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Prairie Women

0.0 45 mins Documentary   History   1987
ONF | NFB  
Director(s): Barbara Evans

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women's organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.

Casts of Prairie Women

Virginia Beckner

as Farm Couple

Dennis Cyr

as Farm Couple

Brandi Beckner

as Child

David Beckner

as Child

Shaun Umscheid

as Child

Miriam Newhouse

as Violet McNaughton

Judith Lebane

as Irene Parlby

Juliet Brown

as Meeting Chairperson / Voices

Brenda Prentice

as Rally Speaker

Sandi Gregg

as Peace Petitioner

Elan Ross Gibson

as Narrator

Cori Stent

as Voices

Meredith Adams

as Voices

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