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The Dikes
19559 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Roger Blais
Production: Roger Blais
A dramatized presentation of the work of the Maritime Marshlands Reclamation Administration in the reclaiming of flooded agricultural regions along the Bay of Fundy. Through the account of a dike-keeper, the film describes the destruction that follows the breaking of long-neglected dikes during autumn rains and shows how M.M.R.A. engineers are cooperating with New Brunswick land-owners in the big task of keeping at bay the inundations of the sea.
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Subject categories
- Francophone Communities > AcadiaNew Brunswick
- Agriculture > Atlantic RegionLand and Water ResourcesSoil and Farmland
- Technology > Dams, Irrigation and Power Projects
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
Credits
- director
- Roger Blais
- producer
- Roger Blais
- photography
- Lorne C. Batchelor
- sound
- William Greaves
- editing
- Victor Jobin
- Fergus McDonell
- music
- Robert Fleming