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Item Description |
Mapping Manitoba
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Creator |
Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources
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Notes |
Francis J. S. Holmes, a Winnipeg filmmaker, accompanied the Department of Mines and Natural Resources survey party for a few weeks in 1940 to document the surveying of the twenty-third base line, five hundred miles north of the international boundary. This was the first survey in Canada that utilized an airplane to transport the survey party.
The film shows a survey crew at work in northern Manitoba, and includes much aerial footage of the northern regions.
This film has been digitized and is available on the Archives' online exhibit, Streaming from the Archives.
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Government Schedule No. |
A 0237
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Original Format |
1 film reel: acetate, silent
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Item Details |
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00:00
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title "The Department of Mines and Natural Resources presents Mapping Manitoba"
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00:10
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map of Canada with man outlining Manitoba with pointer
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00:25
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title "To give us our first maps the early explorers carefully charted the routes over which they travelled. Today the aerial photographer and surveyor combine their efforts to produce maps which are complete and accurate in every detail."
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00:43
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man showing topographical maps
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00:52
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title "When new maps are required the survey party moves into the field - this time in mid-winter by railway to Thicket Portage"
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01:02
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man pointing to Thicket Portage on map of Manitoba
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01:24
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train arriving at Thicket Portage with small crowd waiting at station
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01:40
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men carrying bags alongside train and going to forest trail
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01:52
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men walking to bush plane
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01:58
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packages and bags from train loaded on horse-drawn sleds
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02:14
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boy driving horse and sled; other children on back
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02:25
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bags loaded onto plane at Wintering Lake
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02:34
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men working on plane preparing for flight
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03:10
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men boarding the plane
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03:14
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man pointing out route on Manitoba Map
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03:17
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aerial view of snow-covered lakes, forests with white line marking the Principal Meridian
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03:40
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survey party beside plane
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03:45
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view of tent with chimney
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04:01
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man getting pails of water from beneath lake ice
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04:23
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title "Trails are marked by brush in case storm should obliterate the snow-show tracks"
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04:30
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survey party snowshoes across snow, carrying brush, survey equipment
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05:34
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title: "A line is struck due west from the Principal Meridian"
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05:40
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surveyors setting equipment amidst forest and snow and set to work surveying area [at 23rd Base Line]
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05:59
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title "Camp moves forward as the line progresses"
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06:03
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tents taken down and packed up for moving
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06:44
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equipment loaded onto plane
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07:14
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plane (CF-MA1) with pontoons takes off from lake
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07:22
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aerial footage of snow-covered lakes and forest
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07:49
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plane coming in for landing
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07:56
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surveyors unloading equipment from plane
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08:26
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men clearing snow to put up tents
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09:02
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cookstove carried into cook tent
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09:10
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view of camp from further uphill
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09:19
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title "A characteristic send-off from the cook"
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09:24
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cook waving to men leaving, brushing moustache
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09:33
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surveyors carrying equipment and snowshoeing down path
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10:27
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title "Mile after mile, day after day, the axemen drive the base line westward"
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10:33
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survey party (axemen) chopping trees to cut line through forest
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11:40
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men thawing lunch over a fire and making tea with snow over a fire
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12:03
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men sitting and eating lunch
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12:14
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thawing and roasting sandwiches on sticks over fire
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12:35
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Aboriginal man (from Cross Lake) chopping down tree
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12:52
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surveyors at work on line
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13:17
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title "Setting a station"
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13:22
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surveyors setting main transit station, seding signals with red flags to other surveyors two or three miles away
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14:77
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title "survey monuments are planted periodically to mark exact locations for use in connection with later surveys"
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14:27
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survey monument (iron pipe with bronze cap) being driven into ground
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15:28
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title "Levellers measure the water level on every lake and river that's crossed, also the rise and fall of terrain as the line progrsses"
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15:35
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levellers measuring water level through ice on lake and determining elevation
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16:42
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title "Chainmen measure every inch of the way with a painstaking accuracy that even allows for variations in the tape due to temperature changes"
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16:53
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chainman climbing hill
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17:03
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chainmen measuring slope of hill, using clinometer
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17:39
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title "Working on open lakes measuring distances to shores and islands, the traverse men have the coldest job on the outfit"
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17:50
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traverse men measuring distance from shore to islands
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18:33
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survey party snowshoeing on path through forest
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19:08
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Gauer hanging socks on line
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19:15
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cook removing buns from oven
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19:22
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cook giving dinner call
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19:34
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men seated in cook tent-eating dinner
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19:59
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title "Every evening brings its round of office work"
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20:04
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men sitting in tents recording data in notebooks and working at typewriter
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20:34
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title "Messages come in and reports go out to Winnipeg by radio"
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20:41
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radio operator sending and receiving messages
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20:51
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two men sharpening axe
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21:08
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man cutting another man's hair
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21:17
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men sitting in tent, playing harmonica, violin and a snowshoe
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21:25
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man putting logs in woodstove
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21:37
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man putting on nightclothes pulling up blanket and lying down to sleep
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21:51
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men with backpacks snowshoeing, sunset
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