Caption
Wild rice is a delicacy sought after not only by ducks and geese on their migration to and from the Arctic, but also by discriminating hunters who insist that it has no equal as a stuffing for wild fowl.
Date
October 1, 1949
Accession Number
LAC-NFB51563
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175791
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Wild rice is harvested during a brief period in September. The crop is usually flown in from outlying areas by 'plane. Above, a Norseman ties down at Riverton, Manitoba, with its precious cargo.
Date
December 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB79091
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176411
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Some still harvest wild rice "Indian fashion"- knocking the ripe rice into their canoe with sticks. While not too efficient a method, grains that fall into the water simply grow more rice the next year.
Date
December 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB79093
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176412
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Wild rice, once a staple food of North American Indians and later of pioneer adventurers, is today being grown in central Canada on an ever-widening scale. Slow-moving rivers, marshes and shallow lakes make the best planting grounds. Mr. Z. Durand of Winnipeg demonstrates a rice-harvester, invented and built by himself. Long slender scoops are set on a trough fixed across the boat; gently vibrating rods shake the ripe kernels from the plant.
Date
December 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB79094
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176413
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The long, greenish-brown grains of wild rice are high in nutritional value. But the reason for its fancy price (it retails to epicure shops for about $2.50 a pound) is to be found in its tempting and exotic flavour.
Date
January 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB79871
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176505
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #103: Canadian Wild Rice Luxury Crop: Duck Food Fit for a King
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
April 30, 1957
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
A large scow, propelled by an old truck engine, reaps a crop of wild rice from the marshes of Lac du Bois. For hundreds of years Indian bands have moved across the country to gather the rice in remote lakes and rivers but the new high prices which the luxury crop brings have charged the leisurely tribal wanderings with the feverish activity of a "wild rice" gold rush.
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