Optimism

6.4 2018 15 min
Documentary

The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find gold in alluvial gravel is part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north. Cancan dancers, curlers, smelters, former city offic…

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Deborah Stratman
Writer
Deborah Stratman

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John Steins
Steven Badgett
Charles Stankievech
Simon Mason-Wood
Lance Blomgren
Eldo Enns

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