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A Television Documentary by Susan Cardinal

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 God’s Explorers is the compelling history of Catholic missionary zeal among the native people of Northern Canada. Set against the North’s vast and rugged frontiers and dramatized by rare archival footage, God’s Explorers illuminates a controversial past that has left both the Catholic Church and the Dene people in agony. This is a story about how the missionary priests – the Oblates of Mary Immaculate – changed the North and how the North changed them.

"...a marvelous  piece of documentary TV..."

   Western Catholic Reporter

 

"It is especially important in light of revelations in recent years of abuse in native residential schools."

    Calgary Herald

 

WINNER OF FIVE AWARDS at the 

2002 Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards.  

Best Writer, Best Director, Best Narration, Best Editor, Best Music . 

 

History and Biography Programs

 Hors Concours Selection

 

Certificate for Creative Excellence

Religion, Ethics, Humanities Category

 

2002 Axiem Award (USA)

 Religious Category (Television)

 


 

"The Church was loved by the people. The Church was powerful. But we hit the Titanic with modern society"

Bishop Denis Croteau, omi Bishop of the Mackenzie Valley in "God's Explorers"

 

Omi - Oblates of Mary Immaculate


 

God's Explorers' funding agencies and broadcasters

 

History Television, Canada

Historia - Quebec, Canada

CFCN Production Fund

Telefilm Canada Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Rogers Documentary Fund

Saskatchewan Television Network

Access Tv (Alberta)

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Canada

Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit

The Knowledge Network, Canada

© God's Explorers inc. 2001