The Canadian is an extant 1926 American silent drama film produced by Famous PlayersâÂÂLasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1913 Broadway play, The Land of Promise, by W. Somerset Maugham. The film was directed by William Beaudine and starred Thomas Meighan. Meighan had costarred with Billie Burke in a 1917 silent film based on the same story, The Land of Promise. In both films he plays the same part. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress.
A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.