Scene from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline_(1913_film)" class="extiw" title="en:Evangeline (1913 film)">Evangeline</a> (movie) 1913, garden of Billman Residence, 'Melvillewood', Armdale, later called 17 Herring Cove Rd. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" class="extiw" title="en:Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia" class="extiw" title="en:Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" class="extiw" title="en:Canada">Canada</a>.
Evangeline was a film based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" class="extiw" title="en:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>'s epic poem of the same name. It was both the first Canadian feature-length motion-picture and the very first film shot on location in Canada. Evangeline was produced by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Bioscope_Company" class="extiw" title="en:Canadian Bioscope Company">Canadian Bioscope Company</a>, founded in 1912 by H.H.B. Holland, with its headquarters at 108-118 Pleasant Street (now the Foundry Building on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Street,_Halifax" class="extiw" title="en:Barrington Street, Halifax">Barrington Street</a>, near Inglis). The company went on to produce seven widely varied films for the Canadian market – none of which has survived; with the outbreak of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" class="extiw" title="en:World War I">World War I</a>, Canadian Bioscope went out of business.
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1913
James Billman NSARM accession no. 1981-295 no. 1  / neg. no.: N-1652 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/halifax/archives.asp?ID=67">[1]</a>