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Boating, as Canada's biggest summer sports splurge, veers hard on the heels of television as a pastime calculated to keep families together in their search for recreation. Out on the blue water of lake and river or skipping over the silver surface of the sea, the tired businessman quickly emerges as the captain of all he surveys, dreamy adolescents become the master of their fate and mother, who is rarely left at home, is unchallenged in her role as first mate.

Date
May 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88764
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
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Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line

Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928

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While the traditional wooden bottoms have not been entirely displaced, the trend is increasingly towards metal and plastic boats. Many of these still require an annual coat of copper paint to prevent fouling of the bottom by water worms.

Date
May 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88773
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Photo Features
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line

Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928

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Canada is experiencing a boom in small boats unparalleled in its history. During the past seven years, sales of sail and motor boats have more than tripled as countless Canadians from coast to coast have taken to the water in a wide variety of craft from the humblest outboard to the flashiest of yachts. Above, a Marconi rigged Dragon slips out of the tranquil anchorage of the Britannia Yacht Club for a day of sailing on the broad-breasted Ottawa river.

Date
May 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88778
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Photo Features
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line

Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928

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Powered craft with a motor of 10 horsepower and upwards are required by law to be licensed. Deluxe outboards range up to 75 h.p., come equipped with electric starters, remote steering wheels, and gear shifts.

Date
May 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88779
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Photo Features
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line

Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928

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Most men, boat-builders are discovering, harbour deep within them a deep-rooted urge to possess some form of water craft. Size and luxury furnishing are unimportant to the beginner; prices range from a few hundred dollars to many thousands.

Date
May 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88780
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Photo Features
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line

Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928

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Photostory #216: Big Boom in Small Boats: Canadians Take To The Water

Photographers
Photo Features
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
June 30, 1959
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Weeks before the boating season opens, land-locked sailors lavish loving care on their craft. Bottoms are caulked, paint jobs brightened, motors tuned, so that there will be naught to spoil the fun when the big day finally arrives, and boats, big and small, hit the waves.
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