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CBC Archives
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto
URL: http://archives.cbc.ca
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Last visited December 2002
Keywords Radio, Television, Canada
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310466973
This site is a cornucopia of freely accessible Canadian visual and audio history. The Archives Project was launched in 1998 with hundreds of thousands of hours of radio and television history - at both the CBC and Radio-Canada - being restored, preserved and catalogued for safe-keeping and future generations' use. Stemming from a 1995 report on the Preservation and Enhanced Use of Canada's Audio-Visual Heritage, conservators forced the CBC to recognize the fact that either they began preserving this vital resource or it would simply "fade away". The Project's goals were:
* to restore and preserve the CBC's vast radio and TV heritage before many treasures were lost forever;
* to store and catalogue this...