On the eve of the Quebec Conference (code-named Quadrant) in World War 2. Prime Minister Winston Churchill in North America with his family in summer 1943. Churchill and his wife and their daughter, Mary, travel to Quebec in Canada. He is greeted by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. View of Château Frontenac. Churchill waves to cheering crowd and gives them his V for victory sign with his raised hand. Civilians of French descent cheer him. Mrs. Churchill is photographed by cameramen. Prime Minister Churchill and his daughter seen preparing to board a Canadian National Railways train for travel to the United States to visit with President Roosevelt.
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.
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.
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.
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, is seen in his office with a woman secretary. They attend to administrative paperwork. Large paper files can be seen in the background. Members of M.Duplessis' staff enter for a meeting. One shows him a copy of the Quebec anti-nationalist newspaper, Le Jour, which he peruses and discusses briefly with his staff.
New minesweeper for national defense goes down ways in Quebec, Canada. The ship is decorated. Ship captain and personnel stand for inauguration. The captains tip their hat. The chain is loosen and people watch the ship as it goes into water.
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