Drama Family History
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
Directed by
Eric Till
Written by
Heather Conkie
Elliot Page
Maggie MacLean
Gabriel Hogan
Ned Hall
Richard Donat
Rory MacLean
John Dunsworth
MacIsaac Smith
Jennie Raymond
Nellie MacLean
Jeremy Akerman
Mr. Frawley
Denny Doherty
Charley McGinnis
Andrew Bigelow
Ben Frawley
Bill McFadden
Ed O'Neill
Ben Rose-Davis
Willie MacLean
Andrew Keilty
John MacLean
Anna Wedlock
Sara MacLean
Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin
Simon O'Neill
Joseph Wynne
Jimmy O'Neill
Carol Sinclair
Mrs. O'Neill
Rhonda McLean
Miss Harper
Joseph Rutten
One Arm Joe
Mark I. Graham
Stubby
Bill Forbes
Priest
Jeremiah Sparks
Trainer
Gay Hauser
Nurse
Andrew Touesnard
Coughing Boy / Fiddler
David McClelland
Man at Dock
Michael Crimp
Collier #1
Daniel Morrison
Collier #2
Todd Hiscock
Collier #3
Everett Moore
Collier #4
John O'Keefe
Collier #5

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