This short film serves as a report on sub-Arctic developments in the 1.3 million square km District of Mackenzie. In communities such as Hay River, Yellowknife and Port Radium, modern technology and methods of winter transport opened up new possibilities in mining, lumber, and other industries, and new opportunities for the local populations.
Directed by Hector Lemieux - 1958 | 30 min
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I am an inhabitant of Fort Smith, NT. How wonderful to see this documentary. Thank you 😊 And the music is so enticing ! 😅
I wish there was more shows like this out there 👍
I love that industrial movie music
I'm glad to see archived footage getting digitized like this. Hard life up there for sure.
absolutely priceless video. glad to see it online.
The music is fantastic. The harps and violins are just great.
I like how they're just flying around with uranium in 50 gallon drums that seems real safe
Black Thunder what is the time stamp?
Canadian education at it's finest
Same tractors that came up in Northern Saskatchewan
Lol oh god that cornball music is doing my head in
Where do you find find this footage
NFB The National Film Board of Canada
@@bdeditch in the basement of the Alamo?
@@blackthunder7342 They have thousands of films in the archives
Tried to watch the commercials but they are occasionally interrupted By Canadian content.
That's why I pay for KZhead..NO COMMERCIALS 😊
MEHHHHHH What's up doc?
I find this interesting that this production was filmed in the late 40’s to the early 50’s and would love to see a documentary from present day that shows the ravages of what the mining and timber industry did to the land and the indigenous peoples over a span of 60 to 70 years. I always find it interesting that the white race thinks we all need to assimilate to their ways, and as a mixed blood woman born in the early fifties, I have witnessed first hand how devastating that philosophy is to our people.
No railroad. Never a railroad. If the Dene are to survive, they must block all development. Gen X needs to experience “southern life” prior to making a decision that may very well end their remaining way of life, up north. By opening up the MacKenzie Valley to financial opportunities to the southerners, every community downstream of development will be seriously affected. The MacKenzie Delta, The Sahtu, The Deh Cho, all need to meet, tour each others town. Challenge one another. Development will only serve old dying men who’ve never been north and could care less. Stay alive. Remain free. No development. Look at each other and talk. See the current issues in each community. See the results of development. Make your stand.