Pit Pony

Pit Pony

1999 · 1 season · 44 eps · ★ 8.5 · Drama, Family

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In 1904, on the Nova Scotia island of Cape Breton, 12-year-old Willie McLean, following the death of his father, joins the coal mines, where he bonds with the working horses underground. His family's mining legacy shapes their lives.

Created by Joyce Barkhouse

Network: CBC Television

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Alex Wrathell Willie MacLean
Jennie Raymond Nellie MacLean Hall
Shaun Smyth Ned Hall
Elliot Page Maggie MacLean (as Ellen Philpotts-Page)
Matthew Harris Albert 'Spider' Davis
Jeremy Akerman Mr. Frawley
Rhonda McLean Anne Harper

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Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.

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