[Vancouver and Victoria Street and Harbour Scenes 1907]

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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