The Dikes

19559 min 52 secFilm: Documentary

G

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