Shows Canada's Olympic swimming team at Montreal, Quebec. Some swimmers from the Canadian women’s swimming team including Phyllis Dewar and Irene Pirie-Miltson. The athletes perform somersaults from a high ramp into a pool. Spectators gather in large numbers around the pool and cheer for their team.
Fencers compete in an international meet for the McConnell Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Two participants fence during the competition. Spectators watch.
Struggle for borders and territory between Canada and United States. Sketches of French-Canadian traders and merchants exchanging goods at Montreal, Canada. Picture of Governor James Murray. British merchants seeking control over the fur trade, but rejected by Governor Murray. Establishment of government in Quebec. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.
Mechanics perform pre-departure maintenance on a Ford trimotor airplane at a hangar in Detroit, Michigan. Later, pilots Floyd Bennett and Bert Balchen, and others, board and take off. Aerial view from above, of the airplane flying en route to Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) Quebec, Canada, to bring supplies needed to repair the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had crash-landed on Greenly Island after a transatlantic flight.
Royal North West mountain band plays and marches in Quebec, Canada. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives for the conference. He along with Churchill, combined chiefs of staff poses for a photo. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden also joins them.
A radio broadcast about the arrival of United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the Quebec conference between Britain, America and Canada. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King pose for the press and answer their queries. Roosevelt addresses a large gathering about the conference. Naval guns shell Italy prior to invasion.
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