I was looking for a digital copy of a CPR film called "Canada's East Coast Playground" because it has scenes at Yarmouth, Digby and Kentville of attractions and stations, although no trains. While I haven't yet found a copy, I did find a list of CP issued films.
Check out "Down by the Sea" from 1940. I'm not sure who was traveling in war time, but there is interesting NS and NB content. Again, no trains other than the Halifax street car. There is a nice sequence of Princess Helene.
http://screenculture.org/cesif/sponsors ... ic-railway
CPR films
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Re: CPR films
Neat stuff. The colour quality is pretty good.
I notice that "Down By the Sea" also has a brief shot of the wharf at Kingsport with the DAR freight shed and the schooner F.B.G. in the foreground right at the beginning at the :30 second mark and a nice shot of the Cornwallis Inn at the 4:10 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WhaA2r2F8
I think there was a surge of US tourism to Canada in 1939 and 1940 as Americans weren't in the war yet but couldn't visit wartime Europe.
The DAR shows up in some of the Nova Scotia Information Bureau films at the Nova Scotia Archives.
There is a very short shot of a DAR express rounding the Bear River curve at 06:40 and shots of Princess Helene at 7:00 in the 1956 tourism promo film "Identity": https://novascotia.ca/archives/nsfilm/f ... ge=English
According to their online film database, the NS Archives also has bunch of films promoting the apple industry in the 1940s and 50s that probably have DAR shots, but they haven't been digitized yet. Must get in to see them sometime, films like these:
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: Marketing and transportation of apples and the care and nurturing of apple crops.
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 261 Supplemental information no.: mf115-275
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: Shots of the harvesting, processing, storage and shipping of apples.
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 260 Supplemental information no.: mf115-274
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: The three stages of an apple harvest are depicted: picking; transportation and storage; and processing in the factory
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 258 Supplemental information no.: mf115-272
Dan Conlin
I notice that "Down By the Sea" also has a brief shot of the wharf at Kingsport with the DAR freight shed and the schooner F.B.G. in the foreground right at the beginning at the :30 second mark and a nice shot of the Cornwallis Inn at the 4:10 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WhaA2r2F8
I think there was a surge of US tourism to Canada in 1939 and 1940 as Americans weren't in the war yet but couldn't visit wartime Europe.
The DAR shows up in some of the Nova Scotia Information Bureau films at the Nova Scotia Archives.
There is a very short shot of a DAR express rounding the Bear River curve at 06:40 and shots of Princess Helene at 7:00 in the 1956 tourism promo film "Identity": https://novascotia.ca/archives/nsfilm/f ... ge=English
According to their online film database, the NS Archives also has bunch of films promoting the apple industry in the 1940s and 50s that probably have DAR shots, but they haven't been digitized yet. Must get in to see them sometime, films like these:
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: Marketing and transportation of apples and the care and nurturing of apple crops.
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 261 Supplemental information no.: mf115-275
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: Shots of the harvesting, processing, storage and shipping of apples.
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 260 Supplemental information no.: mf115-274
Apples
Format: 1 film reel
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services
Note: The three stages of an apple harvest are depicted: picking; transportation and storage; and processing in the factory
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fc 258 Supplemental information no.: mf115-272
Dan Conlin