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Land for Pioneers

Item number (ISN):

100557

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944

Item number (ISN):

100557

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1982-1985

Accession:

1984-0317

Media:

Film

Production date:

1944

Production company:

National Film Board

Production credit:

producer, Margaret Perry, James Beveridge; photography, Donald Fraser, Jow Gibson; music, Maurice Blackburn; narrator, King White

Description:

A review of the economic development and potential of the Canadian northwest, this film includes sequences on the Arctic, the Inuit lifestyle, and resource industries in various areas: hydraulic goldmining in the Yukon; a radium mine near Great Bear Lake; oil at Fort Norman; gold at Yellowknife; mercury extraction and processing at Pinchi Lake, British Columbia; tar sands in Alberta; and fisheries off the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. The potential for settlement in Canadian Shield mining communities is discussed. Also of note are shots of the Klondike Gold-Rush and of Inuit in traditional dress, spearing fish. <20mn>

Subjects:

CANADA~CANADIAN SHIELD~CLOTHING & DRESS~FISHING~GOLD~INDUSTRY~INUIT~MINERAL RESOURCES~MINES & MINING~NORTHERN CANADA~OIL SANDS~RADIUM~SOCIAL CONDITIONS~YUKON TERRITORY

Language:

English

Original number:

106B 0144 168

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

87040

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8220-0474

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

157142

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8220-0471

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

157143

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8220-0472

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD580

Reproduction access:

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