North of 60 (1992)
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Cast & Crew.
Gordon Tootoosis
Albert Golo
Tom Jackson
Peter Kenidi
Tracey Cook
Sarah Birkett
Tina Keeper
Michelle Kenidi
Nathaniel Arcand
William MacNeil
John Oliver
Eric Olsen
Timothy Webber
Harris Miller
Lubomir Mykytiuk
Gerry Kisilenko
Wilma Pelly
Elsie Tsa Che
Dakota House
Trevor 'Teevee' Tenia
Tina Louise Bomberry
Rosie Deela
Jimmy Herman
Joe Gomba
T. W. Peacocke
Director
Barbara Samuels
Writer
Richard J. Lewis
Director
Randy Bradshaw
Director
Stuart Margolin
Director
Brad Turner
Director
George Bloomfield
Director
Jeff Woolnough
Director
David Warry-Smith
Director
Anne Wheeler
Director
Bruce Pittman
Director
Graeme Campbell
Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 3, 1992
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes95
Running Time1h
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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North of 60 is a 1990s Canadian television drama depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60° north latitude, hence the title). It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a Canadian Indigenous community depicted as being in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories.
Most of the characters were Dene. Some non-native characters had important roles: the restaurant/motel owner (a Ukrainian immigrant), the band manager, the nurse (a white Canadian woman) and (during the show's first season) the town's RCMP Detachment Commander. The show explored themes of Native poverty, alcoholism, cultural preservation, conflict over land settlements, and natural resource exploitation.
Originally somewhat light-hearted (a CBC response to the very successful Northern Exposure on CBS), it quickly became a more sombre dramatic series which explored subplots including murder, band corruption, economic depression, mental health and the death of a child (owing to actress Selina Hanuse, who played Hannah Kenidi, leaving the show to pursue her education in Season 3). There were also romantic and sexual subplots between unlikely characters, giving the show a distinctive soap opera-like atmosphere not hugely common in Canadian government-sponsored media at the time. This included scenes depicting brief sex, nudity and profanity, as well as discussion in one episode about HIV/AIDS and the social stigma faced by a young boy who was a male prostitute with the disease.