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Songs of Nova Scotia

Grant Crabtree

1958 11 min

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Dr. Helen Creighton explores her native Nova Scotia, finding singers and songs in order to document the fast-receding folklore of the early pioneers on her tape recorder.

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Dr. Helen Creighton explores her native Nova Scotia, finding singers and songs in order to document the fast-receding folklore of the early pioneers on her tape recorder.

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Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism

Music

Women - Portraits

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Credits

• director
  Grant Crabtree
  
• photography
  Grant Crabtree
  
• producer
  Nicholas Balla
  
• script
  Tim Wilson
  
• sound
  Claude Pelletier
  
• editing
  George Kaczender
  
• narrator
  Geoffrey Hogwood
  
• music
  Eldon Rathburn
  

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