''Canada File'' is a

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documentary television series which aired on

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in 1961.

Premise

This series provided a national rebroadcast of locally produced documentaries and current affairs programming. Contributing local series included ''Live and Learn'' (Ottawa), ''Consensus'' (Vancouver) and ''Eye to Eye'' (Winnipeg). Topics included a discussion by two

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professors on criticism, developmentally-challenged children, writers from French Canada, substance abuse in Vancouver, the situation of black people in Winnipeg, the closure of a Manitoba newspaper and Montreal's St. James Street.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Sundays at 1:00 p.m. from 16 July to 24 September 1961.

References

External links

* {{Cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Canada File , publisher= Queen's University , year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012734/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html , archivedate=24 September 2015 , df=dmy-all CBC Television original programming 1961 Canadian television series debuts 1961 Canadian television series endings