Views of the river Columbia and surrounding mountains. Woody Guthrie singing the song Roll on Columbia. An outlined map of United States with closer views of the states of Washington and Oregon. A barge can be seen on the Columbia river. Different views of the river flowing. Areas of rapids and waterfalls on the Columbia River with salmon spawning and migrating upstream. A bear catching a salmon fish. A man seen fishing from a rock with a long net. Fishing men on wooden improvised platforms fish for salmon in the river.
Canadian engineers tackle hydro electric project in British Columbia, Canada. The Peace River in British Columbia. The river is diverted from its bed. It flows around project site. Portage mountain dam on the Peace River. Giant earth movers work on highly mechanized operation on Rocky mountains. Canadian engineers tackle the operation. Conveyor belt brings materials to the construction site. Workers discover dinosaur tracks at construction site. They measure their tracks. Engineers construct a hydro electric project.
Students outside a one room school house in Old Dobbin, Columbia, Maryland on a snowy day. A small open-bed truck pulls up and school children climb into the back. Children keep trying to climb in even as the truck pulls away. Some children throw snow balls in a snow ball fight. A horse-drawn sleigh pulls up to the school to carry more children after the school day is over. Students run and board the sleigh. Children play in the school yard. Some sled while others climb a tree and jump-off the branches as the branches bend down toward the ground.
A Canadian railway train passes through the newly laid rail routes in the Peace River area in Northwestern Canada. It is a new 300 mile route from northern Vancouver Canada to northern British Columbia. Railroad train crosses a high altitude bridge.Several gorges and canyons in the background.
Fire fighting methods being displayed in Columbia, Missouri. Young college girls drive in a car. They man a hose and pull it across a road. They spray water on a building in a mock fire fighting exercise. The girls carry a ladder and one of them climbs onto it and pulls out a victim of fire.
Well-wishers stand on a pier at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) in British Columbia, to bid farewell to Canadian sailors preparing to leave on destroyers heading to the West Indies on a training tour. One sailor kisses his baby held in her mother's arms. Brief glimpse of crew members aboard a destroyer. The Royal Canadian Navy White Ensign, displayed on a destroyer. Sailors attending to their respective duties as a destroyer prepares to leave the dock. The destroyer, HMCS "Restigouche" displaying "HOO" on its hull, backing away from the dock, past another destroyer, still tied up. View of officers on the bridge and sailors lined up on deck as the ship continues backing into the harbor. View from land, as both destroyers head out to sea, past the Bickford Tower, at the entrance to the Esquimalt harbor. The destroyers underway into the setting sun