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Immigration and Settlement (7)

  • Bekevar Jubilee
    Bekevar Jubilee
    Albert Kish 1977 27 min
    A warm and lively film, Bekevar Jubilee dips into history to look at a time when the first Hungarian peasants came to settle the plains of Saskatchewan. The film documents the festivities commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bekevar community, and contrasts it with footage and photographs of the old and new countries at the turn of the century.
  • Drylanders
    Drylanders
    Don Haldane 1963 1 h 9 min
    This epic drama looks at the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that led to the Depression in the Thirties. It is the saga of a family who left Eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies. Principle roles are played by Frances Hyland and James Douglas.
  • Freedom Had a Price
    Freedom Had a Price
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    Yurij Luhovy 1994 55 min
    A disturbing documentary of Canada's first national alien-internment operation. It tells the little-known story of Ukrainian immigrants who found themselves subject to discriminatory and repressive measures during World War I.
  • Great Grand Mother
    Great Grand Mother
    Anne Wheeler  &  Lorna Rasmussen 1975 28 min
    This short film is an ode to the women who settled the Prairies, from the days of early immigration to 1916 - when Manitobans became the first women in Canada to receive the provincial vote - and beyond. Recollections of women are complemented by a series of quotations drawn from letters, diaries, and newspapers of the day, which are spoken over re-enacted scenes and archival photographs.
  • Homesteading on the Prairies
    Homesteading on the Prairies
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    Eva Szasz 1995 11 min
    Set in Manitoba in the 1890s, the story traces an Ontario farm family as they move west in search of cheap land. They experience travel on the recently completed CPR, build a sod house, battle a prairie fire and celebrate their first harvest.
  • Strangers at the Door
    Strangers at the Door
    John Howe 1977 28 min
    This drama tells the harrowing story of an immigrant family in the New World. On arrival in Canada, their hopes for a better life were dashed when immigration officials refused to grant entry to their daughter. During a routine medical examination it was found that Kasia had contracted an infectious eye disease. She is separated from her family and sent back to Europe alone.
  • Wild Life
    Wild Life
    Amanda Forbis  &  Wendy Tilby 2011 13 min
    In 1909, a dapper young remittance man is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. This animated short is about the beauty of the prairie, the pang of being homesick and the folly of living dangerously out of context.