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[Keenleyside's Trip from Mexico to Vancouver : home movie]

Item number (ISN):

282781

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946

Item number (ISN):

282781

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

KEENLEYSIDE, Hugh L.

Accession:

1997-0472

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946

Production company:

Hugh Keenleyside (Photography)

Description:

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Footage taken by Hugh Keenleyside, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico, as he and his family travelled from Mexico to Vancouver in 1946. Scenes include: the Keenleysides, the Allards, the Eberts and Graciano in Mexico loading their cars on June 2, 1946; a sign "Tropico Cancer"; various monuments in Monterrey; a steel mill; the departure from Monterrey on June 5; the plains of Texas; a sign "Enter New Mexico"; a stop at Raton, N.M. after the day's journey; the Rockies; Denver in the rain; a sign "State Capitol"; the entry into Wyoming; Hell's Half-Acre in Wyoming; the Canyon of the winds; the entry into Yellowstone, the girls drinking mineral water near the falls; the family playing with the first snow; the Dragon Mouth Spring and the Mud Volcano; the Fountain Geyser area; the Fountain Paint Pot and the Midway Geyser Basin; Threeforks, Montana (a stone in patriotic memory of Saca Jawea, an Indian woman who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition); last morning in the United States spent in Browning, Montana; Museum of the Plains Indian; the Hudson Bay Divide; the border; Banff mountains; Lake Louise in the rain; the car leaving for Jasper; the Columbia Ice Field; Jasper Park; the Athabasca Falls; the Maligne Canyon; Mt. Edith Cavell; the Red cliffs at Radium Hot Springs; the Kin basket on the big bend; the Columbia River; the Okanagan Valley; Kelowna's Royal Anne Hotel, the post office and high water; the hills to Kamloops; horses at the Bar C Ranch; the Thompson; the Fraser; Keenleyside packing the car for Vancouver; the bridge at New Westminster; people greeting the family on their arrival; clouds and sunset over the Pacific ocean; a sea route to Victoria; Malahat Drive; the family swimming in Maple Bay; a burning yacht at Nanaimo; the family's cousins; a party at Point Atkinson; the Black Rapids in Ottawa; the scenery in Santa Barbara. <20mn 46s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Film no. 17.~2. The intertitles indicate the names of noteworthy people and places.
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