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Video Index

My video files are linked from Google Drive and other videos eg: Cousin Opal are linked from YouTube shared by her family. The videos are linked here as well as shown in the main media gallery.
Double click on the video file you want to watch and it will open.

Converted from VHS

All the videos have been converted from VHS to a digital file up until about 2000. There after things were filmed with my phone or digital camera.

1980 – 89, Anniversaries & Gatherings

Below are a gallery for the 80’s and one for the 90’s. Video quality is not the best on the earlier videos from the 80’s especially. They were converted from my dad’s VHS tapes years later. The tapes from the 90’s onward show improvement.

These videos have my Grandma & Grandpa Roadhouse, aunts and uncles, many family members who are no longer with us. This section also includes a custom “mini” KW truck that my Uncle Murray Roadhouse built himself! He was a truck driver for Aggressive Trucking in Langley BC for most of his life. He loved trucking and it inspired him to make this build. He took the little truck to car shows and later eventually sold it.

Henry Family Reunion 1986

This family reunion video was taken by my dad when he and my mom attended in about July of 1986. Video quality was poor as it was the 80’s, but it is still enjoyable. It shows that the Henry’s are a very musical bunch!

Our Wedding – Dan & Judy McLean wedding video, July 4, 1987

There are 2 videos in this section. One is done by the videographer… That was a new thing back then! My dad hired him because he had to be a participant in the wedding (giving me away lol) so he didn’t want to miss a thing. He did set his own camera up and had someone run it for him for the duration. The videographer did fail to get the kiss at the “you may kiss the bride” part for whatever reason. My dad’s version did get it thankfully!

Our 1st Anniversary

  • A gathering at my parents, we shared the festivities with cousin Ray and his wife Lori, who were married about a month after we were.

The 90’s to 2002 – Mostly our immediate family home movies

2000 – onward

  • Carolyn McLean playing Hopper family violin
    • The video of Carolyn McLean (daughter of Dan’s brother David) playing my dad’s 143 year old violin. We believe that this may be the violin in the Murray Family band portrait. The violin was handed down to my Grandmother Helen (Nellie) and she passed it to my dad Murray. My dad had Carolyn who is a violin expert repaired and tuned the old violin. My son Matthew expressed interest in learning to play, therefore the violin is now in his care.
  • The Buggy Story, a Halloween prank
    • My mom and Auntie Verna telling “The Buggy Story”. A few hijinks that Uncle Rex and his buddy pulled off by when they were young. They dismantled the teacher’s buggy and reassembled it on the roof of the school!
  • Verna and Merle – July 3rd 2014 – The Gifts
    • This is my mom Merle and her sister Verna visiting at the nursing home where Verna lived in 2014.
  • Opal Chalmers (Henry) 90th Birthday
    • Cousin Opal Chalmers receives belated 90th birthday wish from the province of Alberta 1/14/18. Shared from YouTube via her immediate family.
  • Cousin Bill Roadhouse – Evesham Sask. May 2014
    • This is of cousin Bill Roadhouse telling us some history about some of the buildings on his farm in Evesham (May 2014). He has preserved my Grandpa Ersel Roadhouse’s blacksmith shop and in 2015, on the memorial trip for my mom, we got to go inside and see it.
  • Murray at his Grandparents graves, Wynyard Sask pt1 – May 2014
    • My dad Murray Hopper in Wynyard, Sask. We were visiting the graves of his grandparents (Hopper). It’s hard to hear a little because of the wind but although a little confused, he talked about his dad and his uncle, Colonel Hopper in Cobourg Ontario. Video taken May 2014.
  • Murray at his Grandparents graves, Wynyard Sask pt2 – May 2014
    • In this next one, he talks about how he didn’t want to go overseas with his brother (Arthur) because it wasn’t a good idea to be together in the same unit. (Eg: Sullivan brothers) Video taken May 2014.
  • Murray and brother Bob chatting – Ponoka AB – 2014
    • My dad Murray and his brother Bob at Bob and Donna’s home in Ponoka AB, chatting. Video taken May 2014.
  • Bob and Murray Sept 8th 2015 – Telling stories
    • Uncle Bob and my dad Murray telling a few stories “out of school” and joking around outside a local restaurant in Ponoka, AB. Even with my dad’s dementia, he remembered it all.
  • Christmas 2011
    • Home movie, Dan & Judy
  • Remembering the Hopper’s 
    • A slideshow of photos I made for my parents memorials
  • Matthew’s Grad, son of Dan and Judy
    • Matt graduated in 2008 from Garibaldi Senior Secondary
  • Robert’s Grad, son of Dan and Judy
    • Robert graduated in 2010 from Garibaldi Senior Secondary