In 1953, a group of girls was selected to witness an historic event: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Fifty young women from across Canada were flung together on a ship, the Empress of France, and set course to Liverpool. In his new documentary, Coronation Girls, filmmaker Douglas Arrowsmith followed a dozen of those same women as they revisited their life-changing journey. Writes Arrowsmith: “I can’t claim to turn back time, but I did take a group of women on the cusp of 90 back to the year they turned 17.” Read more.

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