Victoria  The Sunshine City - 1936 tourism promotion film
Channel: BC History
Date: 2015-03-18

This is a film posted in online by the Royal BC Museum, I repost many of their old films because it is the easiest way for me to share the film and to have it connected to all the other old films about BC.

0:38 aerial view of the inner harbour and James Bay
0:48 aerial view of Selkirk Water
0:54 Princess steamer docking
1:08 The Empress
1:34 lawn bowling!
1:46 Crystal Gardens
2:04 Legislature
2:36 Beacon Hill Park
3:30 Even in 1936 there was a deer problem
3:37 Douglas Street
3:45 Douglas and Yates
3:58 the 'burbs, as they were in 1936
4:47 the Pendray Gardens (I have never heard of this place!)
5:23 Beach Drive
5:53 Golfing
5:58 Observatory
6:58 Buchart Gardens
8:01 aerial view of the city
8:12 shipping from Victoria

A Northern Electric Recording

Original at this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15NwoHAfeeE

Recorded from BC Archives Call Number V1988:37/003 item #8
BC Archives Reference copy Call Number V1986:52 item #7
Creator: Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau
Date: 1936
Credit: National Film, Television and Sound Archives, National Archives of Canada
Length: 8:56

Summary: Travelogue. A tour of the capital of British Columbia, including views of the Butchart Gardens, Marine Drive, and Beacon Hill Park, as well as the exterior and interior of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.

References: Listed in Motion Picture Production in British Columbia, 1898 - 1940: A Brief Historical Background and Catalogue, by Colin Browne. British Columbia Provincial Museum Heritage Record no. 6. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1979., entry #0994.