The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation
6
69 min
The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Frances Hyland | Liza | Unowned |
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James B. Douglas | Dan (as James Douglas) | Unowned |
Lester Nixon | Bob MacPherson | Unowned | |
Mary Savidge | Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage) | Unowned | |
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William Fruet | Colin (as William Fruete) | Unowned |
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Don Francks | Russel | Unowned |
Ernest Huber | Man in boxcar | Unowned | |
William Weintraub | Narrator | Unowned |