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Christmas Day 1936

Broadcast Date: Dec. 25, 1936

It is a simpler time. A young girl with a sled and a young boy on skis organize teams and race down the hill. They call themselves the Maple Leafs and the Brownies and it's a neck and neck pursuit. On the riverbank and hillside, more children eagerly try out their new skates, sleds and skis. "You can hear them having the time of their young lives," reports this CBC Radio correspondent. "It is simply a perfect Christmas day in Edmonton, Alberta in 1936," he says.

Christmas Day 1936

• The 1936 Canada Broadcasts Christmas special was an ambitious pan-Canadian broadcast. From 10 different cities, reporters filed interviews and the hosts coordinated a cross-country sing-a-long with synchronized audiences in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. The program also featured an interview with a farmer struggling with the drought in Saskatchewan, greetings from the Dionne quintuplet's doctor, interviews with children at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and a remote from a transatlantic cable boat.

Christmas Day 1936

Medium: Radio

Program: CBC Radio News Special

Broadcast Date: Dec. 25, 1936

Duration: 2:34

Photo: CBC Still Photo Collection, Toronto

Last updated:
Dec. 1, 2008