NFB Collection
Homesteading on the Prairies
199511 min 1 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Eva Szasz
Production: Tamara Lynch
Script: Jocelyn Rehder
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.
Availability
Subject categories
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and HarvestingPrairies - Crops and Livestock
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Immigration and SettlementPrairies and Western Canada
- History > Early Colonization/Settlement
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and Challenges
- Geography > Human Geography
Credits
- director
- Eva Szasz
- producer
- Tamara Lynch
- script
- Jocelyn Rehder
- camera
- Raymond Dumas
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Louis Hone
- narrator
- Griffith Brewer
Awards
- Silver Apple Award - Category: Filmstrips / History, Economics and GovernmentNational Educational Media Network Competition