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Ice-choked rivers swollen by spring rains damage houses and electricity poles in Quebec, Canada.

A flood in Quebec, Canada. Ice-choked rivers get swollen by spring rains in wide areas of eastern Canada. Wrecked homes due to ice floes. Collapsed electricity poles and damaged houses due to floods. Destroyed houses in the flooded area.

Date: 1951, April 9
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045392
French President Charles de Gaulle visits Canada during the Montreal Expo 67

French President Charles de Gaulle visits Canada. Canadians cheer during Charles de Gaulle’s state visit. Flags of countries participating at the Montreal Expo 67. Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson viewing exhibits. A Montreal speech includes the radical "Free Quebec" slogan of French-Canadian separatists. President Charles de Gaulle visits the Montreal Expo 67. A man holding up sign reads “Vive le Quebec LIBRE!”. Canadian police arrest separatist demonstrators outside the Montreal Expo 67.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029472
Lake freighters get stuck in ice bound Lachine and Soulanges canals in Lachine,Quebec, Canada.

Lake freighters stuck in ice in Lachine,Quebec, Canada. The lake freighters are stuck in ice bound Lachine and Soulanges canals. A ship moves slowly over ice. Smoke comes out from chimneys. 'Canada Steamship Lines' written on the side of the ship. Men remove ice from a dock.

Date: 1936, December 9
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073142
Canadian war veterans at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where they take up engineering courses after the war.

Canadian World War II (WW2) veterans enroll at McGill University (845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada) in Montreal, Canada. War veterans in their uniforms at the McGill university campus in Montreal, Canada. Veterans enter a building with a sign on it that reads "McGill Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium." Men walk up the snow-covered stairs of a building on the university campus. A sign on a building reads ' McGill McDonald Engineering building' veterans in a classroom inside the building. A math professor writing on the blackboard. A woman professor demonstrates a model as students listen. A laboratory professor explains various dimensions of a model to students.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058771
Prime Minister Louis Stephen St-Laurent and his wife cast their votes in 1957 Parliamentary election in Canada.

Parliamentary Elections in Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Louis Stephen St-Laurent and his wife walk out of their home. They get into a chauffeur-driven 1957 Buick Roadmaster sedan and arrive at a voting station. Prime Minister Laurent and his wife put their votes in a ballot box. A man seated at a desk helps them in casting votes. 'Dominion of Canada' written on the ballot box. Notice of grant of a poll placed on the building gateway. A man reads a notice. A man enters a building and casts his vote. Two Roman Catholic priests cast their ballots. Vehicles move through the streets. View of Chateau Hotel Frontenac (1 Rue des Carrières, Québec, QC G1R 4P5, Canada).

Date: 1957, June 10
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073201
Construction of the Alaska Highway that connects the lower 48 United States to Alaska via Canada.

Construction of the the Alaska Highway aka Alaska-Canadian Highway aka ALCAN Highway, in 1942. Montage showing momentary views of American highways seen from underneath, highlighting their structural supports and the like. A man traveling in snow by means of a dogsled. Vehicles bumping along on rough road in a wilderness, passing a piece of heavy road-building machinery in operation. A sign posted on June 15, 1942, soliciting workers for construction of the ALCAN highway. The sign reads "This is No Picnic." Steam locomotive pulling railroad train into station at Whitehorse, Yukon territory, Canada. Men in parkas sorting through boxes of supplies at the rail depot. A caterpillar tractor clearing trees along the planned roadway path. Canvas covered trucks driving across snow-covered landscape. Narrator mentions start of World War 2, as related scenes are shown, including: A formation of military aircraft in flight; Bomb exploding in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; and wreckage of the USS Arizona after the attack. Scene shifts to workmen in parkas carrying tools, as they walk past tents in snowy site. Surveyors struggling through snow and underbrush to perform their work. A truck driving across a temporary bridge. A bulldozer clearing underbrush. A convoy of trucks driving along a snowy road. Men attempting to free a vehicle trapped in a snow bank. Vehicles moving along parts of the highway covered by water from melting ice. A Jeep driving past a tent displaying a sign pointing to Tokyo. Gathering of construction workers in completion ceremony at Soldier's Summit on 21 November, 1942.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023509