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700 World War II Canadian Veterans take over 535 rooms of Hotel Vancouver due to housing shortage after the end of WW2

Opening Slate “Houseless vets take over hotel”. View of Hotel Vancouver (The Pacific Centre and TD Tower Vancouver stands on the site today. 700 and 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) after the end of World War II. Banner says “ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU! Come and Get Them”. A Canadian serviceman, sitting in the information desk, points to his right to a veteran. Men and women line up to register. A white sign says “Please! Register Here”. A Canadian veteran speaks to a woman holding a baby. Canadian veterans lining up. Canadian veteran speaks to a hotel personnel behind the front desk. Veterans, neatly dressed in coats and neckties, pose together. Veterans and their wives have breakfast together. A veteran and his wife read a “Month” magazine together as they sit in a mattress on the floor. Veteran reads a book and smiles as he lies on his side in bed.

Location: Vancouver Canada
Date: 1946, January 5
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078994
England and France declare war on Germany; German troops conquer Denmark and Norway during World War II

World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038485
Kids are delighted by the spinning saucer boat ride in Vancouver, Canada.

Spinning saucer boat in Vancouver, Canada. Kids board on spinning saucer boat. They are delighted by the spinning saucer boat ride.

Location: Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Date: 1957, September 30
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055744
A father and a mother stand in front of a house with their eight children and set a new record in Vancouver, Canada.

4 set of twins in 5 years is a record in Vancouver, Canada. A family with their eight children. A father and a mother stand in front of their house and hold their children in their arms.

Location: Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Date: 1940, March 4
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033950
French Alain Gilett and Carol Heiss win the International Ice Skating Championship in Vancouver, Canada.

The International Ice Skating Championship in Vancouver, Canada. 21 year old French Alain Gilett wins the Men's Trophy. Carol Heiss wins the Women's trophy. A crowd applauds during their performance.

Location: Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Date: 1960, March 7
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064710
Advance party leaving San Francisco to support U.S.Army Air Corp's Alaskan Flight project in 1934

View of U.S. Army transport ship, "El Aquario," at dockside in San Francisco, California, preparing to get underway in support of the Army Air Corp Alaska Flight Project, in 1934. Views from aboard the El Aquario, as it makes its way out of San Francisco. View from amidship, forward to the pilot house. Views of surrounding scenery as the ship makes way in protected inland waters from Seattle Washington through Vancouver, British Columbia, and Southern Alaska. View on deck as the ship rolls while underway.. View in ship's dining hall during meal as she rolls slightly (not enough to upset the dishes). An isolated waterfront house seen along the way.

Location: British Columbia Canada
Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064901
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