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Call number = 4710 [Keyword]
Videocassette English
Title: The pathfinders. [Hour one] [videocassette] B.Biblio. B.Biblio
Author: Huculak, Maggie. [*43 rec.] B.Biblio. B.Biblio
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [*765 rec.] B.Biblio. B.Biblio
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, [*456 rec.] c2000.
Description: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd, col. + 1 Grades 5-9 teacher's resource binder + 1 Grades 10-12 teacher's resource binder.
Contents: [Radisson] (6 min.) --The river (5 min.) --Life at the Bay (4 min.) --A journey North (7 min.) --The Nor'westers (4 min.) --In the shadow of the Rockies (6 min.) --The voyageurs (5 min.) --The winterer (6 min.) --Looking at the stars (4 min.) --From Canada by land (5 min.).
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Notes: This program is closed-captioned.
On container: Episode 6A: The pathfinders (1670- 1850). Hour one.
Senior producers, Gordon Henderson, Hubert Gendron ; directed by Michelle Metivier ; senior producer and writer, Gordon Henderson ; editor, Mark Solnoky.
Narrator, Maggie Huculak.
Through presentations of historical fact and dramatic re-enactment, this series traces Canadian history from the arrival of the first peoples to the end of the twentieth century. This program looks at the exploration of the Canadian west from 1670 to 1850. In this first episode, segment one shows how Pierre Radisson defied a governor to take New France's fur trade to Lake Superior and switched his allegiance to Charles II of England. This move led to the eventual formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. Segment two depicts Pierre de la Verendrye's search for the Western Sea, his establishment of eight western fur trading posts and the tragic consequence of his alliance with the Cree and Blackfoot along trades routes. Segment three reveals the early apprenticeship of David Thompson with the Hudson's Bay Company as well as the development of his life-long fascination with the land and its people. Segment four details the overland Arctic explorations of Samuel Hearne, who in the company of the Dene chief Matonabbee, was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to find a copper mine described by the Indians. Segment five describes the formation of the North West Company and explains how it came to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company for control of the fur trade. Segment six focuses on David Thompson's establishment of the fur trade in the foothills of the Rockies and discusses his experience among the Piegan Indians. Segment seven presents a look at the life of the voyageur as seen through the eyes of trading post official Daniel Harmon. Segment eight continues to consider Daniel Harman's experience with the voyageurs and native peoples as a wintering clerk with the North West Company. His marriage to the 14-year-old daughter of a voyageur introduces a new Canadian population -- the Metis. Segment nine explains how David Thompson came to learn the skills of surveying and map making and earned the name "The man who looks at stars". Segment ten portrays the efforts of the North West Company's Alexander Mackenzie to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. However, it would be David Thompson who discovers a route of commercial value to the North West Company.
Grades 5-Senior 4, adult.
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