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Capital City

1957 30 min
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This short documentary presents Ottawa through the eyes of a veteran tourist guide who knows all the answers, from the height of the Peace Tower to the reason the Rideau Canal was built.

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    1955 46 films
    This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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This short documentary presents Ottawa through the eyes of a veteran tourist guide who knows all the answers, from the height of the Peace Tower to the reason the Rideau Canal was built.

Urbanism Tourism Politics and Government - Canada Architecture All subjects
  • director
    Fergus McDonell
  • producer
    Julian Biggs
  • script
    Ian MacNeill
  • photography
    Donald Wilder
  • sound
    Claude Pelletier
  • editing
    Dennis Sawyer
  • sound editing
    Stuart Baker

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