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Subjects (65)
Fishing and Hunting Industries (30)

Cooperatives (5)

  • Citizen Discussions
    Citizen Discussions
    Colin Low 1967 28 min
    By using film as a means of communication, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their concerns. This film discusses efforts to obtain provincial support for the United Maritimes Fisheries Co-op to run the Seldom fish plant, and comments on the subsequent decision by the Newfoundland government in favour of the Yellow Fish Company.
  • High Tide in Newfoundland
    High Tide in Newfoundland
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    Grant McLean 1955 21 min
    This 1950s account of the Newfoundland fishing industry shows equipment and methods of fishing. The film also documents the processing and marketing of fish. A record of the problems confronting fishermen in Newfoundland during the past, it also serves as a comparison with present-day Newfoundland fishing.
  • The Rising Tide
    The Rising Tide
    Jean Palardy 1949 29 min
    This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. While we glimpse many aspects of the cooperative movement in Cape Breton and all through the Maritimes, the major part of this story deals with the fishing folk (one-sixth of the Maritimes' population) and shows how, thanks to the cooperative effort, fishermen such as Willie Leblanc have come from the hungry, hopeless years of the 1920s to better times.
  • Tom Best on Co-operatives
    Tom Best on Co-operatives
    Colin Low 1967 12 min
    A discussion of the problems and efficacy of a fishermen's cooperative.
  • Trappers of the Sea
    Trappers of the Sea
    Margaret Perry 1945 13 min
    This film presents the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia with a brief reference to the cooperative movement and how co-ops are used in the affairs of the people. Pierre, a fisherman, is shown as he sails forth to set his one hundred traps. The film shows both the problems of adverse weather and also the methods used to land the lobster and prepare them for market.

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