NFB Collection
Port Royal
19781 minFilm: Animation
Direction: Robert Doucet
Production: Derek LambDavid Verrall
Script: Josef Reeve
This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming hardships the survivors, joined by other new colonists, eventually established Port Royal, the foundation of Acadia and the Acadian people.
Availability
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Subject categories
- Francophone Communities > Acadia
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Atlantic RegionHistoric Sites and MonumentsImmigration and SettlementPioneer Life
- Canada - Images of a Country > Vignettes
Credits
- director
- Robert Doucet
- producer
- Derek Lamb
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- script
- Josef Reeve