CANADA: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY, SERIES 1 VOLUME 2

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• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Disc 1 (RUNNING TIME 180 MINUTES); CLAIMING THE WILDERNESS (1690 to 1755); In the late 1600s, New France's growing populace includes shopkeepers, artisans, farmers, and fur-trading expansionists. But fast-paced growth leads to conflicts that threaten the new society. The heartrending deportation of Acadian is emblematic of the struggle to possess North America, which enters its final, decisive phase in the 1750s.; ; PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: SERGE TURBIDE, CLAUDE LORTIE; ; BATTLE FOR A CONTINENT (1754 to 1775); Two decades of the mid 1700's shape Canada in profound ways. A conflict between England and France becomes a world war that engulfs the continent. French troops encounter a British juggernaut, first at Louisbourg, then on a farmer's field outside Quebec.; ; PRODUCER: SALLY REARDON, DIRECTOR: SERGE TURBIDE; ; Disc 2; • Canadian History Trivia Quiz, Part Two; • Making History (RUNNING TIME: 60 MINUTES); • Additional contemporary documentary footage (RUNNING TIME: 27 MINUTES)
• Cast: Maggie Huculak; Lorne Cardinal; Nigel Bennett; Graham Greene; Paule Baillargeon; Eric Peterson; Andrew Gillies; Ned Vukovic; Michael Hanrahan; Carl Marotte; C. David Johnson; Harry Standjofski; Raymond Cloutier; Jean-René Ouellet; Ghyslain Tremblay; Yvon Thiboutot; Robert Vézina; Torri Higginson; Jeff Page; Evan Adams; Raven Wright; Wayne Best; Levi Aguonie; Simon Baker; Stéphane Blanchette; Sid Bobb; Nancy Bomberry; Michael S. Davis; Jack Burning; Scott Finlay; Kevin Hare; Tantoo Cardinal; Derwin Jordan; Dan Lett; René-Daniel Dubois; Holly Lewis; Flint Eagle; Domenico Fiore; James Mainprize; Louise Marleau; Stephen McHattie; David Hemblen; Claude Poissant; John Homer; Eric Schweig; Roger Honeywell; Desmond Scott; Lucie Idlout; Nicolas Van Burek; Alex Jacobs; William Colgate; Jonathon Jacobson; Gary Farmer; Rita Joe; David Ferry; Aaron Keeshig; Sandra Laronde; Michael Mahonen; Francois Klanfer; Stephanie Morgenstern; Jim Mason III; Fiona Reid; Pamela Matthews; Gail Maurice; Greg Spottiswood; Wendy Thatcher; Gord Pelletier; Yvan Ponton; Carlo Rota; Ron White; Ellen Sylvester; August Schellenberg; Del Taylor; Raoul Max Trujillo; Peter Windrem; Simon Berry; Kim Bubbs; Dianne Latchford; Gerard Parkes; Oliver Svendsen; Frank Schorpion; Christopher Jacot; Dennis O'Connor; Alex Bisping; Pierre Chagnon; Allen Altman; James Bradford; Jean Marchand; Paul Doucet; Alan Fawcett; François Papineau; Dominique Briand; Yvon Bilodeau; René Gagnon; Zachary Richard; Lorne Brass; Patricia Tulasne; Carl Béchard; Bob Harding; Ian Deakin; Monique Mohica Aka Mama Bear; Abel Rabbitskin; Éloi Savoie; Lorraine Pintal; Gordon Tootoosis; Adam Kelly Morton; Arthur Holden; Jennifer Hunter; Art Kitching; Andréa Parro; Dominique Pétin; Jean L'Italien; Maxim Roy; Gérard Poirier; Simon Barry; Normand Bissonnette; John Gilbert; Yvonne Laflamme; Robert Lalonde; Guy Nadon; Paul Savoie; Frédérick De Grandpré; François Tassé; Stéphan Côté; Gaétan Dumont; Paul Essiembre; Jean LeClerc; Daniel Pilon; Jacques Rossi; Dennis St John; Normand Lévesque; Taylor Abrahamse; Charles Chaplin; Adolf Hitler; Mary Pickford; Douglas Fairbanks; Leonard Cohen; Winston Churchill; Theodore Roosevelt; Geordie Johnson; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Shaun Smyth; Tommy Douglas; Luba Goy; James Rae; Brian Mulroney; William Lyon Mackenzie King; R.B. Bennett; Wilfrid Laurier; Frederick Banting; Kim Campbell; Deborah Ann Smith; Serge Turbide; Claude Lortie; MARQUISE LEPAGE; JIM WILLIAMSON; Laine Drewery; Andrew Gregg; Susan Dando; Jacqueline Dubé-Corkery; Peter John Ingles; Michelle Métivier; JILL OFFMAN; Susan Teskey; Gene Allen; Hubert Gendron; Mark Starowicz; ANDREW BURNSTEIN; Gordon Henderson
• Director: Serge Turbide
• Runtime: 4:27
• Company: Morningstar Entertainment Inc., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Media Format: Movie