The Englishman's Boy

The Englishman's Boy
Trade Paperback Edition
Author	Guy Vanderhaeghe
Language	English
Subject	Language, arts
Genre	historical fiction
Publisher	McClelland & Stewart
Publication date	14 September 1996
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Hardcover and Paperback
Pages	333
ISBN	0-7710-8693-8
OCLC	35941592

The Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor.

Television film

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The Englishman's Boy
Written by	Guy Vanderhaeghe
Screenplay by	Guy Vanderhaeghe
Directed by	John N. Smith
Starring	Bob Hoskins Nicholas Campbell Michael Therriault R. H. Thomson Michael Eisner Katharine Isabelle
Theme music composer	Rob Bryanton Todd Bryanton
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Executive producer	Kevin DeWalt
Running time	180 minutes
Production company	Minds Eye Entertainment
Budget	$11.7 million
Original release
Network	CBC
Release	2 March (2008-03-02) – 9 March 2008 (2008-03-09)

On 2 March 2008, The Englishman's Boy premiered as a made-for-television film on CBC with a budget of $11.7 million.^[1] The film won six Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Mini-Series; John N. Smith as director; Nicholas Campbell as leading actor; Katharine Isabelle as supporting actress; Carmen Kotyk, for casting; and Beverley Wowchuk for costumes.^[2]^[3]

In November 2017 the TV film was released on the Canada Media Fund Encore+ YouTube channel.

Notes

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^ Richard Wood. "Mini-series recreates massacre", The Beaver, February/March 2007, Vol. 87, issue 1, p. 11
^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Nov28winners.pdf Archived 27 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini23/press/GM23Oct22winners.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links

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The Englishman's Boy at IMDb

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
1930s	Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936) Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937) Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938) Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)
1940s	Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940) Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941) G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942) Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943) Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944) Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945) Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946) Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947) Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948) Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s	Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950) Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951) David Walker, The Pillar (1952) David Walker, Digby (1953) Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954) Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955) Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956) Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957) Colin McDougall, Execution (1958) Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s	Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960) Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962) Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963) Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964) [no award] (1965) Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966) [no award] (1967) Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)
1970s	Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970) Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972) Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974) Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975) Marian Engel, Bear (1976) Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977) Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s	George Bowering, Burning Water (1980) Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982) Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983) Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986) M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987) David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988) Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
1990s	Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990) Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991) Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992) Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993) Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994) Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995) Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996) Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997) Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998) Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002) Douglas Glover, Elle (2003) Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004) David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005) Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006) Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007) Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008) Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s	Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010) Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011) Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012) Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013) Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017) Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018) Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
2020s	Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020) Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021) Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022) Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023) Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces (2024)

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