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British Columbia for the Empire was a Canadian feature-length silent documentary film released in 1916 by Vancouver filmmaker Arthur D. Kean through his company, Kean's Canada Films. It was a compilation film, assembled from his short films (made in 1914-1916) that depicted individual British Columbia battalions in training and departing for service in the First World War.
Kean began filming the activities of BC military units immediately after Canada declared war in August 1914. The departure of battalions and regiments to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) was always reported in local and regional newspapers, and Kean's presence with his camera was often noted. Screenings of the completed films were well-advertised and promoted in the same newspapers.
Publicity for Kean's compilation describes it as either three to four reels in length (approximately 3,000 to 4,000 feet of 35mm film), and its running time would likely have been between 44 and 66 minutes. It was circulated and shown in Vancouver and the BC Interior in a few different versions. For many years, the only known reference to the film by title was in an issue of the film industry trade journal The Moving Picture World. Another reference, from a screening in Kamloops, has since been found.
Like most of Kean's other productions, British Columbia for the Empire has long since been lost or destroyed. However, a few of the component films (about individual units) have survived.
This film is listed in the Canadian Feature Film Database at Library and Archives Canada, under the title B.C. for the Empire. Its place within the chronology makes it one of the earliest Canadian feature-length films, and the first made in British Columbia.