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Hunger's Children

Item number (ISN):

218611

Series title:

Witness

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

218611

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIA SATELLITE

Accession:

1994-0046

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1994-01-17

Production company:

Screenlife Incorporated
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

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Documentary about the Irish immigrants who sailed to Canada in the 1840s to escape the potato famine, only to die of cholera and other diseases during the ocean crossing or when they reached Canada's shores. Fear of contagious disease prompted the authorities in the Canadas to quarantine the immigrants on board the ships anchored in the St. Lawrence River or on the island of Gross Ile. Thousands of immigrants died on the island and were buried there in mass graves.~The documentary also explores the controversy over Parks Canada's plan to turn the island into a theme park celebrating Canadian immigration in general. Various Irish-Canadian organizations [resent] such a plan because it downplays the tragic fate of the Irish immigrants and demonstrates a lack of respect for their burial place.~Hunger's Children also visits Ireland, showing various historic sites, notably a former estate of a wealthy landowner which is now a museum to commemorate the victims of the potato famine. Irish museum officials and historians lend their support to the Irish Canadian call for a Canadian memorial to the Irish immigrants. The documentary explores the role of sentiment, myth and historic fact in forming different points of view on the causes of the potato famine, the degree to which the British were responsible for the famine and the suffering of the Irish peasants, and the attitudes of present-day Irish Canadians.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Copyright Screenlife Incorporated, which produced it in association with the CBC.

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Vault ISN:

224145

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9401-0191

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1131255

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9401-0045.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9401-0045

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1131260

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9401-0045.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9401-0045

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9401-0191

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Screenlife Incorporated.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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