Canadian Scottish Regiment: Macauley Point Machine Gun Competition; Opening of Parliament [Film]

Scenes showing soldiers from the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) including: a group of men participating in athletic competitions; men and children enjoying swimming, canoeing, and fishing at Prospect Lake; a machine gun competition of 11th.M.G. & "D" co. Canadian Scottish on May 24th, 1936 where soldiers assemble and use machine guns at Macauley Point; the 1st Battalion Canadian Scots Guard of Honour at the opening of Parliamnet on October 27th, 1936 with the pipe band performing in a parade through the streets of downtown Victoria; a family inside a home smoking cigarettes and reading; dozens of salmon spawning in a shallow river and swimming upstream; a man burning something in his front yard; a Japanese bridge in a garden; a parked car outside a house.

In Collection:

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection

Creator

• Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)

Subject

• Armed Forces--Machine gun drill and tactics
• Soldiers--Recreation
• Canada. Canadian Army
• Honor guards
• Soldiers--Social conditions
• Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes
• Athletics
• Machine guns
• Soldiers
• Salmon--Spawning
• Families of military personnel
• Pipe bands
• Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
• Military uniforms
• World War (1939-1945)
• Parliament Buildings (Victoria, B.C.)
• Military parades

Identifier

• British Columbia Archives identifier: F1989:08/001

Date created

• 1936

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 00:15:41

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Esquimalt--Macaulay Point
• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Saanich--Prospect Lake

Coordinates

• 48.41654, -123.40996
• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.51667, -123.43333

Has format

• Digitized from: 1 film reel (ca. 200 ft) : b&w, silent with inter-titles : 8 mm

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection

Provenance

• Transferred to UVic Special Collections from BC Archives, March 2006.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white films (visual works)
• silent films
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• intertitles

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2006-015 - Films; Item: 1.1

Fonds title

• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC021

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/canadian-scottish-regiment-princess-marys-fonds

Technical note

• Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/ft2p-fc26