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Canadian Wheat Story

Directed by Beth Zinkan
Canada, 1944 (documentary, 6 minutes, black and white, English)
Also known as "L'histoire du froment canadien"
Canadian Wheat Story
Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Film Description:
"This is the story of what happens to the great wheat crops of western Canada after the harvest. The route is traced from the farm to the town elevator, by box car to the huge concrete storage cylinders at terminal points on the Great Lakes, down the Lakes to the homes and bakeries of eastern Canada, and to the ocean ports for shipment abroad."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Produced by: Bill MacDonald, Gudrun Parker
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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