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1968 - Touring Ottawa
Amateur film of from Maitland Avenue along the Queensway to downtown, around Parliament, to Champlain point, along the Ottawa River, Dows Lake and many other places in town.
1946 - Byward Market
When Ottawa's Byward Market was a real market.
1946 - Train Entering Lebreton Flats in Ottawa
1941 - Ottawa on the River
A film about Ottawa in 1941.
1940 - Odds and ends
From old footage of Ottawa
1939 - Royal Banners Over Ottawa
Visit to Ottawa by George VI and Queen Elizabeth
1938 - Ottawa: Canada's Capital
Library and Archives Canada
1920 - Film sequence from a visit to Ottawa
The film shows a woman receiving a letter from woman friend in Halifax followed by this friend arriving at the train station in Ottawa and being taken on a tour of the city in a convertible car.
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