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Still Mine 2012
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Congrats To Michael McGowan On Winning Best Director At The Directors Guild Of Canada
Michael McGowan and James Cromwell in March, 2013 (Photo: Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
McGowan was honoured with the Directors Guild of Canada prize for Best Direction for his work on the film, which stars James Cromwell as farmer Craig Morrison, and Geneviève Bujold as his wife, Irene.
It's based on the real-life story of Craig Morrison: the farmer started building a home at the age of 88 on land overlooking the Bay of Fundy, and got into trouble with the law as a result. You can read an account of the tale at the Globe and Mail.
Michael was in the red chair a couple of years back to talk about telling Canadian stories at the movies. Check out that conversation below, starting at the 8:30 mark:
And James Cromwell was in the red chair earlier this year to talk about Still Mine and his experience shooting the film. Check out Cromwell's red chair interview below:
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http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-348916-craig-morrison.html
Craig Morrison
MORRISON, CRAIG - It is with sad and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Craig Morrison, husband of Irene (Chestnut) Morrison, of West Quaco, NB, occurred at the Saint John Regional Hospital on Monday, February 11, 2013. He was born on May 8, 1919, in West Quaco, NB, the son of the late Glen and Hattie (Mosher) Morrison. Craig is survived by his loving wife Irene; four sons John Morrison and his wife Laura of St. Martins, NB, Dean Morrison and his wife Alvina of AB, Ben Morrison and his wife Susan of AB, Craig Morrison and his wife Joan of AB; three daughters Ruth Walker and her husband Daryl of Sussex, NB, Edie McGrath and her husband Earl of St. Martins, NB, Linda LeBlanc and her husband Jim of St. Martins, NB; 17 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends. He was predeceased by his brother Ludolf. Craig will be remembered as an energetic man who enjoyed fishing, farming, lumbering, gardening, construction and was also an active baseball fan. Most recently Craig had the opportunity to get his story known in a film titled “Still” due to be released this spring.
He is resting at Reid’s Funeral Home (506-832-5541), 1063 Main Street, Hampton, NB, with visiting on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM. Funeral service, conducted by, Rev. Leander Mills, will be held from St. Martins United Church at 11:00 AM, on Friday, February 15, 2013. Interment will take place in West Quaco Cemetery. Donations to the Alzheimer Society or to the memorial of the donor’s choice would be appreciated. Condolences to the family may be made through www.reidsfh.com
Irene Morrison
MORRISON, IRENE - It is with sad and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Irene Elizabeth (Chestnut) Morrison, wife of the late Craig Morrison, which occurred at the Dr. V.A. Snow Center on Thursday, August 22, 2013. She was born on April 19, 1926 in Damascus, NB, the daughter of the late George and Elsie (Hayward) Chestnut. Irene is survived by four sons John Morrison and his wife Laura of St. Martins, NB, Dean Morrison and his wife Alvina of AB, Ben Morrison and his wife Susan of AB, Craig Morrison and his wife Joan of AB; three daughters Ruth Walker and her husband Daryl of Sussex, NB, Edie McGrath and her husband Earl of St. Martins, NB, Linda LeBlanc and her husband Jim of St. Martins, NB; 17 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; twin sister Isabel Wanamaker; several nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends. She was predeceased by her husband of sixty-six years, Craig; brother Ted Chestnut and niece Joyce Scribner.
She is resting at Reid’s Funeral Home (506-832-5541), 1063 Main Street, Hampton, NB, with visiting on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 PM. Funeral service, conducted by, Rev. Leander Mills, will be held from St. Martins United Church at 11:00 AM, on Monday, August 26, 2013. Interment will take place in West Quaco Cemetery. Donations to the Alzheimer Society or to the memorial of the donor’s choice would be appreciated. Condolences to the family may be made through www.reidsfh.com
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2011.04.0460.html
News Release
Dairy farm first to use gravity discharge manure system with sand bedding
21 April 2011SUSSEX (CNB) – Daryl and Eric Walker, owners of Lonsview Farm, will showcase an innovative gravity discharge manure system for sand bedding on Tuesday, April 26.The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Lonsview Farm, 6762, Route 111, New Line Road, Sussex.
"Our goal is to help producers such as dairy farmers embrace innovation," said Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Minister Michael Olscamp. "This open house gives other farmers the opportunity to view the manure discharge system and adapt the idea to fit their needs."
The use of sand bedding maximizes cow comfort, and this increases milk production and the longevity of dairy animals.
"The use of sand is widely accepted as the gold standard in bedding, but this has traditionally been a challenge for dairy farmers," said Olscamp. "This unique system makes it possible to deal effectively with the storage and handling aspect of the sand."
The system designed and installed at Lonsview uses specialized slats over a sand pit. Gravity separates the manure and liquids from the sand. This eliminates the need for augers and machinery, where in the past sand has damaged the moving parts. The design means a new way of managing the sand that will increase profitability and reduce maintenance.
"In our search to find the best solution for Lonsview farm, we travelled throughout Canada and the United States to find an application using sand storage," said Daryl Walker. "It was extremely helpful for us to see what others were doing, and we are pleased to open our doors to our neighbours and colleagues in the industry so we can pass on the knowledge."
The use of sand in bedding will be evaluated within a multi-year complementary study being undertaking by the provincial government in collaboration with Milk 2020.
Olscamp said that supporting innovative projects is one way to support profitability and sustainability in the dairy sector.
Still Mine: Portrait of a man always true to his own codem
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Sturdy, stubborn, practical: These are three qualities that define 87-year-old Craig Morrison (James Cromwell), but they also apply to the house he's building for his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold), as well as the movie he's building it in. Written and directed by Michael McGowan (One Week, Saint Ralph), Still Mine is a measured but considerably moving celebration of things hand-crafted, traditional and built to last.
Based on the true story of a New Brunswick farmer who ran afoul of local building regulations by assembling a second home on his own property that failed to meet code, Still Mine reconfigures this potentially cute-old-coot material into a kind of rural Canadian Amour with a bigger heart and calloused hands. Although Morrison's crusade is to build a place where his ailing wife (a sensationally subtle Bujold) can safely drift away by his side, the journey taken is hardly just sentimental. The farmer is also making a stand for personal dignity and control of his own life, even if it means ultimately standing alone in the unfinished frame of his project, resisting the combined stop-work pressures of the law, his neighbours and his well-meaning but baffled grown kids. All anybody really wants is for Craig to give in and have proper, legal plans drawn up, but for the old man it's a question of trust: What kind of an idiot would build a house that wouldn't stand? And what kind of house would stand on paper anyway?
While Still Mine pays close attention to matters like the fading family farm, increasingly intrusive bureaucratic regulations and the heartbreaking ordeal of losing a mate to irreversibly worsening dementia, its main spectacle is Cromwell's Craig Morrison, a man built like a scarecrow and usually standing alone like one, and whose default mode of ornery sarcasm keeps him at a prickly distance from everyone around. As played by the remarkably effective Cromwell, an actor too often consigned to the margins of character performances, Morrison is a man of considerable complexity and frustrating bullheadedness, but always true to his own – if not the building inspector's – code. More often than not, we see him standing alone, a figure of vertical tenacity on a horizontal plane.
In virtually every shot of the movie, Cromwell plays Morrison as a man who keeps everyone at a manageable distance, but whose inner workings are manifest in the smallest gestures and details: the way he looks at his wife when she forgets something, the contempt in his eyes when faced with regulatory noise, his frustration with a stubborn necktie, the way his fingers brush the family history scored in an old, hand-made dining-room table. Possessed of an equally long face and body, Cromwell provides ample compositional opportunities that McGowan takes full advantage of, making Morrison's imposing physical presence an eloquent articulation of the theme of weathered and leathery resistance.
Ultimately however, the movie's considerable inspirational heft is provided not by Craig's up-against-the-system quixotism but his persistent individualism, the deep-seated conviction that nobody knows his land, his business, his wood or his wife anywhere near as well as he does, and he'll go to jail before he'll admit any differently. The point isn't that he's right, but that he so firmly believes he is, he'll build a house on it.
https://torontosun.com/2013/05/02/the-house-that-craig-built
The house that Craig built
'All I wanted to do is build a house'
It was the fifth house that Craig Morrison built with his own hands, and the last. He had built things with his own hands for 70 years, often using lumber he produced at his own small sawmill. Now he would build a modest, single-storey house where he could look after his wife, Irene, suffering from Alzheimer's. He would do the work himself, of course. Didn't everyone in New Brunswick? "I'm not flush with money," he explains now. "I didn't want to go into debt."
Thus it was that Mr. Morrison broke ground three years ago - at 88 - for a bungalow on land overlooking the Bay of Fundy near St. Martins, a seaside village east of Saint John. And thus it was that Mr. Morrison got into trouble with the law for the first time in his life.
In the past two years, building inspectors have hauled Mr. Morrison into court six times, each appearance more harrowing than the last. A couple of weeks ago, the provincial agency that employs building inspectors demanded that the court forcibly remove Craig and Irene Morrison from their home, that the house be bulldozed, and that Mr. Morrison be found in contempt of court - meaning, almost certainly, imprisonment.
Mr. Morrison worked long hours into his 92nd year, fixing the inspectors' long lists of defects. But for the court, he made his position clear: He would not vacate the house. If the court found him in contempt, he would go to jail.
In a memorable account of these proceedings, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal writer Marty Klinkenberg reported Mr. Morrison's lament: "I thought this was a free country, that we had liberties and freedoms like we used to have, but I was sadly mistaken. … All I wanted to do is build a house, and I was treated as if I was some kind of outlaw."
Building inspector Wayne Mercer found many things wrong with Mr. Morrison's house - although it wasn't obvious that the building-code infractions he cited made it particularly unsafe. He noticed that Mr. Morrison's lumber - custom-sawn - did not carry the requisite stickers. The windows did not carry the requisite stickers, either. The roof trusses and floor joists, he thought, were questionable. He wanted the ceilings torn out, drywall removed and wall studs replaced.
"[The inspectors]seemed to find fault with everything I did," Mr. Morrison said. "They were out to get me because I was doing it with my own land and my own lumber and my own trusses and floor joists in my own time."
At one point, a professional home builder, Raymond Debly, volunteered to do an independent inspection. He determined that the house exceeded the requirements of the National Building Code. It was "built like a fort." The lumber, old-growth spruce, was superior to any lumber on the market. ("Some stamped lumber," he said, "shouldn't be used to build a doghouse.") The floors were double strength. ("You could walk an elephant across them.") And the trusses were fine. ("They were built the old-fashioned way," said Mr. Debly, himself 80, "the way we did it in the '60s.")
Mr. Morrison's long struggle with an implacable bureaucracy came to a merciful end in a Saint John courtroom on Nov. 1 when Mr. Justice Hugh McLellan ordered the planning commission to negotiate a settlement with Mr. Morrison, saying, "I'm not going to order a 91-year-old man to jail and have his wife placed in a nursing home." The planning commission subsequently agreed to allow the Morrisons to live in their home, without further molestation, until they die.
Son of a lumberman and cattle rancher, Craig Morrison comes from self-sufficient stock, the sturdy people who built this country with their own hands. He raised seven children (and has 14 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren). Yet, government inspectors almost took him down.
This is a true Canadian story, a cautionary tale of the tremendous power of the state over the individual in an age of pervasive bureaucracy. It is, indeed, a profound parable of irretrievably lost independence and casually forgotten freedoms.