Elizabeth «Beth» Thatcher has embarked on a journey to teach school in
the Canadian mining town of Coal Valley, far from the shelter and comfort of her family home.
Films like Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison's tale of lost silent movies found in a remote
Canadian mining town that doubles as a case history of bootstrap capitalism and a gorgeous display of decaying imagery.
But Bill Morrison's «Dawson City: Frozen Time» is a major work in any category, a historical spelunking expedition that dives into a long - buried trove of films discovered in
a Canadian mining town and comes up with a conjoined history of the Gold Rush and American cinema.
Not exact matches
Synopsis: The residents of a
town in Colombia spend six years fighting a
Canadian mining company's plan to mine gold under their homes.
In 2000, the government granted rights to
Canadian - based Gabriel Resources to develop a gold and silver
mine in an around the small historic
town.
He joined the
Canadian Navy at 17, and when he returned to his small
town in Northern Saskatchewan, «my older brothers had been loggers and miners so I heard from them about logging and
mining» and so, until law school, he worked in those jobs with them.
Ich, an indigenous community leader and an outspoken critic of
Canadian mining activities in his community, was allegedly hacked and shot to death by security personnel employed at HudBay Minerals» Fenix
mining project near the
town of El Estor, Guatemala.