La Grande bataille presents the comic underside of life in New France through a dozen short sketches featuring Réal Bossé (Frontenac), Edith Cochrane (Madeleine de Verchères), Pierre Collin (Samuel de Champlain), Sylvie Moreau (Widow Bégon), François Papineau (Father Jean de Brébeuf), Amélie Bernard (Jeanne Mance), Stéphane Breton (Father Gabriel Lallemant), Louis Champagne (Des Groseilliers), Claude Despins (Chief Pétun), Martin Drainville (Radisson), François Gadbois (Hébert's son), Nico Gagnon (barbier), Danny Gilmore (McLean), Mathieu Handfield (Dollard des Ormeaux), Michel Laperrière (Monsignor de Laval), Julien Poulin (Grand Chief Garakonthié), Pierrette Robitaille (Hébert's wife) and Luc Senay (Bigot).