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[Across Canada by the CPR = Some of Those Days]

Item number (ISN):

4418

Series title:

Seeing Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1929

Item number (ISN):

4418

Link to related resource:

1920/1929

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BRITISH COLUMBIA ARCHIVES & RECORDS SERVICE

Accession:

1985-0181

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1929

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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This tourists film introduces major Canadian cities and provides images of each place with its attractions. Over 3,600 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific takes five days to cross, by Canadian Pacific Railway. Starts at Saint John, New Brunswick on the Bay of Fundy. Its attractions are the Algonquin Hotel and salmon fishing. Quebec City is the oldest city in the North America. The Chateau Frontenac Hotel towering over the St Lawrence. Montreal is Canadian Pacific headquarters and Trans-Canada Limited. Ottawa is the capital of the nation. Toronto is the Queen City. Niagara Falls is connected to the French River and Georgian Bay. Canadian Pacific steamer carries its passengers across the Great Lakes. Winnipeg to the prairies and across the prairies through Regina and Saskatoon. Arrival at Calgary and Edmonton. Banff and Lake Louise are located in the Canadian Rockies. Through the Rockies, the train gets to Vancouver where English Bay and Stanley Park are located. The city of Victoria gives an image of England on the Pacific. <14mn 15s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. CGMPB 1930 Catalogue No. 120.~2. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. The catalogue of the British Film Institute lists the production date as 1930.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8506-0119
V1 2002-09-0024

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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