What happens
The Pacific Story presents a documentary-style tour of western Canada as the nation looks to the Pacific after the Second World War. Narrated by Gaim Whitman, the episode follows a travelling guide through Vancouver, Edmonton, Yellowknife and the Mackenzie River country, and on to Great Bear Lake and Prince Rupert. Along the way, local residents and officials describe how wartime roads, airfields, ports, shipyards and mines transformed the region. The program was broadcast by NBC and its affiliated stations, and the air date given is October 13, 1946. Its emphasis is on the growth of industry, shipping, aviation and natural resources.
Western Canada, including Vancouver, Edmonton, Yellowknife, the Mackenzie River, Great Bear Lake and Prince Rupert, in the years after the Second World War
Characters: Gaim Whitman, Jay Delart
Listen for: Descriptions of how wartime construction and shipping shaped the economy of western Canada, and the figures for Vancouver's production and the number of flights from Edmonton
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.