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Parks, Reserves and Zoos (14)

  • Animal Friends
    Animal Friends
    1958 10 min
    This trio of short documentaries paints a portrait of animal-human relationships in a variety of settings. In Roll-call in the Rockies, Banff National Park census-takers on horseback count animals. In the delightful Zoo Comes to Class, animals from Stanley Park Zoo visit an elementary school in Vancouver, to the merriment of all the kids. And in It's a Dog's Life, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Montreal helps place fluffy friends in loving homes.
  • Atonement
    Atonement
    Michael McKennirey 1970 50 min
    This documentary shows efforts by Canadian wildlife specialists to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas, species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears and grizzlies.
  • All About Kids
    All About Kids
    1964 8 min
    This vintage short doc from the sixties brings together three quaint vignettes about Canadian childhood. In Quebec Aquarium, school children see marine life at close range, while Children's Play Therapy focuses on the importance of games and handicrafts for young patients recovering at Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital. Finally, Soccer School takes us to British Columbia, where British coach Trevor Churchill is helping to spark interest in the increasingly popular sport.
  • A Bird City
    A Bird City
    1919 5 min
    A bird sanctuary near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is shown. Here in their native haunts are the gull, the heron, the tern, and many other birds as they are in their everyday life. Nesting, mating, swimming and flying, all are shown here in a rare picture.
  • Beaver Family
    Beaver Family
    1931 14 min
    A short silent film portraying Grey Owl, the famous conservationist, and a family of beavers who would come when he called and take food from his hand without the slightest fear. The film is set in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. The story of Grey Owl's life was the subject of a 1999 feature film starring Pierce Brosnan.
  • Beaver People
    Beaver People
    1928 13 min
    A short silent film about famous conservationist Grey Owl (born Archibald Belaney) and his wife, Anahareo, who had a special talent for interacting with beavers. Note: The beavers in the film may be Grey Owl's pets, Jellyroll and Rawhide.
  • A Day in Point Pelée
    A Day in Point Pelée
    Francis Mankiewicz 1978 6 min
    Located in Ontario, Point Pelée National Park attracts birds in its long grasses, and brilliant Monarch butterflies on its trees. Wooden walkways through the marsh facilitate access for numerous visitors. A film without words.
  • The Glass Ark
    The Glass Ark
    Bernard Gosselin 1994 1 h 29 min
    Montreal’s Biodome, one of the most popular attractions in the city, features a microcosm of the Earth’s major ecosystems, from tropical rainforest to the Arctic. This feature-length doc shows the enthusiasm brought to the last stages of this undertaking and the magnitude of the challenge met by a young team of scientists who planned this unusual nature museum, home to thousands of animals and plants.
  • Keepers of Wildlife
    Keepers of Wildlife
    Michael McKennirey 1972 20 min
    Canada's wilderness areas harbour some of the last remaining species of North American wildlife. This film shows what is being done by specialists of the Canadian Wildlife Service to prevent further depletion of their numbers. It is an enormous program of tabulating, banding, tagging, and, in the case of larger animals such as the bear and the buffalo, giving health check-ups. An engrossing film for any audience, replete with close-ups of animals, waterfowl, and fish.
  • Octopus Hunt
    Octopus Hunt
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    Bernard Devlin 1965 16 min
    A voyage down to the green depths of the Pacific Ocean, into the mysterious domain of the deep-sea diver and the marine creatures that are his quarry. The film is about a zoological expedition to capture octopus and wolf eel specimens for the Vancouver aquarium. The underwater action is described by the divers themselves.
  • Triangle Island
    Triangle Island
    Tom Radford  &  Ray Harper 1979 13 min
    Forty miles northwest of Vancouver Island lies Triangle Island, an ecological reserve and home of close to one million birds. Bristol Foster, head of the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Program, guides us across the island through colonies of birds and sea lions. He stresses the need of preserving the ecological balance for the survival of future generations.
  • Wildlife in the Rockies
    Wildlife in the Rockies
    William H. Carrick 1957 13 min
    After many years of careful conservation, Banff and Jasper National Parks have become vast zoological gardens. Deer, moose, bear, big-horn sheep, birds and small animals that live above the treeline are natural subjects for the close-up camera, with a backdrop of snowy peaks.
  • The Zoo
    The Zoo
    Julia Kwan 2018 11 min
    The Zoo follows the parallel lives of a polar bear cub in a popular city zoo and a Chinese boy who visits him until they’re both in their twilight years.
  • The Zoo in Stanley Park
    The Zoo in Stanley Park
    Bernard Devlin 1953 14 min
    In this documentary short, a superintendent at Vancouver's Stanley Park Zoo discusses issues related to feeding and acclimatization of birds and animals from other zones.