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Topical Budget 882-2: The Call of the West (1928)
 

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The newsreels sometimes featured items on emigration to the colonies. Here miners' sons are seen emigrating to Canada aboard the CP liner 'Montcalm', hoping for a better life than Britain was able to provide for them.

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