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"As word got out that we were interested in the personal untold stories of women who were homesteaders, we were overwhelmed by the response. By the time we finished the film, we had a room full of boxes stuffed with family photographs, personal letters, diaries and unpublished works. We zigzagged across Canada doing interviews from Montréal to Victoria, and in 1975 the documentary film, Great Grand Mother, was finished by the National Film Board of Canada. [...] A year later, a book A Harvest Yet to Reap, was published, that featured a portion of the collection we had gathered. All these materials were eventually donated to the University of Saskatchewan."
-- Anne Wheeler


Source:
Wheeler, Anne. "The Woman Who Didn't Exist." In Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2020. (p. 139)