Journey from Zero 1961

The camera follows a travelling library as it travels north of the Alaska Highway to various small settlements.

Directed by Roger Blais

A journey northward from Mile Zero, where the Alaska Highway begins, through mountain wilderness. This film covers the route of the travelling library van, a free book service of the Public Library Commission of British Columbia. To oil towns, army bases, mining camps and scattered settlements, the bookmobile delivers a wide assortment of reading material.