Parliament Hill grounds and the Centennial Flame

(Sound of running water)

(General shot of Centennial Flame before sunrise)

(Text on screen: Centennial Flame, Parliament Hill, Ottawa 5:48 am)

(Close-up of Centennial Flame monument before sunrise)

(Sound of running water stops)

(Close-up of hand taking hold of brush)

(Close-up of hand assembling water hose) (Sound of hose being assembled)

(Close-up of cleaning tool) (Sound of tool being inserted into holder)

(Medium shot of yellow rubber boots)

(Close-up of pressure washer being set down) (Sound of pressure washer being set down on wood surface)

(Close-up of water hose being set down) (Sound of hose being set down on wood surface)

(Close-up of hand turning ignition key) (Sound of ignition turning on)

(General shot of vehicle pulling up to a stop sign) (Engine sounds emitted from vehicle)

(Close-up of vehicle wheel coming to a stop) (Sound of ignition turning off)

(Close-up of worker’s face putting on a protective respirator mask)

(Close-up of hand inserting plug in an electrical outlet)

(Close-up of hand turning dial of pressure washer) (Sound of dial being turned)

(Close-up of water emitting from hose nozzle) (Sound of high pressure water)

(Medium shot of worker handling pressure washer tool) (Sound of high pressure water from a distance)

(Time lapse of worker cleaning the Centennial Flame)

(Close-up of brush cleaning surface of Centennial Flame)(Sound of brush sweeping surface of Centennial Flame)

(Close-up of brush sweeping up coins) (Sound of brush sweeping up coins)

(Close-up of brush sweeping up coins onto strainer) (Sound of coins shuffling onto strainer)

(Close-up of coins on strainer) (Sound of coins shuffling on strainer)

(Close-up of coins pouring into a blue bucket) (Sound of coins pouring into bucket)

(Sound of running water)

(Close-up of water running down the Centennial Flame monument)

(Medium shot of worker’s arm igniting the Centennial Flame)

(Sounds of running water bring the video to an end)

(Text on screen: 9:37 am)

(Text on screen: A national symbol, cleaned and maintained.

The money collected helps fund disability research through the Centennial Flame Research Award.) (Canada Wordmark)

(Light instrumental music plays in the background.)

(Text on screen: Fifty-one years after its construction)

(Close-up of the Centennial Flame; Parliament Hill visitors are taking photos of the monument in the background)

(Text on screen: the Centennial Flame was transformed.)

(Overhead shot of the monument)

(Text on screen: During Canada 150)

(Wide-angle shot of the monument, with the Centre Block in the background )

(Text on screen: the symbols of Nunavut were added to the structure.)

(Close-up of a sculptor’s hands chiseling the North Star in the mold of Nunavut’s shield)

(Close-up of a hand turning a page of the Centennial Flame’s designs)

(Text on screen: This iconic monument now represents every province and territory.)

(Close-up of a masked and gloved welder using a blowtorch to weld pieces of the monument’s metal frame)

(Close-up of a welder’s hands using a grinder to smoothen edges of the monument’s frame)

(Overhead shot of a transport truck travelling on a highway, carrying the rebuilt monument’s frame on the back )

(Text on screen: Follow us to learn more about this historic project.)

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(Public Services and Procurement Canada departmental signature)

(Canada wordmark)

(Light instrumental music plays in the background throughout the video.)

(Wide-angle shot of Parliament Hill’s Centennial Flame, with the Centre Block and the Peace Tower in the background)

Voice over (Phil White): When the Centennial Flame was built in 1966, (Close-up of the monument showing British Columbia’s bronze shield; camera pans to the left towards Yukon’s shield) Nunavut didn’t exist as a territory. (Close-up of the monument showing a carving of the year 1867) Now, 150 years later (Chest shot of Phil White), Nunavut was brought into Confederation (Text on screen: Phil White, Dominion Sculptor), made part of Canada in 1999 officially.

(Close-up of the monument showing the flame burning at the centre of the fountain) Now is our opportunity to rectify the absence of Nunavut (Overhead shot of the monument )in the circle of the Centennial Flame.

(Chest shot of Phil White )Adding Nunavut (Close-up of a hand turning a page of the Centennial Flame’s designs) is a bit of a challenge because it requires (Medium shot of the rebuilt monument’s metal frame in a workshop) redesign and rebuild of the flame (Medium shot of masked and gloved welder using a blowtorch to weld pieces of the monument’s metal frame), but we want to preserve the same heritage character. (Chest shot of Phil White )We don’t want it to change in appearance. (Medium shot of a steel worker cleaning a metal part of the monument using a sand blasting tool )Really, it involves completely rebuilding the flame, adding new stone, but in exactly the same design (Chest shot of Phil White )that it was before, but we have to add a 13th slice. (Various shots of steel workers in a workshop handling, measuring and smoothening the edges of the frame of the monument’s cauldron using a grinder )The monument itself was designed with 12 facets to represent the 12 provinces and territories, so we have to include a 13th, which means all the stones have to be redesigned, recut and rebuilt.

(Various shots of a steel worker intentionally creating a green patina on the surface of a bronze shield by heating it with a blowtorch, pouring copper nitrate onto it and spreading it with a brush) We also have to add a new bronze shield for Nunavut because all the provinces and territories in the monument are represented by their shields, the year in which they joined Confederation, (Close-up of the Centennial Flame showing a carving of the year 1905 and of the provincial flower of Saskatchewan) and a carving in stone of their provincial or territorial flower.

(Various shots of Phil White standing at a drawing table, designing representations of the symbols of Nunavut) I have designed the way the flower and the date will be interpreted and have created the model for the bronze shield. (Various shots of Phil White chiseling the model for Nunavut’s shield)

(Close-up of Nunavut’s shield )The shield of Nunavut is circular (Camera pans to Ontario’s shield), unlike all of the other shields (Close-up of the inuksuk on Nunavut’s shield), and has the main symbols of the territory in the design. (Brief fade to black)

(Overhead shot of a transport truck travelling on a highway, carrying the rebuilt monument’s frame on the back) Now that the new decorative elements have all been recreated, (Night shot of the rebuilt frame being lowered into place on Parliament Hill; the construction site is surrounded by wood hoarding) and/or cleaned and are ready to go, (Sparks fly in the night as a worker smoothens part of the monument’s frame using a grinder) we can rebuild the monument (Various shots of stone masons measuring stones), bring all the new stone in and recreate the Centennial Flame on site. (Close-up of hands installing Nunavut’s shield on the monument, followed by a medium shot of the installation of the monument’s cauldron) (Brief fade to black)

(Excerpt of the relighting of the Centennial Flame ceremony on Parliament Hill, which occurred on December 13, 2017. The Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, the Governor General of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, representatives of the territory of Nunavut and other dignitaries lit the flame.)

(Overhead shot of the rebuilt monument)

(Close-up of the rebuilt monument showing the flame burning at the centre of the fountain)

(Cut to black, and music stops)

(Public Services and Procurement Canada departmental signature)

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