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The Lady from Grey County
197726 min 13 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Janice Brown
Production: Margaret WescottKathleen Shannon
Script: Barry CowlingRobert Duncan
On March 8, 1922, Agnes Campbell Macphail became Canada's first woman Member of Parliament. For the next nineteen years, the Independent MP used her wit, courage and honesty to fight for prison reform, old-age pensions, the co-operative movement and the many other causes she believed in. Made up of old photographs, archival footage and quotations from her speeches and writings, this film documents a significant Canadian and the turbulence of her times.
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Subject categories
- Politics and Government - Canada > Federal Politics and GovernmentPortraitsWomen
- Women - Portraits > Politics
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Politics and GovernmentPortraitsWomen
Credits
- director
- Janice Brown
- editing
- Janice Brown
- producer
- Margaret Wescott
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- commentary
- Barry Cowling
- Robert Duncan
- camera
- Barry Perles
- Douglas Kiefer
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- narrator
- Susan Huycke
- music
- Art Phillips