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Canada Calling the British Empire

Item number (ISN):

75036

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

75036

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1983-0065

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Release date:

1939-05-24

Description:

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On the occasion of King George VI's first visit to Canada, the people of the Empire send messages to His Majesty by radio. The speakers are as follows: Captain George [Immelman] of Lunenburg, a banks fisherman; Hugh de Martin of Montreal speaks in French and is followed by an English translation; Alec Brody of Toronto, an elevator operator; Mrs. R.W. McKinnon, a Saskatchewan farmer's wife; [Mort Sahl], an Edmonton bush pilot; Jim Jones, a Vancouver dock worker; Albert Edward Williams and Beatrice Swanhold of Johannesburg laud Canada and pay homage to their King; Major L.M. Casey, a Rhodesian tobacco planter; Dr. Gordon Alvery of the Australian Aviation Medical Service; Joyce MacKenzie, a fourteen year old schoolgirl from Wellington, N.Z., and Anai Nagata, a Maori at the University of New Zealand who speaks in Maori; translation of Maori speech; Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian poet speaks in Bengali which is followed by an English translation; Sir William Morrison of Kingston, Jamaica; R.S. Furlong of St. John's Newfoundland; and Charles Brooks, a schoolmaster from Inverness. Mollie Wilson, a linen painter from Antrim; Ed Griffiths, a Welsh miner, who speaks in Welsh as well as English; and Fred Smith, a boy from H.M. Training Ship "Conway". <1h>

Language:

English / Français / Maori / Bengali / Welsh

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1. The subject description is taken from CBC Program Archives cataloguing.

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Vault ISN:

157517

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03626

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

110:00

Made from:

1983-0065/156

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

160929

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1983-0065/150
1983-0065/151

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ALUM

Duration:

60:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

302803

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03625

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1983-0145
1983-0065

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

333093

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9905-0058

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

71:41

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

896563

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

75036-1983-0065-150.WAV
75036-1983-0065-151.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1983-0065/150
1983-0065/151

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

896566

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

75036-1983-0065-150.MP3
75036-1983-0065-151.MP3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1983-0065/150
1983-0065/151

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004480

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9905-0058

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C03626

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9905-0058

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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