Movie: In the Days of Famine

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James Morrison
James Morrison

Jan De Bar

Dorothy Kelly
Dorothy Kelly

Jeanette aka Jean

George Cooper
George Cooper

Lt. Walker, R.C.M.P.

Donald Hall
Donald Hall

John Strang

Violet Davis
Violet Davis

Jeanette as a Child

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    Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.

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    1915-05-22

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