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Society in New France (1608-1760) (7)

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  • Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless
    Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless
    Ginette Pellerin 2009 52 min
    Made famous in 1971 by the success of La Sagouine and achieving international celebrity after winning the Prix Goncourt for Pélagie-la-Charrette in 1979, Antonine Maillet has been the mouthpiece of the Acadian people throughout the world for fifty years. This documentary takes us from Bouctouche to Montreal by way of Moncton to discover a great writer who has rarely spoken of herself with such candour and generosity. An unforgettable autobiographical document.
  • C'est l'aviron
    C'est l'aviron
    Norman McLaren 1944 3 min
    One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings on black cards were photographed with overlapping 'zooms' to suggest the forward movement of a canoe along rivers and lakes. This film appears in Chants populaires no. 5 and in Chants populaires no. 6.
  • Voyageurs
    Voyageurs
    1978 1 min
    This very short animation from the Canada Vignettes series illustrates the hardships of voyageurs' lives in the early Canadian fur trade.
  • Madwoman of God
    Madwoman of God
    Jean-Daniel Lafond 2008 1 h 16 min
    This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.
  • Mission of Fear
    Mission of Fear
    Fernand Dansereau 1965 1 h 19 min
    The story of the Jesuit martyrs who lived with the Wendat converts in the region near what is now Midland, Ontario. The film is of wide interest since it reconstructs a period of Canadian history, especially of Indigenous life, at the very beginning of European settlement. The village and the Jesuits' buildings are exact models from archeologists' reconstructions. The story is based on the Jesuit Relations, the actual journals of mission life that still make for thrilling reading.

  • Samuel de Champlain (Québec 1603)
    Samuel de Champlain (Québec 1603)
    Denys Arcand 1964 14 min
    Footage of Québec City locations and the artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from his first explorations and settlement to his death in 1635.
  • Wolfe and Montcalm
    Wolfe and Montcalm
    Allan Wargon 1957 29 min
    This short film recreates the tense hours before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and then the battle itself in which both generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, were fatally wounded.
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