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Author Davies, Donna

Title A sigh and a wish : Helen Creighton's maritimes / by Donna Davies
Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (73 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary Renowned folklorist Helen Creighton single-handedly compiled North America's largest collection of folklore and music, much of which would have disappeared forever if not for her tenacity, collecting stories and songs from the Gaelic singers of Cape Breton, French Acadians, the Mi'kmaw, and the Black communities of Nova Scotia
Credits Writer and director, Donna Davies ; producer, Kent Martin ; cinematographer, Kent Nason ; editor, Kimberlee McTaggart
Cast Narrator, Ashley MacIsaac
Event Recorded in Canada
Notes Print version record
Subject Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989.
Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989.
Acadians -- Folklore
Black people -- Canada -- Folklore
Micmac Indians -- Folklore
Acadians.
Black people.
Micmac Indians.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Canada.
Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.
Genre/Form Documentary
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Folklore.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentary.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Form Streaming video
Author Creighton, Helen, 1899-1989
Martin, Kent
MacIsaac, Ashley
Other Titles Helen Creighton's maritimes