Barbara Vacalopoulos

A well-done series that realistically depicts the tumultuous time in Canada's New France territory in the 1600s, a period rarely covered in television series. Details of scenery, clothing and history are meticulous - right down to the muddy streets of the fictional French settlement of Wobik and the Native American villages. The drama covers the shifting alliances between various Native tribes and the French and British settlers, each group using the other for its own agenda. Both European powers try to oust each other's settlers, sometimes by force that includes providing Native tribes with guns to drive out the other side by threats and even murder. Against this background, the lives of both French indentured servents and women seeking husbands and homesteads, as well as employees of trading companies wanting a share of the New World's bounty, play out. Dramatic, exciting, and even poignant at times, if you like history this series will engage you from the first episode. Just don't look for a happy ending - life was brutal for all concerned, including the virgin land exploited by the Europeans.