Drylanders

The National Film Board's First Feature Length Presentation

Drylanders — Plot

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.

• Release date
• April 25, 1962
• Runtime
• 69 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family, Western
• Director
• Don Haldane

Drylanders — Cast

Frances Hyland Liza James B. Douglas Dan (as James Douglas)

L

Lester Nixon Bob MacPherson

M

Mary Savidge Ada MacPherson (as Mary Savage) William Fruet Colin (as William Fruete) Don Francks Russel

E

Ernest Huber Man in boxcar

W

William Weintraub Narrator