“Eye Witness No. 54” (NFB, 1953)

View Eye Witness No. 54 at the NFB.ca site

This newsreel contains three vignettes covering various aspects of Canadian life.  The first and third items are about British Columbia, and here are the NFB descriptions:

“Ball Stars Start Young [first item in the above clip]: In Vancouver’s Little League, baseball players, diamond and equipment are junior size, but not the boys’ coaches or the eagerness of teams and fans.”

“A Railroad Goes to Sea [starting at 6:56 in the above clip]: Swapping steel rails for ocean waves is routine for British Columbia’s Pacific Great Eastern Railway, travelling the forty-mile leg between Vancouver and Squamish by railway barge.”

NOTE:  The rail barge journey shown in the third item was replaced by a train trip in 1956, when the PGE completed its rail line from North Vancouver to Squamish.