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The Education of the New Canadian

Item number (ISN):

12247

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1921/1922 ?

Item number (ISN):

12247

Link to related resource:

1921/1922 ?

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BIRD, Richard "Dick"

Accession:

1973-0142

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1921/1922 ?

Production company:

Saskatchewan Department of Education

Description:

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Film detailing the role the Department of Education in Saskatchewan is taking in promoting nationalism among school children. Intertitles read:~"The Department of Education, Regina, Saskatchewan, has produced this picture of the purpose of showing what Saskatchewan is doing for Canadianization of the West. If we are to build a strong unified Canadian people in this Great Dominion we must solve the problem of racial assimilation."~"The pictures that follow show several thousand school children - the majority of non-English parentage - being introduced to the social side of Canadian life at the Field Day Sports held at Sheho, Theodore and Calder, Saskatchewan."~"The Grand Parade. Several hundred happy young Canadians born on our liberty loving soil are proudly marching by as their parents - of Ruthenian, German, Polish, Bohemian, etc. descent - gaze with undoubted admiration."~"Hundreds of Union Jacks were distributed and the children proudly wave them as the procession passes along".~Includes footage of noon lunches, teaching of music using grafanola (record player), lessons in first aid and english are shown as work done by the provincial Department of Education.~"Baby Show - Healthy specimens of Canadian childhood. Conservation of child life is being looked after by school nurses working under the Department of Education". Shots of "prize winning babies".

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1. Filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan.~2. There is no indication anywhere on the film that this is a Ford Educational Picture. It may have been an artifact/description on the original nitrate can. The head title artwork has a small drawing of a bushel of wheat and the word Saskatchewan, which would tend to indicate this is a government film, not a Ford newsreel.~3. There are shots of the sports field day which are seen in greater detail in the film NATION BUILDING IN SASKATCHEWAN. It is highly likely that both films were filmed by Dick Bird. The date of the sports day is listed as June 24, 1921 in an intertitle in ISN 140375. The date of this film is likely 1921 or 1923.~4. Crown copyright of more than 50 years - copyright expired.
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Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8510-0226
V1 2011-09-0002

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Dick Bird died in 1986.~Ada Bird, his wife, died in approximately 2003.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-12