NFB Collection
The Annanacks
196429 min 12 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: René Bonnière
Production: René Bonnière
Script: Donald Snowden
Produced for the NFB by Crawley Films Ltd.
This title is an acquisition.
In 1959 an Inuit community in Northern Québec formed the first successful co-operative there. The film describes how, with other Inuit of the George River community, the Annanacks formed a joint venture that included a sawmill, a fish-freezing plant and a small boat-building industry.
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Subject categories
- Industry and Commerce > Arctic RegionCooperativesIndigenous PeoplesQuébec
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Government RelationsLabrador and QuébecRegional DevelopmentWork
- Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIdentity/Society
Credits
- participant
- George Annanack
- Stanley Annanack
- translator
- George Koneac
- writer
- Donald Snowden
- commentator
- Lloyd Bochner
- camera
- Stanley Brede
- Christopher Chapman
- music
- Larry Crosley
- sound editing
- John Knight
- sound
- Tony Betts
- David Cochrane
- producer
- René Bonnière
- director
- René Bonnière