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Miners use explosives to extract ore and collected ore being transported in a silver mine in Ontario, Canada.

'Silver mining in Ontario ' about mining operations in silver mines in Ontario, Canada. Silver mines in Northern Ontario, Canada. Miners line up as they enter a lift that takes them 400 feet underground to a mine. A man at a throttle as he pulls it. Miners conduct drilling in the underground mine. A miner drills into the roof of the mine. Rocks being blasted with an explosive. Pieces of rock after the blast. A worker with a mine helmet with a torch in front. A miner drills into the rocks to extract silver. Timber being used to support broken ores after the blast. Ore being drawn out by a man as he empties it out in a container car. Men push around the cars. An electric engine pulls the cars to a central station.

Date: 1920
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058840
One dollar bills being burnt at the Bank of Cannada in Ottawa, Cannada

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.

Date: 1946, November
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037423
Canada celebrates its Centennial year with fireworks, balloons, and cakes in all the provinces.

Centennial Celebrations in Canada. A Centennial memorial flame is lit on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson on New Year's Day 1967. View of the Peace Tower of Parliament Hill (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9, Canada) with fireworks. Canadian provinces celebrate the Centennial year with pomp and show. Fireworks, balloons, birthday cakes and parades are part of the celebrations.

Date: 1967, January 1
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043340
The marriage ceremony of Cecile Dionne and Philippe Langlois in a Church in Ontario, Canada.

The marriage ceremony of Cecile Dionne in Corbeil Ontario, Canada. Cecile Dionne, one of the surviving sisters of the Dionne Quintuplets, marries Philippe Langlois, a TV technician from Montreal. The marriage ceremony takes place at a church in Corbeil, Ontario (present day East Ferris, Ontario). The minister undertakes the wedding proceedings. Friends and relatives attend the ceremony. Newly married sister Annette Dionne with her husband Germain Allard at the ceremony. Friends and relatives wish luck to the newly married couple as they leave the church.

Date: 1958
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055749
The Chief Electoral Officer seated at a desk talks over a telephone and civilians read a notice of grant of a poll in Canada.

Federal Elections in Canada, 1957. A plaque placed outside a building reads 'Chief Electoral Officer'. People enter and leave the building. The Chief Electoral Officer seated at a desk talks over a telephone, using an attachment to cradle the telephone against his shoulder, thus freeing his hands. A man and woman at a voting booth desk help people to cast their votes. 'Dominion of Canada' written on a ballot box. The woman at the desk checks voters names against a register of qualified voters. Vehicles move through streets. View of Canadian Houses of Parliament. Civilians read the notice of grant of a poll placed on a lamppost in a garden.

Date: 1957, June 10
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073202
Polio vaccine developers use rhesus monkeys during their research in Canada

Opening scene shows Peace Tower (Gothic clock tower) and Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada. In the close foreground, outside an iron gate, a statue of Joan of Arc is seen, with Ottawa Parliament Hill buildings behind. The entire area is covered in snow. Next scene is in a lab where two men shave hair off of a Rhesus monkey as part of Polio vaccine research and development. Next scene is outside the Peace Tower, as Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare Paul Martin, Sr., (Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin) stops and is seen seen speaking to someone off camera. Paul Martin Sr. ascends steps and enters Parliament Building. Next scenes show lab technicians removing a monkey from a cage. With help of others, he shaves the hair of the rhesus monkey. A monkey inside a cage. The monkey eats a banana. A man takes the monkey out from the cage.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067769