See everything, hear everything
Watch 60 films, 170 excerpts and over 80 archival artefacts selected by NFB specialists as part of this unique project.
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Excerpts from NFB films
Iceland on the Prairies
[1941]
Icelanders started to build farm communities in the Prairie provinces around 1875....
Poland on the Prairies
[1944]
Newly arrived Canadians of Polish origin embrace the traditions of their former...
Ukrainian Winter Holidays
[1942]
Facing oppression at home, numerous Ukrainians emigrated, bringing their traditions...
My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
[1979]
A Canadian painter of Japanese origin, Miyuki Tanobe talks about her Quebec...
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Entire NFB Films
Ukrainian Winter Holidays
[1942]
Ukrainian communities of the Canadian prairies still follow the Julian calendar and...
Poland on the Prairies
[1944]
The film opens with the traditional Easter ceremony of the Polish-Canadian...
Iceland on the Prairies
[1941]
This film tells the inspiring story of the rise of the Icelandic communities in...
A Sense of Family
[1980]
This one-hour film charts East Indian immigration from the early 1900s to the...
Photographs
Some Kind of Arrangement
[1997]
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Polish Sokol choir and dancers Manitoba Mosaic, Winnipeg, 1960.
[1960]
The Polish Sokol choir and dancers under the direction of Jan Jerszy Sapinski and...