GENRE
Access & Obs Docs
DURATION
2 Series: 12 x 60’ / 26 x 30’
PRODUCER
3 Story Pictures
BROADCASTER
APTN
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
In 1870, a trove of gold coins disappeared 
without a trace. The coins were on their 
way to fund a military force marching 
across Canada to confront Louis Riel 
and the Métis during the Red River 
Resistance. The gold has never been 
recovered and the Royal Mint of England 
still considers it lost or stolen. Now, a 
group of treasure seekers want to find it! 
Memphis Pambrun, a Métis musician, 
podcast host and owner and operator of a 
satellite/aerial imagery and data company, 
along with Laurie, a genuine treasure 
hunter, metal detector expert and self-
proclaimed explorer, and local Métis guide 
Bill “Moose” Marsh, travel the Old Dawson 
Trail on the search for the missing gold. 
The trail is a historic and abandoned 
“highway” that once connected the 
Canadian East with the West.
Armed with metal detectors, trowels, 
backhoes, and the latest technology 
in radar and topographic imagery, 
these treasure hunters travel through 
the traditional homeland of the Métis, 
discovering and analysing clues as to the 
lost gold’s location. Along the way, the 
team meets with historians and long-time 
locals, gathering oral and written historical 
knowledge to aid in their search. 
Ultimately, the team uncovers more than 
a gold bounty; they unearth truths, both 
storied and physical, about the culture 
and history of the area, from a Métis 
perspective. Each story, and physical 
artefact that they find, leads them 
further down the abandoned trail…
 and one step closer to the gold.
RED RIVER GOLD
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