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Orkney Lad (The): The Story of Isabel Gunn

The story of Isabel Gunn – Orkney lass, Hudson’s Bay Company labourer and “debauched” cross-dresser – has been a dusty footnote in Canada’s fur trade history. In 1807, “John Fubbister” forever changed our image of Canada as a place explored by adventurous European men braving an unforgiving wilderness when, according to witnesses, he “lay down on the hearth and proceeded to give birth to a son.” Fubbister was Isabel Gunn, a poor lass with a vagrant heart who risked everything when she swapped her skirts for trousers and sailed west to Hudson Bay.

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Betacam SP

45 minutes

Colour

Documentary

Original version in English

Producer

Penny Wheelwright

Executive Producer

Lael McCall

Director

Anne Wheeler

Scriptwriters

Penny Wheelwright

Julie Wheelwright

Cast

Michelle Hart

Scott Bellis

Michael Hogan

Matt Walker

Production

Wheelwright Ink Ltd.
99 Browning Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M4K 1W2
Canada
(416) 925-3766
(416) 925-3116
starryn@direct.ca


International distribution

Sextant International
175 Bloor St. W., Suite 610, North Tower
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3R8
Canada
(416) 928-2786



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