Passage : A John Walker film
Written, Directed and Narrated by JOHN WALKER
Produced by ANDREA NEMTIN
KENT MARTIN
JOHN WALKER
Executive Producer BILL NEMTIN
Director of Photography KENT NASON
Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by JONATHAN GOLDSMITH
Based on the book "Fatal Passage" by KEN MCGOOGAN
Additional Photography NIGEL MARKHAM
ANDREW SPELLER
JOHN WALKER, csc
Editors JEFF WARREN
JOHN BRETT
Sound ALEX SALTER
JIM RILLIE
Scenes from "Fatal Passage" screenplay by ANDREW RAI BERZINS
Cast
John Rae & Himself RICK ROBERTS
Lady Jane Franklin GERALDINE ALEXANDER
Sir James Clark Ross DAVID ACTON
Sir William Edward Parry ANDREW ALSTON
Sir John Franklin SHAUN AUSTIN-OLSEN
Sir James Graham NIGEL BENNETT
Sir John Richardson ALISTAIR FINDLAY
 
Sir Francis Beaufort COLIN GEORGE
Sir John Barrow PATRICK GODFREY
Sir George Back SIMON SLATER
William Coppin JAMES WALLACE
Charles Dickens GUY OLIVER-WATTS
as Himself GERALD DICKENS
Special thanks to our on-camera advisers
DR. MARIA PIA CASARINI
LT. E.C. COLEMAN, RN
TAGAK CURLEY
BERNADETTE DEAN
BRIAN LAVERY
KEN MCGOOGAN
TOM MUIR
BRYCE WILSON
Casting CLARE WALKER CASTING Ð CANADA
Jessica Carney Associates for the services of POLLY HOOTKINS & MAUREEN DUFF, C.D.G. - UK
Orkney Unit
Production Manager/Videographer MARLENE RASSMUSEN
Focus Puller/ Clapper Loader BECKY PARSONS
Production Coordinator CLARE RICHARDS
Dialect Coach AIMEE LEONARD
Interior Designer MARION YORSTON
Hunter ALAN SHEARER
 
Climbing support DERREN FOXX
Sailing Yole MAURICE DAVIDSON
IAN RICHARDSON
Photographer GUNNIE MOBERG
Drivers TERRY TODD
Skipper ADAM CLARKE
Stromness Drama Club/Palace Players
PHYLLIS BROWN
CIARAN DELANEY
GRAHAM GARSON
FINLAY HARNDEN
ROSS HARNDEN
JANE HUNTER
PHILIP MACKAY
DOREEN MCLELLAN
ROSE MATHESON
JIM ROBERTSON
Special Thanks
MARY BICHAN
JEAN & IVAN CRAIGIE
KIM FORTON
ROBBIE FRASER - BBC Radio
DAVE GRAY - BBC Radio
KATH GOURLAY
HUGH HALCROW - JOHNSTONE
JAMES TROUP
NUNAVUT
Special Thanks to Nunavut Elders for Oral History
CECELIA ANGOTIALUK - Repulse Bay
JOHN IVALUTANAR - Repulse Bay
JOHN KAUNAK - Repulse Bay
DONAT MILORTOK - Repulse Bay
PANIAQ SIUSANGNARK - Repulse Bay
VERONICA MANILAK - Rankin Inlet
ROBERT TATTY - Rankin Inlet
 
 
DON ULUADLUAK - Arviat
ELIZABETH ULUTA IVALUTANAR - Repulse Bay
ANNIE ARVIQ - Gjoa Haven
GEORGE KAMOOKAK - Gjoa Haven
OVIDE ALAKKANUAQ - Kugaaruk
JOSIE ANGUTINGURNIQ - Kugaaruk
NUNAVUT UNIT
Advisor/Interpreter BERNADETTE DEAN
Hunter and Guide DAVID NULUK
Elder, Hunter, Guide JOHN KAUNAK
Camp Support North Pole River SUSAN NULUK
MARIE KRINGUK
BOBBY SANERTANUT
GARY NATAR
 
Igloo/Dog team PAUL KANAYUK SR
Drum Dance CECILIA ANGOTIALUK
ELIZABETH AGLUKKA
ALICE NANORAK
HONORE AGLUKKA
MICHEL AKKUARDJUK
PASQUALINA PUTULIK
JOHN KAUNAK
Aivilik Band- Repulse Bay
Accordion MONICA MAPSALAK
Bass JACKIE MILORTOK
Drums MARCEL MAPSALAK
Guitars LEVI KATOKRA
PAUL MABLIK
 
Videographer MARLENE RASMUSSEN
Focus Puller/ Clapper Loader BECKY PARSONS
Production Consultant JOHN HUSTON
Halifax Office Manager MARNIE BIENIAS
Arviat Unit Manger/Translator TIFFANY MUCKPAH
Gjoa Haven Unit Manager LORRAINE PUQIQNAK
Kugaaruk Production Assistant GUIDO TIGVAREAK
Rankin Inlet Unit Manager TRACY WALLACE
Rankin Inlet Production Assistants KELLY ADAMS
GENE KANAYOK
Kugaaruk Unit Manager VINCENT NINGARK
Repulse Bay Unit Manager MARIE KRINGUK
Repulse Bay Production Assistant GARY NATAR
Repulse Bay Transportation DARRYL SIUSANGNARK
With Thanks To:
JOHN PAUL ALBERT
CALM AIR
CANADIAN NORTH
ARCTIC AIR
LONDON UNIT
Production Consultant LAVINIA WARNER
Production Manager JUDITH HACKETT
First Assistant Director STUART J.C. WILLIAMS
2nd AD KAY ROBERTSON
Locations Manager RALPH CAMERON
Lighting Gaffer STEVE SWANNELL
Best Boy PAT SWEENEY
Camera Operator BECKY PARSONS
Focus Puller BRAD LARNER
Clapper / Loader DAVID CHURCHILL
Lighting STEVE KITCHEN
ROY FURNESS
BOB JEFFS
RICHARD BUCKLEY
 
Grip DAVID MAUND
Boom Operator PAUL MUNRO
Costume Design SUE THOMSON
Wardrobe EMMA FRYER
Make-up/Hair Design LISA J. ROBBIE
Make-up/Hair Asst. ELY JIM
Property Master EDWARD CROSS
Script Supervisor KIRSTIE EDGAR
Production Associates SURIDH HASSAN
CLARE E. RICHARDS
Craft Services DIDI JOLLY
HALIFAX UNIT
Production Designer EMANUEL JANNASCH
First Assistant Director STUART J.C. WILLIAMS
2nd AD KAY ROBERTSON
Locations Manager DEBRA BEERS
Videographers BECKY PARSONS
KYLE CAMERON
Camera Assistants PAUL BEGIN
DARCY FRASER
ANDREW STRETCH
Lighting Gaffer KEN LEBLANC
Lighting JESS MACGILLIVRAY
Key Grip DOUG BETTS
Best Boy Grip PETER FRASER
Swing Grip/Electric & Genny Operator DAVID WISHART
Set Designer KAREN TOOLE
Set Dresser MIKE HOLLERAN
 
Property Master KEITH CURRIE
Construction Co-ordinator EWAN DICKSON
Script Supervisor JOANNE HAGEN
Wardrobe JEANIE KIMBER
Make-up/Hair Asst. NADINE BEED
Boom Operator ANDREW RILLIE
Graphics Design JOHN HENCHER
DARREN HOWSE
Stills Photographer NANCE ACKERMAN
Production Coordinator SHAUNA HATT
3rd AD DEVIN HILLIER
Production Associates JESSE FAWTHROP
MEGAN MALET-VEALE
SARAH MCCARTHY
Craft Services LOTHAR MAYER
TORONTO OFFICE
Production Manager SUSAN BAKER
Asst. Production Manager LISA ROBBIE
Assistant to the Producer TIFFANY MERRITT
Production Accountants WENDY BRATHWAITE
ANDREA ROMAK
 
Researchers BARBARA SEARS
ELIZABETH KLINCK
CONCETTA PRINCIPE
Naval Consultant GORDON LACO
National Film Board of Canada
Centre Administrator JOHN WILLIAM LUTZ
Production Supervisor PATRICIA DENISE COUGHRAN
 
Marketing Manager AMY STEWART GALLANT
PHILIP MOSCOVITCH
Marketing Assistant CANDICE DESORMEAUX
Post Production
Map Animation IAN DUNBAR
Sound Editor ALEX SALTER
Re-Recording Mixer ALLAN SCARTH
Assistant On-line Editor CHRIS MacINTOSH
PowerPost Cordinator CHRISTOPHER FOST
 
On-line Editor DOUG WOODS
Post Production Coordinator ROZ POWER
Assistant Editors TREVOR SCHELLINCK
ARIEL NASR
AARON SHAPERO
COLIN KISH
CANDICE DESORMEAUX
Score Orchestrated and Conducted by DAN PARR
Score Preparation DAVID NICHOL
Orchestra Contractor ROBERTO OCCHIPINTI
Soloists
Violin HUGH MARSH
Oboe JAMES MASON
English Horn CLARE SCHOLTZ
Bassoon KATHY MCLEAN
Score Recorded and Mixed by MICHAEL BANTON-JONES
Wanted Studios
Archival Images Courtesy of
CORBIS

GLENBOW MUSEUM

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY ARCHIVES

ARCHIVES OF MANITOBA

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, LONDON
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON

RUSSELL POTTER

TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY

TRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Locations
WHITEHALL LONDON, ENGLAND

THE HALL OF CLESTRAIN, ORPHIR, ORKNEY, SCOTLAND

GRAHAM PLACE, STROMNESS

THE STROMNESS MUSEUM

STROMNESS LIBRARY

TANKERNESS HALL

ST. MAGNUS CATHEDRAL, KIRKWALL
ORKNEY LIBRARY & ARCHIVE

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA

ARVIAT, NUNAVUT

GJOA HAVEN, NUNAVUT

KUGAARUK, NUNAVUT

RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT

REPULSE BAY, NUNAVUT