Farewell Oak Street

Overview

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.

Directed by Grant McLean

Top cast

R

Roxanna Bond

B

Bonnie Brooks

G

Gerald Campbell

E

Eric Clavering

A

Andy Halmay

Welfare Man

C

Cosie Lee

E

Edgar Marshall

D

Douglas Masters

J

Jim McRae

Kate Reid

Welfare Woman

Lorne Greene

Narrator

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