"SCHLEY RIDE TO CANADA" 1968 COLOR TRAVEL FILM WINNIPEG, SASKATCHEWAN, QUEBEC XD51294

Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “Schley Ride to Canada” (1968) is a color, silent travelog film by Norman E. Schley - a skilled filmmaker from Wisconsin who made a series of films through his company Picturelogue Inc. He would show these films in front of an audience and narrate, as well as exhibit them on television. This particular film follows Schley as he road trips across Canada. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Auditorium, Legislative Assembly building, Upper Fort Garry Gate (0:06). Family picnics at Assiniboine Park, Assiniboine Park Pavilion seen in distance (0:53). CF Polo Park: exterior, jockeys speed down track on their horse (1:00). Royal American Water Park, outdoor fairgrounds - bingo, food stalls, sponsorship signs from Coca Cola, fun house (2:42). University of Manitoba: Entrance gate, Manitoba International College building (3:08). Sheep graze grass (3:28). Local church, statue of Christ with open arms, perhaps St. Norbert Parish; accompanying farm lands tended to by monks (3:44). Blue Standard Vanguard car model drives along rural road, sign for plowing match, police officer directs traffic in crowded parking lot (4:12). Men purchased paper off of paper boy, man sells red balloons to group of kids in cowboy outfits (4:28). Plowing match and rural expo: Man sits on McCormick Harvester, other farm machinery on display, spectators eat candy apples (4:59). Horse drawn carriage pulls up to festivities, man in Edwardian style suit addresses crowd, Union Jack flag waves (5:49). Red tractors, plow contrast green fields dotted with yellow buds, blossoms (7:10-8:43). Map of Canadian provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta (8:48). Forest Nursery Station Sunderland (8:53). Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan, inside chemistry lab at university, brochure for Prairie Fibreboard Ltd. samples of fibreboard (9:39). Edmonton. Rural grass lands, pumpjack in field, crude oil storage tanks, Downtown Edmonton Alberta Legislature Building in distance (10:35). Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) building (12:38). Close-up Alberta Legislature Building (12:50). University of Alberta campus (12:56). Industry in Alberta: Metal scrapyard, crane sorts pile of rusted metal scraps, Canadian National Railway freight car filled with metal pipes; concrete factory: completed concrete cylinders, fleet of perhaps Lesney cement mixer trucks; Lumber processing plant, plywood, completed frames for homes (13:57). Edmonton Lawn Bowling Club, old men play bocce ball (15:17). Edmonton street fair: clowns pretend to dust, sweep street; banner for Edmonton Shrine Club - shriners wear traditional Ottoman attire, fez and drum, march in procession; extravagantly decorated car floats, kids in costume (16:55). Cars line up to park at local fair, ticket office, man stands next to circus elephant, rides and amusements, cowboys herd cattle in rodeo, buck riding, marching band procession (19:08). Intermission (22:47). Title for Part 2 (23:53). Map of Canadian Provinces showing travel plan (24:15). Quebec City: Aerial view ferries on St. Lawrence River, Champlain Monument on Dufferin Terrace, Citadelle of Quebec, Fairmont Chateau Frontenac, Maison Montcalm - Quebec’s oldest house with bright orange room, bus winds down city street, mother and son window shop for figurines, Hotel Louis XIV, residential street with multi-family homes, traditional Quebec dog carts (24:26). Montmorency Falls, stalls selling Turkish, Persian carpets and other crafts along tourist road; woman sits at loom and weaves Turkish towels, another woman retrieves fresh bread from coal oven to sell to visitors Map zooms in on North Bay, Toronto, Ontario; Lake Eerie, Huron, Ontario (28:06). Toronto: traffic on busy downtown street - Old City Hall clock tower seen in distance, pedestrian traffic, Banks - Bank of Montreal, Imperial Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, ferry terminal, rail yard; Casa Loma (30:48). North Bay: perhaps Mr. Schley and sons fish on quiet creek, shows son how to bait fishing rod, canoe and fishing along perhaps Lake Nipissing, men and boys unload supplies from pick up truck wait for pickup at dock from perhaps DHC-2 plane to cabin on perhaps Manitou Islands, view from plane of North Bay (32:58). Winnipeg: view from train of lush green forests, farm land, Winnipeg Union Station, pedestrian traffic and window shopping porcelain plates and china; Hudson Bay’s Company showroom (42:06). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com