24 Jan 2025
Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's lives.
In the Days of Famine
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.
Top Billed Cast
James Morrison Jan De Bar
Dorothy Kelly Jeanette aka Jean
George Cooper Lt. Walker, R.C.M.P.
Donald Hall John Strang
Violet Davis Jeanette as a Child
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