Versions:.Presented with discussion in Window on Canada No. 3, title code: 106B 0153 134. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and St. Francis Xavier University, Extension Department.

Director, Jean Palardy ; script, Jean Palardy ; producer, James Beveridge ; camera, John Foster ; commentary, Donald Peters, Kathleen McColgan ; editing, Donald Peters, Jean Palardy ; music, Robert Fleming.

Narrator, John Drainie, Alan Maitland.

Recorded 1949.

This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. While we glimpse many aspects of the cooperative movement in Cape Breton and all through the Maritimes, the major part of this story deals with the fishing folk (one-sixth of the Maritimes' population) and shows how, thanks to the cooperative effort, fishermen such as Willie Leblanc have come from the hungry, hopeless years of the 1920s to better times.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Special citation, 1950

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