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Why Canada?
196528 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Edmund Reid
Production: John Howe
Script: Edmund Reid
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
Why do immigrants come to Canada and how do so many of them manage to establish a business or industry? This film asks ten or so people from almost as many countries. Among the new entrepreneurs shown are an English auto-body repairman, a German barber, an Italian glass-maker, and a Danish lamp manufacturer. Their enterprises illustrate the range of opportunity in Canada for establishing small businesses.
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Subject categories
- Industry and Commerce > BusinessSmall and Medium-Sized Businesses
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Cultural DiversitySocio-economic contribution of Immigrants
Credits
- director
- Edmund Reid
- script
- Edmund Reid
- producer
- John Howe
- photography
- Laval Fortier