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Homesteading on the Prairies

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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Homesteading on the Prairies

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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.

Agriculture
History - Canada - 1867-1919
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  • 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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