Life in Vancouver in the 1940s Rare Color Film of Wartime Downtown and the Boat to Victoria

Vancouver, British Columbia, in the war years, in real Kodachrome color scanned from the original 16mm film. Not colorized, not AI. A family from the American side drives up to the Peace Arch, gets looked over by Canada Customs, and spends a day in a city working around the clock: Pender Street in Chinatown, where nobody could yet vote; the bus signed UBC and the campus at Point Grey; downtown with the shipyards across the inlet running three shifts; the Hudson's Bay store at Georgia and Granville dressed in flags; then the Canadian Pacific Princess boat across the strait to Victoria, the Parliament Buildings, and a shopping afternoon downtown among servicemen on leave. The narration is about how people lived: gasoline and sugar rationing, 270,000 bus riders a day, 14,000 on the shipyard payroll with women paid the same as men, and the Chinese Exclusion Act that was not repealed until 1947. 0:00 Vancouver, the war years 0:42 The Peace Arch 2:06 Canada Customs 2:44 Pender Street, Chinatown 3:55 The seawall and the campus 4:21 The bus to UBC 4:42 Downtown and the shipyards 5:24 The Hudson's Bay and Cunningham Drugs 5:54 The boat to Victoria 7:29 The Parliament Buildings 7:37 Downtown Victoria 8:39 Home across the strait #Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #1940s #WWII #Chinatown #Victoria #archivalfootage #historyincolor #Kodachrome #realcolorfilm #notAI