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"In 1934, with Scottish filmmaker, Jenny Brown, [Evelyn] Spice travelled back to Canada to make Prairie Winter, a dramatized film about daily life in the Canadian north. Released in 1935, the film was intended to debunk the romanticized notions of prairie life depicted by the railway and steamship lines to lure prospective immigrants. Prairie Winter was one of the first Canadian films to be exhibited theatrically in England."
-- Barbara Evans


Source:
Evans, Barbara. "BFI Screenonline: Spice, Evelyn (1904-1990)" British Film Institute. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/581923/.