Homesteading on the Prairies

Titre
Homesteading on the Prairies

Sommaire
Set in Manitoba in the 1890s, the story traces an Ontario farm family as they move west in search of cheap land. They experience travel on the recently completed CPR, build a sod house, battle a prairie fire and celebrate their first harvest. Narration accompanies still pictures.

Everyday things in early Canada: Homesteading on the prairies (videorecording)
 
DVD 177

Date de publication comme intervalle
1989

Everyday things in early Canada

Description matérielle
1 videocassette (11:00 min.) VHS, sd.

Terme de vedette-matière
Frontier and pioneer life-Canada
 
Pioneers -- Canada.
 
Education -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.

Terme géographique
Canada -- History -- 1841-1867
 
Canada -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Rehder, Jocelyn.

Vedette secondaire - titre
Everyday things in Early Canada : Homesteading on the Prairies [videorecording].

Résumé
Set in Manitoba in the 1890s, the story traces an Ontario farm family as they move west in search of cheap land. They experience travel on the recently completed CPR, build a sod house, battle a prairie fire and celebrate their first harvest. Narration accompanies still pictures.

Informations de publication
National Film Board of Canada 1989


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
D.S. MacKenzieVC 971.2 HOMTeacher resource30522000089604Audio-Visual