Victoria: The Sunshine City (1936)

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
Copy Length: 9:31
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.

[@bgsrickus]

Cool Video & Documentary. I use to live about 50 miles away back in the late 50's
(that little girl @ 5:27 looked a lot like Shirley Temple) unto me

[@KiTTeNChaoSS]

The topiary work at Pendreys gardens was created by Henry Tidbury. He was the head gardener at Basildon Park in the UK before moving to Victoria aprox 1910. His sons were the head gardeners at the Legislature and the Royal Jubilee Hostpital. He had a nursery / green houses that were crushed under the blizzard of 1916.

[@RonWilsonFineArt]

Thanks for the video, Made 3 years before I was born.

[@ShanonSinn]

Winter and summer are the same and it is always sunny haha

[@ryanhobbs3362]

haha ya, this is a 1936 sales pitch for people. That being said, we are much more constant that almost anywhere else in our fine nation.

[@rimmerableful]

Unfortunately, the city has been turned into a hell hole and residents have been forced to move away due to drug addicts and the violence and crime.