Ocean Falls, British Columbia
From coast to coast, Canada's ghost towns are a record of pioneer triumph and pain recorded in rotting wood frames, overgrown gardens, and forgotten towns. Once a community of 5,000, today the Ocean Falls population has been whittled down to a mere 40. One of the province's best known pulp and paper towns, it was first settled in 1906 by Japanese workers. Over the next several decades, the town developed twin communities, white and Japanese, that co-existed peacefully but didn't frequently mix. The political climate of the Second World War would alter that forever, but the mill would continue to boom. By the early 1980s, with the economy waning, the provincial government would close the Ocean Falls mill despite residents' vigorous protests
DVD Video, English, 2002
Insight Film & Video Production, Moving Images [distributor], [Vancouver, B.C.], Vancouver, B.C., 2002