That man loved his wife very much, filming her enjoying herself, and that little boy seemed to be having such a good time. Happy family. It blessed my heart to see them on their holiday.
So grateful that some people spent the time and their money to capture these fleeting moments for the rest of us to enjoy. Couldn't help but wonder how many generations of seagulls have occurred since these ancestors were filmed gliding in the inlets.
I was born in Victoria 1962. It has been home since. I have been lucky abd traveled the world. A lot came through sports. I still have never found anywhere better than Victoria. I assume many of you feel the same way about your hometown
I was there at the time but we, my mom and I, rode the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay. It was wonderful then. When we went to Parksville on the Island it was just a tiny village, one general store, cabins for rent and a post office and a gas station. It was a virgin beach there and many seashells.
I love this movie. I was born a few years after this being filmed. It feels nostalgic and personal to me, as my early childhood memories/ experiences bore witness to these sites, ships, landmarks, etc.
First thing I noticed was passing freighters passing by with masts and booms. Cargo was still shipped on pallets and in bundles, swung off ships by the onboard cranes, to be handled by stevedores onshore. The manpower involved was immense. Even the liner filmed as the family exits the harbour has cargo booms. Containers were already on the way when this was filmed, and a few years after this was filmed, massive ships built solely to carry them were docking under the massive cranes of the Port of Vancouver's specialized terminal. It's long been just about the only way non-bulk commodities are shipped. You could still find "tramp steamers" with no fixed schedule or ports of call, ships that would also often take passengers, as well as men looking to "work their way" to other parts of the world. What a different world it was.
Victoria and the surrounding area all the way up to Sooke , is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. I've been fortunate enough to travel throughout this vast country from one end to the other.
A very cool old home movie, it looks like the Malahat Pass Viewing Area on Vancouver Island at 6:10, then a stop at MacMillan Blodells- Cathedral Grove, on the way up to Port Alberni, BC at 6:40, beautiful area
I used to work on 5 of the CPR Steamships (BCCSS). This is a return trip, but on 2 different ships. The outbound journey is on one of the Black Ball Ferries, M.V. Kahloke, which is printed on one of the lifeboats. The return journey gives no clue because it's at night, but you can see a CPR 3-stacker passing by; my guess is that it's the Princess Elaine.
Black Ball only had a couple of runs. They used Horseshoe Bay, as did Union Steamships, but CP did not. BC Ferries was started with 2 boats in 1960 in response to a strike by the unions on the CPR ships which isolated Vancouver Island in 1958. Premier Bennett said 'Never again!" On the routes that the CPR had between cities, all runs were from downtown to downtown, i.e. downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria/Nanaimo.
I heard an old-timer say that back in the day, first nations people weren't allowed on the upper decks. Did you see anything like that in your time on the boats?
Never saw that. Note that these were ferries, not cruise ships. It may have been true before my time (1961-1963). Also wouldn't they have been more likely to travel on runs closer to where they lived, like around Alert Bay, or the west coast of the Island where boats like the Princess Maquinna were used? Life was rough for non-whites in Vancouver until the 50s and I saw few Natives in town, and rarely on board.
I made the trip with my mom and dad a number of times in the late 50s, taking the ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo to visit relatives who lived there. Back then you'd catch the ferry from a dock in downtown Vancouver. Seems like another lifetime now.
Those were the Canadian Pacific Coast Steamships (operating post WW2 as CP Ferries)⛴️ which sailed from near the Canadian Pacific Railway terminal in downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria and Nanaimo. Those services ended in 1981. Canadian Pacific Airlines also operated until 1987, when it was merged with Pacific Western Airlines to become Canadian Airlines. 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🚢 🛳 🛫 🛩 🛬 ⛵️ 🚢 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
I remember traveling to Vancouver Island on the ferry in the 1950s...my grandfather was an engineer on the CPR, my dad worked for CPA, and I ended up working for CP Air for a while...family tradition...
I'm glad to see how Vancouver was like at the year I was born, I first visited here in 1982 and fell in love with this city, very nice place to live, eventually I moved to here in 1994.
If you lived in BC, Vancouver was where you went for holidays. They had the beaches Stanley park the PNE. Just to be in city was an amazing aspect to a holiday.
Seeing mt Benson so long ago...wow! I wish I could go back in time here and find my father and talk to him he had just come from Italy 5 years before this. 1954 at 18 years old so he would be 20 something
Mama in her ensemble with heels, bag and coat all matched up as she tiptoes in the forest with the ancient trees. I’m amazed at how much of Vancouver Island still looks exactly the same. Including ferry they came over on.
The CP ferry kept operating long after that, I think the passenger ferry remained in service until around Expo 86. Downtown to downtown as opposed to the BC Ferry.
In 72 we did a similar trip to VI, I remember swimming at Crystal gardens and of course a visit to Butchart gardens. The Island isn't what is used to be that's for sure.
@@francoislepine4698 There are a lot of places that have or haven't changed in the last 50 years, but in the case of the video posted here they are showing what Vancouver Island looked like in 1959 (the past) and my comment relates to what Vancouver Island looks like now. (the present)
You move to Sudbury were I grew up ......you will love the ugly rocks,pollution,bugs and LONG winters. The wife and I are moving to Vancouver Island in 2019 to retire there. I would like a shot at wilderness beauty and sailing.
The featured family is upper middle-class - the car they're driving is a 1956 Packard Clipper, an expensive car in 1956, 3 years old as of this film. "Ask the man who owns one" was Packard's slogan for many years. 1956 was the last year for a real Packard. The next year they were a modified Studebaker when the merger took place between Packard and Studebaker. They were gone by 1958, so sad.
Remember the very elegant princess ships well. I was the child of a CP crewman, so got to ride free to family on the other side. Just a year after this video, BC ferries went into service putting CP out of that business. BC ferries was a tenth of the travel time. (CP did a giant S shape route from Burrard inlet, circling the south island and around Ogden point to downtown Victoria.) I worked on the new queen of Sidney for a summer to earn tuition money. (got the job thanks to Dad who had a friend from his CP days being a BC ferries manager!)
This was well before the kitchens stopped throwing all the food scraps into the ocean. Seagulls in the hundreds would follow the ferries. I think the practice was stopped in the 70s.
1959 on Vancouver Island also ushered in a new golden age of the flying boat with the arrival of the colossal Martin Mars firefighting water bomber on Sproat Lake.
The footage is so blurry that it's impossible to say that these items include the highly stylized maple leaf of our current flag. In any case, even if this film really were made in 1965 or later, I really doubt that the incorporation of the new flag into the design we see would've occurred. Taking liberties with the national flag would be frowned upon in any formal context, and context doesn't get much more formal than a legislature building. So in my opinion, these are just banners. They're not even in the rectangular shape of flags of that era (and this one), or at least don't appear to be. Moreover, prior to 1960 the province had no official flag, numerous designs appearing at various times leading up to that year. But maybe this design did partly inspire the national flag adopted six years later, since there is some resemblance up to a point.
7:20 - Woman is looking at a map of Cameron Lake en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Lake_(British_Columbia) near where her son was at the MacMillan Provincial Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacMillan_Provincial_Park sign where the Cathedral Grove is!
Vancouver about 1960 Lower mainland pop about 750,000 including langley and Poco... city 380.000. Burnaby 90,000..Today city alone about 700k lmld 2.6 mill. insane raffic and oh yes. rent for a 3 br home on West side about 160 a mo. Today a 1 br condo about $3300mo
Most of it still looks the same. I only wish we still had the Margarite. And I can’t believe the racist comments on here. Beautiful video, some beautiful comments, and some really ugly ones too.
The seagulls would follow the ships because it was common practice to dump the galley scraps over the side. BC Ferries kitchen crews used to do this until about 40 years ago. After this practice was eliminated the birds stopped following the ships.
It’s true that there are less gulls following the ferries than back then, but they still do. They use the ‘wind waves’ created to ‘surf’ their way to and from the island. Kind of smart actually. Looks like fun too - I might be jealous.
Macmillan park is still there and the trees just keep getting bigger, bit of a bottle neck now a days as they can't widen the road with out cutting some magnificent trees to do so.
My parents (from Alberni) talk about the building of the highway 4 through MacMillan Park. How every single tree was sampled for rot and the road had to weave leaving the most volume of heathiest trees. Of note is that just before "the hill" at the bend of the Cameron River there was a log cabin used by the stage coach line, which existed before the road was built, as an overnight stop. Of interest was "Angel Rock", which still holds that name but until the winter of 1949 overhung the road. It collapsed and the road was closed for over two weeks. Luckily the RR was still in full operation.
Ferry's don't pass under the Lions Gate Bridge anymore. Looks like Canadian flags on the legislature, if so, can't be 1959, would have to be after 1965.
I was looking at that frame of the maple leaves on the legislative building, and though it does appear to resemble our current flag. I think they are mounted on Union Jack bunting! Perhaps the very first version before Mr Stanley 's!!
Not actually true. People on Vancouver Island never age. And they still wear horn-rimmed glasses because it is still fashionable. Ah, the land that time forgot…
Vancouver is a horrible place now compared to the 20th century years up until the 1980s. In 2017 it's a grossly over-populated, expensive, traffic jammed abomination. It has lost all the great character it once had. By 2030 it is predicted the population of the lower Mainland will have doubled, making it even more congested and horrible to live in. The young generation of today who have to live and work there, have no idea what a great city it once was.
There are still hints of when it was great which is why i have a bit of an idea of what it could have been like at least in the 80s SoCred era (53-91) was just a better time for BC overall even in the small cities of the interior. BC has become worse through the NDP era and worse still in the Liberal era
@Macho Man Yes I think you have something there. In the 80's I wanted to emigrate there, have family there, but uncle told me it was no go as I was the wrong colour. If I'd been anything other than white I would have stood a good chance of getting in! Sad.
right down near the CP train depot, but i forget the number of the pier. I think it was pier three. The entrance was on the starboard side of the boat, not the back or front end
The film is taken on the old CP Ferry that ran between Van and Victoria. Bc Ferries didn’t come into existence until 1960 when the government bought Blackball Ferries. All I can say is the food aboard is what we the electors asked for. The BCLiberals did what they said they were going to do and privatize the operations. That meant farming out the menu to private operators ie White Spot.
Bc ferries didnt exist in the 50's.... Back in the 70's and 80's theyd disembark with cars still on the ramp, a family had to be killed before they would remain docked for the entirety of the loading procedure. The only thing the ferries that was better was they let you sit in your car, and smoke out on the sundeck.
I was 12 or 13 at the time and there was no way in the world that we could afford to trip over to Victoria, especially with the car. I wonder what it cost them to take the old Packard over there. I didn't make it over to Victoria until some time after BC Ferries took over, and only as a walk-on passenger. That family must have lived in Shaunnesy Heights. But now that I could afford to move over there, I'd say no because the roads are just as congested with traffic as on the lower mainland.
What nonsense. My dad was a logger, and we went to the island to visit relatives on a regular basis. I don't doubt your family must have been poor, but don't generalize that to the average working person in those days. It's Shaughnessy, by the way.
In 1953, they had to remove 4 ft of the US Coral Sea to make it under the lion's Gate Bridge. and at close to low tide. Water 36 feet deep and the ACC drew 32 feet. Span center is, it think 220 at high tide
Hey, I was born that year! Great video. Suggestion: moderate the comments so you don't look like the hatemonger-flypaper channel. It's truly disgraceful what folks feel free to say nowadays. I realize this was uploaded 10 years ago, and you'd maybe 'think' we'd moved beyond knee-jerk tribalism, but ugh. Anyways, enjoyed the video: mindblowing how much change has occurred in my lifetime!
It is illiberal to metaphorically tape people's mouths shut. You didn't know that?🤨 And if some people do it, others will soon enough return the favour. Thus the 1st group will be sorry (if at all capable of regret). You didn't know that either?
It’s actually quite cheap when you compare the true cost of driving on the highway for 1 1/2 hours @70 cents per kilometer which is about $105. Foot passenger ferry rates between England and France cost me over $170 for three passengers@ few years ago. You can send your car over on seaspan at over $200 each way so quit bitching and enjoy the most beautiful crossing in the world!
@@jlt131 No absent foreign investors required. We have our own local realtors who buy up all the new condos on the market, to run Airbnb's on the side, in the city (without a business licence).
@@MelioraCogito that's a problem too, for sure! but there are also a ton of houses that just sit empty while their rich owners live elsewhere and just visit for a week a year.
@@endeavourist5287 I did and it vanished into the ether. The final three words passed muster. I am certainly a "content of their character" person and refuse to use those characteristics to judge someone. Thanks for your appallingly smug reply.
This is what Canada looked like pre-nose ring, blue hair, and waves upon waves of immigrants with all signs of patriotism smothered for corporate interests.
ugh. this area was much nicer before settlers showed up and started polluting everything and then complaining that immigration was "making things too crowded." if you're going to violently invade a place and build huge industrial areas on the lovely and carefully cultivated forest gardens of coast Salish peoples (using indentured Chinese labour, no less) at least have a well developed sense of shame about it and don't whine about "overcrowding."
Nobody invaded Greater Vancouver "violently." The area was first settled gradually and peacefully by law-abiding immigrants from the UK -- many of whom were seeking to make a new start in freedom after finding the opportunity to get away from the drudgery they experienced at the hands of industrial magnates and business tycoons who kept them in virtual poverty in the old sod. In Western Canada by the mid 1890's they could either homestead on 1/4 sections (160 acres) given to them gratis or they could purchase land that cost approx. $20 an acre in town/city suburbs. BTW the local forests in and around Vancouver were never "cultivated" gardens. Any real cultivation occurred only after trees were logged, homes built and farming/planting began. The First Nations were hunters/fishers -- never farmers.
not only did many coastal peoples cultivate medicine gardens and practice true animal husbandry (dog wool for clothes and weaving chilkat blankets, for instance) they also built below-tide aquaculture structures sophisticated enough to capture the right kind of coarse sand to CREATE rich, carefully cultivated and well maintained clam beds. and last time I checked, making laws that forbid people to fish and hunt to feed their families so you can starve them off their land, rounding up the survivors in concentration camps and kidnapping their children to give to child molesters, and making their sacred potlatch celebrations illegal was not just violence but GENOCIDAL violence, but I guess settlers don't think crimes against humanity count if you can argue that the victims weren't human beings. human beings, see, know how to grow plants where they need them, and pull weeds to let the beneficial plants grow, especially after 20,000 years of living on this coast. "immigrants looking for a place to live" is what you call it when people move here and join the nations that already exist, under their laws. first nations laws. creating a new nation and then sending your brute squad to kick in people's doors and flood their villages isn't "immigration." the only legitimate governments on this coast are the people who governed it for tens of thousands of years and never ceded it to settlers. not one scrap. if you don't acknowledge the legitimacy of those governments to decide what should be done with the land and resources they've tended, you're an occupier.
tl;dr: europeans didn't understand the concept of cultivation without demarcation of property, and also were eager to pretend that people here didn't use the land cos that meant you could pretend it was empty land. schools are finally starting to teach the truth about FN land use, but anyone over the age of 15 still has a head full of terra nullius lies.
The developing of medicine gardens was not farming. It was low-scale gardening involving small patches of . land -- not acres.. "Animal husbandry" to produce dog wool? Hmm. Very minimalist. Aquaculture structures wasn't farming per se but supplemental to fishing/collecting seafood.. All who have ever lived in North America fall under the definition of "immigrants." The First Nations are not indigenous to North American. Try inquiring of any reputable anthropologist who will inform you that they came over (emigrated) from Asia and therefore, have no special rights to territory any more than the immigrants who arrived centuries later. So please quit your nonsense re they "...never ceded it to settlers.. ", "legitimacy of their governments" etc. The First Nations settlers don't have any more rights to North America than any other settlers.
And I think,You should blame the government about immigrants and over --- population because the world immigrants won't be here if they were not allowed to come here unfortunately they were tolerated to come here,@empire0!!!
Wow. To be so openly intolerant and xenophobic is quite striking. You - and your buddy Pineda - do realize that I’m being polite and that there is a word for people like you, yes? And that your ancestors were immigrants looking for a better life and/or job opportunities? Your moniker- Empire - speaks for itself. You yearn for the good old days when Victoria was “a little slice of England,” made up primarily of WASPs. I detest your beliefs and your mindset(s).
And in my own personal opinion,And our Blessed,super natural and scenic Pacific Northwest Canadian/Royal Canadian major city called Vancouver,British Columbia --- Canada ( True North Strong and Free ) and its Lower Mainland regional districts or small cities including our Vancouver Island are very peaceful,very serene and very calm during the past and late 1950's decade before the introduction of our very,very and very extreme Canadian/Royal Canadian multi --- culturalism that started during the 1960's decade that brought all - sorts,all - types and all - kinds of corruption,twistedness and crookedness in our Caucasian or White and colored Canadian/Royal Canadian way of lives.
@@scoutrogen No,not at all even though I was previously associated with Klu Klux Klan sympathizers where we all shouted White Power,White Pride and White Is Right that took place,occurred and happened in Calgary,Alberta --- Canada ( True North Strong and Free ) during the early 1990's decade,@scoutrogen!!!
@scoutrogen yea the white supremacy that invented antibiotics and increased the average lifespan by almost 20 years.....vancouver used to be a white haven a sanctuary. Now it's a cesspool of multicultural lunacy with special interest groups competing for power. You have no idea what you've ruined you're just a useful idiot slave used by the elite to spread fiat slavery.
That man loved his wife very much, filming her enjoying herself, and that little boy seemed to be having such a good time. Happy family. It blessed my heart to see them on their holiday.
The Blue Danube Waltz.....oh my god what a feast for my ears...
Thank you very much ❤
So grateful that some people spent the time and their money to capture these fleeting moments for the rest of us to enjoy. Couldn't help but wonder how many generations of seagulls have occurred since these ancestors were filmed gliding in the inlets.
I was born in Victoria 1962. It has been home since. I have been lucky abd traveled the world. A lot came through sports. I still have never found anywhere better than Victoria. I assume many of you feel the same way about your hometown
I was there at the time but we, my mom and I, rode the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay. It was wonderful then. When we went to Parksville on the Island it was just a tiny village, one general store, cabins for rent and a post office and a gas station. It was a virgin beach there and many seashells.
Whoever got to grow up here back then is so lucky. I'm on the island... And man... I wonder how mystical it would've been back in the day.
I was born here. I'm 59 now. It wasn't any more or less mystical 'back in the day', but it was definitely less crowded.
@@Beachhopper yeah it really has grown !
Thanks for the memories 👍 a very different world here now.
Almost 60 years ago. Beautiful video, thanks for posting.
I love this movie. I was born a few years after this being filmed. It feels nostalgic and personal to me, as my early childhood memories/ experiences bore witness to these sites, ships, landmarks, etc.
paradise back then Nature wise....
First thing I noticed was passing freighters passing by with masts and booms. Cargo was still shipped on pallets and in bundles, swung off ships by the onboard cranes, to be handled by stevedores onshore. The manpower involved was immense. Even the liner filmed as the family exits the harbour has cargo booms.
Containers were already on the way when this was filmed, and a few years after this was filmed, massive ships built solely to carry them were docking under the massive cranes of the Port of Vancouver's specialized terminal. It's long been just about the only way non-bulk commodities are shipped.
You could still find "tramp steamers" with no fixed schedule or ports of call, ships that would also often take passengers, as well as men looking to "work their way" to other parts of the world. What a different world it was.
Victoria and the surrounding area all the way up to Sooke , is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. I've been fortunate enough to travel throughout this vast country from one end to the other.
Did this drive in 1968 in a volkswagen, it is so wonderful to see it unfold again like this!
This is great! Thanks for sharing it.
You are welcome
Very neat to watch and see how much things have changed ! History is so darn cool !
A very cool old home movie, it looks like the Malahat Pass Viewing Area on Vancouver Island at 6:10, then a stop at MacMillan Blodells- Cathedral Grove, on the way up to Port Alberni, BC at 6:40, beautiful area
I used to work on 5 of the CPR Steamships (BCCSS). This is a return trip, but on 2 different ships. The outbound journey is on one of the Black Ball Ferries, M.V. Kahloke, which is printed on one of the lifeboats. The return journey gives no clue because it's at night, but you can see a CPR 3-stacker passing by; my guess is that it's the Princess Elaine.
Was BC Ferries created yet during this time or was it all still black ball?
Black Ball only had a couple of runs. They used Horseshoe Bay, as did Union Steamships, but CP did not. BC Ferries was started with 2 boats in 1960 in response to a strike by the unions on the CPR ships which isolated Vancouver Island in 1958. Premier Bennett said 'Never again!" On the routes that the CPR had between cities, all runs were from downtown to downtown, i.e. downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria/Nanaimo.
I heard an old-timer say that back in the day, first nations people weren't allowed on the upper decks. Did you see anything like that in your time on the boats?
Never saw that. Note that these were ferries, not cruise ships. It may have been true before my time (1961-1963). Also wouldn't they have been more likely to travel on runs closer to where they lived, like around Alert Bay, or the west coast of the Island where boats like the Princess Maquinna were used? Life was rough for non-whites in Vancouver until the 50s and I saw few Natives in town, and rarely on board.
wow MacMillan park and Butchart Gardens look identical to 2024. Even the Malahat lookout barrier looks the same.
I made the trip with my mom and dad a number of times in the late 50s, taking the ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo to visit relatives who lived there. Back then you'd catch the ferry from a dock in downtown Vancouver. Seems like another lifetime now.
Those were the Canadian Pacific Coast Steamships (operating post WW2 as CP Ferries)⛴️ which sailed from near the Canadian Pacific Railway terminal in downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria and Nanaimo.
Those services ended in 1981.
Canadian Pacific Airlines also operated until 1987, when it was merged with Pacific Western Airlines to become Canadian Airlines.
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I remember traveling to Vancouver Island on the ferry in the 1950s...my grandfather was an engineer on the CPR, my dad worked for CPA, and I ended up working for CP Air for a while...family tradition...
My uncle was a civil engineer for CPR.
@@markpimlott2879Back in 1989, Max Ward sold Wardair to Canadi
@@georgehaeh4856Loved Ward Air.
Nice shot of old downtown Nanaimo.❤
I'm glad to see how Vancouver was like at the year I was born, I first visited here in 1982 and fell in love with this city, very nice place to live, eventually I moved to here in 1994.
If you lived in BC, Vancouver was where you went for holidays. They had the beaches Stanley park the PNE. Just to be in city was an amazing aspect to a holiday.
It used to be a great city. Getting worse every day. Lucky for me I won’t live too long.
It's so strange to see the inner harbor in Victoria without the lower walkway.
And a wooden dock lol
Right? It was build in the late 1970s, but fits in so well that it looks like it was there the entire time.
LOVE the music
Grateful ...Cameron lake ...approaches the beauty of Lake Louise 😍
영상 발 봤습니다~~감사합니다~!!!
Seeing mt Benson so long ago...wow!
I wish I could go back in time here and find my father and talk to him he had just come from Italy 5 years before this. 1954 at 18 years old so he would be 20 something
Filmed the year I was born. I remember the CP ferries when I first moved to the island in 1970. It's interesting how so much is the same.
Best part of the CP ferries is the bar which BC ferries in the following year prohibited due to their designation as provincial highways
The CP ferries ended service in 1960, replaced by BC Ferries. Maybe some of the CP ships were still being used.
Good old classic footage.
I like it.
Excellent.👍👍
Mama in her ensemble with heels, bag and coat all matched up as she tiptoes in the forest with the ancient trees. I’m amazed at how much of Vancouver Island still looks exactly the same. Including ferry they came over on.
Wonderful for sharing !!!!!~~~~~~~~~
Cool. I like looking at the cars the best.
The year before BC Ferries came into existence on June 15, 1960 - so this was on a CP boat.
The CP ferry kept operating long after that, I think the passenger ferry remained in service until around Expo 86. Downtown to downtown as opposed to the BC Ferry.
That boat at the end looked like a Black Ball Ferry. I vaguely remember the CP ferry from the mainland to Victoria in '57.
I love it! Thanks for posting this.
Awesome! I really love seeing old footage of Victoria.
I will be adding more over time as I come across it. Right now my goal is to check flea markets to buy any old home movies I can find
In 72 we did a similar trip to VI, I remember swimming at Crystal gardens and of course a visit to Butchart gardens. The Island isn't what is used to be that's for sure.
Name me one place that is "what it used to be"....that only exists in your dreams
@@francoislepine4698 There are a lot of places that have or haven't changed in the last 50 years, but in the case of the video posted here they are showing what Vancouver Island looked like in 1959 (the past) and my comment relates to what Vancouver Island looks like now. (the present)
You're absolutely right. Once a ton of people move into an area they make it into what they ran from. 😢
Oh look, its ppl from bc complaining and arguing...
Vancouver island is still a very beautiful place.
not like it was back then.. People had conversations and where more Intellectual.. dam cell phones..
I miss Vancouver island so❤️ much
You move to Sudbury were I grew up ......you will love the ugly rocks,pollution,bugs and LONG winters.
The wife and I are moving to Vancouver Island in 2019 to retire there.
I would like a shot at wilderness beauty and sailing.
The featured family is upper middle-class - the car they're driving is a 1956 Packard Clipper, an expensive car in 1956, 3 years old as of this film. "Ask the man who owns one" was Packard's slogan for many years. 1956 was the last year for a real Packard. The next year they were a modified Studebaker when the merger took place between Packard and Studebaker. They were gone by 1958, so sad.
And they had a movie camera with colour film!
Of course they have money they have a video camera in 1959! 😂
@@warfarenotwarfair5655 Video wasn’t invented yet
@@patricktruelove464 It was an 8mm movie camera, using film. I still have a very old one.
@@IanSmale-p6m cool! But colour home movie film in the 50s! That’s fancy!
Remember the very elegant princess ships well. I was the child of a CP crewman, so got to ride free to family on the other side. Just a year after this video, BC ferries went into service putting CP out of that business. BC ferries was a tenth of the travel time. (CP did a giant S shape route from Burrard inlet, circling the south island and around Ogden point to downtown Victoria.) I worked on the new queen of Sidney for a summer to earn tuition money. (got the job thanks to Dad who had a friend from his CP days being a BC ferries manager!)
1959 Sunday: Bars all closed big box stores closed. Car dealerships- closed. and we all ate just fine.
Can’t recall any big box stores in the 50s.
Sunday is the first day of the week. My favorite day to work.
Big box stores? In 1959? Department stores yes but no such thing as big box stores.
@@Paddee-q4eThere wasn’t any.
This must be before the blue hair, nose rings, a Prime Minister nobody respects, and waves upon waves of immigrants.
Wow, now i remember that the north Shore had a population of about 80,000. A third of that in west Vancouver. Not so today
North Shore is about 140,000 today.
@@hklinker That's about right
This was well before the kitchens stopped throwing all the food scraps into the ocean. Seagulls in the hundreds would follow the ferries. I think the practice was stopped in the 70s.
My oldest Daughter was born in Campbell River General 🙂
1959 on Vancouver Island also ushered in a new golden age of the flying boat with the arrival of the colossal Martin Mars firefighting water bomber on Sproat Lake.
amazing footage!
interesting that the Legislative buildings were draped in Maple Leafs as this flag was not adopted until 1965
It was recognized everywhere as the symbol of Canada though.
The footage is so blurry that it's impossible to say that these items include the highly stylized maple leaf of our current flag. In any case, even if this film really were made in 1965 or later, I really doubt that the incorporation of the new flag into the design we see would've occurred. Taking liberties with the national flag would be frowned upon in any formal context, and context doesn't get much more formal than a legislature building.
So in my opinion, these are just banners. They're not even in the rectangular shape of flags of that era (and this one), or at least don't appear to be. Moreover, prior to 1960 the province had no official flag, numerous designs appearing at various times leading up to that year. But maybe this design did partly inspire the national flag adopted six years later, since there is some resemblance up to a point.
7:20 - Woman is looking at a map of Cameron Lake en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Lake_(British_Columbia) near where her son was at the MacMillan Provincial Park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacMillan_Provincial_Park sign where the Cathedral Grove is!
This film was made about 6 years before I was born. I was born, raised and reside in Victoria. The prettiest little city I've ever seen.
My Dad would have been 19 when this video was filmed and he was born and raised in Victoria.
Not anymore
Beautiful
Vancouver about 1960 Lower mainland pop about 750,000 including langley and Poco... city 380.000. Burnaby 90,000..Today city alone about 700k lmld 2.6 mill. insane raffic and oh yes. rent for a 3 br home on West side about 160 a mo. Today a 1 br condo about $3300mo
Most of it still looks the same. I only wish we still had the Margarite. And I can’t believe the racist comments on here. Beautiful video, some beautiful comments, and some really ugly ones too.
The seagulls would follow the ships because it was common practice to dump the galley scraps over the side. BC Ferries kitchen crews used to do this until about 40 years ago. After this practice was eliminated the birds stopped following the ships.
It’s true that there are less gulls following the ferries than back then, but they still do. They use the ‘wind waves’ created to ‘surf’ their way to and from the island. Kind of smart actually. Looks like fun too - I might be jealous.
Macmillan park is still there and the trees just keep getting bigger, bit of a bottle neck now a days as they can't widen the road with out cutting some magnificent trees to do so.
My parents (from Alberni) talk about the building of the highway 4 through MacMillan Park. How every single tree was sampled for rot and the road had to weave leaving the most volume of heathiest trees. Of note is that just before "the hill" at the bend of the Cameron River there was a log cabin used by the stage coach line, which existed before the road was built, as an overnight stop. Of interest was "Angel Rock", which still holds that name but until the winter of 1949 overhung the road. It collapsed and the road was closed for over two weeks. Luckily the RR was still in full operation.
Back when BC ferries actually worked
Back before there was even such a thing as BCFerries…
You mean back when it didnt exist....lol
The island is not like that anymore.I miss those days.
Anyone recognize the lighthouse/point at 8:10? i'm having trouble placing it
Ferry's don't pass under the Lions Gate Bridge anymore. Looks like Canadian flags on the legislature, if so, can't be 1959, would have to be after 1965.
Queen visit to Canada banners.
I was looking at that frame of the maple leaves on the legislative building, and though it does appear to resemble our current flag. I think they are mounted on Union Jack bunting! Perhaps the very first version before Mr Stanley 's!!
CP went under the Lion's Gate Bridge.. BCF never sent near it
They sure did not wast any time getting out to Victoria.Was wondering if they went thru active at the time of the princess.
Nope. They docked in Victoria Inner Harbour. Active Pass would be out of the way.
That ~10 year old boy would be about 75 years old now (2024).
Not actually true. People on Vancouver Island never age. And they still wear horn-rimmed glasses because it is still fashionable. Ah, the land that time forgot…
He’s probably still alive.
Almost as old as my dad😅
@@francoisgirard2306maybe
Good work Lt. Columbo
welcome to Victoria sign has a long history
Vancouver is a horrible place now compared to the 20th century years up until the 1980s. In 2017 it's a grossly over-populated, expensive, traffic jammed abomination. It has lost all the great character it once had. By 2030 it is predicted the population of the lower Mainland will have doubled, making it even more congested and horrible to live in. The young generation of today who have to live and work there, have no idea what a great city it once was.
There are still hints of when it was great which is why i have a bit of an idea of what it could have been like at least in the 80s
SoCred era (53-91) was just a better time for BC overall even in the small cities of the interior. BC has become worse through the NDP era and worse still in the Liberal era
first i arrived in Vancouver,Jan 1970,didn't like it then and never really cared for it,Victoria u bet..beautiful..Vancouver not so much
Yes, I agree....this city has been grossly mismanaged for decades and how truly sad this is.
@Macho Man Yes I think you have something there. In the 80's I wanted to emigrate there, have family there, but uncle told me it was no go as I was the wrong colour. If I'd been anything other than white I would have stood a good chance of getting in! Sad.
@@cfinlay6428 Nonsense.
Where did they load the CP ferry in Vancouver?
just down from the Canada place about 300 meters towards coal harbour
right down near the CP train depot, but i forget the number of the pier. I think it was pier three. The entrance was on the starboard side of the boat, not the back or front end
At the CPR dock.
@@Paddee-q4e Pier 3
Born and raised in Nanaimo
I hear good things about Nanaimo bars.
Tip: Watch it at 2x speed. It's much better.
Back when food on the B.C. ferries was palatable.
take that back, triple o's is awesome
Probably CPR Ferries. BC Ferries didn't exist yet.
The film is taken on the old CP Ferry that ran between Van and Victoria. Bc Ferries didn’t come into existence until 1960 when the government bought Blackball Ferries. All I can say is the food aboard is what we the electors asked for. The BCLiberals did what they said they were going to do and privatize the operations. That meant farming out the menu to private operators ie White Spot.
Trust me the food is much better now.
Bc ferries didnt exist in the 50's....
Back in the 70's and 80's theyd disembark with cars still on the ramp, a family had to be killed before they would remain docked for the entirety of the loading procedure. The only thing the ferries that was better was they let you sit in your car, and smoke out on the sundeck.
I was 12 or 13 at the time and there was no way in the world that we could afford to trip over to Victoria, especially with the car. I wonder what it cost them to take the old Packard over there. I didn't make it over to Victoria until some time after BC Ferries took over, and only as a walk-on passenger. That family must have lived in Shaunnesy Heights. But now that I could afford to move over there, I'd say no because the roads are just as congested with traffic as on the lower mainland.
What nonsense. My dad was a logger, and we went to the island to visit relatives on a regular basis. I don't doubt your family must have been poor, but don't generalize that to the average working person in those days.
It's Shaughnessy, by the way.
@@citetez I just told you the way it was with my family. I didn't generalize. Obviously we didn't live in Shaugnessy Heights if I spelled it wrong.
@@JimErvin-d2i the most IMPORTANT thing to remember is that ALL OF THIS IS STOLEN LAND!!!1! and it belongs to the FAGIBIDOOBOO tribe you BIGOTS.
The Oriana! Nowadays cruise ships have gotten so big i'll bet they have to wait for low tide to make it under the bridge
In 1953, they had to remove 4 ft of the US Coral Sea to make it under the lion's Gate Bridge. and at close to low tide. Water 36 feet deep and the ACC drew 32 feet. Span center is, it think 220 at high tide
Back when Canada and BC were beautiful unpopulated and clean.
Do you mean white? Why not just say it if that’s what you mean.
@@Trouble-Clef What a lot of puff. what a stupid uninformed troll. BC has never been mostly racially white.
@@Theodorussfo
Citation needed.
@@Trouble-Clefhow about Caucasian then, feel better
@@TheodorussfoYeah it was.
Hey, I was born that year! Great video.
Suggestion: moderate the comments so you don't look like the hatemonger-flypaper channel. It's truly disgraceful what folks feel free to say nowadays. I realize this was uploaded 10 years ago, and you'd maybe 'think' we'd moved beyond knee-jerk tribalism, but ugh.
Anyways, enjoyed the video: mindblowing how much change has occurred in my lifetime!
It is illiberal to metaphorically tape people's mouths shut.
You didn't know that?🤨
And if some people do it, others will soon enough return the favour. Thus the 1st group will be sorry (if at all capable of regret). You didn't know that either?
When smiling with an open mouth was impolite, at least in Canada?
Fiction
Back when Vancouver was a great city, not like today.
It’s Vancouver Island not Vancouver.
You need to travel more.. Vancouver is a safe, beautiful city.
@Island-pool ROFLMAO
100%
Vancouver was a city...now it's a COMMODITY...
A bit of narration would have helped this video!
i was in Grade Nine
I was still in Baghdad 😊
@@jdmacgyver2062 I was still in my dadz bagh.
@ I’m glad you got my joke.
Lovit!
When you didn't have to take out a 2nd mortgage to pay for the fare to take a trip to Victoria.
It’s actually quite cheap when you compare the true cost of driving on the highway for 1 1/2 hours @70 cents per kilometer which is about $105. Foot passenger ferry rates between England and France cost me over $170 for three passengers@ few years ago. You can send your car over on seaspan at over $200 each way so quit bitching and enjoy the most beautiful crossing in the world!
Wonder who the family is. I have a suspicion they might be Finnish immigrants.
Finns moved to Sointula and Hagensberg long ago.
It all kind of went to shit a few years after expo 86.
Boy did it ever !
The socreds said BC is open for business. So the foreign developers moved in.
The good old days on the BC ferry
No, CPR Ferry.
Sorry, Right it is CPR ferry , my mistake
1:22 I bet this woman was only in her 30s, they looked so much older back then. Weird!
They are slowly but surely destroying Vancouver Island too!
So does this guy get his wife in every shot?
Every islanders dream a Ontarian swimming back to vancover with a Albertain under each arm.
No rainbow flags anywhere! ❤
That is an unnecessary and irrelevant comment, In addition to being hateful and ignorant.
@@davidengbers6872 on the subject of hateful, ignorant, and unnecessary comments.
@@SidJohn-s6f ⇽ 170-day old account…
GFYS.
Do 🏳🌈 hurt your triggered fragile feelings? 🤔😭😭😭
@@davidengbers6872 you drive mother nature away with a pitch fork but she will always come back.
Imagine watching a fanily vacation film and then going on a racist tirade on youtube comments...
Sad...
Victoria: _‘Home of the newly-wed and the nearly dead.’_
Not any more, it isn't.
victoria, home of the absent foreign investors...and the nearly dead
broke and homeless. and liberal retarded..
@@jlt131 No absent foreign investors required.
We have our own local realtors who buy up all the new condos on the market, to run Airbnb's on the side, in the city (without a business licence).
@@MelioraCogito that's a problem too, for sure! but there are also a ton of houses that just sit empty while their rich owners live elsewhere and just visit for a week a year.
Home of the crackheads now.
Back before society in Canada (and other Western countries) lost its mind.
@@davidbruce5377 Breathe. Just breathe.
@@dixonpinfold2582 you didn't exactly answer his question. That silence is telling ;)
@@endeavourist5287 I did and it vanished into the ether. The final three words passed muster.
I am certainly a "content of their character" person and refuse to use those characteristics to judge someone.
Thanks for your appallingly smug reply.
Why are you associating POCs and gay people with "lost minds"? @@davidbruce5377
@@dixonpinfold2582You are simply a coward to speak out, just the way your corporations and career politicians want you to behave.
What’s with the long shots of the people just standing doing nothing?
People were more used to posing for still cameras.
@ That’s true. Standing, smiling and waving at the camera.
Home movies!!! Run around and do something!!, 😂
It's a home movie. It was (and is) normal to let the camera linger on one's family members as they do whatever they're doing.
Whoville
Still living in moms basement?
This is what Canada looked like pre-nose ring, blue hair, and waves upon waves of immigrants with all signs of patriotism smothered for corporate interests.
someone's not getting laid
Get over yourself...
hmm surprising that times change 🤔
**shakes cane and harrumphs**
@@mjoa1spoken like a true trudeauite
ugh. this area was much nicer before settlers showed up and started polluting everything and then complaining that immigration was "making things too crowded."
if you're going to violently invade a place and build huge industrial areas on the lovely and carefully cultivated forest gardens of coast Salish peoples (using indentured Chinese labour, no less) at least have a well developed sense of shame about it and don't whine about "overcrowding."
Nobody invaded Greater Vancouver "violently." The area was first settled gradually and peacefully by law-abiding
immigrants from the UK -- many of whom were seeking to make a new start in freedom after finding the
opportunity to get away from the drudgery they experienced at the hands of industrial magnates and business tycoons who kept them in virtual poverty in the old sod. In Western Canada by the mid 1890's they could either homestead on 1/4 sections (160 acres) given to them gratis or they could purchase land that cost approx. $20 an acre in town/city suburbs. BTW the local forests in and around Vancouver were never "cultivated" gardens. Any
real cultivation occurred only after trees were logged, homes built and farming/planting began. The First Nations were hunters/fishers -- never farmers.
not only did many coastal peoples cultivate medicine gardens and practice true animal husbandry (dog wool for clothes and weaving chilkat blankets, for instance) they also built below-tide aquaculture structures sophisticated enough to capture the right kind of coarse sand to CREATE rich, carefully cultivated and well maintained clam beds.
and last time I checked, making laws that forbid people to fish and hunt to feed their families so you can starve them off their land, rounding up the survivors in concentration camps and kidnapping their children to give to child molesters, and making their sacred potlatch celebrations illegal was not just violence but GENOCIDAL violence, but I guess settlers don't think crimes against humanity count if you can argue that the victims weren't human beings.
human beings, see, know how to grow plants where they need them, and pull weeds to let the beneficial plants grow, especially after 20,000 years of living on this coast.
"immigrants looking for a place to live" is what you call it when people move here and join the nations that already exist, under their laws. first nations laws. creating a new nation and then sending your brute squad to kick in people's doors and flood their villages isn't "immigration."
the only legitimate governments on this coast are the people who governed it for tens of thousands of years and never ceded it to settlers. not one scrap. if you don't acknowledge the legitimacy of those governments to decide what should be done with the land and resources they've tended, you're an occupier.
tl;dr: europeans didn't understand the concept of cultivation without demarcation of property, and also were eager to pretend that people here didn't use the land cos that meant you could pretend it was empty land.
schools are finally starting to teach the truth about FN land use, but anyone over the age of 15 still has a head full of terra nullius lies.
The developing of medicine gardens was not farming. It was low-scale gardening involving small patches of . land -- not acres.. "Animal husbandry" to produce dog wool? Hmm. Very minimalist. Aquaculture structures wasn't farming per se but supplemental to fishing/collecting seafood..
All who have ever lived in North America fall under the definition of "immigrants." The First Nations are not indigenous to North American. Try inquiring of any reputable anthropologist who will inform you that they came over (emigrated) from Asia and therefore, have no special rights to territory any more than the immigrants who arrived centuries later. So please quit your nonsense re they "...never ceded it to settlers.. ", "legitimacy of their governments" etc. The First Nations settlers don't have any more rights to North America than any other settlers.
But you do like the Chieftains, Bells of Dublin, and the great Ella Fitzgerald. You too had to yield and like it.
Ah life before the Trudeau's!
And Asia
Do you two just follow each other through comment sections making rude remarks? Seems so.
Or just one sick mind with two RUclips accounts?
@@falkerjones8249 You really need to get out of mommy's basement. Both of you.
And before Mulroney and Harper sliced, diced, gift wrapped and sold it out to China.
Those bc ferries from 1959 are the same ones they’re still running today 🙄🤦🏻♂️
Not true! The oldest major ferries on routes across the Salish Sea were built in the early 1980s.
@@leeannjohnson809 Not true! Have you forgotten the Queen of New Westminster or the early C Class?
@@penguinclee89 C class were built in 1976 & '81. You're right about the Q of New West, built in 1964, stretched in all directions.
Some real Boomer racists in here 😂
they aint wrong tho lmao
Goofy then, goofy still
Disagree
Was beautiful before it turned into India
What a strange video to attract so many racist bots accounts.
My home used to be so beautiful, it's a mess now with the immigrants, bike lanes, and overpopulation :(
And I think,You should blame the government about immigrants and over --- population because the world immigrants won't be here if they were not allowed to come here unfortunately they were tolerated to come here,@empire0!!!
Everyone here is an immigrant except First Nations.
Wow. To be so openly intolerant and xenophobic is quite striking. You - and your buddy Pineda - do realize that I’m being polite and that there is a word for people like you, yes? And that your ancestors were immigrants looking for a better life and/or job opportunities? Your moniker- Empire - speaks for itself. You yearn for the good old days when Victoria was “a little slice of England,” made up primarily of WASPs. I detest your beliefs and your mindset(s).
Definitely had to mute it 😄😄
Why? The Blue Danube is one of the most beautiful waltzes ever written ❤
Not enough American inner-city rap for you or not enough American cookie cutter pop music for you?
And in my own personal opinion,And our Blessed,super natural and scenic Pacific Northwest Canadian/Royal Canadian major city called Vancouver,British Columbia --- Canada ( True North Strong and Free ) and its Lower Mainland regional districts or small cities including our Vancouver Island are very peaceful,very serene and very calm during the past and late 1950's decade before the introduction of our very,very and very extreme Canadian/Royal Canadian multi --- culturalism that started during the 1960's decade that brought all - sorts,all - types and all - kinds of corruption,twistedness and crookedness in our Caucasian or White and colored Canadian/Royal Canadian way of lives.
So true we used to have a beautiful culture and society and heritage. Ruined ubder the guise of diversity
@@RustyShakleford1 and thanks for your wonderful comments,@RustyShakleford 1!!!
not the white supremacy in the comment section
@@scoutrogen No,not at all even though I was previously associated with Klu Klux Klan sympathizers where we all shouted White Power,White Pride and White Is Right that took place,occurred and happened in Calgary,Alberta --- Canada ( True North Strong and Free ) during the early 1990's decade,@scoutrogen!!!
@scoutrogen yea the white supremacy that invented antibiotics and increased the average lifespan by almost 20 years.....vancouver used to be a white haven a sanctuary. Now it's a cesspool of multicultural lunacy with special interest groups competing for power. You have no idea what you've ruined you're just a useful idiot slave used by the elite to spread fiat slavery.
Life on the West Coast sure was boring. Come to think of it, it still is.
only boring people get bored.
Sure was better.
If life on the West Coast is boring for you, it is 100% your fault.
@@glenw-xm5zf No really the West Coast is boring. I'm talking about BC. The people here are as dull as spoons.
@@malcolmwatt7386 Truth: if you found them all Dull, then perhaps the dull one was you. Not an insult, but think about it.
BTW where are you from?