The Rising Tide

  • Documentary
1/1/1949
29

Storyline

This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. The Rising Tide is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film directed by Jean Palardy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Give a man a lobster and hell probably make quite a mess of the table cloth. Get a man to work with his fellow fisherman, lumber merchants, carpenters, builders, canners and truck drivers and then fish the critters from the sea and you will ruin loads more table cloths to be sure, but youll also feed a great deal more of the areas 1 million-odd people both spiritually and physically in Canadas neglected Maritime areas of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Barely a century ago, the fishermen were lucky to earn 1 cent for every pound of fresh cod they could land - not even enough to pay for the petrol needed to run their small, open, craft. With their livelihoods in tatters, many abandon these traditional jobs and head to the industrial ...

        June 1, 2025

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