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Baksh family videos : Kaieteur Falls and Orinduik Falls
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Description
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Item consists of a Guyanese family’s home movie featuring what appears to most likely be Kaieteur Falls and Orinduik Falls. Footage consists of a close up of the top of the falls; a close up of the middle section of the falls; another view of the falls, the river below, and a rainbow; a landscape shot of the falls from a far away plane window which is covered in water droplets alongside views of the winding river; three men walking on a trail; and a close up of a quickly moving river and rapids.
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2018-033/001(06)
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Date
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[200-?]
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Identifier
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2018-033/001(06)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153688
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Title
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Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 4 of 4
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Description
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A video clip recording from 1976 to 1978 with the first half consisting of children and adults gathered in a garage and backyard, and the second half capturing Niagara Falls during the wintertime. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "These clips show episodes from Jean-Pierre Marchant’s childhood in the mid-1970s Montreal. His parents were immigrants, recently arrived from Argentina and Chile. Throughout Jean-Pierre’s childhood, they documented the family’s life with a Super 8 camera (and would later switch to video). These clips depict him as a playful child, trips, and well-attended birthday parties. Looking back, Jean-Pierre recognizes that these parties were a big opportunity for the adults to get together and celebrate. The Marchants mostly socialized with people from similar backgrounds, and Jean-Pierre says that “it was important for my parents, who were trying to make a life in a new place, to associate with others who spoke their language."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2018-040 / 001 (05)
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Date
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1976-1978
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Identifier
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2018-040 / 001 (05)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150719
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Title
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Watada family videos : shoveling snow
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Description
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Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family’shome movie featuring a children in the snow. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Terry Watada became interested in his family history when he realized his parents were forced into internment camps by the Canadian government during World War II. The youngest of two boys and with an 18-year age gap, he only came to know this history in his late teens. The footage selected shows glimpses of Terry’s childhood and features community members with whom he grew up. A small clip shows Terry wearing his cub scout uniform. In 1959, he was eight-years-old and was part of the 45th cub scout "wolf pack"; he later became a scout until the age of 17. The families on the farm near the beginning of the footage feature the Watada family visiting the Itos in Cooksville, Ontario. Mr. Ito had connections with Terry’s father when he lived in BC; Mr. Ito was a former employee of Matsujiro Watada. Because his father helped with the down payment of their farm, the Watadas would receive bushels of vegetables every season during Terry’s childhood. A prominent feature of his childhood, Terry and his family attended organized community picnics along with other members of the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto. A game played was the catching of mochi balls. A coveted gift since the process to make it by hand was time consuming. The picnic near the end of the selected home movies depicts a Shinto lion dance (around 68’ or 69’). There were always religious undertones at these picnics, either Buddhist or Shinto along with the Obon festival that would take place every year. The religious undertone would shift as they became an event that no longer only catered to a Japanese audience."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-061/001(05)
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Date
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[196-?]
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Identifier
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2019-061/001(05)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152806
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Title
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Watada family videos : boy in a sled
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Description
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Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family’shome movie featuring a women pulling a boy in a sled during a snowy winter. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Terry Watada became interested in his family history when he realized his parents were forced into internment camps by the Canadian government during World War II. The youngest of two boys and with an 18-year age gap, he only came to know this history in his late teens. The footage selected shows glimpses of Terry’s childhood and features community members with whom he grew up. A small clip shows Terry wearing his cub scout uniform. In 1959, he was eight-years-old and was part of the 45th cub scout "wolf pack"; he later became a scout until the age of 17. The families on the farm near the beginning of the footage feature the Watada family visiting the Itos in Cooksville, Ontario. Mr. Ito had connections with Terry’s father when he lived in BC; Mr. Ito was a former employee of Matsujiro Watada. Because his father helped with the down payment of their farm, the Watadas would receive bushels of vegetables every season during Terry’s childhood. A prominent feature of his childhood, Terry and his family attended organized community picnics along with other members of the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto. A game played was the catching of mochi balls. A coveted gift since the process to make it by hand was time consuming. The picnic near the end of the selected home movies depicts a Shinto lion dance (around 68’ or 69’). There were always religious undertones at these picnics, either Buddhist or Shinto along with the Obon festival that would take place every year. The religious undertone would shift as they became an event that no longer only catered to a Japanese audience."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-061/001(39)
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Date
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[196-?]
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Identifier
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2019-061/001(39)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152840
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Title
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Baksh family videos : Liberty Village
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Description
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A video recording from 2005 consisting of employees at their desks working and drinking beers. Recording also features the CN tower with cranes and construction of Liberty Village in the foreground. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Liberty Village in 2005 was a rapidly changing place, and Shenaz Baksh, equipped with a brand new Super 8 camera decided to document it. The community had changed so much and by the brief shots of construction seen outside her office window, would only continue to change more. This gave Shenaz all the more reason to archive her workplace of five years. Nearing 15 years later, Shenaz’s coworkers marvelled less at how spaces change over time, like Shenaz had intentioned, but more at their youthful appearances."
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Type
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video file
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Date
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2005
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Identifier
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2018-033 / 001 (02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150168
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Title
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Baksh family videos : Road trip
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Description
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Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "In 2008, Shenaz sets up her Super 8 camera to test it out on the trip from Scarborough to North York and back again. The footage moves at double time, in a time lapse, due to the short filming capacity of Super 8 cameras. Her aunt accompanies her on the first leg of the trip, her expression almost static in the bright winter sunshine. As her aunt exits the car at her destination, Shenaz sets up the camera on the dashboard to face her for a moment, slipping on her sunglasses. The camera is later refocused on her father in the passenger seat, as she drives him to his chemotherapy session. For the last portion of the road trip, Shenaz turns the camera onto the road itself, finally parking in front of her home where she began."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Date
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2008
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Identifier
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2018-033 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150167
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Title
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Baksh family : Mahaica Market, Guyana
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Description
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A video clip recording from 2003 consists of black and white footage featuring wide and panning shots of market stalls, mid and close shots of merchant interactions with customers, and tracking shots of customers walking through the market. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "As a child, Shenaz wandered Mahaica Market with her mother shopping for the weeks groceries. As an adult and as a filmmaker, Shenaz wanted to capture her childhood memories and archive the vendors in the market. For Shenaz, recording her trip back to her childhood community had less to do with being Guyanese and more to do with being a filmmaker and an artist."
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Type
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video file
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Date
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2003
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Identifier
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2018-033 / 001 (03)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150169
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Title
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Watada family videos : autumn leaves
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Description
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Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family’s home movie featuring individuals walking down the street and children playing in autumn leaves. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Terry Watada became interested in his family history when he realized his parents were forced into internment camps by the Canadian government during World War II. The youngest of two boys and with an 18-year age gap, he only came to know this history in his late teens. The footage selected shows glimpses of Terry’s childhood and features community members with whom he grew up. A small clip shows Terry wearing his cub scout uniform. In 1959, he was eight-years-old and was part of the 45th cub scout "wolf pack"; he later became a scout until the age of 17. The families on the farm near the beginning of the footage feature the Watada family visiting the Itos in Cooksville, Ontario. Mr. Ito had connections with Terry’s father when he lived in BC; Mr. Ito was a former employee of Matsujiro Watada. Because his father helped with the down payment of their farm, the Watadas would receive bushels of vegetables every season during Terry’s childhood. A prominent feature of his childhood, Terry and his family attended organized community picnics along with other members of the Japanese Canadian community in Toronto. A game played was the catching of mochi balls. A coveted gift since the process to make it by hand was time consuming. The picnic near the end of the selected home movies depicts a Shinto lion dance (around 68’ or 69’). There were always religious undertones at these picnics, either Buddhist or Shinto along with the Obon festival that would take place every year. The religious undertone would shift as they became an event that no longer only catered to a Japanese audience."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-061/001(02)
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Date
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[196-?]
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Identifier
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2019-061/001(02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152803
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Title
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Nundy family videos : Winter in the Laurentian Mountains and Montreal
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Description
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Item consists of an Indian family’s home movie featuring the camera zooming in to people on the patio of a snowy house, a man operating a snow plow, snowy forested landscapes, people exiting cars, children throwing snowballs, people operating snowmobiles, snowy cityscape views from the top of Mont Royal, cars driving up Mont Royal, the Mont Royal cross with blue skies and the sun shinning in the background, people walking on snowy trails, a horse and sleighs on trails and pulling up to the Mont Royal chalet, people walking down stairs to a car park, people at a cottage and skiing, people walking across a frozen lake, a light house, the camera spanning across the frozen lake and the sun setting in the background, and ends with a flowing river. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The following clips are from 1969-71. The reels start in the winter of 1970/71 north of Montreal, at Laurentian Mountains, a known good skiing place. Bala Nundy lived in Montreal at the time just before he got married in 1971. When Bala moved to Montreal he didn’t have any family there and his close friends became his family. Here they rented a cottage for a weekend trip. Since they are all from hot countries without snow they got excited and took many pictures. The next scenes overlook downtown Montreal; Mont Royal, Jack Cartier Bridge, horse driven buggies, etc. The 8mm footage is sped up like a Chaplin film. In the next scene, his future wife’s family and their friends appear. This is also in the Laurentian Mountain area in the winter of 1971. Then there is a clip of Bala downhill skiing for the first time, he hoped that this would make his grandkids laugh in the future. This was taken in 1968 in Chicopee hill near Kitchener, ON. Then to frozen Lake Erie, and a park in Galt, Ontario (later became Cambridge, Ontario). Now Bala’s daughter Smita says, ‘You’ll often find her dad sitting down and going through old photos.’ He is known for sharing pictures at family get-togethers and is inspired by his grandkids. He has thousands of pieces of materials and started filming in 1965."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-060/001(01)
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Date
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[1970 or 1971]
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Identifier
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2019-060/001(01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153651
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Title
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Nundy family videos : Snow balls, riding snowmobiles, and snowy landscapes
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Description
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Item consists of an Indian family’s home movie featuring people walking down the street, throwing snow balls, riding a snowmobile, snowy landscapes with trees and houses. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The following clips are from 1969-71. The reels start in the winter of 1970/71 north of Montreal, at Laurentian Mountains, a known good skiing place. Bala Nundy lived in Montreal at the time just before he got married in 1971. When Bala moved to Montreal he didn’t have any family there and his close friends became his family. Here they rented a cottage for a weekend trip. Since they are all from hot countries without snow they got excited and took many pictures. The next scenes overlook downtown Montreal; Mont Royal, Jack Cartier Bridge, horse driven buggies, etc. The 8mm footage is sped up like a Chaplin film. In the next scene, his future wife’s family and their friends appear. This is also in the Laurentian Mountain area in the winter of 1971. Then there is a clip of Bala downhill skiing for the first time, he hoped that this would make his grandkids laugh in the future. This was taken in 1968 in Chicopee hill near Kitchener, ON. Then to frozen Lake Erie, and a park in Galt, Ontario (later became Cambridge, Ontario). Now Bala’s daughter Smita says, ‘You’ll often find her dad sitting down and going through old photos.’ He is known for sharing pictures at family get-togethers and is inspired by his grandkids. He has thousands of pieces of materials and started filming in 1965."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-060/001(02)
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Date
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1971
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Identifier
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2019-060/001(02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153652
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Title
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Nundy family videos : Exiting a cottage, driving away, and two children playing in the snow
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Description
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Item consists of an Indian family’s home movie featuring people exiting a home, driving away, and a toddler playing in the snow with two adults. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The following clips are from 1969-71. The reels start in the winter of 1970/71 north of Montreal, at Laurentian Mountains, a known good skiing place. Bala Nundy lived in Montreal at the time just before he got married in 1971. When Bala moved to Montreal he didn’t have any family there and his close friends became his family. Here they rented a cottage for a weekend trip. Since they are all from hot countries without snow they got excited and took many pictures. The next scenes overlook downtown Montreal; Mont Royal, Jack Cartier Bridge, horse driven buggies, etc. The 8mm footage is sped up like a Chaplin film. In the next scene, his future wife’s family and their friends appear. This is also in the Laurentian Mountain area in the winter of 1971. Then there is a clip of Bala downhill skiing for the first time, he hoped that this would make his grandkids laugh in the future. This was taken in 1968 in Chicopee hill near Kitchener, ON. Then to frozen Lake Erie, and a park in Galt, Ontario (later became Cambridge, Ontario). Now Bala’s daughter Smita says, ‘You’ll often find her dad sitting down and going through old photos.’ He is known for sharing pictures at family get-togethers and is inspired by his grandkids. He has thousands of pieces of materials and started filming in 1965."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-060/001(03)
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Date
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1968
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Identifier
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2019-060/001(03)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153653
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Title
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Nundy family videos : Fall picnic barbecue
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Description
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Item consists of an Indian family’s home movie featuring a fall landscapes with colourful trees, and several people gathered around a picnic table to barbecue and eat with a river in the background. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The following clips are from 1969-71. The reels start in the winter of 1970/71 north of Montreal, at Laurentian Mountains, a known good skiing place. Bala Nundy lived in Montreal at the time just before he got married in 1971. When Bala moved to Montreal he didn’t have any family there and his close friends became his family. Here they rented a cottage for a weekend trip. Since they are all from hot countries without snow they got excited and took many pictures. The next scenes overlook downtown Montreal; Mont Royal, Jack Cartier Bridge, horse driven buggies, etc. The 8mm footage is sped up like a Chaplin film. In the next scene, his future wife’s family and their friends appear. This is also in the Laurentian Mountain area in the winter of 1971. Then there is a clip of Bala downhill skiing for the first time, he hoped that this would make his grandkids laugh in the future. This was taken in 1968 in Chicopee hill near Kitchener, ON. Then to frozen Lake Erie, and a park in Galt, Ontario (later became Cambridge, Ontario). Now Bala’s daughter Smita says, ‘You’ll often find her dad sitting down and going through old photos.’ He is known for sharing pictures at family get-togethers and is inspired by his grandkids. He has thousands of pieces of materials and started filming in 1965."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-060/001(04)
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Date
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[between 1968 and 1971]
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Identifier
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2019-060/001(04)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153654
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Title
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Blanc family videos : Premiere Communion de Josiane : cake
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Description
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Item consists of a Haitian family's home movie featuring a child in a white dress cutting a large decorative cake in the shape of a chapel and book cake with help from and supervision of three women. A child is a black suit and tie also appears in the footage. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The year is 1985 and in Verdun, Quebec, eight or nine years old Josiane Blanc celebrates her Catholic communion. Here she cuts her cake among her mom and family members."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-052/001(02)
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Date
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7 May 1985
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Identifier
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2019-052/001(02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153609
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Title
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Husain family videos : Cityscapes of Iraq
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Description
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Item consists of an Iranian-Canadian family’s home movie featuring cityscapes of Baghdad including footage of traditional architecture. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Although Aeyliya was born in London, England, she spent a year of her childhood in Baghdad, Iraq, a place in which she does not have too many strong memories of, yet finds fascination with when she watches her footage. "My grandmother, mom, brother, and I are in the footage. It’s very interesting to see this place that kind of has a memory for me, and then seeing family members like my grandfather who’s no longer alive, and then seeing my mother as a ‘young mother.’" Aeyliya describes having memories of eating certain candy in Iraq, and specifically in the footage she speculates that her mother was going to the mosque perhaps to pray, while she and her brother were running around in the courtyard. "[It’s] very surreal to see your past, to see yourself and your history. When I first watched the footage I thought ‘oh, this is kind of a weird feeling, strange, but still good.’" There are a number of ways ones life could’ve been dramatically different. "Where is home?" She ponders. Aeyliya’s family came to Montreal "literally" by boat. "We left London to Montreal and took the QE2, and then settled in St. Catherines, Ontario. "One decision that you have no control over could dramatically change your life," Aeyliya adds, describing her thoughts behind her parents decision to live in Iraq for a year, nearly settling there, before plans changed and then moved from London to St. Catherines instead, "I look at the footage and think of that sometimes.""
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-068/001(01)
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Date
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[197-?]
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Identifier
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2019-068/001(01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153607
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Montreal Caribbean Carnival
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movies featuring crowds and performers at Montreal Carifiesta parade. Participants in costumes are playing mas, marching with a masquerade band. Several carnival bands - made up of dozens and sometimes hundreds of participants, wearing themed costumes created by various Caribbean designers and assembled by volunteers - would dance and perform for crowds and a group of judges (who would select and later announce the best mas band) at a local stadium, before the masquerade bands would make their way through downtown streets. In the 70’s and 80’s, the Carifiesta parade would mainly make its way along Ste-Catherine Street in Montreal, before the parade was moved to nearby René Lévesque Boulevard in later years. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "This footage was shot in the mid-1970’s and marks one of the first Montreal Caribbean Carnival celebrations in the city. Heather’s parents, Richard and Althea Seaman, brought her and her siblings, Hazel and Herbert, to see their first few parades as spectators. In later years, the family was occasionally involved as participants – whether helping to create costumes, build floats or march in the annual parade. The summer event was established to celebrate and showcase the Caribbean culture and heritage of immigrants, who were born on one of the diverse islands of the West Indies or those who had ancestry there. While Caribbean immigrants in Toronto started their carnival celebration - Caribana - in 1967, to mark Canada’s centennial celebration, Montrealers held their first Carifiesta parade and festival in July 1975."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(01)
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Date
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[between 1973-1976]
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153661
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Family picnic at La Fontaine Park, Montreal
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring adults and children preparing a BBQ and children playing at La Fontaine Park. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather describes her home video footage as "[my family] just going about our daily lives in Quebec." Footage from the mid or late-1970s, shows Heather – at maybe six or seven years old - with her family having a picnic in Montreal’s La Fontaine Park. Her older brother, Herbert, was around ten or eleven years old. Her sister Hazel was maybe five. They used to go on family picnics almost every weekend in various city parks, where they would BBQ and have sandwiches and play games, or go swimming depending on the park. Every summer the Seaman family also held an annual picnic in their backyard, and invited neighbours, relatives and friends. Heather adds: "Our parents wanted to open us to other cultures and experiences - to experience other people. We used to go to our Jewish friends’ houses and our Greek friends’ houses. We used to have picnics all the time in our backyard." Their French Canadian and Italian friends and neighbours would also attend parties and picnics at their home."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(02)
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Date
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[between 1977-1979]
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153660
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Couvrette Street, St. Laurent, Quebec
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a child brushing the teeth of a younger child. Footage also features children playing on a swing set in a park, a boy riding a bicycle and a girl riding a tricycle, and playing on a slide. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Daily life in Montreal, Quebec. This footage shows Heather trying to teach her younger sister Hazel how to brush her teeth. Heather describes this footage as "normal kids doing normal things." Heather recalls playing at the park across from her family home a lot and riding their bikes. She describes the home in this footage as her "first family home in Montreal," located on Couvrette Street in St. Laurent, which is a borough in Montreal, Quebec."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(04)
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Date
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[1973-1975]
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(04)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153659
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Commonwealth of Dominica family vacation
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a plane on the tarmac; children enjoying sugarcane and an adult milking a cow; adults and children drinking from a freshly-picked coconut; children swimming at a beach; cityscapes in parts of Dominica, with streets, buildings and mountains in the background; children playing in a shallow river; a family carrying beach supplies and walking on a path surrounded by a tropical forest. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Heather and her siblings met and visited her paternal grandparents for the first time in 1978. "My grandfather was born in 1898. He lived to about 105, so he got to see three centuries – the late 1800’s, the 1900’s and he died in the early 2000’s." This was the family’s first vacation overseas, a memorable time in the Commonwealth of Dominica where Heather’s parents were born and raised - her father in Vieille Case and her mother in Portsmouth. In the travel clips, various footage shows the time Heather and her family swam at Purple Turtle Beach, enjoyed sugarcane, fresh coconut water and watched her Dad milk a cow on her grandparents’ property in La Haut. There’s also footage of their visit to a busy city. Then back in the countryside, Heather notes, "That’s just us walking with a relative through a village in Dominica" as the relative carries a load of laundry, washed in the river, in a basket on her head. In those days, there was no plumbing or electricity in the rural area where her grandparents lived, so Heather remembers it being pitch-black at night, with only lanterns, candles and the moon to light the way. Using the outhouse there at night was scary for her as a child."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(07)
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Date
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1978
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(07)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153658
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Christmas Day Breakfast in St. Laurent, Quebec
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children gathering around a kitchen table, making the sign of the holy cross, pointing to watches they just received for Christmas, and eating brunch with two adults. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The footage shows the Seaman family with some cousins, enjoying Christmas brunch at home on Lippé Street, in St. Laurent, where they lived for about three or four years. Christmas was a big deal in their house. Annually, they would enjoy a big breakfast before opening presents. As Catholics, the day would also include attending Christmas mass, then later welcoming relatives and friends at the home for a holiday celebration, involving lots more food, including Caribbean dishes and desserts."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(06)
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Date
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25 Dec. 1977
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(06)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153657
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Celebrating Halloween in Laval, Quebec
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring children in costumes, joking around, waving to the camera, entering and exiting a home, and showing off their treats. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The Seaman family moved to their second family home on 100th Avenue in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec in the mid-1970s. In this particular footage, Heather recalls getting ready for Halloween and dressing up in homemade costumes. Heather recalls doing a multitude of different activities as a child, and explains that they weren’t limited as children. For example, her brother, Herbert, played hockey at a high level and played guitar, while she and her sister Hazel figure skated, took piano lessons, and dance classes. "We were the only Black family in the neighbourhood and an interesting story is when we first moved there, people were shocked to see a Black family with two cars!" In Laval, while living at their fourth family home, back on 100th Avenue in Chomedey, Heather’s mother, Althea Joseph Charles Seaman, started the ‘Laval Black Community Association’ in 1983 to bring together Black people from different cultural backgrounds. The intention was to create a support system, but also a space for people to learn about each other’s cultures and share their achievements and heritage with the wider Canadian community. Her mother also developed an annual Black History Month celebration where people showcased their artwork, music, writing, spoken word pieces and dance performances. Business people, clergy from various faiths and politicians from all levels of government were always in the audience – no matter their race or whether they were English or French speakers. "The organizations that our mom created were to give us a sense of our heritage" and to share that with others."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(03)
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Date
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[between 1973-1976]
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(03)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153656
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Title
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Seaman family videos : Birthday Surprise
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Description
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Item consists of a Black-Canadian family’s home movie featuring a blindfolded child being led to a birthday cake and blowing out the candles with her family by her side. The footage also features the family sharing kisses in front of a birthday cake and bringing presents to the birthday girl. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "Every year, on our birthdays, my parents would go all out. Birthday surprises in our house were everything! In this family footage, shot at our third family home on Lippé Street in St. Laurent, a borough in Montreal, Quebec, you can see Heather with her siblings and parents celebrating her seventh birthday. It was December 28, 1977 – three days after Christmas – so Heather always received double the presents every year! 1977 was also the same year that her sister, Hazel, broke her arm – you can see her wearing a cast on her left arm."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-067/001(05)
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Date
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28 Dec. 1977
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Identifier
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2019-067/001(05)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1153655
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Title
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Photographs for Comunidade
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Description
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Contact sheet consists of 30 negatives, including: #30-33, 15, men speaking at a head table to a room; #34-35, men socializing; #1, 3, a man behind the counter of a store; #2 ‘Casa Acores Variety’ store; #4, ‘Iberica Meat Market’ sign in store window; #5, Parliament Hill, Ottawa; #11, ‘Iberica Travel Agency’; #12-14, landscapes; #2A-5, women working with papers at a table; #27-30, individual portraits; #31-32, photos of old photographs of a group of children; #1A-4, men in an office.
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Type
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nonprojected graphic
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Fonds
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Domingos Marques fonds (F0573)
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Accession / Box
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2010-019 / 002 (14)
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Date
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[after 1974?]
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Identifier
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ASC06637
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:81406
