Languages:
- English
- 35mm
- Silent
- Black and White
Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 16mm, VHS.
"Film about the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, primarily boosting local business. It shows: street scenes; the theatre manager and his staff; the men of the fire department; A.G. MacDonald Men's Wear; sign for H.H. Boyd Drugs; the cars in the fleet of McCauley's Taxi; a Kiwanis Club luncheon; town politicians; Harper's Bakery; high school students gathered outside; members of the police department; the Blais Photo Service store; curling; ploughs, trucks and horsedrawn wagons of the Walter Little Transfer company driving past the camera; the students of the Central School; trucks of the McLellan Transportation Company at the train station; people standing beside the tracks as a train goes by; intertitles consisting of advertisements for various stores; clothing stores; the intertitle 'for your ad on the screen write to Northern Canada Film Productions of New Liskeard'; the Ford dealership; customers in the beauty salon; the greenhouse of a local flower shop; the interior of Boyd's Drugs; employees of the water works; students of St. Jerome Shool; the dairy; staff at work at the Northern News weekly newspaper; the ovens of the Swastika Bakery; and a dry goods store. The film concludes with shots of people walking on the street and the intertitle 'it's a good town any way you look at it'. Most of the footage is shot in winter."