Various shots of slum district in Saint John, New Brunswick showing snowy backyards, clotheslines, garbage, light traffic in streets, the odd pedestrian. PAN over mess of slum buildings, church steeple. TILT UP stairway from between two houses. LA PAN of crowded slum buildings. LS of freight train, leaning three storey house, PAN back to moving freight train. PAN of cluster of buildings in vicinity of harbour.