
01/01/1987
This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women's organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.

Virginia Beckner
as Farm Couple

Dennis Cyr
as Farm Couple

Brandi Beckner
as Child

David Beckner
as Child

Shaun Umscheid
as Child

Miriam Newhouse
as Violet McNaughton

Judith Lebane
as Irene Parlby

Juliet Brown
as Meeting Chairperson / Voices

Brenda Prentice
as Rally Speaker

Sandi Gregg
as Peace Petitioner

Elan Ross Gibson
as Narrator

Cori Stent
as Voices

Meredith Adams
as Voices

Elizabeth Hoffpauir
as Voices
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