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Subjects (65)
History - Canada - 1920-1945 (33)

Transportation (7)

  • Wop May
    Wop May
    Blake James 1979 5 min
    This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
  • Bluenose 1921-1946
    Bluenose 1921-1946
    Richard Todd 1979 2 min
    This very short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series provides a short history of the Bluenose schooner, a celebrated racing ship and hard-working fishing vessel that became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol in the 1930s.
  • Look to the North
    Look to the North
    James Beveridge 1944 22 min
    This short film from 1944 depicts the swift development of the Canadian northwest for wartime strategy as well as post-war planning. The Alaska Highway was only one result of wartime prosperity in the northern region, and this film looks at some of the others, including air routes to Europe and Asia.
  • Northwest by Air
    Northwest by Air
    1944 15 min
    The construction of chains of airfields in northwestern Canada was a difficult job of strategic importance in the war effort.
  • The Sea Got in Your Blood
    The Sea Got in Your Blood
    David Millar 1965 27 min
    A taste of the sea and people who sail it from the ports of the Atlantic Bluenose coast. Some of the sailors seen and heard in this black and white film are famous: Bill Roue who designed the first Bluenose schooner (still on the Canadian dime) and Captain Angus Walter who brought her to victory.
  • Trans-Canada Express
    Trans-Canada Express
    Stanley Hawes 1944 9 min
    This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a sequence from Buster Keaton's 1926 silent comedy The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
  • Twilight of an Era (1934-1939)
    Twilight of an Era (1934-1939)
    1960 29 min
    This documentary examines some of the important events in Canada during the Depression years: the Moose River mine disaster, the great drought on the prairies and the introduction of a transatlantic air service between Canada and Europe. The film also looks at the major world events that influenced Canada: the abdication of the king of England; civil war in Spain; Hitler's rise to power and Canada's declaration of war on Germany. Part of the Between Two Wars series.

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