"A Diamond in the Rough"
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
Rory MacLean

Willie MacLean
Nellie MacLean

John MacLean
Maggie MacLean

Sara MacLean
Ned Hall

Charley McGinnis

Simon O'Neill
Jimmy O'Neill
Mrs. O'Neill
Ed O'Neill

Mr. Frawley

Ben Frawley

MacIsaac Smith

Miss Harper
One Arm Joe
Stubby
Priest
Trainer
Nurse
Coughing Boy / Fiddler
Man at Dock
Collier #1
Collier #2
Collier #3
Collier #4
Collier #5