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Nova Scotia Saga

Accession number: 
1963.0048
Alternate Titles: 
Légende de la Nouvelle-Écosse
French version
Production Years: 
1945 to 1963

Languages:

Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
400 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
15
Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"Travel information about Nova Scotia. From Highland dancing in Cape Breton to big-game angling out to sea, this film presents a review of Nova Scotia's great diversity of summer attractions. It presents a rich panorama of land and seascape, to ocean playground with inviting beaches, to the yacht basin and seaport of Halifax where every type of water craft may be seen, to inland parks and streams where campers. picknickers and fishermen find holiday pleasure."

Bibliography: 

Canadian Travel and Wildlife films Catalogue and Directory of Sources (1963): 10.

National Film Board of Canada, Films by Other Producers Distributed in Canada by the National Film Board of Canada/Films de divers producteurs distribués au Canada par l’Office national du film du Canada (Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, c.1968), 5, 9.
"This colorful canvas of a seaside province shows attractions that vary from big game angling and yachting to kilted pipe bands and historic sites."

"Les diverses attractions qui, au cours de l'été, font le charme tout particulier de cette province canadienne: plages, bateaux de plaisance, terrains de jeux et parcs."