Discovery Canada’s new historical drama, Frontier, about Canada’s 18th-century fur trade, makes its debut Sunday, November 6, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. The specialty channel describes the six-part series as a “dramatic story of revenge and riches, betrayal and brutality.”
Rooted in Canadian history and explored for the first time on television, the action-packed and authentic fiction series follows the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade of the late 18th century. Told from multiple perspectives, Frontier takes place in a world where business negotiations might be resolved with close-quarter hatchet fights, and where delicate relations between Aboriginal tribes and Europeans can spark bloody conflicts.
Michael Smyth (Landon Liboiron) and Declan Harp (Jason Momoa) in FRONTIER, the six-episode, one-hour drama from Discovery Canada series shot in Newfoundland. FRONTIER follows the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade of the late 18th century, created by Rob Blackie and Peter Blackie, directed by Brad Peyton. Photo credit: Duncan de Young. (CNW Group/Discovery)
Shot in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador this past summer, Frontier stars American actor Jason Momoa of Game of Thrones, Canadian actors Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle), Landon Liboiron (Degrassi), and Jessica Matten (Blackstone), and English actors Alun Armstrong (Penny Dreadful), who portrays the imperious Lord Benton of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey).
Executive producer Allan Hawco told CBC, “It’s basically a group of warring factions in the 1780s fighting for control of the most valuable commodity in the world at that time, which was beaver pelts.”
Be prepared for violence. This is not the Hudson’s Bay Company we shop at today.
Frontier has already been renewed for a second season.
You can watch the trailers on Discovery Canada. and learn more about the history of the fur trade in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
