Long before television there was Wayne & Shuster. Their names are synonymous with Canadian entertainment. Comedy duo Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster began work for CBC during the Second World War. Read More »
Posted on Nov 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This picture provides a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Butternut Square in 1966. The show starred Ernie Coombs, who played Mr. Dressup, before the character would go on to become one of the best known-names in children's programming. Read More »
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Glenn Gould participates in a discussion with producer David Jaeger and Ken Haslam for Glenn Gould: A Portrait in 1974. Gould is one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. Read More »
Posted on Oct 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Children's program Razzle Dazzle aired between 1961 and 1966 and featured Howard the Turtle as the star of the show. Howard would often tell jokes, known as "groaners". The show was hosted by Michele Finney and Al Hamel. Read More »
Posted on Oct 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This image shows the village set from The Friendly Giant. Bob Homme starred in the popular children's television program, The Friendly Giant, from 1958-1985. In the 15-minute show, Homme played the giant, Friendly, who lived in a huge castle.
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Posted on Oct 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Adrienne Clarkson, Moses Znaimer and Paul Soles pose for a Take 30 photo shoot in the 1960s. Take 30 was afternoon TV for homemakers, but it assumed women's interests went beyond recipes and child rearing. Read More »
Posted on Oct 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mike Duffy reports on-location for a 1980 segment. Born in Prince Edward Island, Duffy has been a fixture in Canadian political journalism since the 1970s. He was with CBC until 1988, when he began working for CTV. Read More »
Posted on Oct 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This display was set up at a fisheries exhibition in Nova Scotia to promote the local CBC Television station, CBHT. The display featured an example of the camera of the day, photos of various personalities and a map showing the expected broadcast reach. Read More »
Posted on Oct 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bruno Gerussi makes an appearance in a cooking segment on Take 30 in 1969 with food consultant Jehane Benoit. Read More »
Posted on Oct 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On May 28, 1934, the five identical girls were born to Elzire and Oliva Dionne in Callander, Ont. The five sisters together they weigh less than 6.5 kilograms. Against all expectations, they survive their first weeks. Read More »
Posted on Oct 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cross Country Checkup came shouting over the airwaves in 1965, as callers fiercely debated whether Canada should have a national publicly funded health-care system. It has taken the pulse of the nation ever since. Read More »
Posted on Oct 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer films a segment for Talking to Americans. The one-hour comedy special, which aired in April 2001, consisted of Mercer interviewing Americans in the street to expose ridiculous degrees of ignorance about Canadian issues. Read More »
Posted on Oct 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Lloyd Robertson, Toby Tarnow and Tom Kneebone appear in the summer of 1962 on the CBC Television series Vacation Time. The summer replacement series aired during the summer months in the place of regular children's programming that was on hiatus. Read More »
Posted on Oct 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In a 2009 episode of Battle of the Blades, Kurt Browning took to the ice in hockey skates for a special guest performance set to Frank Sinatra's Luck Be A Lady, choreographed by regular judge Sandra Bezic. Read More »
Posted on Oct 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Canadian Broadcasting is a 12 storey, 1,554,000 square feet broadcasting and production facility in Toronto, and houses English language radio and television networks, CBC News Network, Ontario regional and local radio and television, cbc.ca, and the French language radio station, CJBC. Read More »
Posted on Oct 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Steve Smith and Patrick McKenna protray the characters of Red Green and his nephew Harold on the Red Green Show. Red's motto was "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" and believed anything could be fixed with duct tape. Read More »
Posted on Oct 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Kids' CBC puts families first with a groundbreaking roster of commercial-free preschool programming created by Canadians for Canadians. The weekday mornings programming celebrates the geographic and cultural diversity of our country. Read More »
Posted on Oct 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Matt Galloway is currently the new host of CBC Radio One 99.1's Metro Morning. Metro Morning is the audio version of Toronto's Yonge Street: a central urban artery that cuts through the heart of the city and beyond. Read More »
Posted on Oct 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Oscar Peterson Trio is shown performing in Montreal on the roof of the Habitat Building at Expo 67 site. The performance was part of an Oct. 19, 1966 broadcast on Music Canada, called Prelude to Expo. Read More »
Posted on Oct 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A van was outfitted for use as a mobile recording unit during the Second World War. The four-wheel-drive army truck was equipped with three recording turntables, amplifiers, microphones and a power source. The van earned the nickname Big Betsy. Read More »
Posted on Oct 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Justin Trudeau was a defender for a book included on Canada Reads 2003. Canada Reads started in 2001 and has become CBC's annual battle of the books, where five Canadian personalities select the book they think Canadians should read. Read More »
Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Gordon Lightfoot made a guest appearance on The Tommy Hunter Show in 1981. Lightfoot and the band performed Shadows and Old Dan's Records. The Tommy Hunter Show air from 1965-1992 and featured Canadian and international country and western music stars. Read More »
Posted on Oct 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A highly respected senior journalist, Joan Donaldson was the founding head of Newsworld responsible for the development and operation of the network. Read More »
Posted on Oct 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Ron James Show is now in its third season. James has established himself as a uniquely Canadian, poetically charged stand-up comedian. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On April 12, 1936, the whole world was watching the community of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Three men working in the Moose River mine became trapped as the roof collapsed. It represents one of the first remote broadcasts. Read More »
Posted on Oct 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer goes bungee jumping in Whistler, B.C., with Man in Motion Rick Hansen on an episode of the Rick Mercer Report. Read More »
Posted on Oct 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Panel member Gordon Sinclair, Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy and host Fred David pose in front of CBC-TV Studio 4 in Toronto to promote Front Page Challenge. Read More »
Posted on Oct 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
N'udu (Richard Yearwood) and JoJo (Grace Lynn Kung) do some important work the lab in an episode of InSecurity. The action comedy premiered in 2011. Read More »
Posted on Oct 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
From left, Walter Wicks, Glen Sarty and Byron MacMillian work on-location for an episode of Country Calendar. Read More »
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
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Jonathan Goldstein sits in the studio at Montreal CBC in August 2006. Goldstein is a Montreal writer and host of WireTap on CBC Radio One. Read More »
Posted on Oct 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC News foreign correspondent Adrienne Arsenault readies to tape a segment for The National while in Sri Lanka in 2007. Read More »
Posted on Oct 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cameraman Wilf Fielding works on a CBC Television set in 1952. Read More »
Posted on Oct 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Preston Manning makes a guest appearance on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Manning made four guest appearances on Air Farce - one where he famously cackled about how he loved that word "Refoooooorm". Read More »
Posted on Oct 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Al Waxman shows off the lining of his blazer in the Sept. 28, 1976 episode of the King of Kensington. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1975-1980. Read More »
Posted on Sep 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A technician works on the boards in a control room for CBC News in Toronto. Read More »
Posted on Sep 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Set designers work on the sophisticated canal structure being used in the Twelfth Night production aired on CBC Television in 1964. Read More »
Posted on Sep 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Johnny Wayne performs in a sketch on the Nov. 16, 1969 episode of the Wayne & Shuster show. Read More »
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Staff work in the control room during the filming of a 1965 episode of This Hour Has Seven Days. The often controversial newsmagazine ran on CBC Television from 1964-66. Read More »
Posted on Sep 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A camera readies to film a model of a scenic backdrop for the television series of Blackfoot Country, which aired from 1954-1958. Read More »
Posted on Sep 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The cast of Royal Canadian Air Farce, Kids in the Hall and Brent Butt performed a doughnut shop sketch on the All-Star Comedy Homecoming. Read More »
Posted on Sep 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Harry Forestell on the set of CBC News: Morning in 2007. The Toronto studios are in the 4th floor newsroom of the CBC Broadcast Centre in downtown Toronto. Read More »
Posted on Sep 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Jack Medhurst goofs around while still in costume on the set of Look Ma, I'm Human. The musical satire aired on CBC in November 1957. Read More »
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The cast and crew of Julius Caesar shoot in Woodbridge, Ont., in 1966. Based on the William Shakespeare play, the movie starred Budd Knapp as Caesar. Read More »
Posted on Sep 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Singer Jann Arden makes a guest appearance on the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1997 to fire the Chicken Cannon with Col. Stacey, played by Don Ferguson. Read More »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence spends some time with Kids' CBC musical star Mamma Yamma in the studio for a special New Year's recording. Read More »
Posted on Sep 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A mobile unit suffers a mishap while in P.E.I. for a Farm Department broadcast. The unit ended up having to be pulled out of the ditch by a tractor. Read More »
Posted on Sep 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Chef Jonathan Chovancek gives away healthy groceries in Taylor, B.C., as part of Village on a Diet. The 2011 documentary series chronicles the progress of a village that has vowed to lose a literal ton of weight in three months. Read More »
Posted on Sep 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Members of the CBC Radio Orchestra rehearse in Vancouver in 2007. Until the 1980s, CBC had a number of orchestras based in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax but they were slowly eliminated due to budget cuts. Read More »
Posted on Sep 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Most shows were filmed before live audiences in the early days of television. Here the camera and sound crew record a puppet show on the Wayne & Shuster Hour in 1958. Read More »
Posted on Sep 15, 2011 2:01:32 PM
Jian Ghomeshi hosts the popular CBC Radio One and bold TV show, Q. Q is an energetic daily arts, culture and entertainment magazine that covers pop arts and the high arts alike. Read More »
Posted on Sep 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cameraman Walter Wicks films with a Auricon 1200 camera. Auricon cameras used 16 mm film in a single system to record sound-on-film. Read More »
Posted on Sep 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
An elaborate camera system was brought inside a small arena to shoot part of Hockey: A People's History. Read More »
Posted on Sep 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Tommy Hunter participates in a special performance marking CBC's 25th anniversary. Hunter starred on The Tommy Hunter Show, which initially aired on radio before moving to television in 1965-1992. Read More »
Posted on Sep 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Monitors in the studio display the on-air action at CBC News: Morning in 2007. Anchor Harry Forestell is in the studios in Toronto while correspondent Adrienne Arsenault reports from the London bureau. Read More »
Posted on Sep 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC staff push a camera along a specially built track at one of the event events at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The coverage was the most ambitious project the CBC had ever tackled up to that point. Read More »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
John Morgan appears as Mike from Canmore on an episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce. Mike was known for his slow and bewildered statement of "I'm Mike .... from Canmore". Read More »
Posted on Sep 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
George Stroumboulopoulos interviews a flood-affected family at an internally displaced person camp in Larkana, Pakistan. Read More »
Posted on Sep 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman gets up to his waist in water during the filming of the Magnificent Gift. The 1970 documentary looked at the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. Read More »
Posted on Sep 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The tapes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's funeral arrive at Shearwater RCAF in Nova Scotia on Jan. 30, 1965. Read More »
Posted on Sep 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman host the successful talk show Steven and Chris.
The dynamic duo chats about topics ranging from entertainment to home decor. Read More »
Posted on Sep 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Newfoundland funnyman Shaun Majumder tries out a tractor for an episode of Shaun's Great Adventure. Read More »
Posted on Sep 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman stands on a platform to film the final day of the 1959 royal tour during the presentation of the Colours to the navy on Citadel Hill in Halifax. Read More »
Posted on Sep 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Martin Lavut goes up the steps on the elaborate set of the 1960 production of the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Read More »
Posted on Sep 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Ann MacMillan talks on the phone at CBC's London bureau in 2007.MacMillan has served as the managing editor of the bureau since 1981. Read More »
Posted on Aug 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Roddy goes up a ladder to help Hammy decorate the house for a party in the children's program Tales of the Riverbank. Read More »
Posted on Aug 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Sook-Yin Lee hosts Definitely Not the Opera and Your DNTO on CBC Radio One. Definitely Not the Opera is a pop culture magazine that airs every Saturday. Your DNTO airs on Tuesdays, blending the best of the Saturday show with listeners' stories. Read More »
Posted on Aug 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC established a makeshift mobile unit at the site of the Springhill, N.S., mine disaster in 1956. Read More »
Posted on Aug 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In 2005, Jack Layton participated in a new feature on the Mercer Report called My Riding, where members of Parliament showed the host what was so great about their riding. Mercer's riding is Toronto-Danforth and Layton his MP. Read More »
Posted on Aug 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cameraman Blake Connor films an Argus Airplane flypast as Singalong Jubilee films at Greenwood Arm Forces Base in Nova Scotia in 1969. Read More »
Posted on Aug 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A CBC host anchors the desk of the elaborate set used for the coverage of the 1979 election. Read More »
Posted on Aug 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Deedee, Rooney and Moe Doodle are the Doodlebops - young musical sensations with loads of enthusiasm, tonnes of talent and oodles of energy. Read More »
Posted on Aug 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Billy Bob Thornton and his band, The Boxmasters, appears on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi. The now infamous interview saw a stand-offish Thornton refusing to answer questions. Read More »
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rube Hornstein gives the forecast on the first edition of Newsday in Halifax. Read More »
Posted on Aug 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mallory (Jessica Amlee) watches as Ty (Graham Wardle) cares for his and Amy's orphaned foal in a 2009 episode of Heartland. The series began airing in 2007. Read More »
Posted on Aug 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Peggy Nairn sits in a control room at CBC's former Church Street studios. Nairn was one of CBC's first female television producers in the 1950s. Read More »
Posted on Aug 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Sitara Hewitt and Zaib Shaikh appear as their characters Rayyan Hamoudi and Amaar Rashi on Little Mosque on the Prairie. Read More »
Posted on Aug 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mamma Yamma is a yam with two passions - food and music. From her now famous kitchen in the heart of urban Toronto, Mamma uses food as a springboard for learning. Read More »
Posted on Aug 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bob Homme, gives a glimpse of his private life, allowing a music session to be photographed in his home with his wife Esther, children and dog. Read More »
Posted on Aug 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mick Jagger performs at the April 25, 1965 Rolling Stones concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The band was featured on the Music Hop on CBC Television that week. Read More »
Posted on Aug 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King makes a guest appearance on the CBC Television program Sunday on April 16, 1967. Read More »
Posted on Aug 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer gets his 'Celebrity Tip' from Canadian author Margaret Atwood in a 2005 episode of the Rick Mercer Report. Read More »
Posted on Aug 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Children's entertainer Fred Penner appears on Mr. Dressup with Ernie Coombs. Read More »
Posted on Aug 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Peter Mansbridge served as Knowlton Nash's substitute anchor on The National. In 1987, Nash voluntarily gave up his position as anchor after Mansbridge was reportedly being recruited by a U.S. network. Read More »
Posted on Aug 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Halifax Police were on hand at the Central Commons as tapes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's funeral arrived on Jan. 30, 1965. Read More »
Posted on Aug 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Howard the Turtle lays lifeless as his puppeteer John Keogh and actress Michele Finney take a break to check the script on the set of Razzle Dazzle in November 1963. Read More »
Posted on Aug 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Radio engineer Roly Anderson speaks to a colleague while on location to record a news story. Read More »
Posted on Aug 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Harry Forestell readies to film a segment in 2007 while working in CBC's London bureau. He has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. Read More »
Posted on Aug 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Alex Trebek began his career with CBC as a newscaster and sportscaster before landing his first television hosting job in 1963. Read More »
Posted on Aug 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A CBC engineer sets up his mobile recording equipment to record the bells of the famous St. Thomas Cathedral in Ortona, Italy. Read More »
Posted on Aug 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Security deals with excited female fans who charged the stage at the Sept. 7, 1964 performance by The Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Read More »
Posted on Aug 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer's tightly scripted two-minute rants see him speaking directly into the camera about a current political issue. They quickly became a signature segment on 22 Minutes. Read More »
Posted on Aug 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Radio commentator Jean Hinds speaks with Mrs. Bastedo, wife of Saskatchewan's then lieutenant governor Frank Bastedo in a broadcast of women's programming. Read More »
Posted on Aug 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas play the characters of Bob and Doug McKenzie. The fictional Canadian brothers appeared on SCTV's third season on CBC. Read More »
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Robert Bockstael, Dixie Seatle and Stephen Ouimette take direction from James Roy while recording the six-part radio drama Losing Paradise. Read More »
Posted on Aug 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
An elaborate set up is used to be able to film this walking interview for Country Calendar. Country Calendar began in 1954 and remained on CBC for 54 years. Read More »
Posted on Jul 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge works on a computer while on-location in Afghanistan. Read More »
Posted on Jul 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Glenn Anderson and Isabelle Brasseur perform in the first season of CBC Television's Battle of the Blades at Toronto's historic Maple Leaf Gardens in 2009. Read More »
Posted on Jul 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Puppeteer Judith Lawrence poses with her beloved characters, Casey and Finnegan. Read More »
Posted on Jul 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mobile Unit No. 1 hit the road in 1938. It is shown in Banff, Alta., recording a documentary radio series on Canada's National Parks. Read More »
Posted on Jul 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mystery guest Eleanor Roosevelt towers above Front Page Challenge panelists Gordon Sinclair, Toby Robins, Pierre Berton and guest panelist Marguerite Higgins. Read More »
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Matthew Halton, a correspondent with CBC's Overseas Unit during the Second World War, takes cover behind a destroyed German tank. Read More »
Posted on Jul 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Tuffy the Cat, Metro Morning's mascot, is ready for the day - complete with press pass - at Toronto's Parliament Street studios. Read More »
Posted on Jul 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Reverend Jim Bevel, a key member of the civil rights movement, speaks with Georgia Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Calvin Craig as interviewer Robert Hoyt looks on. Read More »
Posted on Jul 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Radio Canada International journalist Hanna Nowakowski interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 "bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Read More »
Posted on Jul 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A CBC technician looks at the levels on a giant panel used at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Orange and blue CBC logo uniforms were issued to all coverage staff. Read More »
Posted on Jul 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Film editor Bob Murphy used the Moviola. The Moviola was invented in 1924 as a device to allow film editors to view film while editing. Read More »
Posted on Jul 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Jean Chretien and Pamela Wallin meet their alter egos played by Roger Abbott and Luba Goy on a 1997 episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce. Read More »
Posted on Jul 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
TV News features editor King Brown interviews a local woman during CBC Television coverage of the 1956 mining disaster in Springhill, N.S. Read More »
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Hockey Night in Canada began broadcasting on CBC Television in 1952. In the 1950s, the telecast join a game in progress at 9 p.m. ET. Read More »
Posted on Jul 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC first commissioned Anne of Green Gables to be made into a television film in 1956. The musical was based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved novel. Read More »
Posted on Jul 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman follows after a skater while filming for the 2006 documentary, Hockey: A People's History. Read More »
Posted on Jul 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Alain Trudel conducts the CBC Radio Orchestra. The Vancouver-based orchestra was originally founded in 1938 as the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. Read More »
Posted on Jul 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Newsroom was an award-winning comedy series that aired on CBC Television for three seasons, beginning in 1996. Read More »
Posted on Jul 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC radio reported the live results from the federal election in 1958. John Diefenbaker won the largest ever majority government in Canadian history. Read More »
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A group shot of CBC's foreign correspondents in 1964. Read More »
Posted on Jul 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Andy Barrie talks on the phone in the offices of Metro Morning on CBC Radio One. Barrie served as host of Toronto's Metro Morning from 1995 until February 2010. Read More »
Posted on Jul 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Composer Igor Stravinsky enjoys rock star-like status as he departs CBC after conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra for a special, Stravinsky at Eighty. Read More »
Posted on Jul 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Farm commentator Jack McPherson reads on the air from the International Plowing Match in Goderich Ont., in 1946. Farm Forum broadcasts were aimed at getting farmers talking. Read More »
Posted on Jul 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
June Sampson, moderator Elwy Yost and Gayle Gerber appear on panel-game show, The Superior Sex, on June 29, 1961. Read More »
Posted on Jul 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Sound barges were used by CBC to record action during the Second World War. Read More »
Posted on Jul 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Glenn Gould and technician Lorne Tulk take some time out in the studio, in this photograph from the 1970s. Read More »
Posted on Jul 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Ernie Coombs does a drawing while filming an episode of Mr. Dressup. Mr. Dressup was produced by CBC Television from 1967-1996. Read More »
Posted on Jul 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Paul Martin turns the camera on Rick Mercer while filming a segment for the Rick Mercer Report. Mercer visited the then-prime minister at 24 Sussex in Ottawa in 2005. Read More »
Posted on Jul 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The crew works to film a scene for Canada: A People's History. The 17-episode, 32-hour documentary series aired on CBC Television from October 2000 - November 2001. Read More »
Posted on Jul 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC reporters gather at the farewell dinner for Queen Elizabeth in 1959. During the 45-day tour the Queen visited every province and territory and made her first live appearance on Canadian television. Read More »
Posted on Jul 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Teacher Robert Kennedy was one of the first teachers involved with CBC's school telecasts. The Canadian School Telecasts were broadcast twice a week during the academic year from 1954-1984 Read More »
Posted on Jun 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Donna Lajeunesse and Tamara Fifield are bid farewell by the top 4 finalists contending for the coveted role of Maria von Trapp in the musical The Sound of Music. Read More »
Posted on Jun 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bruno Gerussi and Robert Clothier play the characters of Nick Adonidas and Relic on the Beachcombers. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1972-1990. Read More »
Posted on Jun 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Guillaume Cote dances in Moving to His Music: The Two Muses of Guillaume Cote on Opening Night on CBC Television. Read More »
Posted on Jun 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mary Walsh in full costume for the character of Marg, Princess Warrior. Walsh was part of the original cast of This Hour has 22 Minutes, where she debuted the character of Marg Delahunty. Read More »
Posted on Jun 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Puppeteer and voice actor Rod Coneybeare works with Jerome the Giraffe on the set of the Friendly Giant. Coneybeare also portrayed Rusty the Rooster in the long-running children's series. Read More »
Posted on Jun 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Colin Mochrie (left) and his real-life pal guest star Wayne Brady take a photo break in full-costume ahead of a 2005 shooting of an episode of Getting Along Famously. Read More »
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Space Command was CBC Television's first dramatic series. The science fiction adventure series aired in 1953-54 and featured life on the fictional space station of XSW1. Read More »
Posted on Jun 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In this 1975 photo, Al Waxman goofs around in Kensington Market while taking a break on-location in the Toronto production of the King of Kensington. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1975-1980. Read More »
Posted on Jun 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Lorne Greene reacts while reading the news. Greene's voice eventually earned him the nickname of the "Voice of Canada". But as the country entered the Second World War, his work as the primary newsreader on CBC Radio meant he was often delivering dreaded news from the front and he soon became known as the "Voice of Doom" among many Canadians. Read More »
Posted on Jun 20, 2011 9:50:08 AM
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