Season 1 (1999)

The Light to the Future
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February 5, 1999 • 30m

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1904. Willie MacLean is an 12-year-old with a passion for horses and is helping his family get by the best...Read more

Best Laid Plans
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February 12, 1999 • 30m

Nellie's Aunt Rose arrives for a visit, and she does not get along with Ned after learning that Nellie lied to her about him being...Read more

Forerunner
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February 19, 1999 • 30m

Willie and schoolmates, Mollie and Angus, are forced to spend the night in an abandoned house reputed to be haunted on a dare from...Read more

The Ball Game
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February 26, 1999 • 30m

In the aftermath of the recent pit flooding, Ned wants to organize a protest of the working conditions. But Mr. Frawley, and his M...Read more

To Have and to Hold
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March 5, 1999 • 30m

With Ned unjustly fired as an example by Mr. Frawley, Rose wants to take Maggie, Sarah, and Willie back to Halifax with her. Willi...Read more

Endings and Beginnings
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March 12, 1999 • 30m

With Ned and Nellie away in nearby Sydney celebrating their honeymoon, the snobbish, city slicker Rose finds herself the center of...Read more

The Phantom Ship
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March 19, 1999 • 30m

After Willie thinks he sees a ghostly pirate ship in the cove, he tries to get Mollie and Angus to help him search for a supposed ...Read more

The Mine's Mark
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March 26, 1999 • 30m

After Willie's horse, Sable, goes missing, Willie suspects that he may have been stolen and he is forced to sneak into the coal mi...Read more

Sleeping Dogs Lie
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April 2, 1999 • 30m

Ben vouches for Ned to prove that the pit pony Sable is Willie's horse. Willie becomes determined to find out who stole his horse,...Read more

Calling Mr. Bell
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April 9, 1999 • 30m

More technology comes to Glace Bay starting with a public telephone installed in the lobby of Mrs. MacTavish's train station. Afte...Read more

Ghost in the Lens
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April 16, 1999 • 30m

Using his new photo camera given to him by Alexander Graham Bell, Willie takes a photo of the old Borso haunted house, and it lead...Read more

Famous
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April 23, 1999 • 30m

L.B. Collins, a noted newspaper reporter from Halifax, arrives in Glace Bay to interview Willie after his photo of Stringy and his...Read more

Winds of Change
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April 30, 1999 • 30m

When Ned is temporally laid off as the mine puts in new electric wires, Nellie thinks about getting a job. But Ned, due to his pri...Read more

Reunion
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May 7, 1999 • 30m

When Ned is temporally laid off as the mine puts in new electric wires, Nellie thinks about getting a job. But Ned, due to his pri...Read more

Making Their Way
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May 14, 1999 • 30m

When Rose offers to buy a large farmhouse for Nellie and Ned, they both find that there are naturally strings attached as Rose wan...Read more

Where There's A Will
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May 21, 1999 • 30m

Nellie decides to open her own laundry business, as Willie continues struggling between schoolwork and delivering packages for Mr....Read more

Evolution
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May 28, 1999 • 30m

The evil and greedy Wendell Crowe begins to play hardball with Miss Harper by threatening to having her teaching license revoked u...Read more

The Truth About Heroes
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June 4, 1999 • 30m

When Ned is nominated by the miners to run for president of the Provencial Workers Association, his rival, the head wrangler Jack ...Read more

Night Into Day
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June 11, 1999 • 30m

Willie and Charley look after Spider Davis' pit pony, Zack, after he falls ill. Willie asks Helen Borso for some special healing m...Read more

Transformations
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June 18, 1999 • 30m

Mollie asks Nellie to do a makeover on her in order to shed her tomboy image from hanging around Willie and Angus, and make her in...Read more

Connections
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June 25, 1999 • 30m

When Nellie's laundry machine goes bust, she tries taking another job as assistant teacher at Miss Harper's school, but learns tha...Read more

Homecoming
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July 2, 1999 • 30m

Maggie MacLean returns unexpectedly from Halifax, and soon finds how everything with Nellie, Willie, and Ned have changed for both...Read more

Charley's Secret
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July 9, 1999 • 30m

Charley finds himself haunted by his past involving the ghost of an old friend who keeps appearing before him involving a 30-year-...Read more

Sunshine and Shadows
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July 16, 1999 • 30m

Nellie begins to think that she might be pregnant which puts both a glimmer of hope for everyone as Willie and Maggie take over fo...Read more

Into The Dark
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July 23, 1999 • 30m

With Nellie now bedridden, she fears she may have Scarlet Fever, but is instead diagnosed with consumption. Willie and Maggie are ...Read more

Our Sons and Daughters
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July 30, 1999 • 30m

With Willie back working in the mine as the pit pony driver to cover for Stringy while he's still in the hospital recovering from ...Read more

Power Plays
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September 24, 1999 • 23m

As the newly elected first president of the Junior Mine Workers' Association, Willie asks Mr. Crowe to recruit a doctor who can tr...Read more

Two Sides of the Coin
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October 1, 1999 • 23m

The national coal company's new doctor arrives in Glace Bay to treat the bedridden Nellie's advance case of consumption. In a surp...Read more

Coal Dust
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October 8, 1999 • 23m

Willie is given responsibility for checking a dangerous seam for methane. When an explosion brings down the roof, he's held accountable.

A Weighty Matter
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October 15, 1999 • 23m

Mine owner Wendell Crowe, tired of Willie's combative attitude toward management, makes plans to teach him a lesson and keep him u...Read more

Gone Fishin'
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October 22, 1999 • 23m

The Ponies are about to play their first big game without Willie. Charley takes him on a fishing trip to get his mind off the game...Read more

Home
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October 29, 1999 • 23m

After a fire breaks out, Ned accidentally stumbles upon the secret location that Spider Davis calls home. Ned is surprised to find...Read more

Company Business
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November 5, 1999 • 23m

Tony's appointment as mine doctor proves to be a mixed blessing when the men find themselves over-billed for his services.

The Game
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November 12, 1999 • 23m

The Ponies are about to play for the championship, but the game might have to be forfeited. Ned and Dr. Tony Moressa get into a he...Read more

Taking Chances
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November 19, 1999 • 23m

Love is in the air, or is it? Willie and Maggie conspire to ignite a romance between Charley McGinnis and Anne Harper, the schoolt...Read more

In Harmony
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November 26, 1999 • 23m

Ned feels the weight of his new responsibilities in his new position as the mine's overman. During some dangerous work involving t...Read more

Sarah's Return
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December 3, 1999 • 23m

While staying in Halifax, Sarah has turned into a tiny Aunt Rose, full of sophistication and pretension. Maggie tries to deal with...Read more

That Special Spark
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December 10, 1999 • 23m

Stringy Borso is leaving Glace Bay for baseball camp, and Nellie's choir is planning its first public performance in honour of thi...Read more

Lost
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December 17, 1999 • 23m

Glace Bay's new advances in technology results in more mechanization at the mine. Consequently, a large number of miners lose the...Read more

Fiddler's Fall
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January 7, 2000 • 23m

The annual Fiddler's Fall is in jeopardy of being cancelled when beautiful and talented Theresa Cameron (Natalie MacMaster) arrive...Read more

Chasing Shadows
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January 14, 2000 • 23m

A wild stallion is stealing ponies from the mine. In order to keep Doyle from shooting the animal, Willie and Charley must tame the stallion.

Price of Change
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January 21, 2000 • 23m

Ned's modern coal cutters continue to cause problems at the mine. Rufus and Scotty have trouble maintaining their machine and enli...Read more

Small Steps
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January 28, 2000 • 23m

Ned and Nellie unexpectedly receive a bundle of joy at their house. Unfortunately, the baby's arrival leads to a confrontation bet...Read more

Securities
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February 4, 2000 • 23m

When Willie gets an opportunity of a lifetime to leave behind his life as a pit boy and attend photography school in Boston, he ha...Read more