Victoria and Vancouver - Gateways to Canada - a 1936 tourism promotion

This is a 1936 tourism promotional film about Victoria and Vancouver. This is part of the James A FtizPatrick's Traveltalks by MGM
Directed by Benjamin D Sharpe
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Please watch: "Royal visit 1939 drive by on Kingsway at Marlborough in Burnaby May 29th"
• Royal visit 1939 drive...
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[@funeralgiggle3771]

I’m loving all of these old videos of Vancouver, and BC. Really interesting!

[@michaelfisher6354]

Great movie/video as it shows Stanley Park before the Lions Gate Bridge was built starting in 1937. Very few bridges to North Vancouver at that time.

[@jeffpetrie7744]

Very few: Like “zero” bridges to North Vancouver before 1937, right? Is that what you mean?

[@disneyplay4]

Lovely

[@ericlin9786]

1936 and colored? Amazing

[@DotDotkins]

Not colored. Shot in technicolor, something rare for a 1936 travelogue

[@dennis7511]

Colour was commonly available in those days.

[@ChrisPollitt]

Interesting video of the past. Glad it has been preserved.

[@59bbjhall]

Bernard thanks for sending me this video

[@eileenbarkley1273]

So interesting, thanks !

[@dennis7511]

Not the "houses of parliament", but the "legislative buildings.

[@TheAlexdx7]

Why don't you go get a shovel, dig up his grave and give his skeleton an ear full.

[@funeralgiggle3771]

I think I’ll be saying Vannnnncouver for a while now

[@tonymcdonald5332]

Vancouver R.I.P. and welcome HongCouver

[@dr.strangelove7788]

Nice, you bigot!

[@leonardpriestley6822]

Bobbies and their disdain for traffic lights.

[@michaelfisher6354]

The pronunciation of Vannnnncouver jars - but interesting film.

[@BCHistory]

That was a fairly common way to say the name right through to the 1960s

[@jeffpetrie7744]

Oh the Brits would love to claim the inspiration for the architecture of the Empress Hotel. Sorry, people: Factual architectural history will prove to you that the architecture is absolutely French. Beautifully: French 👍🏼❤️😎

[@hojoinhisarcher]

Ah yes the dancing at St.Anns....

[@jonathanferguson9226]

We needed to lock the gates. Now we're screwed because we didn't.

[@jaboi8955]

Definitely the aboriginals have already lost enough because of Europeans

[@user-mp2tk3pw6j]

I love this film but the only problem with it is how racist this part is 5:16

[@BCHistory]

It was a different time. No to excuse what happened, The NWMP, later the RSMP, was created to give the federal government control over the prairies