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“Ice?  Curling?  Watermelon?“

A light-hearted (if not downright surreal) look at Nelson’s Summer Curling Bonspiel, as featured in the travelogue Kootenay West (BC Government Travel Bureau, 1944-1945).  The clip concludes with an homage to Okanagan watermelon — a sequel, of sorts, to the sequence I featured in a recent blog post, “Different Melons”: Osoyoos, B.C. (ca. 1945).

Incidentally, all of these BC government travelogue clips are included in the DVD Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia (RBCM, 2008).

For an archival description of the Kootenay West film, see http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/kootenay-west

“Ice? Curling? Watermelon?” (Digital frame grab from the RBCM DVD Evergreen Playland)