Crisis on the Hill
- 1962
- 28m
September 1944 - March 1945. On the eve of victory Canada faces an internal crisis: an acute shortage of men for overseas service precipitates the conscription issue, threatens national unit... Read allSeptember 1944 - March 1945. On the eve of victory Canada faces an internal crisis: an acute shortage of men for overseas service precipitates the conscription issue, threatens national unity and the King government.September 1944 - March 1945. On the eve of victory Canada faces an internal crisis: an acute shortage of men for overseas service precipitates the conscription issue, threatens national unity and the King government.
Budd Knapp
- Narrator
- (voice)
Harold Alexander
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Bracken
- Self - Leader: Conservative Party
- (archive footage)
M.J. Coldwell
- Self - Leader: CCF Party
- (archive footage)
H.D.G. Crerar
- Self - Wipes Nose with Handkerchief
- (archive footage)
Thomas Crerar
- Self - Mines and Resources Minister
- (archive footage)
James Gardiner
- Self - Agriculture Minister
- (archive footage)
C.D. Howe
- Self - Supply Minister
- (archive footage)
James Ilsley
- Self - Finance Minister
- (archive footage)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Self
- (archive footage)
Angus L. Macdonald
- Self - Navy Minister
- (archive footage)
Ian Mackenzie
- Self - Veterans Affairs Minister
- (archive footage)
A.G.L. McNaughton
- Self - Defence Minister from Nov. 1944
- (archive footage)
- (as Andy McNaughton)
Bernard L. Montgomery
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Pearkes
- Self - Pacific Command
- (archive footage)
C.G. Power
- Self - Air Minister, Resigns
- (archive footage)
- (as Chubby Power)
J.L. Ralston
- Self - Defence Minister to Nov. 1944
- (archive footage)
- (as Layton Ralston)
Guy Simonds
- Self - with Crerar and Other Officers
- (archive footage)
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