Agency - English program:.Prairie Centre. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Alberta Department of Education.

Director, Tom Radford ; producer, Michael Scott ; executive producer, Lydia Semotuk, Michael Scott ; commentary, Stanley Jackson, Tom Radford ; photography, Robert Reece, Ron Orieux, Harry Nuttall, Richard Westlien ; sound, Garrell Clark, Ann McGaw, Ed Smith, Lesley Topping ; editing, Christopher Tate ; sound editing, Christopher Tate ; re-recording, Clive Perry ; music, Roger Deegan.

Narrator, Cedric Smith.

Recorded 1980.

Chester Ronning was born in Fancheng, China, in 1894, the son of Norwegian missionaries. Until his death at the age of ninety, he was everything from a cowboy to an ambassador, a college president to a Peace River homesteader, a missionary to a member of the Alberta legislature. But Ronning, who died in December 1984, is best remembered in international circles for his long and close relationship with China. Throughout his many careers, including that of Canadian High Commissioner to India, ambassador to Norway, and head of an international mission in 1966 to end the war in Vietnam, Ronning's lifelong ambition was to explain China to the western world. His story is a rare example of the meeting of east and west in a compassionate, remarkable man.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention - Category: Films longer than 46 minutes, 1981 Honorable Mention, 1980

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