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Bank of Canada burns one dollar bills to take them out of circulation in Ottawa

Employees at Bank of Canada in Ottawa put one-dollar bills in bales of five hundred bills to take them out of circulation. View of the Bank of Canada Building (234 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, ON K1A 0G9, Canada). Bales are put in a sack and then burnt in a furnace.

Date: 1946
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038452
Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Phillip in observance of Canadian Centennial in Ottawa, Canada.

Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on a stage outside Parliament Hill (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9, Canada) in Ottawa, Canada. At an outdoor children's party, the queen cuts a 20-ft high cake celebrating the centennial anniversary of Canada. Children in wheelchairs and on crutches attend the party. Queen Elizabeth II gives a piece of cake to a boy in a wheelchair.

Date: 1967, June
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035696
Views of Police Department and prison, in Ottawa, Canada, as accused Soviet spies enter and leave jail

Exterior views of the Police Department and jail in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Several cars parked on the street. Patches of snow on the ground. Group of press photographers waits at the entrance. Police officer assists two women who depart in a car, and several men, who depart in a van, over a snow-covered road. Men from the van are escorted by Police officer, as they walk on the grounds of the prison, past an inscription reading:'Jail Office' on the building. Inside the prison compound, Police officers escort three women from a portal with "Gaol Office" inscribed above it. One woman hides her face. They emerge near a building marked "77." A police Sergeant assists them into the back of a waiting car, and opens the front door for a senior police officer.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054479
Ottawa Conference attendees arriving at airfield in Ottawa. USAF Chief General Hoyt Vandenberg greeting officers.

Brief unrelated view of a man plastering a wall to repair it. Then: U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in Ottawa, Canada. USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg talks to various officers on the tarmac of an airfield in Ottawa. The General greets the dignitaries who arrive for the Ottawa Conference. Both men and women are seen . General Vandenberg talks to an officer as he smokes a cigarette. An aircraft in the background. Women talk at the airfield. Officers enter a building at the airfield.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059925
Princess Margaret visits Canada

Princess Margaret's month-long stay in Canada. Her wardrobe made fashion news as it was studded with gems. A huge crowd gathered to greet her. She greets people at Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2, Canada). Princess Margaret greets Native Mohawk Indians near Niagara Falls. She officially opens the new International Style city hall in Ottawa (now known as the John G. Diefenbaker Building, 111 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1N 5A1, Canada).

Date: 1958, August 4
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023639
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, places a wreath and greets veterans at the Canadian National War Memorial, Ottawa, Canada.

Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon of the United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) arrives at the Canadian National War Memorial (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A4, Canada) in a Cadillac automobile with a clear plastic roof. She walks along a line of Canadian war veterans and converses with some of them. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer holds back crowd of enthusiastic spectators. The Queen Mother places a wreath at the base of the war memorial, which is already adorned with countless wreaths placed there on Canada's Remembrance Day. Memorial is engraved: "1914-1918." The Queen Mother wears three pearl necklaces. Canadian spectators pack the sidewalks, as the Queen Mother rides along the streets of Ottawa. Views, from a height, of the ceremony at the National War Memorial. The Queen Mother stands before assembled officials. A military band is in formation. Large numbers of spectators are assembled to watch. The Queen Mother's wreath is shown with its card reading: “From Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother."

Date: 1954, November 13
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056034