Home Movies: Alaska

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Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1941

Complete Record: S. S. Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert, B.C. ship title, harbor and smoke stack, Ocean Falls Recreation Park, guest house and flowers, fish in fishnet, poster with images of Churchill and Roosevelt: “Conquer we must, conquer we shall, our country is going to play its full part.” Guessing game invites people to “Drive a nail in Hitler’s coffin, 10 cents a nail. Guess the weight of the coffin on June 21st and win a prize. Half proceeds to prize money, half proceeds to Queen’s Canadian Fund for Air Raid Victims.” Sign sits on top of black coffin that reads “Adolfph Hitler, 1889-1941.” Seagulls, Wrangell, Alaska sign, totem poles, harbors and c.u. flowers, sea shanties. Juneau; Taku Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier, Skagway, tour bus, graffiti on rock, sunset on water, sea workers, tourists on board playing shuffle-board, steam engine and views from the train, Alaska boundary sign (to Canada); Bennett, church where men were encamped building boats for journey to the Klondyke, pack mule, Carcross, trading post, sled with Huskie DOG, country church, wolf, vole. Lake Tagish: waterwheel boat (nice), gulls following boat, Ben-My-Chree, good sunset on water, the sun on the horizon (area where sun never sets in light season), Canadian ship from shore, Canadian flag flying.