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Capital City

Fergus McDonell

1957 30 min

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This short documentary presents Ottawa through the eyes of a veteran tourist guide who knows all the answers, from the height of the Peace Tower to the reason the Rideau Canal was built.

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  Perspective

  1955 46 films

  This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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This short documentary presents Ottawa through the eyes of a veteran tourist guide who knows all the answers, from the height of the Peace Tower to the reason the Rideau Canal was built.

See also

Urbanism

Tourism

Politics and Government - Canada

Architecture

All subjects

Credits

• director
  Fergus McDonell
  
• producer
  Julian Biggs
  
• script
  Ian MacNeill
  
• photography
  Donald Wilder
  
• sound
  Claude Pelletier
  
• editing
  Dennis Sawyer
  
• sound editing
  Stuart Baker
  

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