Rev. Wilfrid. J. Langlois and Sir. Alexander Fleming, M.B. (Penicillin discoverer)

U.S. President Truman shaking a mountie's hand

Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery departing Jasper

Scouting founder Lord Baden-Powell goes fishing

Actor Mickey Rooney and Superintendent Clancy

Baseball player Babe Ruth at Bonaventure Station

Entertainer Gracie Fields borrows Constable Alcock's headgear

Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton waves from the cab of the museum train

Movie star Van Johnson pilots GTW locomotive

Ronald Reagan before presidency boards CNR's Ocean Limited enroute to SS Brittanic and London

Governor General Vincent Massey at Jasper

Skater Barbara Ann Scott leaving on CNR's “Washingtonian” for her first professional engagement in New York

Actor Harold Lloyd, wearing his trademark glasses, greets fellow shriners as North America's High Potentate of the Shriners

While filming in the Rockies, actor James Stewart greets a mountie

Baseball player Joe DiMaggio and young friend

Canadien hockey team (from left to right: Murph Chamberlain, Jimmy Peters, Maurice Richard, and Kenny Mosdell) enroute to Boston for the play-offs

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States, at Montréal's Central Station

Actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews come to Ottawa to film Iron Curtain

Buster Keaton (silent movie actor) at CN photographic department

Animator Walt Disney (left) and friends visit a Jasper lodge

Actor Christopher Plummer (centre) as Hamlet in the Stratford production

Durness school

Grey Owl (Archibald Stansfeld Belaney) with beaver in canoe

Wheat farmer inspecting crop

Louis LaVallee repairing birch bark canoe

Fred Davis, television host of

Sir Henry and Lady Thornton present at opening of the Dunblane rail/highway bridge

Their Majesties passing in front of Union Station during the 1939 Royal Tour

Polish soldiers arrive - enroute to farms in Canada

GTR employees from Stratford shops

Camp Ahmic - totem pole

Official dedication of CN Tower

Robert Robertson and his argillite carvings

Changing of the military guard at the Prince Rupert shipyard and dry dock

Rows of soldiers' tents disappear off into the distance at a WWI training camp

Soldiers digging at a WWI training camp

Soldiers lined up to practice shooting at a WWI training camp

Preparing meat at a WWI training camp

Soldiers load a gun at a WWI training camp

Soldiers operate a gun at a WWI training camp

A soldier, at a WWI training camp, preparing to shoot

Inside this WWI training camp's canteen is a cooking stove

Looking down the barrel of an 18-pounder field gun at a WWI training camp

Soldiers shaving at a WWI training camp

A bugler sounding a duty call at a WWI training camp

Soldiers line up for their meal at a WWI training camp

Soldiers standing around a building under construction at a WWI training camp

New recruits at a WWI training camp