Original Eye-Witness Interview Footage
The Canadian Journey 1992
TimeKeepers Canada
TimeKeepers Canada is a non political group of friends, senior citizens, veterans and students who believe in the future of Canada.
In 1992, a special project was recorded featuring dozens of interviews from across Canada. Seniors and veterans re-lived their eye-witness accounts of our history as we discovered stories that made us proud to be Canadians. In this series of eye witness accounts, we travelled across the nation, asking seniors about what they experienced in their lives and what they thought about the future of Canada.
The program will be released on TimeKeepers Canada in 2023.
Your hosts, Melissa Myers, who conducted the interviews in 1992,
and her daughter Rosheen take you on this fascinating
Canadian Journey.

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Episode 1 Halifax Explosion
Episode 2 Bedford Institute
Episode 4 Signal Hill
Episode 5 Digby McLaren - World Population
Episode 6 Beliveau and the Kid
Episode 7 Parliament Building Fire 1916
Episode 8 The Regina Riots
Episode 9 RCMP
Episode 10 The Aboriginals
Episode 11 RCAF
Episode 12 Alberta Grizzly
Episode 3 Air Sea Rescue Team




Some of the people in our group of friends from TimeKeepers Canada are musicians. We have seen Canada from one end to the other and here are the lyrics to one of our projects.
Sail Away
Well I am a man, who sailed upon the waters
Of the greatest seas that touch this growing land
Have you ever seen
The ones who rise in morning
With a look there in their hearts
Now yes we can
But there are ones who feel the change
Would do the world of good
And fair enough
You have that right my friend
But is it worth the gamble
And is it worth the price
Of losing something you many never find again
Well I am a man who rode across the prairies
On the topside of a boxcar from your past
They were troubled times
Back there in the 30s
But we stuck it out together
Till the last
Lonely days were over
And brighter days had come
We'd learned so many lessons
Now look what we've become
Faces shine as the thunder rules the mountains
Who was here become the settlers made their way
When I look at all the years of war
We've been through
Those men lived and died
For what we have today
Well I am a man whose flown across the mountains
From the north down to the cities of the south
Have you ever been
To some far distant country
And come home to see what life is all about
Now look what lies around you
And don't take it for granted
Cause once it's gone
It 's very hard to find
Like waiting for the shadow
Of the land to touch the shoreline
Anything that's worth it just takes time
Sail away
Down upon the ocean
Sail Away
High into the sky
You're the one
Canada we're waiting
For the ships to come
And take you home
JCBC MUSIC (1979)





Are You An Artist
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We are looking for artists to help build TimeKeepers Canada into a major educational internet project. We have hundreds of classic interviews recorded with senior citizens and veterans since 1983. Dozens of topics with stories on war, aviation, medicine, the Big Events, wisdom, EnviroStation, Future Clock and Creative Canadians. Our problem is that there are many stories that have no known photographs or
video archives available.
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We need your help to find fellow artists across Canada who are interested in painting or drawing pictures of dramatic scenes from our remarkable collection of stories. The paintings above cover two great stories from WWII. The painters volunteered their time to re-create these incredible scenes. From sea, land or air battles to a scene from the Halifax Explosion or early settlers defending themselves from
an angry grizzly bear, each scene is spectacular. If you volunteer, your art work will be
edited into one of our classic historical scenes.
You will still own the artwork. If you can sell the original or prints, you will profit from whatever the painting might earn. At the same time, we'll promote your artwork and it will become part of the invaluable Timekeepers Canada collection and inspire young people with these incredible illustrated stories.
Contact tallimar@istar.ca
