A Stunning Backdrop : Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960 Grade Two The Big Blizzard is a

The Big Blizzard is a bilingual Inuktitut and English picture book by author Julia Ogina

as journeys toward the Old Ones

Miskwaasining Nagamojig (Swamp Singers)

the artist's works capture the essential nature of the story making this little reader ideal for beginning readers

Stephanie Peltier

A Stunning Backdrop : Alberta in the Movies, 1917-1960 Grade Two The Big Blizzard is aAlbertas magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six