Collection search - Keewatin Missions = Missions du Keewatin

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Keewatin Missions = Missions du Keewatin

Item number (ISN):

281423

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1950/1955 ?

Item number (ISN):

281423

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCLEAN, Harry Falconer

Accession:

1998-0093

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1950/1955 ?

Sponsor:

Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Description:

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Film promoting Roman Catholic missionary work in the Keewatin area of Manitoba, including: a geographical map of the Keewatin area; The Pas, Manitoba; Indian (First Nations) and (Métis) lumber mill workers; Reverend M. Lajeunesse OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) with children; log cabin cathedral built by Bishop Charlebois; Grey? nuns; other church buildings; priests and native (Indigenous) people; bird's eye-view of region; Keewatin countryside; Santa Maria flying boat; a priest teaching and handing out peanuts to native (Indigenous) children; a church service; baptisms; the raising and blessing of a large wooden cross; OMI making bread and chopping wood; a native (Indigenous) home; native (Indigenous) women making snowshoes, netting, stretching skins, drying hides and meat; cooking bannock and other food over open fire; summer fishing and ice fishing; modern Yorkboat; native (Indigenous) men and clergy canoeing and portaging upstream, then setting up a "lean-to" church and holding a church service; sleeping outdoors in snow by campfire; Lynx; clergy travelling by dog team to visit the sick and administering the sacrament of healing; wildlife - snowy owls and birds; supplies arriving by plane; tractor transport for mining; nuns and lay brothers gardening; burnt mission building; missionary sisters teaching cooking and sewing skills - cooking popcorn over an open fire; school picnic; and grotto. <59mn>

Language:

Silent with bilingual intertitles

Notes:

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1. Promotional film produced for the OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate / Oblats de Marie-Immaculée).~2. Bilingual intertitles.

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Vault ISN:

343668

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2000-02-0066

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

363027

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2001-09-0003

Number of items:

1

Duration:

112:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

950857

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

2000-02-0066-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

39:40

Made from:

2000-02-0066

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

950863

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

281423.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

39:40

Made from:

2000-02-0066

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

950868

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

281423.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

39:40

Made from:

2000-02-0066

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

977123

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2001-09-0012

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

2000-02-0066
7301-9019
8006-0296
7906-0442

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2001-09-0003

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions Harry McLean died in April 1961. His wife, Reta, died in 1978. They had no children and were pre-deceased by his brothers and parents. As of December 2003, no living relatives have been located. The donor, Joseph Justin McNally, died in 2003.~Harry McLean died in April 1961.~His wife, Reta, died in 1978.~They had no children and were pre-deceased by his brothers and parents.~As of December 2003, no living relatives have been located.~The donor, Joseph Justin McNally, died in 2003.

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