Also available:.Also available in the following video compilation: The Tenth Frontier - Volume 3. Version:.Also produced in an Inuktituk version, 106C 0585 112. Agency - English program:.Atlantic.

Director, Anne Budgell, Nigel Markham ; producer, Kent Martin ; executive producer, Barry Cowling ; script, Anne Budgell ; photography, Nigel Markham ; editing, Nigel Markham ; sound, Jim Rillie ; sound editing, Eric Emery.

Narrator, Waldo Scharwey, Fran Williams.

Recorded 1985.

Only grass-covered ruins remain of the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries evangelized the coast and encouraged the growth of Inuit settlements, but it was also a Moravian ship that brought the deadly Spanish influenza during the world epidemic of 1919. The Inuit of the area were decimated, and Okak was abandoned. Through diaries, old photos and interviews with survivors, this film relates the story of the epidemic, with its accompanying horrors, as well as examining the relations between the natives and the missionairies.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Award of Excellence for Direction, 1986

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).