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Photographs of Jean Mason Pell and The Gillans cast

Files contains 2 photographs. One is a portrait of Jean Mason Pell, 1915-2006, writer of The Gillans from 1949-72, undated. The other is of the cast of the Gillans. posing in the Halifax CBC studio circa the mid-1960s. Back row, from left to right, H. L. Pigot, David Murray Jr., David Brown, Bill Fulton, Baz Russell, and Tony Ross. Front row, from left to right, Joan Evans, Anna Geddes, Abbie Lane, and Lohta Miller.

Jean Mason Pell fonds

  • MS-14-3
  • Fonds
  • 1949-1971
Fonds contains Jean Mason Pell's broadcast scripts for The Gillans, a dramatic radio serial about a farming family produced for the Maritime version of CBC's Farm Family, which aired from 1941-1971. It was written by Norman Creighton and Kay Hill until 1949, when Jean Pell took over as the scriptwriter until the serial's final season in 1971. Scripts for the program, which aired every weekday, are arranged in chronological order; the occurrence of "emergency scripts," which were substituted when one or more characters were unable to perform, resulted in some episode numbers being skipped or numbered out of order.

Pell, Jean Mason

Gillan Family exhibit materials

File contains a report created by Jean Pell for her CBC radio drama on everyday farm life entitled “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm” in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It also contains "Role of CBC in Agricultural Extension", by J.D. Johnson ; a draft copy of a script for the performance of: “The Gillans of Sunnybrae Farm: An informal History of Maritime Agriculture” written by Jackie Yarn [1994?].

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 64-83 (3-31 Oct. 1949)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to "Boxes for Britain", Agricultural College, asparagus beetles, bulbs, dogs and dog training, Farm Forum, Franklin heater, Ginseng, green feed, humus, knitting, medicinal plants, mortgages, pickling, potato harvesting, poultry, turnips, the Women's Institute, and wood.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5253-5272 (3-31 May, 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to agricultural chemicals, Arbour Day, back oiler, barley, cashcrops, cattle - blackleg, corn - planting, dandelions - uses, DDT, drill - seeding rate, edible weeds, face flies, farm dogs - training, farm machinery - labour saving, frost, industrialization, Methoxychlor, plant reactions, pollution, sheep, tractor - traction, vegetable gardening - planting time, and weed killers.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5232-5252 (1-30 Apr., 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to agricultural exhibitions, CanFarm, compost, computers, controlled production, corporations, crops, DHAS, Easter, FAO, fertilizers, food surpluses, garbage, hired help, insects, land consolidation, manure - spreading, mayflowers, pesticides, recycling, Rural-Urban Day, weeds, and weeds - spraying.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5209-5231 (1-31 Mar., 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to "Back-to-the-land" movement, agricultural exhibitions, bookfarming, calving, Christmas trees - pruning, Christmas trees - shearing, clear cutting, Crownvetch, even-aged management, forest insects, forest policy recommendations, Forestry Institute, hippies, manure - as byproduct, manure - disposal, poverty level, Sabbath - observance, snowmobiles, strawberries, U-pick, veterinarian, woodlot - second crop, and woolly aphid.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5195-5215 (2-30 July, 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to the Agricultural college, agricultural education, bees, Bill C176, buildings - new, computer revolution, equipment - expense, farm marketing plan, farm personnel - age, garbage, generation gap, hitchhiking, honey, MacDonald College, manure - handling, manure - pig - odour, nagging, strawberries - Upick, and strawberries - topping.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5189-5208 (1-26 Feb., 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to air pollution, Aldrin, artificial insemination, axe handles - repair, bulls, calving, carbon monoxide, church - changing role, clearcutting, culling cows, DDT, education, insecticides, sawmill, selective cutting, snowmobiles, Sunday school - attendance, whitewash, wood chipper, and woodlots.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5173-5194 (1-30 June, 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to agricultural representatives, arboretum, college graduates, diesel engines - exhaust, farm dogs, farm hands - wages, farm marketing, farm production - controls, farm profits, farmers - leaving land, farming communities - change, fertilizer, flies, fly control, forage cutting, forage harvester, fruit spraying, manure handling, tomatoes - staking, unemployment - college graduates, urban-rural relations, vegetable spraying, and winterfeed harvest.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5169-5188 (4-29 Jan., 1971)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to air pollution, bookkeeping, budworm, bulk milk trucks, Christmas trees, church, DDT, farm surplus, feedlots, income tax, internal combustion engines, pollution, record keeping, selective cutting, Swedish Increment Borer, traction boards, tractor pulls, woodlots, and zero grazing.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5147-5168 (1-31 December, 1970)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to bookkeeping - computerized, budworm, Canadian Farm management, CanFarm, Christmas - meaning, Christmas shopping, data systems, ELFAC, forest management, housewives, International Wheat Improvement Project - Mexico, inventory, labour force, liquid manure systems, manure - disposal, milk - bulk pickup, milk - bulk storage, Nobel Peace Prize, Norman Borlang, P.D.Q., pesticides, pollution, reforestation, Rouge Valley Association, secondhand car - purchase, soybeans, synthetic bacon, synthetic milk, water pollution - prevention, and woodlots.

Broadcast radio scripts for The Gillans, episodes 5126-5146 (2-30 November, 1970)

File contains Gillans radio scripts related to the Agricultural college, agricultural education, BNA Act, Chemstor, Christianity, Christmas tree - wrapping, Christmas trees, corn - treatment, DDT, farm management, farrowing, forest management, grain driers, Hallowe'en, hunting, interprovincial chicken and egg war, Malcom Muggeridge, milk - sales & marketing, National Marketing Boards, needle teeth, Northern Ireland - troubles, piglets, propcorn, pulpmills, pulpwood, Quebec - farm marketing, radio, religious broadcasts, religious conflict, Remembrance Day, snowmobiles, soft drinks - sales & marketing, sows, Swedish Increment Borer, the tourist industry, tractors, warble, and woodlots.
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