Fencers compete in an international meet for the McConnell Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Two participants fence during the competition. Spectators watch.
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.
Canada's largest hydroelectric generator is installed at Beauharnois generating station. Several men supervise the installation of Canada's largest generator for electricity at Beauharnois in Quebec.
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.
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.