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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

A Winchester bottle is the exhibit in the Black Museum associated with the murder of a four-year-old girl. A set of mysterious fingerprints on the bottle cannot be identified.

Sidney Patterson's body has been found in a burning building. But, he was shot in the back! Mr. Patterson then turns out to be Duncan Frazier! The teeth tell the story.

A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe!

A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed.

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar.

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!

The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals lik

May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.