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Title: Isaac family videos : Sacré-Cœur Christmas concert
Description: Item consists of footage of speeches, performances such as children singing, and audience members at a francophone Catholic school's Christmas recital. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Stella Isaac’s sister films her at her elementary school, École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Coeur during their annual Christmas concert in 2004 at la Paroisse du Sacré Coeur located at Sherbourne and College. The footage captures a particular experience and community of mostly Black students of Congolese, descent attending the French school, which was located at Sherbourne and Bloor. Now located near Christie Pits, the community and neighborhood is no longer remembered in the same way. On stage during the concert the school’s principal mentions the students’ practice of prayer exemplifying the experience of religiosity at the school. Education at Sacré-Coeur is rooted in Catholicism and Christianity. Stella recalls a time when students in the class would put their Bibles and crosses on their tables before tests for an extra blessing. This was normal practice. Stella enjoyed attending a Catholic School and has fond memories of the experience, especially when receiving mentorship from particular teachers who pushed their students to prepare for success in their futures. ""I have a slight obsession with this time period and this school, especially as it relates to what it was like educating Black students. It was in an environment where I had a teacher that completely pushed us and believed in us and our intelligence. The footage also documents images of Stella’s younger brother, Jordan, who has Down Syndrome. She describes him lovingly: "It was nice seeing my little brother making tons of noise and yelling my sister’s name, rubbing my mom’s face." In relation to Home Made Visible, Stella shares: "It’s great to allow families the opportunity to revisit old footage, explore their history and share that. A lot of people don't think of Black people in Canada just existing. It’s a great way to change the Canadian narrative."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-030 / 001 (01)
Date: 2004
Identifier: 2019-030 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152025

Title: Benzaine family videos : La Ronde
Description: Item consists of a Morocan family's home movie featuring two children and a woman entering the park to ride the carousel, bumper cars, and ferris wheel amongst many other children’s rides. Footage contains a 360 degree cityscape views of the Jacques-Cartier bridge, Longueuil, and Montreal (ncluding the Olympic Stadium). Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "A couple take their young daughter down to La Ronde on a warm sunny afternoon. Opened since 1967, this amusement park continues to be a popular family attraction during the summer season and a common childhood experience for many Montrealers. Yousra remembers going to the park with her family every couple of years and the excitement this visit would bring. She recounts how they"would be out from the day until night". When asked about her memories of the day, Yosura remembers most clearly the bumper cars and atmospheric nostalgia of being in that place. Like many families with home movies on older formats, she grew up seeing the tapes throughout the years, but stopped once her family no longer had a VHS player. Born and raised in Montreal, but with Moroccan heritage Yousra describes herself as being"someone with two identities [we] are culturally bilingual… I try to define myself and not let others define me.""
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-072/001(01)
Date: 1998
Identifier: 2019-072/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153686

Title: Kwan family videos : Birthdays in Greater Vancouver Area
Description: Item consists of footage of children playing, celebrating birthdays, opening presents, and eating sweets. Project and donor contributed description follows: "This footage documents a series of four of Derek Kwan’s birthdays in Vancouver in the nineties between October 1991 and 1994. In October 91, the setting is a McDonald’s ball pit in the greater Vancouver area. Surrounded by friends, family and cousins, Kwan and other kids are wearing the McDonald’s card paper hats eating birthday cake, with his mom sitting behind him. At present opening time, seen in the shot is his uncle, cousins, and grandma. For Derek’s 3rd birthday in October 1992, we are located in Richmond, a suburb 20 minutes away from the city of Vancouver. We are indoors and adults are encouraging Derek to hit a piñata of Mickey Mouse’s head that was made by Derek’s mom, Victoria. She loved to create themed birthday parties, and DIY party favors with her friends, and Derek remembers having a piñata every year, until he got too old for it. Victoria made the piñata incredibly strong, and it’s very difficult to break. Eventually the adults jump in and start helping the kids break through the Mickey piñata. Derek shares: "Disney holds cache to it as a kid growing up in the 90s as the happiest place on earth." Each year, when Derek opens his gift, he consistently receives boxes from the Bay, which he notes is interesting as a staple Canadian store. At his third birthday he also receives a table hockey set, another inherently Canadian gift, and the family excitedly surrounds the set. At Derek’s fourth birthday in 1993, we are located at Chuck E Cheese. Much like the McDonalds ball pit, Chuck E Cheese was a go-to sport for 90s kids birthday parties. Derek receives action figures, and a ninja turtle toy. Documented at Derek’s fifth birthday in 1994, is Derek’s childhood home in East Vancouver, where he lived during elementary and high school. We see the backyard and kids playing surrounding the basketball hoop. Derek shares that thoughts of being Chinese took a back seat and he didn’t think too deeply about it growing up. East Vancouver was very diverse and being white was the minority. He grew up around Chinese, Vietnamese, Pilipino and East Indian people. Although race wasn’t a forefront in Derek’s mind, it was brought to his attention during family functions when everyone spoke Cantonese, and for cultural festivals like Chinese New Year."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-033 / 001 (01)
Date: 1991-1994
Identifier: 2019-033 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152022

Title: Burke family videos : Christmas '92 : Sunrise
Description: A video clip recording representing a portion of a VHS cassette from Christmas Day in 1992 featuring the narration of a sunrise and featuring panning shots of a snowy street and building in Peterborough. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "'This is Friday, Dec 25th, 1992,' Leah’s dad, Sam, begins the voice-over in this clip made in the Burke’s family home in Peterborough, ON. Her father describes the beautiful sunrise that clear Christmas morning. It contrasts the weather from just a week prior when there was a record breaking 70 cm of snow, which was the worst snowfall in the province in 90 years. This filming style and voice-over in the Burke’s home movies was characteristic of her father, Leah says, 'He wouldn’t wait for anybody, he would just start filming.'"
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-029/001(04)
Date: 25 December 1992
Identifier: 2018-029/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150175

Title: Burke family videos : Christmas '92 : Singing
Description: A video clip recording representing a portion of the VHS cassette from 1992 consisting of a brother cooking breakfast on Christmas and a sister filming a tour of the house. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s Christmas, 1992, and within the short span of this clip the presence of almost Leah Burke’s whole family is felt. From her dad offscreen singing along to gospel (Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Go Tell It On the Mountain), to her brother, the then sullen teenager, seen cooking pancakes for family breakfast, to finally Leah, who weaves through the house filming. She reveals herself as the documentarian in a mirror reflection waving ‘Hi’. In present day, Leah recalls, ‘This is a typical Burke house family moment’."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-029/001(05)
Date: 25 December 1992
Identifier: 2018-029/001(05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150176

Title: Long family videos : Horseback riding
Description: Item consists of a home movie following a girl riding a horse on a trail. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "Cindy’s dad is filming her at the age of 8 horseback riding at Algonquin Park during her family’s first visit. Since then, her family has developed a love of camping, and now camps in Ontario’s provincial parks a few times a year."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-039/001(05)
Date: 2003
Identifier: 2019-039/001(05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153691

Title: Valcin family videos : NYC 1969
Description: A video recording from 1969 consisting of a Haitian Canadian family in New York celebrating a birthday and Christmas. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s November 1969 in New York City and the Valcin Family is celebrating Nadine’s dad birthday. Four year old Nadine waves at the camera and helps blow out her father’s candles. We see Nadine’s mother cutting the cake. Later in the day, Nadine, drinking her juice from a cocktail glass, is engrossed in a serious conversation with her father. Her mom, a filmmaker in her own right, is behind the camera shooting on Super 8mm film. Months later the camera is pulled out again to document Christmas, a very exciting time for Nadine was an only child. Her brother and sister, not yet born, were fascinated to see these images of their eldest sister as a child. This private but celebratory occasion is one the whole family dresses up for. Nadine dons an all white pantsuit she later swaps for something more comfortable, while her parents sport equally stylish crisp suits. The clothes become secondary to the gift unraveling- the toy car, doll, keyboard, all slowly collecting around her. Nadine was born in Montreal, Quebec, and these reels capture a short span of her life between the ages of 3 to 5 when the Valcin family relocated to the US. Her father passed in 1999, so the Valcin family was happy to revisit these memories of him."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-028 / 001
Date: 1969
Identifier: 2018-028 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1149819

Title: Ozaki family videos : running around sprinklers
Description: Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The year is 1965 and two sisters in complementary blue and red bathing suits can be seen running around sprinklers in their backyard. Naomi Ozaki (3 years old), Akemi in the blue (2 years old) and her brother Steven (9 months) are recorded by their father Douglas Eddy on this sunny Vancouver summer afternoon."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-047/001(01)
Date: 1965
Identifier: 2019-047/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153189

Title: Ozaki family videos : Christmas morning and playing in the snow
Description: Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "On this Christmas morning (1968), the children can be seen opening their gifts. Akemi remembers the suitcase they all were gifted that Christmas as they were used in the following year during their family’s first trip to Disneyland. The children are gathered around the fireplace with their cousin looking up the chimney to find Santa. The footage ends on a winter afternoon with the children playing in the snow. Helped by their father, the children make a giant snowman with all the classic feature. Adorning a hat borrowed from their father, the snowman is completed with his very own carrot nose. For Akemi these videos were a "reminder of her family and how much they had despite not being wealthy… how much her parents wanted them to be Canadian"."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-047/001(04)
Date: 1968
Identifier: 2019-047/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153201

Title: Ozaki family videos : children No. TWO, Kazuo - Centennial Parade
Description: Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "In the neighbourhood parade, children can be seen walking down a residential street in outfits for their own Centennial celebration in 1967. Her father along with one of the other parents in the neighbourhood organized this event for the children. Pushed by his sister in his makeshift float is Steven dressed as John A. MacDonald. Naomi is dressed as a pioneer homesteader and Akemi is dressed in a Kimono. Some children can be seen wearing outfits from their various cultural backgrounds. While the Eddy children were the only Asian children on their street, Akemi didn’t grow up feeling out of place in her community."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-047/001(03)
Date: 1967
Identifier: 2019-047/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153204

Title: Ozaki family videos : back-to-back birthdays
Description: Item consists of a Japanese-Canadian family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "The selected clips feature back-to-back birthdays for two of the Eddy children. On April 19th 1996, Steven Eddy is celebrating his first birthday. Looking back on these home movies, Akemi notes on the amount of care and attention given to these birthdays by her parents. In May of 1996, her sister is celebrating her birthday with outdoor activities in the family's backyard. Her mother (in the pink dress) is helped by her aunt to set-up the race games for the children. Akemi remembers her aunt holding her hand during the games to pull her out of her sullen mood. She was upset that her brother and sister had birthdays parties so close together and was feeling left out."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-047/001(02)
Date: 19 Apr. 1996
Identifier: 2019-047/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153206

Title: Baksh family videos : Kaieteur Falls and Orinduik Falls
Description: 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.
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-033/001(06)
Date: [200-?]
Identifier: 2018-033/001(06)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153688

Title: Baksh family videos : Kaieteur Falls
Description: Item consists of a Guyanese family’s home movie featuring what appears to most likely be Kaieteur Falls. Footage zooms out from the falls to a landscape shot, cuts to men walking in the Amazon, cuts to several shots of the falls and the valley below, and ends with the three men at the river bed.
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-033/001(05)
Date: [200-?]
Identifier: 2018-033/001(05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153689

Title: Baksh family videos : Kaieteur Falls plane ride
Description: Item consists of a Guyanese family’s home movie documenting what appears to most likely be a trip to Kaieteur Falls including footage from the plane's windows flying to and over the falls.
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-033/001(04)
Date: [200-?]
Identifier: 2018-033/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153687

Title: Baksh family videos : Kaieteur Falls tour
Description: Item consists of a Guyanese family’s home movie featuring what appears to most likely be Kaieteur Falls and includes footage of a plane, people walking through the Amazon and looking at the habitat, and a lookout with a scenic view of Kaieteur Falls and the valley below.
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-033/001(07)
Date: [200-?]
Identifier: 2018-033/001(07)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153690

Title: Burke family videos : England '1990
Description: A video clip recording representing a portion of the VHS cassette from 1990 featuring two women and a girl dancing; panning shots of the garden, street, and views of the city; and the family chatting around a table in the backyard with music playing in the background. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "'The year is 1990, and the Burke Family is on vacation in Bristol, England. This is filmed where Leah’s father, Sam grew up. All of Leah’s aunts and uncles had houses in the same neighbourhood, and this is a family reunion of sorts. Here, Leah, age eight or nine, dances to ska and lovers rock with her mother, Rita and Great Aunt Sweeney, while her dad is seen off in the background, and her older brother, Jason, films. Her dad has roots in Jamaica and her mother has roots in Guyana. At different points in their lives both immigrated to England, and later met each other there. Her parents then set off to Canada during the Pierre Trudeau years in 1972 to raise a family. The Burkes now call many places home.'"
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-029/001(02)
Date: 1990
Identifier: 2018-029/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150174

Title: Marchant family videos : 3 J.P Birthday 1 year Old 1976 : Part 4 of 4
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-040 / 001 (05)
Date: 1976-1978
Identifier: 2018-040 / 001 (05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150719

Title: Watada family videos : shoveling snow
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-061/001(05)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-061/001(05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152806

Title: Watada family videos : boy in a sled
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-061/001(39)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-061/001(39)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152840

Title: Baksh family videos : Road trip
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Date: 2008
Identifier: 2018-033 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1150167

Title: Tabobondung family videos : Amesthgot - Father's Day 2005, Building Cabin Aug 2005
Description: Item consists of a Anishinaabe family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "In 2001 in Toronto, Ontario at the SkyDome for an annual Pow wow. It was a huge event that everyone in Toronto looked forward to. At the time Rebeka was working for Native Women in the Arts and Dave comes by to visit Rebeka and they go and walk around the pow wow and visit friends. The second part of the clip is at an event, is a book launch for ‘Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada’ (2001), a compilation of academic writings about Indigenous sovereignty. A friend of Rebeka’s was one of the publishers, and at the time Rebeka was staying with her, and gifted her friend with a poem for letting her stay at her house. She loved the poem so much she made it the front cover of the book. Rebeka is seen in the clip speaking to the value of the book, at the time there weren’t a lot of contemporary books about nation to nation."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2020-071/001(01)
Date: Aug. 2005
Identifier: 2020-071/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153662

Title: Watada family videos : autumn leaves
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-061/001(02)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-061/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152803

Title: Nundy family videos : Winter in the Laurentian Mountains and Montreal
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-060/001(01)
Date: [1970 or 1971]
Identifier: 2019-060/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153651

Title: Nundy family videos : Snow balls, riding snowmobiles, and snowy landscapes
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-060/001(02)
Date: 1971
Identifier: 2019-060/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153652

Title: Nundy family videos : Exiting a cottage, driving away, and two children playing in the snow
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-060/001(03)
Date: 1968
Identifier: 2019-060/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153653

Title: Nundy family videos : Fall picnic barbecue
Description: 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."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-060/001(04)
Date: [between 1968 and 1971]
Identifier: 2019-060/001(04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153654

Title: Tabobondung family videos : F.N.G.A. 2002
Description: Item consists of a Anishinaabe family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "A protest against the First Nations Governance Act (FNGA) at Parliament Hill in 2003. FNGA was a legislation that the government was trying to impose on First Nations that would overstep their jurisdiction to First Nations relations, impeding their rights as sovereign nations in very much the same type Indigenous people had with the White Paper, it could lead to a slippery slope of further government control over our nations. Various Chiefs across Canada organized this protest that gathered quite a lot of support across First Nations. This was part of a caravan to Ottawa and take place in Toronto, ON. Chief Roberta Jamieson, the chief of Six Nation, is talking about the FNGA can negatively affect the community. Beside her is another respected leader Roger Obonsawin shared a few words among well-known community members. Rebeka and David travel in their van and on their way stops in a Mohawk community, Tyendinaga where they are hosted. They arrive in Ottawa and people from across Canada came and in the end there are people the legislation was thrown out. They succeeded. The National Chief Matthew Coon Come gave a speech on Parliament Hill. The National Chief spoke out a lot at that time against the Federal government. Many social organizations were afraid of having their funding pulled but it was really good to be apart of something larger, bringing people across the country together. As young Indigenous people in Toronto they formed the Coalition of Indigenous Sovereignty, including allies, supported by unions and grassroots organizations, met regularly to oppose this legislation. ‘It’s pretty inspiring to review that part of our lives. It captured a moment in time in Toronto for our family that was very special with us. It reflects where our communities were at.’ (4) Rebeka and her family take a road trip to relatives in the states of David Shilling's in their old van. They were excited to cross this huge bridge into the states. His cousin plays with their kids. There was a gathering to honor the live of the late Anishnaabe [Rodney Bobiwash] from the Mississaugas nations up north and [Kim Pernel Dominco]. Rodney was a professor at the University of Toronto and used to be the director of First Nations House. He worked international solidarity with Indigenous people in the South, and he had been support the work of [Kim penrecl Dominico] from Colombia. They had been working had together to bring light to the damning of a river on traditional territories. It was during the Free Trade Agreement summit happening in Montreal. Unfortunately, [Kim] was targeted and disappeared. It was devastating. Shortly after that Rodney passed away due to complications with diabetes. They had his funeral at the Native Canadian Centre in Toronto, hundreds and hundreds of people came out. A Mayan group performed a beautiful dance in his tribute. At the time they felt very fortunate to be able to document things for their communities and to have that proof of gatherings and also for their family. (5) In the late nineties and early 2000s Rebeka’s brother and dad at the cabin for the summer. They had a huge catch and had a big fish fry and invited friends over. They made fried bread and lightly battered fish. Rebeka recalls that it was a lot of work to get the line ready, and to fillet it and to bred it, but it was heavenly to have."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2021-071/001(03)
Date: 2002
Identifier: 2021-071/001(03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153663

Title: Tabobondung family videos : Skydome Pow wow 2001, City shots - Universe, Rebeka Reading Book Launch Nov/2001
Description: Item consists of a Anishinaabe family's home movie. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "In 2001 in Toronto, Ontario at the SkyDome for an annual Pow wow. It was a huge event that everyone in Toronto looked forward to. At the time Rebeka was working for Native Women in the Arts and Dave comes by to visit Rebeka and they go and walk around the pow wow and visit friends. The second part of the clip is at an event, is a book launch for ‘Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada’ (2001), a compilation of academic writings about Indigenous sovereignty. A friend of Rebeka’s was one of the publishers, and at the time Rebeka was staying with her, and gifted her friend with a poem for letting her stay at her house. She loved the poem so much she made it the front cover of the book. Rebeka is seen in the clip speaking to the value of the book, at the time there weren’t a lot of contemporary books about nation to nation."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2020-071/001(02)
Date: 2001
Identifier: 2020-071/001(02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153613

Title: Nahwegahbo family videos : Mark & Flo's Wedding 1
Description: Item consists of an Ojibwe family’s home movie featuring adults and children talking and posing for multiple wedding photographs. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "On December 1, 1995, Star Nahwegahbo’s uncle and aunt, Mark and Florence, get married in Sudbury or Espanola, Ontario. These clips capture their wedding and reception; and the personalities of Star’s family shine through; we see her grandmother, grandfather and great grandfather, her aunt giggling at her own wedding as the priest fumbles on their names, and children running and dancing in the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation community centre. Star was around the age of 12 or 13 and recalls avoiding the camera. Around that time she had just moved from Sudbury to Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation, and had difficulty with the large cultural shift. Star felt she didn’t yet have a language to speak to her identity or community dynamics due to colonization. Upon sharing the clip with her family members, Star’s family was moved to see family that had since passed. It was Star’s first time seeing the footage, and "it was nice to see everybody so young, celebrating, having a good time." As an artist, Star participated in the Project because she felt compelled to push back against the colonial gaze. She wanted to have more representation through her own family’s lens and to have footage and imagery for the younger generation to access, to highlight the celebration and positive times for her community."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-050/001(01)
Date: 1995
Identifier: 2019-050/001(01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153650

Title: Nahwegahbo family videos : Mark & Flo's Wedding 19 : Star and her mother, woman dancing
Description: Item consists of an Ojibwe family’s home movies featuring a child and a woman standing by a window, with another woman dancing across the frame of the footage. The Macarena song is playing in the background. Donor(s) and project contributed description follows: "On December 1, 1995, Star Nahwegahbo’s uncle and aunt, Mark and Florence, get married in Sudbury or Espanola, Ontario. These clips capture their wedding and reception; and the personalities of Star’s family shine through; we see her grandmother, grandfather and great grandfather, her aunt giggling at her own wedding as the priest fumbles on their names, and children running and dancing in the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation community centre. Star was around the age of 12 or 13 and recalls avoiding the camera. Around that time she had just moved from Sudbury to Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation, and had difficulty with the large cultural shift. Star felt she didn’t yet have a language to speak to her identity or community dynamics due to colonization. Upon sharing the clip with her family members, Star’s family was moved to see family that had since passed. It was Star’s first time seeing the footage, and "it was nice to see everybody so young, celebrating, having a good time." As an artist, Star participated in the Project because she felt compelled to push back against the colonial gaze. She wanted to have more representation through her own family’s lens and to have footage and imagery for the younger generation to access, to highlight the celebration and positive times for her community."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-050/001(19)
Date: 1995
Identifier: 2019-050/001(19)
Identifier (PID): yul:1153649