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The Beaver Makes a Comeback

Accession number: 
1953.0023
Production Years: 
1953

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Length (feet): 
581 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
16
Holding Institutions: 

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario: 16mm.

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario: 16mm.

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS.
"This film shows a beaver conservation plan put into effect in the Waswanipi district, east of James Bay, on behalf of native trappers. The government Indian Agent helps natives cope with the considerable depletion in the number of beavers in the lakes. Shown are: beaver conservation techniques and beaver trapping; a government fur trader dealing with natives from his landed aircraft; the town of Amos; native families bringing home store-bought goods; natives operating a new sawmill; natives building new houses; and natives cooking in their new houses."

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta: 16mm
"An account of a government-sponsored beaver conservation project and what it meant to Indian trappers of the South-east James Bay area. The film explains how the conservation program was put into effect, and contrasts the economic plight of the Indian population, when the beaver had been all but exterminated, with the improved living conditions after the area was restocked."
From the Catalogue of 16mm Educational Motion Pictures. Published by the Educational Media Division, Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1967.

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Online Database National Film Board of Canada.
"An account of a government-sponsored beaver conservation project and what it meant to Indian trappers of the southeast James Bay area. The film explains how the conservation program was put into effect, and contrasts the economic plight of the Indian population, when the beaver had been all but exterminated with the improved living conditions after the area was restocked."

Canadian Tourist Association, Conservation Films (1954): 2.
"Presents government-sponsored beaver conservation for the Indian trappers of the south-east James Bay area. Shows the improved living conditions of the trappers since the area was restocked. Many shots of live animals and how to handle them."

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Available in color and black and white versions.