Beluga Days

• 6.0 Documentary
• 1968-01-01
• 15 minutes mins

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Starring:

Alexis Tremblay (Self (uncredited)) Louis Harvey (Self (uncredited)) Léopold Tremblay (Self (uncredited))

Director:

Michel Brault Bernard Gosselin Pierre Perrault

Writer:

No writer found.