Here's a sweet "British Columbia Minute", a Parks Canada commercial (sans WiFi but promoting wheelchair accessibility), commercials for YMCA Vancouver Summer Camps and the Arthritis Society and some other archival goodness from 1986!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwYpPZ8I60
This is one of many gems that V.I.A. reader Rob Richardson has dug up from his collection. The source is a vast collection of VHS tapes that he recorded himself or has managed to collect from thrift stores, flea markets, storage lockers, yard sales, contacts with people in other parts of Canada and the U.S., and anywhere he can manage. He's driven over to Vancouver Island and as far down as Olympia, Washington to rescue analogue goodness before they've wound up in the scrapper and we're happy to bring you a Vancouver-centric clip each week.
Here are a number of others we've shared:
- Blackcomb Mountain launches - 1982
- The Captain, Aye Aye and Good Buy - 1994
- Royal City Antiques - 1985
- BC Place monster truck rally - 1985
