Mistress Madeleine
Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.
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Mistress Madeleine, Aaron Kim Johnston, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
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Credits
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directorAaron Kim Johnston
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producerNorma Bailey
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executive producerChes Yetman
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scriptAnne CameronAaron Kim Johnston
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photographyIan Elkin
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soundLeon Johnson
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editingJudy KrupanszkyNorma Bailey
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sound editingGloria ThorsteinsonWojtek Klis
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re-recordingClive Perry
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musicPierre Guérin
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castKen CharletteVictor CowieHarry DanielsMireille DeyglunMakka KleistJerry MartinNeil MunroWinona StevensonDennell SwampyAlan Williams
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