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
Strangers for the Day
[1962]
Emigrating from Syria to Canada, a man and his daughter are on a train heading for...
No Time to Stop
[1990]
A programmer talks about not being able to find work in Canada in the computer...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Many Chinese people immigrated to Canada during the nineteenth century to escape...
The Road Taken
[1996]
Lee Williams spent 42 years working on the railroad, much ot that time as a porter....
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Entire NFB Films
When Strangers Re-Unite
[1999]
Every year thousands of women enter Canada as domestic servants, the majority of...
Lost Dreams
[1999]
In Lost Dreams, Kateryna Ewanchuck, a young Ukrainian in Manitoba, reflects...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
[1983]
The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York....
Photographs
Examining new arrivals in Immigration Examination Hall.
[1952]
During the peak periods at Halifax's Pier 21 Examination Hall, up to a thousand...
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
Between 1881 and 1884, over 10,000 Chinese labourers came to Canada to complete the...