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Trans Canada Summer

Ronald Dick, Jack Olsen & Jean Palardy

1958 56 min

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The camera follows the Trans-Canada Highway from east to west, revealing the people, the resources and the geography of Canada. Included are some of the engineering feats accomplished in the building of the highway.

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The camera follows the Trans-Canada Highway from east to west, revealing the people, the resources and the geography of Canada. Included are some of the engineering feats accomplished in the building of the highway.

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Credits

• script
  Ronald Dick
  
• director
  Ronald Dick
  
• co-director
  Jack Olsen
  
  Jean Palardy
  
• photography
  Robert Humble
  
  Reginald Morris
  
  Jean Roy
  
• editing
  William Greaves
  
• sound effects
  William Greaves
  
• commentary
  Stanley Jackson
  
• narrator
  Pierre Berton
  
• music direction
  Eldon Rathburn
  
• music editing
  Malca Gillson
  
• sound recording
  Joseph Champagne
  
• producer
  Tom Daly
  

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