic Access
- Bridge River (B.C.)
- Lajoie Dam (B.C.)
- Lower Mainland Region (B.C.)
- Vancouver (B.C.)
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Notes
- Summary: Promotional film. The BC Electric Railway Company's $50 million post-war expansion and modernization program, to be completed by 1950. Includes: expansion of transit services, including start of the switch from streetcars to trolley buses; water gas plant; explanation of the Bridge River project, with footage of construction (including La Joie Falls storage dam); Lower Mainland power sub-stations. Various Vancouver street scenes, especially Fraser Street and downtown
- Credit note : sponsored/presented by: British Columbia Electric Company; producer: Lew M. Parry; producing agency/company: Trans-Canada Films Ltd.
Dinner for Miss Creeden
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary7356
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (36 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Type
- Moving Images
- Call No.
- 388.46 BCH
- Contributor
- British Columbia Electric Company
- Place of Publication
- [British Columbia, Canada]
- Publisher
- BC Hydro
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (36 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
- Subjects LoC
- Bridge River Hydroelectric Development
- British Columbia Electric Company
- Natural gas industry
- Streetcars--British Columbia--Vancouver
- Trolley cars--British Columbia--Lower Mainland
- Vancouver (B.C.)--Streets
- World War, 1914-1918--Mobilization
- World War, 1939-1945--Mobilization
- Geographic Access
- Bridge River (B.C.)
- Fraser Valley district (B.C.)
- British Columbia - Buntzen Lake
- Vancouver (B.C.)
- Vancouver Island (B.C.)
- Lower Mainland Region (B.C.)
- Alouette Lake (B.C.)
- Ruskin (B.C.)
- Stave Falls (B.C.)
- Goldstream (B.C.)
- British Columbia - Victoria
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Notes
- Summary: Industrial film. A film about the growth of B.C. Electric from 1906 to 1946, built around the story of stenographer Flossie Creeden, the first female office employee of the company. Footage includes: Goldstream power plant; Vancouver natural gas facilities; BC Electric Railway lines in Fraser Valley; Stave Falls generator plant; Alouette Lake and Ruskin plants; 1939 royal visit; BCE employee's newsletter; A.E. Grauer family at home; office scenes; plans & construction at Bridge River project; BCE employee's service in World Wars I & II; BCE streetcar and trolley bus services
- Credit notes: producer: Lew M. Parry; director: Lew M. Parry; photography: John Young; script: Cecil Maiden; sound: S.G. Wilson; narrator: A.E. Grauer; sponsored/presented by: British Columbia Electric Company; producing agency/company: Trans-Canada Films Ltd.