Scandal at Scourie

This was the eighth and last movie Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon made together. It begins with a girl named Patsy (Donna Cocoran) accidentally starting a fire at her Catholic orphanage in Quebec. With the orphanage ruined, the sisters and their charges board a train and travel Canada seeking homes for the children. They stop in Scourie, Ontario where a majority of the residents are Protestant. Another orphan threatens Patsy and her goldfish, so she wanders to a lake to release it. There she meets Victoria (Greer Garson), wife of mayor Patrick McChesney (Walter Pidgeon). The woman takes the girl to her husband's store and suggests that they adopt her, but he is a staunch Protestant royalist who says no. Victoria reluctantly takes Patsy to the station. They arrive, but Victoria decides she wants to adopt the girl anyway. Townspeople object because the McChesneys are Protestant, but Victoria promises that she will raise Patsy as a Catholic and word spreads. Newspaper editor B.G. Belney (Philip Ober), Victoria's former suitor and Patrick's opponent in the upcoming parliamentary election, is delighted by the news and runs an editorial accusing the McChesneys of attempting to curry favor with Catholics. The couple wonders what they should do as tensions rise and a another fire breaks out.