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And you can get a glimpse of the faded slice of national history on a classic newsreel, recently released online.

The Old Glory weather station once stood atop Old Glory Mountain in the Cascade Mountain Range near Rossland. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) released a 1954 newsreel that includes a short report called B次元官网网址淥ld Glory Weather StationB次元官网网址� on its streaming platform.

The meteorological observatory was constructed in the early 1940s to support commercial air travel with accurate weather data and was staffed continually throughout the year.

The short documentary has been restored and digitized from the NFBB次元官网网址檚 vault near Montreal as part of an initiative putting out more NFB collection films from Western Canada.

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The 6.5-minute film was shot in 1954 on Old Glory mountain and features not only the meteorological technicians (aka the B次元官网网址淢et MenB次元官网网址�) at work, but also the late pioneer and horse packer Wilf Gibbard (1913-2011), who supplied the station with goods in the summer months.

The reel explains the daily regimen of meteorologists stationed at the site, and the task of accessing and transporting supplies to the remote and sometimes dangerous location. Supplies included coal for heating and cooking, groceries, fuel for a generator, hydrogen cylinders for the weather balloons, and water in the summer.

The weather station was ultimately destroyed by an over-stoked fire in the wood stove on Jan. 2, 1968.

The film restoration initiative is managed by NFBB次元官网网址檚 English Program Collections Curator, Camilo Mart铆n-Fl贸rez.

Titled Eye Witness No. 65, the full newsreel is now available for .

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