Caption
The search for seaweed off the rocky shores of Canada's maritime provinces is developing into an unusual and profitable industry. At Miminegash, P.E.I., a young girl removes impurities from a handful of carrageen (or Irish Moss), one of the important and versatile red seaweeds.
Release Date
October 21, 1958
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Maritimers rake in 25 million pounds of carrageen annually. In recent years surveys have been undertaken to determine the seaweed resources of the world's maritime countries. It has been estimated about one million tons exist off southwest Nova Scotia. Canada exports a large part of her produce to the United States where research is continually turning up new and exciting industrial possibilities for the seaweed.
Date
August 1, 1945
Accession Number
LAC-NFB16477
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175713
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Irish Moss is laid out on flakes to dry at Sturgeon, P.E.I. It has a wide variety of commercial uses: as a stabilizing agent in ice cream and chocolate milk and in many toilet articles and pharmaceuticals.
Date
September 1, 1948
Accession Number
LAC-NFB41147
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175758
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #180R: Search for Sunken Treasure
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
October 21, 1958
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
The search for seaweed off the rocky shores of Canada's maritime provinces is developing into an unusual and profitable industry. At Miminegash, P.E.I., a young girl removes impurities from a handful of carrageen (or Irish Moss), one of the important and versatile red seaweeds.
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