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Down North
195829 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hector Lemieux
Production: John HoweNicholas Balla
Script: John Howe
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.
A report on sub-Arctic developments in the 1.3 million square km District of Mackenzie. In communities such as Hay River, Yellowknife and Port Radium modern technology and methods of winter transport opened up new possibilities in mining, lumbering, and other industries, and new opportunities for the Inuit and First Nations populations.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Arctic RegionRegional Development
- Economics > Arctic RegionCanadian Community and Regional DevelopmentIndigenous Concerns
- Industry and Commerce > Arctic RegionRegional Development
- Technology > Climate-related TechnologyIndustrial Technology
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Northwest Territories, Nunavut and YukonRegional Development
Credits
- writer
- John Howe
- producer
- John Howe
- director
- Hector Lemieux
- photography
- Hector Lemieux
- executive producer
- Nicholas Balla
- music
- Robert Fleming
- editing
- George Kaczender
- sound
- John Knight
- re-recording
- George Croll
- lyrics
- John Howe
- song composer
- Robert Fleming