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The National Dream, also known as The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railway, was a 1974 Canadian television docudrama miniseries based on Pierre Berton's 1970 book of the same name, plus Berton's 1971 follow-up book The Last Spike. The television adaptation was written by William Whitehead and Timothy Findley. Berton is listed as a consultant on the credits.
Original Release
03/03/1974
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pierre Berton | Self / Host |
William Hutt | John A. Macdonald |
Gerard Parkes | Edward Blake |
Joseph Shaw | George Stephen |
Tony Van Bridge | Sir Sandford Fleming |
Pat Galloway | Agnes Macdonald |
Chris Wiggins | Donald Smith |
Gillie Fenwick | Alexander Mackenzie |
John Colicos | Cornelius Van Horne |
Robin Gammell | Walter Moberly |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Great Lone Land | Sunday, 03 March 1974 |
2 | The Pacific Scandal | Sunday, 10 March 1974 |
3 | The Horrid B.C. Business | |
4 | The Great Debate | |
5 | The Railway General | |
6 | The Sea of Mountains | |
7 | The Desperate Days | |
8 | The Last Spike | Sunday, 28 April 1974 |
Directors
Writers
William Whitehead, Pierre Berton, Timothy Findley
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pierre Berton | Self / Host |
William Hutt | John A. Macdonald |
Gerard Parkes | Edward Blake |
Joseph Shaw | George Stephen |
Tony Van Bridge | Sir Sandford Fleming |
Pat Galloway | Agnes Macdonald |
Chris Wiggins | Donald Smith |
Gillie Fenwick | Alexander Mackenzie |
John Colicos | Cornelius Van Horne |
Robin Gammell | Walter Moberly |
James B. Douglas | Major A.B. Rogers |
Neil Dainard | Robert Rylatt |
Michael J. Reynolds | Andrew Onderdonk |
Peter Mews | John Henry Pope |
John Horton | Lucius Seth Huntington |
Claude Préfontaine | Georges-Etienne Cartier |
Barney O'Sullivan | E.C. Gillette |
Richard Whelan | George McMullen |
Henry Stamper | Hugh Allan |
Jean-Marie Lemieux | Father Lacombe |
Producers
Name | Role |
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James Murray | Producer |