Film Record: Our Cariboo Neighbours

Identifier:

• AAAA5215 (Source: British Columbia Archives)

Date produced: 1941

Filmmaker(s):

Harriet Gerry

Duration:

00:29:00

Length:

350 ft

Format:

8mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films

Description:

"Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941" British Columbia Archives.

Resources:

"Item AAAA5215 - Our Cariboo neighbors." Harriet Gerry fonds, British Columbia Archives.

Locations:

• Cariboo Region, B.C. (Filming)
• Dog Creek, B.C. (Filming)
• Fraser Canyon, B.C. (Filming)
• Fraser River, B.C. (Filming)
• Hope, B.C. (Filming)
• Rosedale, B.C. (Filming)
• Siska, B.C. (Filming)
• Soda Creek, B.C. (Filming)
• Williams Lake, B.C. (Filming)

Subjects:

• Indigenous peoples
• Locomotion
•      Travel
• Recreation
•      Sports
•           Fishing
• North America
•      Canada

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

British Columbia Archives

Viewing Notes:

"Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game 'lahal'. Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy" British Columbia Archives.

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