North of 60 (1992)
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

Brad Turner
Director

Stuart Margolin
Director

David Warry-Smith
Director

George Bloomfield
Director

Jeff Woolnough
Director

Anne Wheeler
Director

Bruce Pittman
Director

Sturla Gunnarsson
Director
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Details.
Release DateDecember 3, 1992
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes95
Running Time1h
Genres
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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.
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