The Maple Leaf

Gilles Renaud

François Bellerose

François Tassé

Julien Bellerose

Carole Laure

Anne-Marie Bellerose

Seasons

Season 1

13 episodes

Premiered Dec 28, 1971

Episodes

1–6 of 13

Ep 1

The Canadian Man (Le Canayen)

Dec 28, 1971

François Bellerose, wounded by two arrows during Jacques Cartier's Canadian expedition, loses consciousness as the French escape in the longboat. Indians carry him away, and delirium from fever sets in. Upon awakening, he faces his initial struggles to adapt.

Ep 2

The Canadian Woman (La Canayenne)

Jan 4, 1972

François's fiancée, lost in Canada fighting Indians, joins settlers from France to find him living among them. She then reintegrates him into civilization.

Ep 3

The Girl of Tadoussac (La Pucelle de Tadoussac)

Jan 11, 1972

Having escaped a ship, three bandits raid the Bellerose home, where only the women reside. Jean and Pierre Bellerose, aided by Iroquois Indians, pursue them to rescue the women.

Ep 4

The Cross of Mont Royal (La Croix du Mont-Royal)

Jan 18, 1972

Jean Bellerose, a Frenchman, is the first casualty of the Iroquois resistance to colonial settlement, prompting a war between settlers and the Iroquois.

Ep 5

A Burning Winter (Un Hiver Brûlant)

Jan 25, 1972

As Pierre Bellerose prepares to leave Santa Maria for Montreal with furs, the murder of a young Native American ignites tensions. Accusations fly against a French trader and even the mission's superior officer. Bellerose, witnessing the unrest, decides to investigate the murder himself.

Ep 6

The King's Daughter (La Fille du Roy)

Feb 1, 1972