Alberta Cattle Country Documentary – Canada 1944 – National Film Board

1944 | 8 Minutes

This short 1944 documentary offers a portrait of ranching in the foothills of southern Alberta. Exciting scenes of great herds being rounded up and moved to summer feeding grounds suggest the large scale on which this business is run, while segments on spraying, feeding and shipping illustrate some of the less dramatic jobs involved in bringing Canadian beef to the world’s tables.

Cattle Country, Beth Zinkan, provided by the National Film Board of Canada