Also available:.Also available in a video compilation: The Beauty of Our People. Agency - English program:.English Program, Prairie Centre.

Director, Elise Swerhone, Sara Berger ; producer, Jerry Krepakevich ; executive producer, Michael Scott ; script, Elise Swerhone ; photography, Elise Swerhone ; sound, Lois Browne ; editing, William Eakin ; sound editing, John Knight ; music, Rose Jackson.

Narrator, Elise Swerhone.

Recorded 1980.

Western pioneers knew that sugar could be made from the sap of the Manitoba maple. But the trees were small, the sap was thin, and the tastier product of Québec and Ontario was cheap and easy to get. The settler soon turned away from the arduous annual harvest and the Manitoba maple became just another tree. But not for Nonoonse. Forty years ago her grandmother brought her to Sugar Island. Since then she has returned every spring to gather the sweet sap. Filmed on Lake Manitoba, near the Ebb'n'Flow Reserve, Nonoonse is both a clear description of sugar-making and a quiet statement on the importance of the tradition to the Saultaux of the region. (Bilingual: English and Saulteaux.).

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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