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The Last Frontier

Item number (ISN):

284526

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1934

Item number (ISN):

284526

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

FINNIE, Richard Sterling

Accession:

1973-0128

Media:

Film

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1934

Production company:

Richard Finnie (Producer)

Production credit:

producer/photography, Richard Finnie

Sponsor:

National Museum of Canada, Ottawa

Description:

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Documentary about transportation and mining development in the Mackenzie District in 1934, from Fort Smith northward to Great Bear Lake. Animated map showing route travelled from Edmonton to Great Bear Lake. Scenes include: on board a train; cityscape of Edmonton; float plane at dock; view atop a railway car; crowd meeting train at Waterways station; automobiles on mud road on main street of town; paddle wheeler, Northland Echo; moving hull of boat through town; Bear Lake Hotel landmark; moving paddle wheeler down dirt road by truck to other water point; Fort Smith - 60th parallel marker; members of local First Nations community; float plane CF-AAO taking off; side launch of paddle wheeler; moving the Margaret A ship with logs on a corduroy road and side launch; shipbuilding centre; loading supplies into boat; crew pulling barge from the rocks; cemetary; tennis; N.P. Burce I. barge side launch; loading supplies including explosives into lower part of barge; paddle wheeler Distributor, pushing barges; relaxing on deck; black flies on window; Northern Traders Limited store; two women in fancy dresses pushing baby stroller; gardening; swimming; hunting party cleaning rifles; sunset; tug pulling barge; Imperial Oil Limited Discovery wells, Fort Norman, Northwest Territories; oil wells; dog with litter; Canadian Airways Limitied CF-ARI float plane arriving; woman on board in coveralls with male crew; aerial view; interior scenes of plane; shaking hands with members of First Nations community who are greeting crew; loading supplies; Canadian Airways Limited bulletin - aircraft "AO" from Fort Rae, due at 15:30; The Gardner Café; CF-AAO taking off; RCMP post; constable playing with dogs; elderly First Nations couple; making fishing nets; fishing; moutain top view of village; cook ringing dinner bell triangle; mining establishment and mining cart on rail; close-up of ore sample; Mackenzie Air Service Limited, Edmonton, Alberta; pilot flying in cockpit; RCMP constable gardening; building post and beam structure; geologist sampling with hammer; railway into mine; barge arriving; unloading supplies; drilling core samples and blasting with dynamite; and interior of mine. <57mn 09s>

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Lecture film used to explain the Canadian north to the public.~2. 2015-07-0006 (16mm FGMP parts one and two only) was recently found in the film lab and added to the IDC.~3. Photographed with the Bell & Howell Filmo on Agfa Film.~4. See also ISN 61880 for out-takes of the same film.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8110-0031
V1 9811-0015

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 26538

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of Library and Archives Canada.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright administered by Library and Archives Canada.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions : with credit to Richard Sterling Finnie Collection, National Archives of Canada : see notes~The copyright of material produced by Richard Finnie resides with Anne Finnie. However, Mrs. Finnie does not care to be contacted by researchers requesting reproduction of the material. She has given NA discretionary power to allow copying or not (see letter of 21 July 1987 in Collection File). Researchers requesting copies should contact Audio-Visual Acquisitions and Research of VSA for permission.

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