Caption
The Exchange, sensitive barometer of the nation's economic health, opens for business at 10:00 a.m., closes at 3:30 p.m. In the course of a normal day's business millions of shares change hands, at the rate of one or more transactions every second.
Release Date
August 7, 1956
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lund, ChrisCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Canada's biggest and most complex market-place, the Toronto Stock Exchange auctions off the securities of 1,103 companies. The Exchange has 120 employees, 40 of them on the trading floor itself. Thousands of miles of telegraph and telephone wires connect it with 102 firms in North America and abroad. The Toronto Exchange boasts some of the most modern equipment in the world. New display boards record bid and ask quotations in financial centres round the world almost immediately quotations are made on the floor of the Exchange.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76863
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176231
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Many different signals arc used by traders. "Half Bid" is signified by holding up four fingers. The confusing noise and bustle characterizing the Exchange belie the fact that it is one of the most highly organized institutions in modern life.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76864
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176232
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Post boy changes stock prices as advised by traders. There are 11 trading posts on the floor. In volume of shares traded, Toronto is the most active Exchange in North America and the largest mining Exchange in the world.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76865
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176233
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
One wants to buy, one wants to sell. In such a brief exchange, stocks valued In hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands. On April 5, 1956, a record-setting 13,664,000 shares were traded, biggest day in the 104-year history of the Exchange.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76866
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176234
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Arthur J. Trebilcock (right), first paid president of the Toronto Stock Exchange, learns how the electronic computing machine (background) stores up market information in its mechanical brain, holding it ready for immediate use.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76867
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176235
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
In the teleregister room, operators are in constant telephone contact with post boys on the Exchange floor. They report bid and ask changes which are stored on a magnetronic drum and is then sent out electronically to brokers' offices.
Date
May 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76868
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176236
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory # 66: Stock Exchange 20th Century Trading Post
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
August 7, 1956
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
The Exchange, sensitive barometer of the nation's economic health, opens for business at 10:00 a.m., closes at 3:30 p.m. In the course of a normal day's business millions of shares change hands, at the rate of one or more transactions every second.
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