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Homesteading on the Prairies

Name: Homesteading on the Prairies
Duration: 11 min

Eva Szasz

1995 | 11 min

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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.

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Credits

director

Eva Szasz
producer

Tamara Lynch
script

Jocelyn Rehder
camera

Raymond Dumas
sound editing

John Knight
re-recording

Louis Hone
narrator

Griffith Brewer

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