Narrated by Melvyn Douglas, the program chronicled the lives and times of the Sturgess family, who lived in Tamarack, Ontario, at the turn of the century.
Covering the period between 1899 to 1905, A Gift to Last was told from the viewpoint of a young man Clement Sturgess , whose widowed mother Clara did her best to raise Clement and his sister Jane in a fatherless household.