Colleen Hardwick recommends this vintage footage – with some remarkable shots of Main Street to Hastings, just at the time the streetcars were being replaced by trolley and diesel buses.
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This just in from Yuri Artibise: a short subject by Paramount Pictures from 1941 – “Unusual Occupations,” a travelling librarian on a streetcar in Edmonton, Alberta. (Starts at 0:37.)
his clip is from the Transit Museum Society video Then & Now for sale at trams.ca
TRAMS is a non-profit society which uses this video as a fundraiser for the restoration and operation of historic transit vehicles. Please consider purchasing a copy if you like what you see.
I can still remember my mother taking me to visit the Calgary Library’s Bookmobile when I was a young child in the 1980s. I didn’t know that it was a descendent of a Book Trolley. Or something started in Edmonton!