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This Canadian series focuses on the McLean/Hall family in Nova Scotia in the early 1900s and their involvement in the coal industry. Young Willie enters the mines after his father's death and forms an attachment to the horses who work below-ground.

A young boy working in Nova Scotia's treacherous coal mines in the early 20th century finds a friend in ones of the ponies used to haul coal up from the tunnels to be used at the railway station and the steel mill.

The adventures of a young tugboat and his friends in the Big Harbour, with the Dispatcher and the Harbourmaster keeping ever-watchful eyes.

Paul Devereaux is a second officer with lots of experience with merchant ships. But this is World War II and the Royal Canadian Navy desperately needs experienced officers. Paul is thus given command of his own ship. However, in early 1940's, Canadian Navy does not have the biggest budget nor the most qualified enlisted men. Paul's ship must escort merchant ship to Europe and back and take part in the longest naval battle in history.

The Curse of Oak Island.

Willie has trouble reconciling his all-too-adult responsibilities with being a kid. Charley takes Willie out fishing to help take his mind off things, including the disappointment that the Ponies are playing a big championship game without him. Maggie and Angus tag along, and things take a turn when Charley injures himself and Willie has to go seek help. Meanwhile, Tony has Mr. Crowe let Stringy work in the mine for a while longer. He has a plan to get Stringy out of the mine for good by having him show off his home run hitting skills at the Ponies upcoming game to a few major league baseball scouts.

Ned is surprised to find that Spider has been living alone for some time in an abandoned boat. He invites the pit boy home to his house to stay, in which Nellie and Maggie are happy to have company, but Willie isn't. Meanwhile, Nellie continues with her hobby (drawing), and dreams of someday moving into the company house to better her and Ned's lives.

Theresa Cameron, a gorgeous and talented musician, arrives in Glace Bay right before the annual Fiddler's Fall in which Mr. Frawley, Anne Harper, and Ned will be judges to determine the best fiddler. But the town's assumption that she'll be playing at the event could lead to its cancellation when several fiddlers, including the legendary John Scottie MacNeil, protest the appearance of a woman competitor in the event.

Ned feels the weight of his new responsibilities in his new position as the mine's over man. During some dangerous work involving the use of explosives, a "tricked charge" triggers a collapse. Meanwhile, Nellie decides to help Anne Harper form her own school choir when a new piano is installed in the school - and even Spider, Willie and Maggie want in. But Mrs. MacTavish is the only one who sings off-key.

Willie, Maggie, and Spider find themselves lost and stranded on a reef while searching for an endangered eagle's nest. They must figure out a way to get to high ground before a rising tide consumes them, and only Willie's horse, Sable, can raise the alarm. Meanwhile, Ned's new job as over man begins to take its told on the rest of the miners who resent his management tactics and his introduction of the new advances in technology result in more mechanization at the mine.

Willie announces that he has accepted a scholarship to study at the Plymouth School in Boston majoring in photography and will be leaving Glace Bay very soon. Meanwhile, with layoffs continuing at the mine, Ned ponders a temping offer from Mr. Crowe and Mr. Frawley. But when Ned discusses job securities for the laid off miners, Mr. Crowe refuses to listen to anyone's opinion, which prompts the miners to stage a massive protest. Also, Nellie is depressed when she learns that her adoption application for the baby has been turned down.

Ned and Nellie unexpectedly receive a bundle of joy at their house when Anne Harper delivers to them an infant whose parents have given up for adoption. Unfortunately, the baby's arrival leads to a confrontation between the couple as they argue about the wisdom of a possible adoption. Meanwhile, Stringy returns from Boston for a visit where he shows Willie a school that may have high hopes for him. Also, Ned begins to feel the pressure when the new technology advancements lay many miners off, leaving them embittered.

Tony helps Ned prepare the Ponies who are about to play in the closing championship game. But the game might have to be forfeited when Ned and Tony get into a heated confrontation over the team's ability to play, and in the aftermath, the Ponies disband. Stringy wonders if he is doomed to be stuck working as a pit boy and seeing his dream as a major league baseball player quashed. But Willie and Maggie scheme to re-form the Ponies with some school mates as replacement players. They ask Stringy to stay on to show off his home-run hitting ability to some scouts from the Boston Pilgrims. Spider is also asked to stay on to show off his pitching ability, and Mrs. MacTavish decides to act as the new coach.

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1904. Willie MacLean is an 12-year-old with a passion for horses and is helping his family get by the best since the death of his older brother in at the local coal mine (the Pit). Willie's older sister, Nellie, is perused by the Scot newcomer Ned Hall, who is always at odds with the mine's owner, Mr. Frawley over the working conditions. Meanwhile, Charley is hiding from the widow MacTavish over her husband's death, while Willie decides to enter his beloved horse, Sable, in a riding competition.

Nellie's Aunt Rose arrives for a visit, and she does not get along with Ned after learning that Nellie lied to her about him being a farmer instead of a miner. But Ned and Nellie's wedding plans hit a snag when Mr. Frawley wants Ned to work on Saturday, (the day of the wedding) and threatens to fire him if Ned takes off. Meanwhile, Willie is angry that Ned is forced to miss their training session for baseball, and Charley has to tutor Willie instead.

More technology comes to Glace Bay starting with a public telephone installed in the lobby of Mrs. MacTavish's train station. After doing a school report on the telephone, Willie writes a letter to the famed Alexander Graham Bell, residing in nearby Baddeck, who invites Willie and his teacher, Anne Harper, to his residence to help share ideas for his new inventions. Meanwhile, Ned is very secretive as he plans to give Nellie a gift for their two-year anniversary when they first met.

Charley finds himself haunted by his past involving the ghost of an old friend who keeps appearing before him involving a 30-year-old tragedy. Meanwhile, Jack Doyle continues alienating the pit boys and the rest of the miners over his callous management issues

When a wild stallion steals the pit ponies from the mine, Jack Doyle wants to kill the creature and have done with it. Hoping to save the stallion's life, Willie and Charley try to tame the beast. Meanwhile, Ned and Mr. Frawley introduce new technology to the Ocean Deep Mines - new electrical power drills. But fellow minders, Rufus and Scotty, are wary to this change since they don't know how to use them.

Willie conducts a dangerous safety investigation in which he has to determine whether one of the seams in the mine contains methane gas. During the safety check, an explosion causes the roof to collapse and Willie is blamed for the damage. Meanwhile, Maggie continues to aid Nellie in her slow recovery and notices Nellie's talent at drawing. Maggie asks Mrs. Borso to borrow a paint box for Nellie.

The workers' fight to get adequate medical treatment proves a mixed blessing. The hiring of the company doctor, Tony Moressa, also results in some disadvantages for Ned and the rest of the cash-strapped workers. Tony's exorbitant medical bills are more than the miners can afford. So, Ned is tempted to take another job as the mine's over-man. Meanwhile, Rose and Sarah arrive in town for another visit. Nellie's plans to move into her dream house are quashed when the company buys Nellie's dream house for Tony to live in. Also, Charley is hospitalized with a head injury. Willie, Maggie and Mrs. MacTavish take turns to maintain a bedside vigil, as does Anne Harper.

When Nellie's laundry machine goes bust, she tries taking another job as assistant teacher at Miss Harper's school, but learns that there are no funds to pay her. Nellie then takes a job as an assistant telephone operator at the telegraph office at the train station under the supervision of the annoying and obnoxious busybody Mrs. MacTavish, who quickly resents her presence and plots to get rid of her by holding a donation auction at the school to raise the funds needed. When Mr. Frawley donates a brass tobacco spittoon to the auction which was given to him as a gift by the mine owners, he realizes how valuable it is and plots to get it back by bidding on it against Charley.

With Ned and Nellie away in nearby Sydney celebrating their honeymoon, the snobbish, city slicker Rose finds herself the center of attention by a traveling violinist, named John Scottie MacNeil, whom she snubs, making Willie and his sisters the center of hostility from the townspeople for treating the legendary musician badly. As Maggie and Sarah prepare to move to Halifax with Rose, Willie seeks the company of Charley where MacNeil persuades Willie to live his difficulties through the magic of music.

The evil and greedy Wendell Crowe begins to play hardball with Miss Harper by threatening to having her teaching license revoked unless she stops holding after-shift reading classes for the miners. But it takes some intervention by Ned to play on the little humanity and feelings Mr. Crowe has to let Miss Harper continue teaching. Meanwhile, Nellie's laundry business picks up in full force, while Willie is overwhelmed with helping her, as well as keeping time for his delivery job and schoolwork. It leads to Mollie and Angus playing a mean practical joke on Willie for neglecting them by agreeing to help him fix his school science project. Also, Nellie thinks about taking a job as a secretary for Mr. Frawley after a neighbor, named Flora, turns it down.

L.B. Collins, a noted newspaper reporter from Halifax, arrives in Glace Bay to interview Willie after his photo of Stringy and his mother make news headlines all over the province as a sign of the horrendous working conditions in the coal mines, which leads to Ms. Collins insisting to Nellie that they explore the mine first-hand to see the working conditions.

Willie and schoolmates, Mollie and Angus, are forced to spend the night in an abandoned house reputed to be haunted on a dare from pit boy Spider. There, Willie thinks he sees his father who advices him that things will get better. Meanwhile, Rose continues to resent Ned, but offers Nellie her mother's prized wedding dress, while Ned is offered to take the day off for his wedding by co-worker Allen, only to have tragedy strike in the mine.