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Mistress Madeleine (1986)

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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Top billed cast

Mireille DeyglunMadeleine
Neil MunroCharles
Harry DanielsJoseph
Alan WilliamsKirk
Victor CowieMacGregor
Winona StevensonSara
Makka KleistLoon
Kennetch CharlettePhillipe
Dennell SwampyRobert
Jerry MartinLouis

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