Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf
The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.
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Canada Vignettes: Dance
The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.
Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon
This short documentary vignette reveals the curious origin of the name of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around Kenora, Ontario.
Canada Vignettes: Skier
In this short vignette, skier Kathy Kreiner prepares for and participates in her Olympic gold-medal race at Innsbruck.
Canada Vignettes: Mussel Mud
A vignette using animation and live action to depict mussel farmers digging in the mud through the ice on bays and estuaries in Prince Edward Island.
Canada Vignettes: Toronto
An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.
Canada Vignettes: Delta Plane
This film is about the emotions that can lead one to take that jump into space necessary for hang gliding with a Delta Plane.
Canada Vignettes: Holidays
A montage of watercolour images of the work and occasional play of a farm family.
Canada Vignettes: Canada's Snowbirds
This installment in the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Aerobatics team at work.
Canada Vignettes: Calliope
A vignette on the travelling calliope (also known as steam organ), a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam through large locomotive whistles.
Canada Vignettes: Moccasins
Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Col
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic
On a beautiful summer’s day in Nunavik, a family enjoys the pleasures of berry picking and fishing as the sound of two Elders throat-singing fills the environment.
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook
Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.
Canada Vignettes: McIntosh
A vignette based on the story of John McIntosh, the Ontario developer of the McIntosh apple.
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable
This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer
A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal. She hopes to design clothes for mass production that are beautiful, functional and affordable by everyone.
Canada Vignettes: Faces
Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.
Canada Vignettes: Easter Eggs
A film about Ukrainian easter eggs, their religious and cultural significance and how they are made.