Movie: Farewell Oak Street

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Roxanna Bond
Roxanna Bond

Bonnie Brooks
Bonnie Brooks

Gerald Campbell
Gerald Campbell

Eric Clavering
Eric Clavering

Andy Halmay
Andy Halmay

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Cosie Lee
Cosie Lee

Edgar Marshall
Edgar Marshall

Douglas Masters
Douglas Masters

Jim McRae
Jim McRae

Kate Reid
Kate Reid

Welfare Woman

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    Farewell Oak Street

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    This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.

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    1953-06-15

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