Farewell Oak Street

Jun 15, 1953

0h 17m

★ 0.0

Overview

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Farewell Oak Street Trailers

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Cast

Roxanna Bond

Bonnie Brooks

Gerald Campbell

Eric Clavering

Welfare Man

Andy Halmay

Cosie Lee

Edgar Marshall

Douglas Masters

Jim McRae

Welfare Woman

Kate Reid

Narrator

Lorne Greene

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