Today's jaunt into the past takes us fishing in Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver in 1963.
Vernon historian and videographer Francois Arseneault has converted black and white footage of the TV show Tides & Trails to a 4K digital format.
“Tides & Trails aired on television across western Canada from 1963 to about 1970. These half-hour long programs were produced at CHAN-TV (now Global) in Vancouver,” Arseneault said.
In the mid 1980s, CHAN-TV was purging their library of 16mm film to make way for video tape. Film had become obsolete and space was limited.
About four years ago, the Dennet family gifted Arseneault the collection of surviving Tide & Trails episodes, some 80 reels along with just a few scattered pages of notes.
“It's unknown exactly how many episodes were produced, however, I recently sourced a missing reel in Indiana and am looking for any more surviving reels,” Arseneault said.
Though being just a weekly fishing, hunting conservation show typical of the era, it captured lifestyle, urban and rural environments and much more.
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