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Lake freighters get stuck in ice bound Lachine and Soulanges canals in Lachine,Quebec, Canada.

Lake freighters stuck in ice in Lachine,Quebec, Canada. The lake freighters are stuck in ice bound Lachine and Soulanges canals. A ship moves slowly over ice. Smoke comes out from chimneys. 'Canada Steamship Lines' written on the side of the ship. Men remove ice from a dock.

Date: 1936, December 9
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073142
Canadian war veterans at McGill University in Montreal, Canada where they take up engineering courses after the war.

Canadian World War II (WW2) veterans enroll at McGill University (845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada) in Montreal, Canada. War veterans in their uniforms at the McGill university campus in Montreal, Canada. Veterans enter a building with a sign on it that reads "McGill Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium." Men walk up the snow-covered stairs of a building on the university campus. A sign on a building reads ' McGill McDonald Engineering building' veterans in a classroom inside the building. A math professor writing on the blackboard. A woman professor demonstrates a model as students listen. A laboratory professor explains various dimensions of a model to students.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058771
Prime Minister Louis Stephen St-Laurent and his wife cast their votes in 1957 Parliamentary election in Canada.

Parliamentary Elections in Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Louis Stephen St-Laurent and his wife walk out of their home. They get into a chauffeur-driven 1957 Buick Roadmaster sedan and arrive at a voting station. Prime Minister Laurent and his wife put their votes in a ballot box. A man seated at a desk helps them in casting votes. 'Dominion of Canada' written on the ballot box. Notice of grant of a poll placed on the building gateway. A man reads a notice. A man enters a building and casts his vote. Two Roman Catholic priests cast their ballots. Vehicles move through the streets. View of Chateau Hotel Frontenac (1 Rue des Carrières, Québec, QC G1R 4P5, Canada).

Date: 1957, June 10
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073201
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in many meetings before and after America's entry into World War II

Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051795
Personnel gather for the launch of a new minesweeper ship in Quebec, Canada.

New minesweeper for national defense goes down ways in Quebec, Canada. The ship is decorated. Ship captain and personnel stand for inauguration. The captains tip their hat. The chain is loosen and people watch the ship as it goes into water.

Date: 1938, August 15
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033929
Leaders of Britain, Canada, and the United States attending the Quebec Conference of 1944

Dignitaries including Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and William Lyon Mackenzie King posing for photographs outdoors, and then attending a State dinner in the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec. Chiefs of Staff and bejeweled women at function. Many dignitaries of Britain, Canada, and the U.S. seen, including Alexander Cambridge 1st Earl of Athlone, and General Douglas MacArthur. At the Citadel, the parliamentary heads of the three participating nations receive the LLD from McGill. Mrs. Clementine Churchill and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt appearing at a press conference together to make a statement to reporters.

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034855