Versions:.Presented with discussion in Window on Canada No. 15, title code: 106B 0154 142. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Resources and Development.

Writer, Ronald Dick ; director, Ronald Dick ; director of photography, Osmond H. Borradaile ; music, Robert Fleming ; producer, Tom Daly.

Recorded 1951.

An appraisal of the social and economic development of the Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories. The film gives a kaleidoscopic review of the topography, resources, development and settlement of this most northerly Canadian frontier. It depicts the region not as a "harsh, stubborn and silent" land, but as one full of varied activity and opportunity.

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First Prize - Category: Geographical Films, 1951

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).