''Les Filles de Caleb'' is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by

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, based on the eponymous novel of

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,W.H. New.
A History of Canadian Literature
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under the name ''Emilie.''

Plot

The series is set in the rural

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region in the

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at the end of the 19th century and through the beginning of the 20th century. Émilie, daughter of Caleb Bordeleau, decides to pursue her education. She faces great opposition from her small-minded entourage, but succeeds at becoming a school teacher. She falls in love with one of her students, the adventurer Ovila Pronovost, and is torn between her vocation and her love for him. The Bordeleau and Pronovost families worry about the alliance of these two lovers of such difficult to reconcile passions. After their marriage, they remain in the town of St-Tite and had many children. Ovila, restless and always attracted by wide open spaces, leaves the family to go up North to the Abitibi region, recently opened to colonisation, for opportunities to hunt and lumberjack. Émilie chooses to stay and bring up their family on her own. After the death of one of Ovila's brother, they moved to Shawinigan.

Cast

* Vincent Bolduc: Napoléon Bordeleau *

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: Émilie Bordeleau * Roy Dupuis: Ovila Pronovost * Germain Houde: Caleb Bordeleau *

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: Félicité Pronovost *

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: Dosithée Pronovost * Johanne-Marie Tremblay: Célina Bordeleau * Jessica Barker: Charlotte Baumier *

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: Edmond Pronovost * Hugo Dubé: Joachim Crête * Michel Goyette: Lazare Pronovost * Patrick Goyette: Ovide Pronovost * Lucie Laurier: Émilie, young * Sophie Léger: Antoinette Arcand *

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: Henri Douville *

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: Berthe Auclair *

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: Rose Pronovost * Ysabelle Rosa: Rosée Pronovost *

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: Télesphore Pronovost *

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: Marie-Ange Pronovost

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Filles De Caleb Television shows filmed in Quebec Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming 1990 Canadian television series debuts 1991 Canadian television series endings 1990s Canadian drama television series