Caption
Vancouver's skyline at night. Harbor, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, now moves an annual 5,000,000 tons of grain, 1,750,000 tons of sand and gravel, nearly a million tons of pulpwood, three-quarters of a million tons each of petroleum and coal and hundreds of thousands of tons of potash, sulpher and flour.
Release Date
October 20, 1964
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lunney, GarCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Deep-sea ships in drydock. Vancouver harbor carries out as much merchant-ship repair work as all other North American west coast shipyards combined. Port has more than two miles of berthing and 22,000,000-bushel grain storage.
Date
September 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-6644
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Misty mountains are background to giant dockside cranes in Vancouver harbor.
Date
September 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-6637
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Log handler, above, wears spiked boots to tread some of the million tons of large logs shipped through port annually.
Date
September 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-6604
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Visiting freighter in Vancouver drydock. Harbor has 21 deep-sea berths and a 39-foot-deep approach channel.
Date
September 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-6724
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Photostory #375B: Western Gateway to Markets of the World
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
October 20, 1964
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Vancouver's skyline at night. Harbor, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, now moves an annual 5,000,000 tons of grain, 1,750,000 tons of sand and gravel, nearly a million tons of pulpwood, three-quarters of a million tons each of petroleum and coal and hundreds of thousands of tons of potash, sulpher and flour.
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