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Wind At My Back
''Wind at My Back'' is a television series which aired in Canada on CBC Television between 1996 and 2001. It was created and produced by Kevin Sullivan (producer), Kevin Sullivan, best known for his adaptation of ''Anne of Green Gables (1985 film), Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Road to Avonlea''. The series had five seasons, each with thirteen episodes, and a Christmas themed movie produced to wrap up loose ends, following the unexpected cancellation of the series. The series is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the fictional small mining town of New Bedford in Northern Ontario. The family drama followed the members of the Bailey family as they lived through a time marked by hardship. ''Wind at My Back'' was loosely based on the Max Braithwaite books ''Never Sleep Three in a Bed'' and ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car''. Plot The series opens in 1932, as Jack and Honey Bailey lose their hardware store and are forced to move back to Jack's hometown of New Bedf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Braithwaite
John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. He was born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Nokomis, Saskatchewan and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province. As an adult he moved to Ontario, living in communities such as Orangeville, Ontario, Orangeville, Port Carling, Ontario, Port Carling and finally Brighton, Ontario, Brighton where he died at age 83. Braithwaite won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1972 for his book ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car''. The 1977 Canadian film ''Why Shoot the Teacher?'' was based on Braithwaite's 1965 novel of that name. Works *1962: ''Voices of the Wild'' *1962: ''The Muffled Man'' (Little, Brown) *1963: ''Whooping Crane Adventure'' **1988 reissue (Gage) *1965: ''Why Shoot the Teacher'' , **2002 paperback reissue (McClelland and Stewart) *1967: ''Canada: wonderland of surprises'' (Dodd, Mead Wonderland) *1968?: ''Servant or master? A c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Mine
Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining. Silver is a precious metal and holds high economic value. Because silver is often found in intimate combination with other metals, its extraction requires the use of complex technologies. In 2008, approximately 25,900 metric tons of silver were consumed worldwide, most of which came from mining. Silver mining has a variety of effects on the environment, humans, and animals. Silver sources Silver-bearing ore typically contains very little silver, with much higher percentages of copper and lead. Specific minerals include argentite (Ag2 S), chlorargyrite ("horn silver," Ag Cl), polybasite (Ag, Cu)16Sb2S11), and proustite (Ag3AsS3). Silver mainly occurs as a contaminant in chalcopyrite and galena, important ores of copper and lead, respectively.Kassianidou, V. 2003. Early Extraction of Silver from Complex Polymetallic Ores, in Craddock, P.T. and Lang, J (eds) Mining and Metal production through the Ages. London, British Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael MacLennan
Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and '' Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition twice. Career Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, MacLennan began his career as a stage actor. In his first theatre role at age 13, he was cast to play a woman, and later in his career he produced a short performance piece about his fear at the time that his parents would see the play and realize that he was gay. He moved to Victoria in 1986 to study English at the University of Victoria."Musing on a Queer Career". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', July 2, 2003. His first full-length play, ''Beat the Sunset'', premiered at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 1993. It was later staged in Vancouver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DeFelice
James DeFelice (January 6, 1937 - October 5, 2024) was an American-Canadian actor, playwright and screenwriter based in Edmonton, Alberta,Anne Nothof"DeFelice, James" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', October 21, 2024. most noted as writer of the theatrical films ''Why Shoot the Teacher?'' and '' Angel Square''. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was educated at Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Indiana,Liz Nicholls, "Theatre icon plays with memory; Like everyone involved with this production, James DeFelice has personal connections with Alzheimer's". ''Edmonton Journal'', April 19, 2007. and was a sportswriter for the ''Boston Globe'' before moving to Edmonton in 1969 to become a theatre professor at the University of Alberta.Liane Faulder"Stage notes: Edmonton theatre community mourns Jim DeFelice" ''Edmonton Journal'', November 15, 2024. In Edmonton he regularly acted on stage and directed theatre productions, as well as writing stage plays. His plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kennedy (director)
Michael Kennedy is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer. Kennedy was born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island. Kennedy lives in Mississauga with his wife. Kennedy was a professor of Film and Television at York University, Toronto (1980-83), Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi (1983-84), and Sheridan College, Toronto (2004-2021). In 2023,Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto Metropolitation University inducted Kennedy as a Visionary to their Image Arts Wall of Fame. Career Kennedy has directed more than 20 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the sitcom ''Little Mosque on the Prairie,'' that used humour to attack racism against Muslims in the post-911 world. He has directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of ''Delmer and Marta'', ''My Life and a Movie'', ''North/South'', ''The Good Germany'', ''Mental Bloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McBrearty
Don McBrearty is a Canadian film director. Career In 2003 McBrearty directed the made for television drama film '' Sex and the Single Mom''. It tells the story of Jess Gradwell (Gail O'Grady), a single and overly concerned mother of a 15-year-old girl, Sara (Danielle Panabaker). She becomes even more over protective when Sara tells her about thinking of having sex with her new boyfriend. The things between Sara and Jess start to change when Jess begins an affair with a newly single doctor. He directed the sequel to ''Sex and the Single Mom'', entitled ''More Sex and the Single Mom'', released in 2005 with O'Grady reprising her role as Jess. The film focuses on Jess's life as a mother of a teenage daughter and a three-year-old son, as well as her increasingly complicated love and sex life. In an interview with ''The Tuscaloosa News The '' Tuscaloosa News '' is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Carley
Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright who has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 450 productions across Canada and the United States, and in other countries. They have won, or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor General's Award (''Writing with our Feet'', finalist), The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International Radio Festival Award. He was an editor of ''The Kawartha Sun'', the founding editor of the Playwrights Guild of Canada magazine, ''CanPlay'', and also editor of ''Scirocco Drama'' in the late 1990s. Carley was the radio drama script editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1990 to 2023. He was script editor for the Wendy Lill drama series ''Backbencher'', and wrote three episodes for the second season, which began broadcast in January 2011. Carley was born in Peterborough, Ontario, where he attended Queen Alexandra Public School and Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Rebar
Kelly Rebar (born 1956 in Lethbridge, Alberta) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play and film '' Bordertown Café''."Rebar, Kelly" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', October 11, 2011. Her first play, ''Chatters'', was produced at 's Factory Theatre West in 1974. She studied film at in , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Stevens (filmmaker)
Barry Stevens (born 1952) is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker. In 1997 he co-wrote (with Steven Silver) the International Emmy Award-winning documentary '' Gerrie & Louise'', about the South African Truth Commission. Since this time he has devoted himself almost exclusively to documentary work, writing and directing several critically acclaimed documentaries including ''Offspring'' (2001) which won the Donald Brittain Award, the IDFA Audience Award, and was nominated for an Emmy and a Grierson, ''The Bomber's Dream'' (2006), ''Bio-Dad'' (2009) and ''Prosecutor'' (2010). Through the making of ''Offspring'' and ''Bio-Dad'', which chronicled the search for his own sperm-donor father, Stevens discovered he was one of 1000 potential offspring of Dr. Bertold P. Wiesner, who ran a London-based fertility clinic between 1943 and 1962. Awards and nominations For ''Diary of Evelyn Lau'' * 1995: Gemini Award for "Best writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series" For ''Gerrie and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Foon
Dennis Foon (born 18 November 1951) is a Canadian playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was co-founder and artistic director for 12 years of Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. There he wrote and produced a body of plays that continue to be produced internationally in numerous languages. He has received the British Theatre Award, two Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Chalmers awards, the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Jesse Richardson Career Achievement Award, a Governor General's nomination for ''Skin'', and the International Arts for Young Audiences Award for these. In 2007, he was made a lifetime member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting and Theatre.” Foon's screenplays have continued his exploration into the psyche of youth: ''Little Criminals'' (1995), produced as a CBC Television, CBC movie about an 11-year-old gang leader, won multiple national and international awards; ''Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Shebib
Donald Everett Shebib (27 January 1938 – 5 November 2023) was a Canadian film and television director. Shebib was a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s before turning to feature films, beginning with the influential ''Goin' Down the Road'' (1970) and what many call his masterpiece, ''Between Friends (1973 film), Between Friends'' (1973). He soon became frustrated by the bureaucratic process of film funding in Canada and chronic problems with distribution as well as a string of box office disappointments. After ''Heartaches (1981 film), Heartaches'' (1981), he made fewer films for theatrical release and worked more in television. Shebib was 40 (record producer), Noah "40" Shebib's father. Early life Shebib was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Mary Alice Long, a Newfoundlander of Irish descent, and Moses "Morris" Shebib, born in Sydney, Nova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Sarin
Victor Sarin (born 1945) is an Indian-born Canadian/ American film director, cinematographer and screenwriter who has worked in film and television for over 60 years. Sarin was the recipient of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Kodak New Century Award in 2009, the Directors Guild of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and the Order of Canada in 2022. Sarin has worked on over 100 feature films, documentaries and television specials across multiple genres. Sarin has nominated for and won Emmys, Genies, Geminis and Canadian Screen Awards. Sarin’s films have screened at film festivals including TIFF, Cannes, Berlin, Tribeca, London, Shanghai, San Sebastian, Sydney, and Goa. His work as a cinematographer includes '' Partition'', ''Margaret's Museum'', '' Whale Music'', '' Heartaches'', and '' Dancing in the Dark''. He also directed ''Partition'', ''A Shine of Rainbows'', ''Left Behind'', and ''The Lightkeeper''. Early life Born in Kashmir, India, Sarin experime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
