Agency:.Produced by Crawley Films Limited for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Director, René Bonnière, Pierre Perrault ; text, Pierre Perrault ; English text, Judith Crawley ; photography, Michel Thomas-d'Hoste, Kenneth Campbell, Allan Grayston ; sound, Tony Betts, David Howells ; sound editing, John Knight ; music, Larry Crosley.

Narrator, Lloyd Bochner.

Recorded 1960.

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his exploration he certainly marvelled at seeing the great auks that have since disappeared from Isle aux Ouaiseaulx, the razor-bills and gannets that are gone from Blanc-Sablon, and the kittiwakes from Anticosti, all the winged creatures of all the islands which he described as being "as full of birds as a meadow is of grass". And that's not even counting the countless snow geese.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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