[Vancouver and Victoria Street and Harbour Scenes 1907]
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- A Panorama or Panoramic rather than a documentary, a very popular attraction in Nickelodeons in the early days of film exhibition, in which scenes were filmed from the front of a moving vehicle, often a railway train.The film comprises street scenes filmed from the front of moving street cars and harbour scenes filmed from moving water craft. It is in three distinct parts: the streets of Victoria, Victoria Harbour, and the streets of Vancouver.Streets travelled in Victoria include Douglas Street, Yates Street, and Government Street. Seen are the Empress Hotel, where construction is nearing completion, the Parliament Buildings, the CPR piers and sheds, and Laurel Point. A few automobiles, numerous bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, and other streetcars are in evidence.Seen from the water are Victoria's inner harbour with the ships of the sealing fleet tied side by side, the Point Ellice Bridge, The Gorge, and the Tillicum Bridge over the "Reversing Falls" with a prominent view of a rock which has since been blasted away, Selkirk Water and Halkett Island (also known as Island of the Dead), the Johnson Street Bridge with a steam hauled passenger train of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway crossing it, the factories of the British America Paint Company and the B.C. Soap Works at Laurel Point, the Pendray House, CPR ferries, and more views of the Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, and the Customs House.Among the streets travelled in Vancouver are Granville Street, with a glimpse of the old CPR station, West Hastings Street, Carrall Street, West Cordova Street, Canbie Street, Robson Street, and Davie Street.
Source: Library and Archives Canada. Australia National Film & Sound Archive fonds, 1994-0215, IDC 230348.
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This is an amazing resource. I love the combination of horse-drawn wagons, electric street cars, steam-driven trains, bicycles, power boats and row boats, etc. What a transitional time.
Amazing, amazing! Streets filled with life. Loved the boys hitching a ride on the back of a wagon and bicycles weaving in and out, dodging the streetcar. When people view us walking the same streets a hundred years from now, the will see zombies with their heads buried in screens.
indeed. However, this is far away from good. Traffic noise was deafening, horse poop everywhere, smog that chokes people.
50lmyr not as much though, horse can be dealt with, traffic noise? Come on you get use to it after sometime and there’s isn’t that much traffic a few cars streetcars and a couple carts. Not a big deal
Yes, but I'd sure hate to be in a tenement building in summertime, with no air conditioner, no fan, and depending on an "icebox."
@@put_istine there's still poop everywhere it's just from crackheads now instead of horses.
and smog too, during the summer there's always a forest fire somewhere and wind blows it over the city
It's so cool to go back in the past.
You have that right Jeff. Also the transit! Look at the number of streetcars moving people at a good speed and also people crossing the streets aware of their surroundings. Wonderful to see.
Not sure about the Victoria footage but the Vancouver footage was shot by William Harbeck who went down with the Titanic in 1912 after a filming trip to Europe. One can only wonder what similar kinds of footage Harbeck recorded from the streets of European cities as well as during his ill-fated return trip on board the Titanic.... It's also worth noting that people drove on the left side of the road, and you can see one of the very first BC motorcars in the Victoria footage. Imagine the smell on the road from the horse and donkey poop and urine on the streets back then!
Amazing footage. Love being able to view this and feel like we’ve gone back in time
BC used to drive on the left (like Japan UK Australia etc) until the early 1920s which is what we see here.
Now we drive on whats left
Watching such a movie after years is priceless ☺👍
Priceless.The Empress Hotel in Victoria was under construction in this video.
Very enjoyable. I have watched this many times.
How can you thumbs down a video from 1907?? ...4 people obviously need to get a grip on reality
A "Hale's Tour" film made by W.H. Harbeck for Selig Pictures. First half filmed 4 May 1907 in Victoria (reported 5 May), and second half filmed 6 May 1907 in Vancouver. NOTE, In the Vancouver part, at 8:37 the camera passes the Edison Grand (133 Cordova St) and at 8:47 passes The Exhibit "Scenes of the World," (150 Cordova), whose "Pullman Flyer" would have shown films exactly like this. At 8:22, a block beforehand, the camera passes the site of Bud Schuberg's Electric Theatre (38 Cordova, immediately after P. Burns & Co). Opened in November 1902, Canada's first permanent storefront movie theatre.
the cameraman died on the Titanic. he was on commission to film the maiden voyage
What I love the most about the Vancouver footage is that nary a car is to be seen.
Pedestrians ruled the streets.
The way our cities should be.
Or no.
Sounds awful. Everyone stuck in a city unable to freely leave as they choose. Can only go where train or boat takes them. How restrictive. That is not how a city should be.
wish I could back and see for my self
I wouldn't want to go back to those days.......
Maybe in your dreams :3
peoples attitudes maybe be unkindly if you ain't like them
back in those days
Going up that hill on Robson street towards the end at 9:50 trips me out i am on it all the time the hill is still the same this is is the busiest shopping street in the city today
My birthplace at St. Paul's Hospital in 56,my Aunt " Ruthy The Riviter" delivered me. My GGGrandfather Captain James Douglas Warren, Steamship the SSBEAVER sunk at Prospect Point in 1888. He came from P.E.I. in 1858,opened up the Trade Routes around Vancouver Island to the Haida Gwaii.
At 1:10, the conductor runs out to throw the switch in the street just before the tram rolls over it.
Im from Toronto .I wish i could somday I can see Toronto jn a past day like on this clip
the really cool thing is queit a few of those beautiful old houses are still standing last time I was in Vancouver happy to see people are restoring them. And those trees planted along the boulevards they are now over 100 years old and are magnificent, whoever had the for site to put them there.
1907. The most memorable year in Vancouver when open draw for the Shaughnessy Heights lots right at the building in the centre at 6:06.
This fascinating video is very intriguing. I love it😊😊😊😊😊
This is great material - thank you. Interesting that the trolleys operated with left-hand right-of-way when the country was actually driving on the right.
All British Columbians drove on the opposite side until after World War I. Made things interesting at the border
Wonderful footage!
what is it about these old scenes from the past that make me tear up? I obviously wasn't around back then but I still feel a strange nostalgia for a time and place as distant from my own experience as the other side of the galaxy.
I did not know there were moving pictures in 1907 !! I thought that began in Hollywood in about the 1930s !! Thank you for posting this. Looks like the streets are still dirt...
They actually officially started in December 1895 when Lumiere Brothers released a collection of short films to the public. Edison & others had other formats, though not using film on a screen as standard.
I heard the first 'good' moving picture was a silent movie around the mid 20's.
Knowlton's Drug Store was established in 1897 by Edmund S. Knowlton. He was Managing Director until 1944, when he was replaced by Bruce B. Knowlton. By 1948, the company had opened another drugstore in West Vancouver. In 1965 the store became known as Knowlans Drugs, but its original name was restored in 1970.
ref: www.memorybc.ca/knowltons-drug-store-fonds
Wow, 113 years ago, It's amazing 😊
No cellphones around, just people living the moment !
6:00 -> 6:10 - Approaching Hastings and Granville intersection. You can see the Sinclair Centre building coming up on the left and the Birks clock on the right, which was installed in 1907. The Birks Building is not yet built but appears to be under construction. It was originally built as the CIBC western headquarters which opened in 1908. www.hastingswest.com/birks-jewellers describes the history of the Birks building and the clock. Google street view: goo.gl/maps/6nkRSUwj8KD2
GREAT VIDEO I LIVED IN CANADA FOR YEARS
Wonderful City. I Like this era 👍
It’s weird to think that half of these people were walking to tell someone something lol rather than sending a text.
Vancouver footage begins at 5:14 (for those who may be wondering)
I look at these long gone folks, dressed to impress at 11:50 a.m., traveling to their destinations, or running simple errands and think... what the hell would they say if they came back today and people watched at a local WalMart? They'd probably stroke out.
Forget that ! What about TV, Cell phones and the Net ! Micro chips ! Incolor movies with sound , Jet Planes, washing machines, ATMs and frozen-microwave meals !!!!!!! THE MOON LANDING ! ! !
Jeff Smith You mean if the 1907 people could have time traveled to a 2019 Walmart? That would be interesting indeed. They would probably think we've progressed and regressed at the same time 😂
now for a update, please show the exact same routes filmed in 1907 now as is in 2019
This 2018 video th-cam.com/video/-tecDDDtOAg/w-d-xo.html same route of it from 5:58 , but heading south on Granville then turning left on Hastings heading east. Here's a side by side 1907 and 2007 th-cam.com/video/tsHMJma13bU/w-d-xo.html
In the YT description for this video, it says the footage for Vancouver includes "Canbie Street" which I think is a typo, and intends Cambie Street--but maps I have from 1907, 908, 1909 don't show a street car line on existing on Cambie. I presume the "Cambie" footage is the short snippet at 8:56 (with Herman House Co. Real Estate)... but I don't think that's Cambie... I read somewhere that Herman House was on Granville... anyone know what part the footage at 8:56 is?
Love it 💖👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing
No sound 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Trams, wagons and bikes are on the left, English style. Now all traffic is on the right. When did that change?
Just found out, 1921.
Government street to harbor look small today...
Wish they could caption the streets
Victoria first. I've walked down this street (Government Street). Empress Hotel under construction at 2:05
The original CPR building was sooo much cooler. Just like HV2 is so much cooler than HV3. Its sickening to think how much amazing architecture and history has been destroyed in Vancouver
At 5:58 the clock is still at the corner of Granville and Hastings. This 2018 video th-cam.com/video/-tecDDDtOAg/w-d-xo.html same route, but heading south on Granville turning left on Hastings heading east. A side by side of 1907 and 2007 th-cam.com/video/tsHMJma13bU/w-d-xo.html
Hi who owns the rights for this please? May I take a screen shot of just a view of Vancouver and use it please?
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Left hand driving in Vancouver? When did that end?
On July 15, 1920 legislation made it mandatory to drive on the right in most of the mainland of BC, including the Okanagan and in 1921 this act was applied to Vancouver Island and the BC Electric Right of Way in the Lower Mainland.
I think it officially ended in 1922.
I was waiting for someone to notice this ! You did. This video is on another account, where I asked : 'what is different about this video compared to other old video's of other North American cities'. No one noticed, until I pointed it out.
Some one had to clean up after the horses😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Guess someone earned a living from it.
Was that Westinghouse, and the Province Newspaper at 7:06 and 7:12?
Dan Smith Correct. For many years The Province newspaper did its publishing/printing in premises located at or near Cambie St. and Hastings St. The film at 7:05 was shot just as the street car crossed that intersection.
is the Poodle Dog Cafe still there?
A quick online search suggests that the Poodle Dog moved from its location at Yates and Broad to the 700 block of Yates in 1948 where it remained until the 1970s. If you would like us to look into this further, please fill out our Ask us a Question form: ow.ly/mZB6309r1F1
Rayos si ke era hermosa Canadá
Elf & safety wasn't a problem.
Bella i hermosa Canadá
Hardly any cars. Plenty of horse droppings on the street, though. Watch where you step, eh?
were 6:12 view of???
I think that was the original Waterfront Station...? As in the above description the old CPR Station.
although this film is from 109 years ago it reminds me of how time speeds up and slows down when I'm around Tiffany 6'2 the one I hope to marry one day god willing
Крутые
MUSIC !!!!
our time wll be like this 100 years. from now .when a nwe generation. will be watching. us in Manhattan. so look out
@7:55, Knowlton Drugs & SEEDS ! Definitely VANCOUVER ! LOL!
Didn't the Victorian era end in 1901???
Victoria as in the city, not the Victorian era.
mansion on 5:12sec is gone to
Janitors were not needed at that time because women were cleaning the streets with their long dresses
It seems that everyone wears black. .....
Te powozy z konikami nie pasuja do tego mostu i do budowli...dwie rozne epoki.....czyzby po resecie?
???? Read some history instead of listening to charlatans like Jon Levi. Transportation tech has almost _nothing_ to do with construction machinery. Does looking a modern SUV give you any idea how a skyscraper is built?
PLEASE stop listening to the conspiracy nutters.
Опять везде грязь, деревянные постройки и отсутсвие строительной техники для таких высоких домов.
Don't be ridiculous. When most builders finish a project, they CLEAN UP afterwards. Is there still an excavator and bulldozer in front of your house??