Unfinished Business: Treaties With the First Nations (2009 release) Grades 5 to Adult

Ipperwash: A Canadian Tragedy (2007 release) Grades 5 to Adult

First Nations of Northern Canada (2008 release) Grades 5 to Adult

TWO PROGRAMS ON ONE DVD

THE MAGIC OF WINTER (25 min)

Join professional artists from all over the world who celebrate the beauty of winter by creating spectacular art from snow at Quebec's International Snow Sculpture Competition.

WHAT AN ICE CANOE! (25 min)

Join ice canoeists in a race across the ice-clogged St. Lawrence River, as they battle their way over ice floes, through slush, across open water, and beat their way against high tides. This annual race that celebrates the bravery of those who used to deliver mail and supplies along the river, is surely one of the most grueling events on earth.

TWO PROGRAMS ON ONE DVD

HO FOR THE KLONDIKE (25 min)

Join Alaskans and Yukoners as they compete in a race over the Chilkoot Pass and down the Yukon river to Dawson City, following the Gold rush trail of 1898, and reminiscing about those who came this way a century ago.

PANNING FOR KLONDIKE GOLD (25 min)

Join over a hundred competitors from all over the Yukon as they compete in the Yukon Gold Panning Championships and tell the story of a century of gold panning in Dawson City.

Dinosaur Hunting in Alberta

Join dinosaur enthusiasts in the hot, dry badlands of Alberta, where they spend their holidays working alongside world-famous Canadian paleontologists, and fulfill their lifelong dreams of digging up real dinosaur bones.

Also includes a visit to the world-famous Tyrell Museum.

The International Plowing Match

Join us for a nostalgic trip into Ontario's rural past at the International Plowing Match, the largest outdoor farm show in Canada. You'll be mesmerized as you watch 50 teams of magnificent draft horses and their plowmen (and woman) competing to plow the straightest furrow.

Whale Watching in Newfoundland

Scientists take viewers to watch humpback whales off the coast of Newfoundland, and explain the behaviour of these great creatures as they feed on the tiny fish known as capelin.

Spring Birding at Point Pelee National Park

Spend a fascinating week at Point Pelee, a world-famous birding hotspot, to find out why birders from all over the world come here each spring. You can see over 100 species of birds in a day.

Viewers learn what to look for to identify birds, and see close-up shots of many beautiful birds on their way to their nesting grounds.

The Spring Waterfowl Migration

Join hundreds of birders who came from all over Ontario to enjoy a close look at the tens of thousands of colourful ducks that stop off each year at Presqu'ile Park on the shores of eastern Lake Ontario, to feed before they head further north to their nesting grounds.

In Trust for All the World: The Niagara Escarpment (55 min)

Wilderness Playground (25 min)

Explore the beautiful Niagara Escarpment, one of the last wilderness areas left in southern Ontario. It runs like a spine from Niagara Falls to the tip of the Bruce Peninsula.

It includes

• The Bruce Trail, a public footpath created and maintained entirely by dedicated volunteers.
• Ontario's main wine producing region
• Archaeological sites that reveal the history of First nations people
• Cedar trees that are over 700 years old
• Underwater shipwrecks at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula
• Rare ferns and orchids
• Underwater exploration

Bruce Fathom Five National Park on Georgian Bay

Produced for the Discovery Channel's "Great Canadian Parks" series.

Includes:

• Cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment
• Underwater Shipwrecks
• The oldest trees in Canada
• Rare ferns & orchids
• A unique wildlife habitat

Return of Trout and Salmon to the Great Lakes

Follow the story of trout and salmon, from hatchery to fishing derby, and find out how Lake Ontario has been turned into one of the world's finest sports fisheries, through human intervention.

Get a close-up look at the viscious sea lamprey, that has invaded most of the Great Lakes, and still poses a threat to the rejuvenated fishery.

The Trent-Severn Waterway

Explore the historic waterway with its lift locks and marine railway that are unique Canadian engineering achievements.

On the Trail of the North West Mounted Police

Ride with 800 people in 80 covered wagons and on horseback for 200 km. across the open prairie, as they follow the route of the North West Mounted Police who came west in 1870 to establish law and order and quell the whiskey trade in the wild Canadian West.

Tall Ships at Discovery Harbour on Georgian Bay

At Discovery Harbour, visitors explore the history of sail on the Great Lakes as they become ship's crew, and learn to sail tall ships on two replicas of the historic ships, the H.M.S. Tecumseh and the Schooner Bee.

The Highland Games / A Canadian Tradition

Find out how the Highland Games began, and meet heavy events contenders who love to toss the caber, and throw their weight around.