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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
Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Phillip in observance of Canadian Centennial in Ottawa, Canada.

Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, on a stage outside Parliament Hill (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9, Canada) in Ottawa, Canada. At an outdoor children's party, the queen cuts a 20-ft high cake celebrating the centennial anniversary of Canada. Children in wheelchairs and on crutches attend the party. Queen Elizabeth II gives a piece of cake to a boy in a wheelchair.

Date: 1967, June
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035696
Bank of Canada burns one dollar bills to take them out of circulation in Ottawa

Employees at Bank of Canada in Ottawa put one-dollar bills in bales of five hundred bills to take them out of circulation. View of the Bank of Canada Building (234 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, ON K1A 0G9, Canada). Bales are put in a sack and then burnt in a furnace.

Date: 1946
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038452
The birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands in Ottawa during the Dutch royal family's exile to Canada (WW2)

Princess Margriet, third child of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during World War II. View of Netherlands flag flying on Parliament Hill (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9, Canada). View of the Ottawa Civic Hospital (1053 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4E9, Canada) after King George VI of the United Kingdom temporarily declared the hospital as “extraterritorial”. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, consort of Princess Juliana and father of Princess Margriet, carrying his infant daughter inside the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Prince Bernhard writes down Princess Margriet’s name during the registration of her birth. Two Dutch officials stand as witnesses during the registration of the royal birth. Princess Margriet's name on the registration document is shown. Prince Bernhard plays with his daughters, Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene, and pet dog in the snow.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039390
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
Tuna fish being tested and soldiers confronted with simulated atomic bomb explosions in the United States

Atomic and hydrogen bomb tests' effects in Japan and the United States. Japan: Newsmen and cameramen stand in the Tokyo Medical University hospital. Head of the hospital Doctor Suzuki greets Chief of the Hiroshima atom casualty commission John Morton. The doctors examine the fishermen burned during the Enewetak (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) hydrogen bomb tests. San Francisco: A crane lowers net of Tuna fish in San Francisco. An official wears belt with a Geiger counter. Food and drug officials check the fishes for radioactive contamination. Fort Devens Massachusetts: The members of the 1st Army Chemical Defense school are confronted with simulated atomic bomb explosions. Soldiers advance through the smoke of explosion.

Date: 1954, March 25
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067981