Excellent novel inspires excellent TV
In today’s National Post, columnist Robert Fulford declares his praise for an “excellent” CBC miniseries based on an “excellent” Canadian novel, The Englishman’s Boy. The novel earned author Guy Vanderhaeghe the 1996 Governor General’s Award.
The award-winning book, and now the miniseries, reveal a gruesome period in Canadian history that includes a massacre committed by wolfers (i.e., hunters of wolves) in 1873, known as the Cypress Hills Massacre.
The four-hour miniseries will air on CBC this Sunday and on the following Sunday, March 9, at 8 p.m.
There is an event on tonight at the Toronto Reference Library about adapting the book into the film.