Victoria Scenes - 1932 home movie
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 Published On May 4, 2018

The film clip starts and ends with footage of the Inner Harbour and then focuses on Beacon Hill Park.

The Chinese Bell was originally the temple bell of the White Rose Buddhist Convent of the district of Foo Ning, China, it was looted by British troops during the Boxer Rebellion. Lt WB Macdonald of the HMS Pique presented the bell to the City of Victoria in 1903. The bell now sits in the Victoria Art Gallery

The people filming this leave Victoria for Vancouver of the CPR Princess Kathleen

The plane at the start of the film clip is a Boeing C-204 Thunderbird, registration CF-ALA

This film clip comes from this original source:
https://archive.org/details/0458_HM_L...

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