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Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1946-08-27Item number (ISN):333364Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ROBERTSON, GeorgeAccession:2002-0023Media:SoundPart:1 of 2Production date:1946-08-27Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:reporter, George RobertsonDescription:Excerpts of a number of broadcasts by George Robertson as follows: VJ night celebrations in Chinatown (city not identified), including a description of the crowd gathered on Elizabeth Street (in Toronto?) and an interview of the president of the Chinese Times; a visit to Beavertown, a colony of beavers about 20 miles north of Montreal, and an interview of Édouard Lavoie, who raises beavers there; report for NEWS ROUNDUP about the last ship to leave Montreal harbour for the year 1945 before it freezes over for the winter, including sound effects as Robertson reports from aboard the tugboat Matilda which is towing the steamship as it leaves the harbour; interview of Tommy Banks, a man who traps muskrats on the banks of the Rideau River at Chaffey's Locks, Ontario; and report by Robertson from aboard the ice breaker Ernest Lapointe about 50 miles east of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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