Discoverer of Aboriginal History
Dr. Olive Dickason was the first to write a comrehesive history of Canadian Aboriginal life, pre and post contact with Europeans. She is the author of The Myth of the Savage {1984}, and Canada's First Nations {1992}) now in its third edition.
1.9mb
40k
Recalling History
First Nations actors and musicians at Old Fort William in Thunder Bay play a big part every summer in re-enacting history for tourists and they performed the same service for the doucmentary on Olive Dickason's life and work.
2.2mb
36k
Back to the Land
Olive Dickason's parents went broke in the Thirties and moved up to the Hollow Water region in Northern Manitoba where Olive's mother taught her how to fish and hunt.
6.1mb
36k
Award-Winning Journalist
Olive Dickason's journalism career included working at the Regina Leader Post, the Montreal Gazette and the Globe and Mail where she won awards for fashion journalism.
7.9mb
24k
Back to School
When Olive Dickason went back to university after a successful career in journalism, she supported her studies by taking a job at the National Gallery, Ottawa as director of public relations.
1.4mb
20k
Aboriginal History on Video
Olive Dickason and director Steve Deme worked closely together to bring out major points of Aboriginal history in the documentary about Dickason's work and life.
1.9mb
36k
Capturing History
Director Steve Deme worked closely with actors and guides at Old Fort William in Thunder Bay in order to bring to the documentary several re-enactments of key historical points in Olive Dickason's account of Canadian Aboriginal history.
