Maurice Duplessis

This feature-length documentary takes us back to the Montreal-Quebec trip undertaken in 1958 by the students of Francine Laurendeau, Jean-Pierre Goyer and Bruno Meloche with the aim of meeting the Prime Minister of Quebec, the Honorable Maurice Duplessis. They had been asked by their student assembly to hand-deliver a memorandum on joining the university. But the Prime Minister refuses to receive them. For three months, every morning, politely, they will reiterate their request... Thirty years later, we are taking the Montreal-Quebec train with them.

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This film establishes a parallel between the 1970 electoral campaign in Québec and the 1936 campaign dominated by Maurice Duplessis. It shows the hope but also the uncertainty that existed in 1970. Had the Quiet Revolution really changed things in Québec? Was it possible that a new leader would emerge on the political scene? (NFB.ca)

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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.

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