Royal Journey (Documentary)

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Royal Journey (Documentary)

#1 Post by Artemis » Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:24 am

A pretty good documentary by the NFB. Don't know if too many will be interested, but her you go anyway.
A documentary account of the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951. Stops on the royal tour include Québec City, the National War Memorial in Ottawa, the Trenton Air Force Base in Toronto, a performance of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Regina and visits to Calgary and Edmonton. The royal train crosses the Rockies and makes stops in several small towns. The royal couple boards HMCS Crusader in Vancouver and watches Native dances in Thunderbird Park, Victoria. They are then welcomed to the United States by President Truman. The remainder of the journey includes visits to Montreal, the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, a steel mill in Sydney, Nova Scotia and Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.

For more background information about this film, please visit the NFB.ca blog.
You can watch it here:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/royal_journey/?n ... b_20120206

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