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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Richard Donat as Rory MacLean
Ben Rose-Davis as Willie MacLean
Jennie Raymond as Nellie MacLean
Andrew Keilty as John MacLean
Elliot Page as Maggie MacLean
Anna Wedlock as Sara MacLean
Gabriel Hogan as Ned Hall
Denny Doherty as Charley McGinnis
Jonathan Langlois-Sadubin as Simon O'Neill
Joseph Wynne as Jimmy O'Neill
Carol Sinclair as Mrs. O'Neill
Bill McFadden as Ed O'Neill
Jeremy Akerman as Mr. Frawley
Andrew Bigelow as Ben Frawley
John Dunsworth as MacIsaac Smith
Rhonda McLean as Miss Harper
Joseph Rutten as One Arm Joe
Mark I. Graham as Stubby
Bill Forbes as Priest
Jeremiah Sparks as Trainer
Gay Hauser as Nurse
Andrew Touesnard as Coughing Boy / Fiddler
David McClelland as Man at Dock
Michael Crimp as Collier #1
Daniel Morrison as Collier #2
Todd Hiscock as Collier #3
Everett Moore as Collier #4
John O'Keefe as Collier #5
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