Recherche dans la collection - Part Ten, Centennial Year

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: OTTAWA

1986-0762

Enregistrement sonore

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1979-10-08

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Producer, Ken Pagniez; host, Bob Knapp

Tenth program in a 10-part radio series on the sounds of Canada's history. This program includes the following clips about Canada's Centennial Year: a report by Ken Pagniez of the CBC from St. John's on New Year's Eve, 1966; the lighting of the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill for the first time; the official opening of Expo 67; a speech by Judy LaMarsh to bid participants of the Canadian Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant bon voyage on May 24, 1967; comments by Henry Gallant who walked across Canada; comments by Sid Nelson and Gordie Campbell, who drove a Model A from Inuvik to Edmonton; the ringing of the Peace Tower bells on the eve of July 1, 1967; De Gaulle's "Vive le Québec libre" speech on July 24, 1967; Pearson's rebuke of De Gaulle on July 25, 1967; a report by Bob McGregor on the arrival of the voyageur canoers at the Expo site; and Pearson's speech at the closing of Expo on October 10.

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

with permission of CBC Radio