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Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.
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10 min
1915-05-22
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English
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Jan De Bar
Jeanette aka Jean
Lt. Walker, R.C.M.P.
John Strang
Jeanette as a Child
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