Quote:
"[Jane Marsh's] chance [within the National Film Board of Canada] came when she persuaded [John] Grierson [...] that he should make a film on a small town which would somehow epitomize the Canadian war effort. He took her up on it and when he heard the town she had in mind was Paris, Ontario, the name tickled his fancy and he sent her to Paris (pop. 7000) to do an outline treatment. In the end the film was never made, but Jane showed such fertility and inventiveness in the script that she was put onto a production unit as a writer and production assistant."
-- Graham McInnes

Source:
McInnes, Graham. One Man's Documentary: A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board. Edited by Gene Walz. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2004. (p. 152)