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The Gold Seekers
196227 min 18 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Robert Russell
Production: Victor JobinBernard Devlin
Like the Klondike, northern Ontario and Québec had gold rushes, too. Towns boomed, and died as the claims petered out: Cobalt, Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Rouyn-Noranda, Val d'Or. Old-timers recall the days of gold.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Economics and IndustryGold RushOntarioQuébec
- Mining > GoldHistorical PerspectivesMetalsMining CommunitiesOntarioQuébec
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Gold RushesOntarioQuebec
Credits
- director
- Robert Russell
- producer
- Victor Jobin
- Bernard Devlin
- camera
- Jacques Giraldeau
- Gilles Gascon
- Jim Wilson
- sound
- Claude Pelletier
- editing
- Robert Russell
- Édouard Davidovici
- sound editing
- Pierre Lemelin
- music
- Maurice Blackburn