Family Portrait - Canada's Biggest Family 1943

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Full title reads: "FAMILY PORTRAIT - CANADA'S BIGGEST FAMILY".

Canada.

Various shots of the largest family in Canada, L'heureux family. There are seventeen of them, plus Mother and Father. Family gets ready and go out onto their farm. Various shots of the family working on their farm....

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38269
Sort Number:
43/103
Time in/Out:
01:56:03:00 / 01:57:13:00
Canister:
43/103
Film ID:
1097.31
Issue Date:
27/12/1943

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