This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. The Rising Tide is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film directed by Jean Palardy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Director: Jean Palardy
Writers: Jean Palardy
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Give a man a lobster and he’ll probably make quite a mess of the table cloth. Get a man to work with his fellow fisherman, lumber merchants, carpenters, builders, canners and truck drivers and then fish the critters from the sea and you will ruin loads more table cloths to be sur…
