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

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

Narrator, Lloyd Bochner.

Recorded 1960.

Three communities at the foot of the Charlevoix cliffs, Petite-Rivière, île-aux-Coudres and Les Éboulements, practise the myriad trades of the sea. Its men are sailors, stevedores, longshoremen for the coasting trade. In winter, they becomes caulkers, carpenters and timer-cutters who will build a new vessel if required, or repair, caulk and paint the over 150 wooden schooners that ply the St. Lawrence River.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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