User:Wyndham Paul Wise/Ten Years in Manitoba

Ten Years in Manitoba is a 1898 collection of short films (some no more than a minute long) directed by James Freer. Freer was the first person to make films in Canada, all depicting life in Manitoba.

Some of his films' titles were: Arrival of CPR Express at Winnipeg, Pacific and Atlantic Mail Trains and Six Binders at Work in a Hundred Acre Wheatfield. In 1898, sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway, he toured the United Kingdom with his ‘home movies,’ collectively entitled Ten Years in Manitoba. They were so successful that the federal government sponsored a second tour by Freer in 1902.