View from shore of newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway as the British Royal Yacht Britannia navigates a lock of the seaway canal. Crowd looks on from platforms and waves at the royal party aboard the ship. View switches to the grandstand at the opening ceremony for the St Lawrence Seaway. Britain's Queen Elizabeth approaches the podium to give remarks. Camera pans across grounds showing audience listening to the addresses from the ceremony grandstand. Candian police and mounted police in the foreground near the grandstand. United States President Dwight Eisenhower approaches the podium to make remarks.
War Loan Campaign in Toronto,Ontario during World War II. Banner reads '1941 Victory Loan' and ' Tools for Churchill'. Large crowd of Canadian civilians gathered at the street square. Tanks move. American and British flags flutter in wind from a building. Woman hoists a flag. Military band plays.
Aircraft avoids accident during landing on airfield in Toronto,Ontario. Aircraft taxis on the airfield. Trees in the background. Aircraft hits a mud hole during landing and avoids accident. Pilot Dick Merrill and his trans Atlantic companion Jack Lambie disembark aircraft. Men greet them. They pose.
Wild ducks find food and refuge at a waterfront in Toronto, Ontario. Women stand on a lake shore to watch the ducks. A pole next to the lake with a board that reads 'Danger'.
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.
At the Bank of Cannada in Ottawa staff members put one dollar bills in bales of five hundred bills so as to take them out of circulation. These bales of one dollar bills are put in sacks and are burnt in a furnace. Since one dollar bills have a life span of one or two years they are destroyed.