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The Englishman's Boy
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Wikipedia article
'The Englishman's Boy' is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor.
Television film
On 2 March 2008, 'The Englishman's Boy' premiered as a made-for-television film on CBC with a budget of $11.7 million.Richard Wood. "Mini-series recreates massacre", 'The Beaver', February/March 2007, Vol. 87, issue 1, p. 11 The film won six Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Mini-Series; John N. Smith as director; Nicholas Campbell as leading actor; Katharine Isabelle as supporting actress; Carmen Kotyk, for casting; and Beverley Wowchuk for costumes.http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Nov28winners.pdf http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Oct22winners.pdf
In November 2017 the TV film was released on the Canada Media Fund Encore+ YouTube channel.
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