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White Fortress

Leslie McFarlane & Ronald Weyman

1949 10 min

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This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain medical help.

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This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain medical help.

See also

Health and Medicine

Politics and Government - Canada

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Credits

• director
  Leslie McFarlane
  
  Ronald Weyman
  
• producer
  Don Mulholland
  
• photography
  Robert Humble
  
  Robert Campbell
  
• editing
  Nicholas Balla
  
  Marion Meadows
  
• narrator
  Lorne Greene
  
• music
  Robert Fleming
  

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