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Record information – Brief The Last Best West
Series title:Thursday NightHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):15956Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTOAccession:1983-0360Media:VideoRelease date:1969-10-02Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:producer, Jeannine Locke; executive producer, William Harcourt; Robert Patchell; editing, Ron Garant; narration, Allan McFeeDescription:An examination of the economic and social changes in Western Canada since the discovery of oil reserves in Alberta in 1947. Topics explored include: foreign capital investment; the poor promotion and development of the oil industry; the plight of the small Western farmer; Western separatism; and the lack of cooperation between Eastern and Western Canada. Includes interviews with: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; Manitoba Premier Edward Schreyer; Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher; Gordon Shrum, Chairman of B.C. Hydro; Hu Harries, Liberal MP for Edmonton-Strathcona; Milt Harrandence, a Calgary lawyer and former leader of the Conservative Party of Alberta; Roy Atkinson, head of the National Farmer's Union; Henry Bohrson, a wheat farmer from Hanley, Sask.; Prof. Donald Smiley, political scientist at University of B.C.; and Merrill Menzies, Winnipeg economist.Subjects:ALBERTA~CANADA~ECONOMIC CONDITIONS~FARMERS~INTERNATIONAL TRADE~NATURAL RESOURCES~OIL FIELDS~PETROLEUM INDUSTRY~PETROLEUM RESERVES~REGIONALISM~UNITED STATES~WESTERN CANADA ~ATKINSON, ROY~HARRIES, HU~SCHREYER, EDWARD~SMILEY, DONALD~THATCHER, ROSS~TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTTLanguage:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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