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Underwater Photography of Salmon series
(Acc. No. 2000-079)

Derek Ellis fonds : Underwater Photography of Salmon series. — 1946-1970.

1.2 m of textual records.

From 1959 to 1963 Dr. Derek Ellis conducted the first underwater observations by SCUBA diving on salmon activities. He dived in fishways, under waterfalls, in rapids, canyons, and in smooth water - both alongshore and in open water - to document how the activities of the salmon were adapted to the various river and lake habitats in which they found themselves during their life cycle. His observations spanned the age range of salmon from fry, through smolts to adults. At that time the emphasis on underwater photography was in the sea. Dr. Ellis used early SCUBA gear, and was introduced to diving by brothers Alex and Laurie McCracken, of Nanaimo, two of the first professional SCUBA divers on the west coast of Canada. He was employed by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 1957-1963, who purchased his equipment and paid for his dive training at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, January 1959.

Dr. EIlis was the first Canadian biologist to use SCUBA techniques for ecological and behavioural studies of aquatic organisms, and after developing the observation and photographic techniques extended his salmon research in rivers and lakes to marine invertebrates of the BC coast. His research on the technical developments and his biological results were published in international scientific journals and government reports. His results essentially were that salmon follow environmentally defined pathways through river and lake habitats, hence their migrations through difficult river sections can be expedited by appropriate fishway design. Ellis's underwater photographs were taken by Rolleimarin Camera, with flash when needed. His 16 mm movies were taken by several different rented cameras. Dr. Ellis's work reflects the state of the art in underwater research and photography at the time. Some of his photographs were exhibited in the International Underwater Film Festivals during those years. Also, some of the cine footage was used by the National Film Board in their salmon documentaries.

The Underwater Photography of Salmon series consists of project administration; reports and manuscripts; photographic logs; contact prints; photographs; project slides; negatives; moving images; maps and oversized prints.

The photographic images show the early development of underwater tecniques for research on the ecology and behaviour of aquatic orgamisms. The documents in the fonds (1957-1963) show the professional development of a young scientist (aged 27-33 years) in his first employment following completion of training to Ph.D. level.

The moving images are cine-film mostly taken 1959-1963, and are a mixture of underwater sequences of adult and juvenile salmon, plus above-surface shots of the same activities or the research locations. The above-surface sequences of adult salmon migrating upriver were taken for determination of salmon swimming speeds, and documentation of migratory behaviour particularly quantification of numbers taking various routes over the river bed. Most of the footage is from the Stamp and Sproat Rivers in the Alberni Valley, but one underwater sequence is of the Adams River sockeye salmon run in 1962 (I178, Film 41-F). There is one underwater marine sequence: of Dr. J.Strickland a chemical oceanographer, after whom the University's research vessel is named (Film H66, 34-F and 35-F). Some of the footage was taken in 1970 when Professor Ellis returned to the Robertson Creek fishway to undertake further research on salmon leaping behaviour at falling water.

Also included are copies of the salmon spawning movies taken by Dr. K.Groot of the Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, (Films 51-F and 52 F), and given to Dr. Ellis for his teaching purposes. A series of 5 100 ft rolls of film and a video of the 500 ft of film are of marine sampling at the University of Victoria in about 1970. Professors Ellis and McInerney are shown, and also graduate student R. Dunnill.

Each box or can is labeled with the accession number (2000-079), the film number for the archives (xx-F), the box number (Photography boxes 3 or 4), has a reference to the photographic logs (F, G, H, I and J film series), and where relevant a reference to the descriptive notes of edited film (the Z notes). Z numbers are also on the cans of edited films, combined footage or work copies. The notes on Z numbers go only to Z38, but there are some numbered Z100 and above.

The film data is taken from the photographic logs and the can labels. The data has not been checked against the contents of each box. Most of the movies have probably been shot at 24 fps, although data analysis movies may have been individual exposures

Films are labeled as originals or copies. Copies may be screened for viewing, but originals need copying before viewing.

Inventory available.
Acc. No. 2000-079.

1. Project Administration, 1957-60

Box 1

1.1  Planning and Administrative Reports 1957-1960
  • November, 1957. Research Program. First Draft, not Submitted. 3 pp.
  • December 8, 1957. Suggestions for the Ecological Research Programme; and Apparatus Required for 1958. Draft. 4 pp.
  • January, 1958. Experimental Biology - Program Statements. 4 pp.
  • March 6, 1958. Ecological Program. 8 pp.
  • March 11, 1958. Proposed Program for 1958. 2 pp.
  • May 6, 1958. Lepeophtheirus salmonis KRI. Translation from Danish for Leo Margolis. 4 pp.
  • August 18, 1958. Experimental Ecology, June 20 - August 29. 2 pp.
  • August 27, 1958. Experimental Ecology, Fall Program 1958. 1 p.
  • November 18, 1958. Tagging as an Aid to Ecological and Behaviour Studies on Migrating Salmon. 4 pp.
  • November 27, 1958. Program for 1959. 4 pp.
  • 1958. Summary of 1958 Research. 12 pp.
  • October 21, 1959. Ecological Program Since 1957. 4 pp.
  • October, 1959. Summary of Ecological Program for 1959. 2 pp.
  • February, 1960. Experimental Biology Photographic Requirements. 4 pp.
  • March 22, 1960. Program Reviewing Committee. Review of Canadian Research for Conservation of Migrating Salmonids: Resume of Eighth Meeting.
  • March, 1960. Ecological Investigation's Salmon Requirements in Great Central Lake Area 1960. 1 p.
  • April, 1960. Interim Report at end of 1959-1960 Winter Program. 2 pp.
  • May, 1960. Ecological Studies. 2 pp.
1.2  Planning and Administrative Reports 1960-1963
  • October, 1960. Willis, Cunliffe, & Tait Engineering Limited. Report on Underwater Observation Wells.
  • For Pacific Biological Station. 6 pp.
  • December 14, 1960. Expanded Program on Physiology and Behaviour of Salmon: Objectives, Progress and Outlook. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC 2 pp.
  • 1960. Comments of Referee on Paper: Herring Movements in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, 1957 and 1958, by R.A. McKenzie and S.N. Tibbo. 1 p.
  • January 6, 1961. Movements of Salmon Over Short Distances. Seminar to Biological Station.
  • January 26, 1961. Summary of 1961 Robertson Creek and Stamp-Somass River Development and Research Program. 2 pp.
  • March 1, 1961. Ecological Investigation, and Memo Re: 1960-61 Multilithed Annual Report of this Station. 6 pp.
  • 1961. Comments of Referee on Paper: Aggressive Behaviour in Coho Salmon, by D.W. Chapman. 3 pp.
  • 1961. Comments of Referee on Paper: Skin-Diving Observations of Atlantic Salmon and Brook Trout in the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, by M.H.A. Keenleyside. 1 p.
  • January 29, 1962. Experimental Biology Investigation - Ecology Section: Possible Future Projects. 2 pp.
  • March 9, 1962. A Program for Underwater Biological Investigations, and Correspondences to R. Brett. 4 pp.
  • April 30, 1962. Progress of Canadian High-Seas Tagging Program, 1962 (1).
  • May 25, 1962. Report on Ecology Program March - May, 1962. Includes memo to R. Scott.
  • 1962. Comments of Referee on Paper: Comparative Ecology of Two Sympatric Species of Dace (Rhinichthys) in the Fraser River System, British Columbia, by J.H. Gee and T.G. Northcote. 1 p.
  • 1962. Comments of Referee on Paper: Interrelationships Among Physical Characteristics of a Stream and Associated Distribution of Young Atlantic Salmon, by P.F. Elson. 2 pp.
  • February 6, 1963. Report on Visit to Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, for the Purpose of Delivering a Lecture on the Interrelationships Between Marine Benthos, Oceanography and Ethology. 3 pp.
  • April 17, 1963. Reports in Preparation - to be Completed Before Leaving Staff in June. 1 p.
  • No date. Relation of current speed and nature of river bed. 1 p.
  • No date. Cartoons of salmon leaping. 2 pp.
1.3  Correspondence
  • March 13, 1957 - March 28, 1963: Letters to co-workers, friends, acquaintances; and other related documents.
1.4
Bibliography of writings by D.Ellis on salmon

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2. Reports and Manuscripts, 1958-63

1.5
Report on the 1st International Underwater Film Festival 1961. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Conference Report # 113
1.6
A Comparative Survey of the Migratory Behaviour of Adult Salmon in Fish-Control Devices. (Report submitted June 1963 to the Fisheries Research Board of Canada on termination of employment, but not distributed. The file includes correspondence with referees, first draft and originals of illustrations.)
1.7
A survey of the Behaviour of Salmon on Spawning Migration through a Large River System. Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Ms. Rept. Series (Biological) No. 876 October 1966. (This is a report on the Adams River sockeye run of 1962 up the Fraser and Thompson Rivers, but I was not allowed to include these rivers in the title for bureaucratic reasons. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission did any research on those rivers. I was very lucky to get unofficial and personal approval from the then Chief of IPSFC to actually do the work. I was to be inconspicuous while making the observations).
1.8
Experiments on the Effects of Captivity on Salmon Behaviour. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ms. Rept. Series (Biological) No. 756. 1963 (These were the initial attempts to apply the concept of migratory restlessness, "zugunruhe", to experiments on fish migratory behaviour comparable to those then in progress on birds. I left Fisheries employment before taking this far enough to be useful)
1.9
Contributions by D.Ellis to the Annual Reports of the Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC 1958-1963.
1.10
The River: What is it to a Salmon? An essay written in 1968 by D.Ellis in the format of an article for an Anglers' Magazine, but not published. 5 pp.
1.11
The Identification of Free-Swimming Salmon and Trout. (This is the manuscript for a Peterson-style Field Guide, submitted for publication as a Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada in 1965, following a 1963 1st draft. Early and later draft illustrations are included, with some editorial correspondence. A version was eventually published as Appendix A in "Ellis, D.V. 1977. Pacific Salmon: Management for people. University of Victoria, Western Geographic Series # 13.")
1.12
Wildlife Photography Underwater. (Copy dated 1962. It was eventually published by Skin Diver Magazine.Includes some of the original photographic prints, and b&w negatives. Manuscript and Photos.)
1.13
The Hell's Gate Disaster as an Example of Environmental Impact, Assessment and Control. (Text of presentation at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists 1987. Subsequently rewritten as Chapter 2 in Ellis DV 1989 Environments at Risk, Springer-Verlag.
1.14
Originals of diagrams from project reports and manuscripts

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3. Photographic Logs, 1958-63

These logs record details of films taken, such as locations, type of film, camera, processing, and exposures. The log sheets are arranged in date order. They provide documentation for the prints, slides, negatives and moving images in Parts 4-9

1.15
1958 and 1959 Photographic Logs. 1958 Kodachrome E1-4, Tri-X E1-4, Plus-X E1-6. 1959 F1-F117
1.16
1960 Photographic Logs G1-G72.
1.17
1960 Photographic Logs G73-G150.
1.18
1961 Photographic Logs H1-H80
1.19
1962 Photographic Logs I1-I100
1.20
1962 Photographic Logs I101-I215
1.21
1963 Photographic Logs J1-J15

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4. Contact Prints, 1958-63

These contact prints are an almost complete record of the black and white, and colour print, still films from the project. Only some have been enlarged for reports and displays. Note that some of the images have been reversed on the contact prints. Personal photographs recorded in the logs have been removed.

1.22
1958 and 1959 Contact Prints 1958 Plus-X E3-E6, 1959 F1-F42.
1.23
1959 Contact Prints F44-F117.
1.24
1960 Contact Prints G2-G67.
1.25
1960 Contact Prints G68-G104.
1.26
1960 Contact Prints G105-148.
1.27
1961 Contact Prints H3-H78b.
1.28
1962 Contact Prints I1-I66.
1.29
1962 Contact Prints I67-I139.
1.30
1962 Contact Prints I140-I207.
1.31
1963 Contact Prints J1-J14.

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5. Photographs, 1958-63

These prints provide a record from the underwater photography project of the various species of salmon, their life stages and habitat; also a record of the photographic and darkroom procedures adopted. Most prints are referenceable to the photographic logs in part 3, and the contact prints in Part 4.

The prints are arranged by sub-projects: adult salmon in river habitats, adult salmon in fishways, juvenile salmon and trout, above-surface views of habitats, the Field Guide project, the Fraser River project, the Vancouver Island creek project, marine photographs, divers, and river fish other than salmonids.

Most adult salmon were photographed in the Sproat River, and juveniles in the small lake in the Stamp river called Stamp Lagoon into which Robertson Creek flows. The Field Guide project includes some photographs by C. Groot from a laboratory tank

Some of the prints have been used in the reports and manuscripts filed in Part 2, and also in the unpublished book manscript by D.Ellis titled "Salmon in Rivers" (see the Limited Distribution Documents, Acc. No. 1996-006, Box 25, Section 5.2.6

There are 354 prints in total, mostly from underwater.

Box 2

2.1
Pools in the Sproat and Stamp Rivers, 27 prints.
2.2
Sproat River Pool - adult spring salmon, 2 prints.
2.3
Sproat river - adult sockeye and coho salmon entering the pool above Sproat River Rapids, 4 prints.
2.4
Sproat River - habitats, 4 Prints.
2.5
Sproat and Stamp rivers - habitats from above surface and aerial, 26 Prints and 1 diagram.
2.6
Fishways - Robertson Creek brailing pool, sockeye and spring salmon, 9 prints.
2.7
Fishways - Robertson Creek fishway window, 15 prints, including some from a 1970 reppeat.
2.8
Fishways - Robertson Creek locations, 5 prints.
2.9
Fishways - Great Central Lake Dam, 4 prints
2.10
Fishways - Great Central Lake locations, 4 prints.
2.11
Juvenile salmon - various species, 22 prints.
2.12
Juvenile salmon - coho fry, 4 prints.
2.13
Juvenile salmon - pink fry, 3 prints.
2.14
Juvenile salmon - spring fry, 29 prints.
2.15
Juvenile salmon - sockeye fry and smolts, 4 prints.
2.16
Juvenile trout - 11 prints.
2.17
Juvenile salmon - coho yearling, 2 prints.
2.18
Stamp river - trout adults.
2.19
Stamp Lagoon habitat, 2 prints. See also 2.5.
2.20
Juvenile salmon - migrating (from above surface), 21 prints.
2.21
Paper Mill Dam - location shots (head of tidal water on the Somass river), 5 prints.
2.22
Field Guide project - pink salmon, 7 fry, 5 adult prints, print of photography tank with scientist R.Bams.
2.23
Field guide project - chum salmon, 7 fry prints, 2 adults.
2.24
Field Guide project - sockeye salmon prints, 1 fry, 3 smolt, 1 migrating adult, 4 spawning adult.
2.25
Field Guide project - coho salmon prints, 1 fry, 2 yearling, 1 smolt, 2 adult.
2.26
Field Guide project - spring salmon prints, 6 fry, 3 smolt, 2 adult.
2.27
Field Guide project - steelhead/rainbow trout, 3 fry, 3 yearling, 2 adult.
2.28
Field guide project - cutthroat trout, 3 fry, 1 yearling, 2 adult.
2.29
Fraser River project 1962 - Lower Fraser up to Alexandra Bridge, 10 prints.
2.30
Fraser river project 1962 - Fraser Canyon including Hell's Gate and the Fraser/Thompson junction, 11 prints.
2.31
Fraser River project 1962 - Thompson river, 24 prints.
2.32
Fraser River project 1962 - South Thompson river, 4 prints.
2.33
Vancouver Island East Coast Creeks project - 3 prints.
2.34
Marine photographs - 10 prints.
2.35
D.Ellis underwater on salmon project, photographer probably then student assistant P.Symons. 5 prints.
2.36
Freshwater fish - 3 prints

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6. Projection Slides: 35 mm and 2x2

Note that the term 2x2 slides actually refers to slides 2 1/4 squared

These slides are mostly colour with some black and white. There are 191 35 mm slides, and 148 2x2 slides. Note that the D.Ellis collection of colour slides from his Fraser River project 1962 has not been donated at the time of this entry, as he is still using the slides for workshops on the Adams river salmon run at the Sorrento Centre.

2.37
35 mm, sheets 1-3, adult salmon in the Somass, Sproat and Stamp Rivers, 3 x 20, 60 slides total
2.38
35 mm, sheets 4-7, juvenile salmon and trout, 4x2, 80 slides total
2.39
35 mm, sheets 8-9, salmon in fishways, 20+18, 38 slides total
2.40
35 mm, sheet 10, marine and fiver slides, 4 marine, 9 diver, 13 slides total
2.41
2x2 slides, metal box. 16 marine slides, 1 non-salmon river fish, 48 adult salmon in rivers, 15 adult salmon in fish-control devices, 68 juvenile salmon and trout, total 148 slides
2.42
35 mm high speed colour film in strips, not mounted.

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7. Negatives, 1958-63

This is an almost complete set of the underwater negatives, 1500 in total, both b&w and colour. They can be referenced to both the Photographic Logs Part 3, and the contact prints Part 4. H65 are the negatives of Dr. John Strickland inspecting the first of the underwater bag oceanographic experiments.

Box 3

3.1
1959. F series. 2 sheets F29 (the first uw film) 11 exposures. 20 envelopes with negatives mostly in individual holders, 10 negatives/envelope = 200 negatives
3.2
1960. G series. 35 sheets, 6 envelopes, 410 negatives
3.3
1961. H series. 13 sheets, ~ 130 negatives
3.4
1962. I series #1-99, 41 sheets ~ 410 negatives
3.5
1962. I series #102-207, 26 sheets ~ 260 negatives
3.6
1963. J series #1, #14, 2 sheets 24 negatives

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8. Moving Images, 1959-70

All the moving images are stored in boxes or cans. Each one is labeled with the accession number (2000-079), the film number for the archives (xx-F), the box number (Photography boxes 3 or 4), has a reference to the photographic logs (F, G, H, I and J film series), and where relevant a reference to the descriptive notes of edited film (the Z notes). Z numbers are also on the cans of edited films, combined footage or work copies. The notes on Z numbers go only to Z38, but there are some numbered Z100 and above. UW = Underwater, AS = Above Surface. ? = uncertain

3.7
Documents relevant to the collection of moving images
F series 1959
3.01-F
Films F48, F58, Can # Z32, 100 ft colour original, juvenile salmon, AS? or UW?
3.02-F
Film F67, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 14-F)
3.03-F
Film F74, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy is 13-F and 15-F)
3.04-F
Film F75, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 14-F)
3.05-F
Film F77, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 14-F)
3.06-F
Film F78, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 15-F)
3.07-F
Film F83, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 15-F)
3.08-F
Film F84, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 15-F)
3.09-F
Film F85, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 15-F)
3.10-F
Film F88, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 16-F)
3.11-F
Film F89, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 16-F)
3.12-F
Film F94, 100 ft b&w original, adult salmon, AS (Copy on 14-F)
3.13-F
Film F74, Can Z7, 100 ft b&w copy, adult salmon AS (Original is 03-F)
3.14-F
Films F67, F75, F77, F94, Can Z12, 400 ft b&w, copy, adult salmon AS (Originals are 02-F, 04-F, 05-F, 12-F respectively)
3.15-F
Films F74, F78, F83, F84, F85, Can Z14, 400 ft b&w, copy, adult salmon AS (Originals are 03-F, 06-F, 07-F, 08-F, 09-F respectively)
3.16-F
Films F88, F89, Can Z15, 400 ft b&w copy, adult salmon, AS (Originals are 10-F, and 11-F) G series 1960
3.17-F
Film G118, 100 ft b&w original (may be negative film), adult salmon, AS (Copy 18-F)
3.18-F
Film G118, Can Z20, 100 ft b&w copy, adult salmon AS (original 17-F)
3.19-F
Film G119, Can Z21, 100 ft colour original, adult salmon AS
3.20-F
Films F90, G123, G133, G143, Can Z13, 400 ft b&w? copy, adult salmon AS
3.21-F
Films G123, G133, I161, I168, I170, I171, Can Z9, 400 ft colour ? copy?, adult salmon AS and UW
3.22-F
Films G124, G128, G134, G136, G141, Can Z30, 400 ft b&w? copy, adult salmon UW? (Original 23-F)
3.23-F
Films G124, G128, G134, G136, G141, Can Z27, 400 ft colour original, adult salmon UW? (Copy 22-F) H series 1961
3.24-F
Film H42, 100 ft b&w negative original, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, above surface.
3.25-F
Film H42, 100 ft b&w copy, box Z24, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, AS.
3.26-F
Films H51-57, part 1. 400 ft can, b&w negative original, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, AS
3.27-F
Films H51-57, part 2. 400 ft can, b&w negative original, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank AS
3.28-F
Film H55. 100 ft box, b&w negative original, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, AS. (Copy 29F)
3.29-F
Film H55. 100 ft box Z22, b&w copy, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, AS.(original 28F)
3.30-F
Film H58. 100 ft box Z25, colour original, adult salmon in the Brett metabolism tank, AS.
3.31-F
Films H59, H62, H68, H67, H69, H70, H73, 400 ft can, colour original Coho fry UW (Copies 32F or 33F)
3.32-F
Films H59, H62, H68, 400 ft can Z34, b&w copy. Coho fry UW (Original 31F).
3.33-F
Films H67, H69, H70, H73, 400 ft can Z31, b&w copy, coho fry UW (Original 31F)
3.34-F
Film H66, 100 ft box, b&w negative, John Strickland inspecting oceanographic bag UW
3.35-F
Film H66, 100 ft box, b&w copy, John Strickland inspecting oceanographic bag UW

(See 71-F to 76-F for more in Box 3)

Box 4

I series 1962
4.36-F
Films I20, I39, I60. 400 ft can, colour originals, coho fry UW (I39AS?) (Copy 37F)
4.37-F
Films I20, I39, I60. 400 ft can Z33, colour copy, coho fry UW (I39AS?) (Original 36F)
4.38-F
Film I51, 100 ft box, colour original, pink fry UW, individual exposures for measuring orientation to current.
4.39-F
Films I79, I83, I86, I96. 400 ft can, colour original, coho and spring fry UW, some excellent sequences. (Copy 40F)
4.40-F
Films I79, I83, I86, I96. 400 ft can Z35, colour copy, coho and spring fry UW, (Original 39F)
4.41-F
Films I100, I104, I106, I108, I114, I121, I131, I161, I171, I178. 1000 ft can colour original, adult salmon UW. (Copy 42F) Some shots removed for edited film I178 are important sequences of salmon following behaviour along the river edge in the Fraser River.
4.42-F
Films I100, I106, I108, I114, I131, 400 ft can Z26. colour copy. Adult salmon UW (Original 41F). Best shots removed for edited film
4.43-F
Films I116, I119. 400 ft can, b&w negative original. Adult salmon time lapse AS and UW. (Copy 44F)
4.44-F
Films I116, I119. 400 ft can Z8, b&w copy. Adult salmon time lapse AS and UW. (Original 43F)
4.45-F
Films I122, I125, I127, I129, b&w negative original, 400 ft roll, adult salmon AS and UW (Copy 46F)
4.46-F
Films I125, I127, I129, b&w copy, 400 ft reel Z11, adult salmon UW (Originals 45F)
4.47-F
Films I143, I144, colour original, 400 ft can Z29, adult salmon in Brett flume
4.48-F
Films I168, I170, b&w negative, 200 feet roll, adult salmon AS or UW?
4.49-F
Films, I199, I191, I196, b&w negative original, 400 ft can, adult salmon in Bonell Creek AS (Copy 50F)
4.50-F
Films I199, I191, I196, b&w copy, 400 ft can Z17, adult salmon in Bonell Creek AS (Original 49F) Edited films (Z numbers), and others
4.51-F
Chum salmon spawning movie filmed by K.Groot, Nanaimo Biological Station, through window of spawning tank. Made available to D.Ellis for teaching purposes. Copies of parts made to cine-film (52F) and video (currently used by D.Ellis for salmon biology workshops at the Sorrento Centre, Shuswap Lake). 1000 ft reel
4.52-F
Copy of last 200 ft of 51F above, chum salmon spawning movie. Used for teaching purposes by D.Ellis 400 ft reel
4.53-F
Video reel of salmon leaping. Edited from something. No details available. Z112 but no notes found.
4.54-F
Sequences of UW colour film, no details, but labeled Z111. 400 ft reel
4.55-F
Underwater movie, Z88, 400 ft reel, apparently b&w edited copy of best adult salmon UW shots. In bad condition. Probably used for teaching or demonstration purposes.
4.56-F
Z103. Apparently b&w negative film sent to National film Board and returned. 400 ft roll. Should be UW shots.
4.57-F
Z104 Roll "A" of UW colour originals sent to NFB for their use. Films sent were returned spliced as A and B rolls.
4.58-F
Z105 Roll "B" of UW colour originals sent to NFB for their use. Films sent were returned spliced as A and B rolls
4.59-F
Z106 400 ft reel, colour? "Salmon Swim Underwater" Note 6 mins, My standard movie. Print
4.60-F
Z107 400 ft reel, "Migrating salmon. Lecture Movie, 41/2 minutes.colour? 24 fps, "jumps near end, needs rewinding". Print?
4.61-F
Z108 400 ft reel, "Fishway movie for analysis" Possibly Robertson Creek or Great Central Lake fishways. Not known if colour or b&w, and print or original.
4.2-F
Z109 400 ft reel, "Usable adult salmon footage" Not known if colour or b&w, and print or original.
4.63-F
Z110 400 ft reel "Adults in fishway" b&w "1st study, little action" probably original
4.64-F
Z3 100 ft reel "Supporting sequences for adult UW movie. Original colour" Paper notes say "UW colour scenery shotsm Alberni Valley and Somass River scenes"
4.65-F
Z4 100 ft reel Notes say "Underwater scenery shots". Box says "Important Sequence of Chute Study Swimming 80-85 ft" Also "Copy HS Kodak, UW shots, Not so hot" Colour?
4.66-F
Z5 100 ft reel UW scenery shots with some trout. HS Kodak. Colour? Original?
4.67-F
Z18 100 ft reel Adult salmon and steelhead at GCL, colour original? Needs rewinding UW?
4.68-F
Z100 100 ft reel, Sproat River scenery, colour print
4.69-F
Z101 100 ft reel, Robertson Creek 1970, probably through fishway window, colour, original?
4.70-F
Z102 100 reel, Dark sequences from underwater movie #2, should be adult salmon UW, colour, print.

(Placed in Box 3, as Box 4 full)

4.71-F to 4.75-F
100 ft reels. Marine sampling. Colour originals, showing Professors Ellis and McInerney and graduate student R. Dunnill. 71-73 Benthos sampling, 74 Plankton sampling, 75 water sampling and taking temperatures. Taken about 1970 at University of Victoria, vessel probably government research ship the Ehkoli.
4.76-F
VHS Video of films 4.71-F to 4.75-F

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9. Maps and Oversized Photos, 1946-63

MD 16.3.01.
Great Central British Columbia: Sheet 92 F/6. - First Edition. - 1:63 360. - 1946. - National Topographic Series. Includes Notations.
MD 16.3.02.
Horne Lake, British Columbia: Sheet 92 F/7. - First Edition. - 1:63 360. - 1946. - National Topographic Series. Includes Notations.
MD 16.3.03.
14" x 17" photographic enlargements, including those submitted to the 1st and 4th International Underwater Film Festivals.

Box 5 / Photos

5.1
File Mounted photographic enlargements displayed at the 1st International Underwater Photographic Exhibition 1961 : 4 photographs.
  1. Group of adult sockeye salmon.
  2. Rear view of adult sockeye salmon swimming under white water.
  3. Two recently emerged spring salmon fry among submerged streamside vegetation.
  4. Four older spring salmon fry cruising alongside submerged vegetation.
5.2
Mounted photographic enlargements displayed at the 4th International Underwater Photographic Exhibition 1964 : 4 photographs.
  1. An adult spring salmon cruising a river pool during upriver migration.
  2. Three adult sockeye salmon holding waiting position in a pool and weir fishway.
  3. Three rainbow trout holding feeding position upriver of a concrete weir.
  4. A group of coho fry holding feeding positions alongside submerged vegetation.
5.3
Mounted and unmounted photographic enlargements : 12 photogrpahs (3 mounted, 7 un-mounted).
  1. Adult male pink salmon viewed through the Robertson Creek fishway window.
  2. Group of adult coho salmon in the Robertson Creek brailing pool.
  3. Group of very recently emerged coho fry in shallow water prior to spreading out to feeding positions.
  4. Spawning group of the sea-slug Melibe leonina in Departure Bay near the Nanaimo Biological Station.
  5. Extreme enlargment of Melibe leonine.
  6. Larger group of Melibe leonine.
  7. Sunken log with marine growth of sea anemones, barnacles and a dog-whelk. The dog-whelk is one of the species used by Ellis as a bioindicator in his later research on marine tribultyltin pollution from boat paints, and recovery after regulations were brought in.
  8. Unidentified planktonic sea-slug in Departure Bay near the Nanaimo Biological Station. Mounted.
  9. Coho fry in nursery habitat of submerged streamside vegetation. Mounted.
  10. Adult coho salmon holding position at a resting point in the Sproat River. Mounted.
  11. The discharge point of the CRD's Macauley Point sewage outfall (Esquimalt) as seen from the Pisces 1 submersible.
  12. Derek Ellis underwater in 1959. Photograph probably taken by J. Smith, then student assistant, later a professor of Biology in Saskatchewan.

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