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The Chief Electoral Officer seated at a desk talks over a telephone and civilians read a notice of grant of a poll in Canada.

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.

Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada
Date: 1957, June 10
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073202
Gold mining in British Columbia.

Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of British Columbia. Animation shows mining of gold through tunneling in a mountain. Gold ore mined inside a gold mine in British Columbia. Gold is smelted and poured into molds for casting slabs.

Location: British Columbia
Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030437
Dramatization: President Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana territory from Napoleon and sends Lewis and Clark on expedition

Dramatization of historical American events. United States President Thomas Jefferson looks at a wall map of the Louisiana Purchase, acquired from Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of France. Jefferson sits with a few officials seated at a table. A pictorial map showing the Columbia River and the Missouri River flowing into the Pacific. The Lewis and Clark expedition is sent to western territory. The life of the Native American Indians. The Indians wearing traditional costumes. Indians hunting buffalo. Scenic views of a hillside with a flowing river. Lewis and Clark cross a water body led by an Indian guide. A large waterfall. The expedition members sleeping in trees to avoid predators. The rapids of the Columbia River. Men crossing the river with water up to their necks. The men wading through the water holding their guns up. Natives watching the men. The course of the Columbia River. Two men from the expedition team lying beside a tree. The expedition watches English men in boats on the river who have come from Canada to establish outposts.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066552
History of the border between Canada and the United States

From the film, "Struggle for a Border. Canada and the American Revolution 1763-1783." Features commentary and narration of J. Frank Willis. Shows struggle for borders and territory between French-Canadians, British, Indians under Pontiac, and American colonists surrounding timeframe of American Revolution. Sketches of famous Indian Pontiac with French officers and with British soldiers. Sketches of battle scenes between the Indians and British troops. Diagram shows the borderline between United States and Canada with the five great lakes which are occupied by Native American Indian Territory. Sketches of British battalions battling native indians led by Pontiac. Sketches of occupation of various former French-Canadian cities under leadership of British General James Murray.

Location: Canada
Date: 1969
Duration: 7 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023006
View of banks, church, public park, Belle Isle, busy streets and Bob-Lo steamship SS Columbia leaving dock in Detroit, Michigan

In Detroit Financial District, people in front of First State Bank Building at 751 Griswold at Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan. (The building was designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci, and later housed the Olde Discount Corporation). Interior of First State Bank Building, Detroit. Street view of First National Building under construction at 660 Woodward Avenue in Detroit (for First National Bank and other tenants). Automobile traffic on streets of Detroit. People leave Sweetest Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, located on Russell Street at the corner of East Canfield avenue, in a historic Polish parish. (The neighborhood at the time was predominantely Polish.) In the distance is another Polish parish and Saint Josaphat Church located on East Canfield at the corner of Hastings Street (which is now the I 75 freeway). Heavy traffic on a main boulevard. Children play in playground on swings and slides. People and pigeons in a park. Heavy traffic on a street. Large crowd on shore and others in canoes in water at Belle Isle. Crowd streams through gate at dock to board the steamship ferry "Columbia" of the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company, with sign "Bob-Lo Route" on the side. Boblo Steamship SS Columbia (designed by Frank Kirby) filled with passengers underway on the Detroit River bound for Bob-Lo Island in Ontario Canada.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030156
John Diefenbaker wins the Prime Ministerial election in Canada.

Major events of the year 1957. Prime Minister Louis Saint Laurent loses to Conservative John Diefenbaker in the elections. John Diefenbaker arrives after winning the election as photographers take pictures.

Location: Canada
Date: 1957, December 23
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049162
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