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Waddell, Alfred E.
Black Canadians -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Race relations -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century.
Trinidadian Canadians -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Waddell, Alfred E.
Black Canadians -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Race relations -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century.
Trinidadian Canadians -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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A scattering of seeds. Episode 49, Before his time,
Dr
.
Alfred
E
.
Waddell
[videorecording (DVD)].
distributed in Canada by McNabb Connolly, [2001].
Call #:
DVD 610.92271 W116b Doc
Subjects
Waddell
,
Alfred
E
.
Black Canadians -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Race relations -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 20th century.
Trinidadian Canadians -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Alternate title:
Before his time,
Dr
.
Alfred
E
.
Waddell
[videorecording (DVD)]
Dr
.
Alfred
E
.
Waddell
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (30 min.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Produced in part with the participation of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Multiculturalism Canada, Canadian Heritage.
Home use only.
Production:
Director, Lalita Krishna.
Summary:
The astonishing story of a determined Trinidadian doctor who immigrated to Halifax. The son of a headmaster,
Alfred
Waddell
set out for New York in 1923 with dreams of becoming a doctor. But it was Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University that opened its doors for him to study medicine. Graduating in 1933, he faced the suspicions of Halifax's white and black communities who regarded him as an "outsider." Undaunted,
Waddell
brought medicine to far-flung black communities; spoke out against injustice; and even billeted black musicians like Cab Calloway, when he could not get a hotel room. A champion of social equality,
Dr
.
Waddell
raised his children with ideas of fairness and earned the respect of an entire city. Filmmaker Lalita Krishna tenderly weaves interviews, archival footage and lovely photography, in this heroic tale of a Trinidadian doctor whose humanity helped bridge the divide between Halifax's black and white communities.
Genre:
Biographical documentary films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Krishna, Lalita.
White Pine Pictures.
McNabb Connolly (Firm)
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfeature DVDs
DVD 610.92271 W116b Doc
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