Includes reports on the first across-Canada trips of the "Super-Continental" and "Canadian" trains, operated by the CPR and CNR respectively, fish research, the Hague, and the tourist industry.~The first segment, called Travel, shows: Canadian Pacific's Supercontinental (CP1409) leaving Montreal for Vancouver (the longest diesel passenger trip in North America); shots of the tracks ahead, the countryside, passengers inside the dining car, passengers watching television; the other new transcontinental train, Canadian National's The Canadian (CN6500) (called the longest "dome" ride in the world because of its domed sightseeing cars, leaving the train station in Toronto, people watching it leave, view of the Royal York Hotel, people in domed observation car, and people standing on overhead bridges watching the train. The trains hope to reduce the travel time to Vancouver. Also shown: aerial view of train; automobiles waiting at road crossings; crowd at station in Sudbury; departures; crew working on train; scenery; station platform at White River; crowds at station in Schreiber; more scenes from the dome car as the train travels past Lake Superior; travelling through mining country; station at Port Arthur; Canadian Pacific train pulling into station; crowds at station; Kenora; passengers being served meals; more scenery; engineer in cab of train; people at Winnipeg station in the middle of the night; silhouettes of grain elevators; dawn in Moose Jaw; steam train passing in other direction; wheat fields; Medicine Hat; snow falling; passengers inside train; Palliser Hotel in Calgary; Banff; crowds watch train as snow falls; the Supercontinental travelling to Edmonton; the Rockies; deer; Canadian Pacific train travelling further to the south and then also approaching the Rockies; close-up of dials, track and engineer; members of the crew (crew changed 22 times); wildlife running; snowy mountains;. train going into tunnel; rail yards in Vancouver, British Columbia, where it is raining; the arrival of The Canadian in Vancouver; the arrival of the Canadian Pacific train in Vancouver; and red caps helping passengers off and helping them with their luggage.~The second segment, caled Natural Resources, shows: Mont Tremblant; fishermmen and a plane dropping poison ( powder from Peru) into lake at Mont Tremblant biological station in order to paralyse and kill fish. This allows scientists to study the dead fish and then "seed" lakes with the best fish stock. Shots of Laurentide Research Station, where scientists do research on the lifecycle of fish, study their food supply, takes samples of lake water, dive into lake and look for sediment, study minnows and trout. There are visuals of a diver in a lake, surrounded by fish who get in his way. Dr. John Potzer, a scientist from Barkley University in Indianapolis studies the sediments that settled as long ago as 10,000 years ago by boring through peat at Cranberry Lake. Dr. Adrienne Robert of the University of Montreal studies insects. Shots of people fishing.~The third segment, Pictorial Essay, shows The Hague, scenes of rooftops, old buildings, cars, many bicycles, trams, The Canadian embassy and construction work on the new Canadian embassy and a street vendor selling herring dipped in chopped onions. People wolf these down, except for the tails. The narrator relates some of The Hague history, where gasoline is expensive and cars are scarce. Also shown are fishermen in nearby Scheveningen, fishing fleets, fishermen checking nets and repairing them, fishermen's wifes sewing nets, women wearing traditionl costumes of wooden shoes, caps and white aprons, boys shovelling sand on beach, holiday resort, people on beach where it is to cold for swimming, and children making castles.~The fourth and final segment, entitled From Sea to Sea, is about Tourist Service Week in Canada. It shows: beaches, other scenes of tourist spots in Canada; Magnetic Hill; wooden carvings; ski hills; Niagara Falls; boating; fishing; American and Canadian licence plates from 1951, 1952 and 1953; people horseback riding in the Rockies; golfing; trains; shops and motels.