Les Pays d'en haut (The Upper Countries) is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Ici Radio-Canada Télé from 2016 to 2021.
[1] The second television adaptation of Claude-Henri Grignon's 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché following the long-running Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut in the 1950s and 1960s, the series is a historical drama set in the Laurentides region of Quebec in the 1880s.
[3] For instance, one storyline centred on a lesbian relationship between Donatienne (Kim Despatis) and Pâquerette (Romane Denis), who eventually left to escape the moral judgement of the community.
[3] Other members of the cast included Roger Léger, Julie LeBreton, Paul Doucet, Michel Charette, Pierre Mailloux, Madeleine Péloquin, Marie-Ève Milot, Rémi-Pierre Paquin, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Mario Jean, Jacques Allard, David La Haye, David Boutin, Claude Despins and Julien Poulin.
Leclerc won the Gémeaux for Best Actor in a Short Run Drama Series in 2016,[6] and was nominated in the same category for each of the show's followup seasons.