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This is Manitoba Sugar

Item is an industrial film produced for the Manitoba Beet Growers Association and the Manitoba Sugar Company Limited. The film documents the sugar beet farming process in Manitoba, its harvest, transport, sugar processing and manufacturing. Focus is given to farming technology, the various extraction stages in the sugar factory, and the many uses for sugar in diets and the food industry. Photography by M.J. Sym and D. Campbell.

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

Item is an industrial film presented by the Canadian Sugar Factories Company. The film documents the agricultural process of beet plantation and sugar beet extraction and manufacturing processes. Locations appear to be at farms in BC, and at a sugar factory in Alberta. Individuals involved include: Rod Parkhurst (camera), Rick Allen (lighting), Lou Williams (lighting), Paul Abram (grip), A.L. Lazenby (script), Al Jordan (narration), Tom Ashdown (animation) and Lloyd Strump (producer/director). Original reel also contains 59 seconds of "Summer sunshine for winter menus" at beginning of reel.

Sugar : The energy food

Item is an educational film about the beet sugar industry in Alberta. It includes an animation illustrating the growth of sugar beets. The film follows the full year cycle of researching and preparing for, planting, harvesting and processing sugar beets.

Pender Guy Program No. 242

Item is an audio reel containing a recording of Pender Guy Program No. 242. Program contents transcribed from the Pender Guy card catalog: "1. Introduction Lion Dance 2. Asian-American Farm Workers introduction 3. Cesar Chavez interview about Asian-American workers - discrimination and conflict 4. Mid-break (community update) 5. Readings by Mary Lin Hong, written by Elina Eng 'Pride Endures' 6. Super Pender Guy Part 6 Banana Flu 7. Extro."

Orchard, David - Canada & Free Trade [tape 2 of 2]

Item is an audio cassette containing the second of a two part recording of a speech by David Orchard. Note enclosed in cassette case: "'Free Trade: What it Means for Canada' with Saskatchewan farmer and anti-free trade campaigner Orchard. Recorded in Prince Albert Sask. By Citizens Concerned About Free Trade."

Orchard, David - Canada & Free Trade [tape 1 of 2]

Item is an audio cassette containing the first of a two part recording of a speech by David Orchard. Note enclosed in cassette case: "'Free Trade: What it Means for Canada' with Saskatchewan farmer and anti-free trade campaigner Orchard. Recorded in Prince Albert Sask. By Citizens Concerned About Free Trade."

Everest - tape #15

Item is "Everest - Climb for Hope" footage transferred from original 16mm camera film footage. Includes footage of Tibetan farmers agitating hay, someone using a satellite phone, trucks driving with supplies and men, a truck stuck beside a river, people digging it out, men hiking, yaks near base camp, sherpas having their blood pressure checked, yaks being loaded with packs, prayer flags, a full moon rising, goodbyes being exchanged at base camp, two vehicles driving away, hikers fording a river, a group of sherpas around a cooking fire under a tarp, people dismantling base camp, packing the communal tent, and then more shots of sherpas.

Brown Bagger : Carr, Shirley : Canadian Farmworkers

Item is an audio reel containing an episode of Brown Bagger featuring a talk by Shirley Carr. Description on tape case: "Recorded at the annual benefit for the Canadian Farmworkers Union. Main speaker was President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Shirley Carr. Also speaking was Canadian Farmworkers Union leader Sarwan Boal.; held at the Hellenic Hall in Vancouver."

Benefits for farm workers

Item is an audio reel containing a recording featuring a speaker advocating for workers compensation protection for farm workers.

Album of photographs issued on the occasion of the "Welcome Day" in honour of President Ho Chi Minh's and the government's return to the capital

Item is an album, issued on the occasion of the Welcome Day in honour of President Ho Chi Minh's and the government's return to the capital, presented to Sherwood Lett "With the best compliments from the National Committee of the Lien-Viet National United Front". Photographs include portraits of Ho Chi Minh and other party dignitaries, Vietnamese cultural landmarks, photographs of the revolution and the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, as well photographs of the benefits brought by the new government to the populace.