加拿大人民的历史.doc

Action! Narrator: Tonight, the English and French networks of The CBC launch the first History of Canada for the television age. This series of documentaries will be broadcast On CBC television and Radio-Canada over the next two years, covering our history from the first peoples to the end of the 20th century. All the events portrayed in this history actually happened. All the people you see actually lived. All the words they speak were spoken or written by them. Girl: I was chosen to join a number of others to take a perilous voyage to a New World. I resigned myself to silence... far from my own country. Narrator: This is the story of thousands like her - Who found much more than exile... a land of mystery... and adventure. A story of madmen and visionaries, Saints and pirates, in a landscape of terrifying beauty. It is a story of the clash of empires... of battles to possess a continent. Fire!!! The gunfire and bombardment... terrorized the whole town. The women and children, in great numbers near the citadel, were continually in tears, Wailing and... Praying. Narrator: it is a land swept by great political movements... man: ...et les droits de lhomme sont chers. Man: would you live and die a slave?! Narrator: ...forged in the heat of rebellion. The story of ordinary people Caught up in the great currents of history. But the battlefields of empire become the shores of hope. Hope for the adventurous... for the dispossessed... driven by dreams or carried on fever ships. Winter was setting in. My father built a cave in a river bank, Covered it with turf, and there was our apartment. Oh, how fortunate we felt! We would not have traded that root cellar for a Royal Palace. Narrator: And its the story of millions who followed... the families fleeing persecution... the landless seeking land... the abandoned seeking... anything. This is the story of how they built a nation that came of age and grew into the world. It is the testament of our fathers and our mothers, the sto