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Canada's Awakening North

Name: Canada's Awakening North
Duration: 32 min

Ronald Dick

1951 | 32 min

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This short documentary from 1951 offers an appraisal of the social and economic development of the Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories. Get a look at the topography, resources, development, and settlement of this most-northerly Canadian frontier. Rather than depicting it as “harsh, stubborn, and silent” land, the film presents it as being filled with varied activity and opportunity.

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Credits

writer

Ronald Dick
director

Ronald Dick
director of photography

Osmond H. Borradaile
music

Robert Fleming
producer

Tom Daly

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