• : 1999
  • : 44
  • : 2
  • CBC
  • Drama Family History

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1x1
The Light to the Future
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05, 1999
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1904. Willie MacLean is an 12-year-old with a passion for horses and is helping his family get by the best since the death of his older brother in at the local .. show full overview
1x2
Best Laid Plans
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12, 1999
Nellie's Aunt Rose arrives for a visit, and she does not get along with Ned after learning that Nellie lied to her about him being a farmer instead of a miner. But Ned and Nellie's .. show full overview
1x3
Forerunner
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19, 1999
Willie and schoolmates, Mollie and Angus, are forced to spend the night in an abandoned house reputed to be haunted on a dare from pit boy Spider. There, Willie thinks he sees his father .. show full overview
1x4
The Ball Game
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26, 1999
In the aftermath of the recent pit flooding, Ned wants to organize a protest of the working conditions. But Mr. Frawley, and his MORE cynical and nasty boss, Wendell Crowe, only want to .. show full overview
1x5
To Have and to Hold
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05, 1999
With Ned unjustly fired as an example by Mr. Frawley, Rose wants to take Maggie, Sarah, and Willie back to Halifax with her. Willie refuses to leave, town as does Nellie, until Ned, .. show full overview
1x6
Endings and Beginnings
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12, 1999
With Ned and Nellie away in nearby Sydney celebrating their honeymoon, the snobbish, city slicker Rose finds herself the center of attention by a traveling violinist, named John Scottie .. show full overview
1x7
The Phantom Ship
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19, 1999
After Willie thinks he sees a ghostly pirate ship in the cove, he tries to get Mollie and Angus to help him search for a supposed buried treasure. Only Spider gets to it first, and he .. show full overview
1x8
The Mine's Mark
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26, 1999
After Willie's horse, Sable, goes missing, Willie suspects that he may have been stolen and he is forced to sneak into the coal mine, disguised at a pit boy miner, to look for his horse, .. show full overview
1x9
Sleeping Dogs Lie
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02, 1999
Ben vouches for Ned to prove that the pit pony Sable is Willie's horse. Willie becomes determined to find out who stole his horse, and soon discovers that the "treasure" that Spider is .. show full overview
1x10
Calling Mr. Bell
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09, 1999
More technology comes to Glace Bay starting with a public telephone installed in the lobby of Mrs. MacTavish's train station. After doing a school report on the telephone, Willie writes .. show full overview
1x11
A Ghost in the Lens
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16, 1999
Using his new photo camera given to him by Alexander Graham Bell, Willie takes a photo of the old Borso haunted house, and it leads him to try to find out the mystery about the old house .. show full overview
1x12
Famous
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23, 1999
L.B. Collins, a noted newspaper reporter from Halifax, arrives in Glace Bay to interview Willie after his photo of Stringy and his mother make news headlines all over the province as a .. show full overview
1x13
The Winds of Change
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30, 1999
When Ned is temporally laid off as the mine puts in new electric wires, Nellie thinks about getting a job. But Ned, due to his pride and ego, strongly opposes her choice to look for .. show full overview
1x14
Reunion
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07, 1999
Aunt Rose along with Maggie and Sarah arrive back in Glace Bay for Willie's 13th birthday, in which Nellie sees just how impoverished they are as Rose plots to go all out on gifts for .. show full overview
1x15
Making Their Way
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14, 1999
When Rose offers to buy a large farmhouse for Nellie and Ned, they both find that there are naturally strings attached as Rose wants to model the house the way she wants it to and is not .. show full overview
1x16
Where There's a Will
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21, 1999
Nellie decides to open her own laundry business, as Willie continues struggling between schoolwork and delivering packages for Mr. Frawley. Meanwhile, Frawley, under orders from the mine .. show full overview
1x17
Evolution
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28, 1999
The evil and greedy Wendell Crowe begins to play hardball with Miss Harper by threatening to having her teaching license revoked unless she stops holding after-shift reading classes for .. show full overview
1x18
The Truth About Heroes
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04, 1999
When Ned is nominated by the miners to run for president of the Provencial Workers Association, his rival, the head wrangler Jack Doyle, plots to use dirty means to win the vote after .. show full overview
1x19
Night Into Day
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11, 1999
Willie and Charley look after Spider Davis' pit pony, Zack, after he falls ill. Willie asks Helen Borso for some special healing medicine for the horse and asks Mollie and Angus to help .. show full overview
1x20
Transformations
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18, 1999
Mollie asks Nellie to do a makeover on her in order to shed her tomboy image from hanging around Willie and Angus, and make her into a more of a girl. Meanwhile, Ned begins to resent his .. show full overview
1x21
Connections
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25, 1999
When Nellie's laundry machine goes bust, she tries taking another job as assistant teacher at Miss Harper's school, but learns that there are no funds to pay her. Nellie then takes a job .. show full overview
1x22
Homecoming
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02, 1999
Maggie MacLean returns unexpectedly from Halifax, and soon finds how everything with Nellie, Willie, and Ned have changed for both the better and worse. Meanwhile, Stringy asks and gets .. show full overview
1x23
Charley's Secret
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09, 1999
Charley finds himself haunted by his past involving the ghost of an old friend who keeps appearing before him involving a 30-year-old tragedy. Meanwhile, Jack Doyle continues alienating .. show full overview
1x24
Sunshine & Shadows
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16, 1999
Nellie begins to think that she might be pregnant which puts both a glimmer of hope for everyone as Willie and Maggie take over for one evening Nellie's teaching position. Maggie also .. show full overview
1x25
Into the Dark
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23, 1999
With Nellie now bedridden, she fears she may have Scarlet Fever, but is instead diagnosed with consumption. Willie and Maggie are forced to take over Nellie's classes at night, while .. show full overview
1x26
Our Sons & Daughters
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30, 1999
With Willie back working in the mine as the pit pony driver to cover for Stringy while he's still in the hospital recovering from his injuries, Willie tries to persuade Ned, Spider and .. show full overview

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