Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker greet U.S. President John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. President Kennedy arrives at Governor's house and sits with Governor Vanier and other dignitaries. United States flag outside Candian Parliament. Jacqueline Kennedy takes her position in the Parliament gallery. President addresses joint session of the Parliament.
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Canada. General Eisenhower at the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (53 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON, Canada) in Ottawa, Canada. He places a wreath on the tomb as photographers click pictures. General Eisenhower salutes as Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King stands next to him. General Eisenhower arrives at the University of Toronto (27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada). He enters the building. General Eisenhower talks about the friendship between United States and Canada. He accepts the honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto and extends his support to the cause of education.
'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.
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.
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.
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.