Crisis on the Hill

1962    28m
Documentary, War
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September 1944 - March 1945. On the eve of victory Canada faces an internal crisis: an acute shortage of men for overseas service precipitates the conscription issue, threatens national unity and the King government.
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Cast of Crisis on the Hill
  • Budd KnappNarrator
  • Harold AlexanderSelf
  • John BrackenSelf - Leader: Conservative Party
  • M.J. ColdwellSelf - Leader: CCF Party
  • H.D.G. CrerarSelf - Wipes Nose with Handkerchief
  • Thomas CrerarSelf - Mines and Resources Minister
  • James GardinerSelf - Agriculture Minister
  • C.D. HoweSelf - Supply Minister
  • James IlsleySelf - Finance Minister
  • William Lyon Mackenzie KingSelf
  • Angus L. MacdonaldSelf - Navy Minister
  • Ian MackenzieSelf - Veterans Affairs Minister
  • A.G.L. McNaughtonSelf - Defence Minister from Nov. 1944
  • Bernard L. MontgomerySelf
  • George PearkesSelf - Pacific Command
  • C.G. PowerSelf - Air Minister, Resigns
  • J.L. RalstonSelf - Defence Minister to Nov. 1944
  • Guy SimondsSelf - with Crerar and Other Officers
  • Ernest Alvia SmithSelf - Victoria Cross, at Buckingham Palace
  • Louis St. LaurentSelf - Justice Minister

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