A little-known episode in Canadian history will find a national audience Sunday, thanks to a team of University of Windsor filmmakers.
The CBC Television program Land and Sea will air a documentary directed by professor Kim Nelson at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27.
Entitled “Bud and Ron’s Northern Life,” it tells the story of brothers Bud and Ron Sinai, part of a failed experiment in settling northern Ontario.
The Depression-era Back to the Land program sent dozens of Windsor families — including the Sinais — to farm the land around Kapuskasing, almost 800 km due north. When then-Windsor mayor David Croll visited the settlers, he found them starving and pressed the provincial government to end the scheme.
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