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Dinner for Miss Creeden
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7356
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Moving Images
- Call Number
- 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.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Natural gas industry
- World War, 1914-1918--Mobilization
- World War, 1939-1945--Mobilization
- Street-railroads
- Electric railroads
- Transportation
- British Columbia--History
- 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.
The little engine that could
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3832
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV004.20.17
- Call Number
- 813.5 PIP
- Contributor
- Lenski, Lois L.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Platt & Munk Co. Inc.
- Publication Date
- c1930
- Series
- Never grow old series
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- "Christmas '52 / Catherine Walker / from Jean"--inscribed in pencil on front fly leaf.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroad trains
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- "Retold by Watty Piper from The Pony Engine by Mabel C. Bragg"--title page
- "Copyrighted by George H. Doran & Co."--title page
- "Copyright, MCMXXX"--title page verso.
- Piper, Watty, pseudonym.
- Contributor's name and contribution : Lenski, Lois L. (illustrator)
Progress report
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7355
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Moving Images
- Call Number
- 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.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Natural gas industry
- Local transit
- Hydroelectric power plants
- Electric railroads
- Electric power-plants
- Transportation
- British Columbia--History
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- 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.