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.
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.
Opening scene shows U.S. Army airborne troops in severe cold weather gear assembling on a snow covered ramp in front of a hangar at the U.S. Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, in Canada, during a military exercise known as "Wind Chill" in March, 1954. An officer takes charge of them and they march off in loose formations. Closeup of the officer marching alongside the troops. He wears an 11th Airborne Division patch on his left sleeve. A USAF C-47 aircraft is seen in the background. Later a C-124 aircraft is also seen in the background. View of a slate noting the exercise (Wind Chill),date: 17 March, and location: Harmon AFB. Scene shifts to the Harmon Air Force Base headquarters building, where a large half globe map of the Northern hemisphere is displayed with "6602nd Air Base Group" written boldly on its side. View of the Headquarters building with sign reading: "Ernest Harmon HEADQUARTERS Air Force Base."
Canada National Exhibition Executive Office Building entrance with posters of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Ontario above the door. Canadian World War I Veterans from Goodyear Canada posing with the Canon-Scott trophy for best marching outfit. The veterans are among the WWI veterans marching at the Canada National Exhibtion in honor of Warriors Day. Also marching are the Cadets from the Royal Candaian Flying Corps. President of Goodyear Canada, Bert Partridge, congratulates the men from Goodyear.
The Dutch royal family in Montebello during their exile in Canada (World War 2). Dutch Princess Juliana with her children in Château Montebello (392 Rue Notre Dame, Montebello, QC J0V 1L0, Canada). The Dutch royal family fled the Netherlands after Nazi German invasion. Princess Juliana and her children later left England for Ottawa, Canada. Children, Princess Beatrix and an unidentified girl playing near a waterway. Princess Irene inside a playpen. Princess Juliana pushes her two children sitting together on a swing. Princess Beatrix falls off-balance from the swing while Juliana is holding the infant Princess Irene.
Re-enactment of preparation of birth of Quintuplet girls to Mr. and Mrs Olivia Dionne on their farm at Callander, Ontario Canada. Nurse empties jug of water into a bowl. Lamp burn on window sil. Hot water poured into bowl. A doctor arrives at home. Photographers take pictures of Mr. Dionne with five baby girls on his lap. Dr Allan R Dafoe seated in his car.