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Indian Relocation: Elliot Lake
196729 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: D'Arcy MarshDavid Hughes
Production: John Kemeny
An experiment to prepare Indigenous people for city life, through a program of vocational and academic education carried out with families who were moved to the town of Elliot Lake in northern Ontario from neighbouring reserves. The film listens in on classes and discussions, and interviews some families who stayed, some who went back. It offers insight into the sort of adjustments that Indigenous People face in this kind of 'programmed' integration.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Cultural ConflictQuébec and OntarioSocial Problems
- Social Issues > Indigenous PeoplesUrban Life
- Urbanism > OntarioUrban Life
Credits
- director
- D'Arcy Marsh
- David Hughes
- producer
- John Kemeny
- camera
- D'Arcy Marsh
- editing
- Christopher Cordeaux
- sound recording
- Michel Hazel
- Sam Chandler
- sound editing
- Pierre Bernier
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux