Recherche dans la collection - The Buffalo Hunters

ELKINGTON, Peter John

2004-0006

Film

2 of 2

1959

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/script, Frank Goodship; photography, John Seale; sound, Norman Rosen; editing, Arla Saare; narrator, Peter Elkington; music, John Avison

A documenary film which describes the importance of the bison to prairie aboriginal tribes and the subsequent fall in population after the arrival of white settlers, from 60,000,000 to 256 in twenty years. The film talks of the 715 head which were sold to Canada in 1917 and the establishment of Wood Buffalo National Park to preserve a habitat for the animal and allow its numbers to increase before an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis ravaged the herd. Eventually, the size of the herd grew, and once again people were allowed to hunt the giant grazers. Allen Garson of the Globe and Mail became the first person in 66 years to hunt the buffalo for sporting purposes. <51mn 46s>

English

Libre

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Under copyright.

Copyright owner: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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