Pierre Berton: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [over shots of fishing boats:]  ... And that's the key to a great problem that has always dogged Canada. Almost 5,000 miles separate this Atlantic coast from the Pacific in the west. Unless it be linked by transport overland, it has little meaning as a nation.

• Narrator : From St. John's here, there was a railway across the island, but only local roads, leading a few miles into the interior. There were, of course, the cynics, who said, 'Why bother building a highway through nowhere?' But there were others who said, 'Try building it, and it won't be nowhere any longer.'