1958 A big road trip! Vernon, Kamloops, Chilliwack, Sumas, Calgary, Blairmore, Ellensburg and more

1958 A big road trip! Vernon, Kamloops, Chilliwack, Sumas, Calgary, Blairmore, Ellensburg and more. BC, Alberta, Washington State.

Parts of this 1958 Kodachrome reel make look familiar, I've re-transferred and remastered the half hour 16mm reel to include all the sights this intrepid driver cameraman captured on this BC, Alberta, Washington State road trip. Vernon, Kamloops, the Hope-Princeton highway, Chilliwack, Sumas border crossing, Calgary, Frank Slide, Blairmore, and Ellensburg Washington State. Many of the shops, motels and businesses along this 2000+ kilometre route have long since faded away but the memories haven't. Highways have been improved, widened and even renamed. The big Detroit cars with fins and chrome are now collector items themselves, replaced by modern more efficient vehicles. This was an ambitious road trip four years before completion of the Rogers Pass in 1962.

The reel sourced in Los Angeles in 2015, was marked simply and mysteriously "Canada". Who captured this will likely never be known, but we can thank him for his ingenuity and tenacity in capturing this wonderful footage.

28 min 51 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan

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80+ hours original programming. Reel Life, PTOCS & CanadaMotorSports

Launched in 2010, Canadamotorsports has specialized in auto racing videos, all original footage primarily in Western Canada with the occasional interesting foray elsewhere. Reel Life now features vintage film footage and contemporary video of all varieties including motorsports, 30+ countries, historical events and more. 16mm amateur film footage from 1923 to 1983.

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