Specials

The program is a documentary tracing the history of one of Canada's most treasured jewels - Yoho National Park - located on the continental divide in eastern British Columbia. The program travels up mountains to explore long abandoned mines. It crosses empty tundra to visit a deserted internment camp closed after World War One. And it goes along with scientists as they monitor the park's tenuous wolf population. Like Yoho itself, the program combines breathtaking scenery and fascinating stories to wind a tale that celebrates this precious land.

Take an unforgettable one hour voyage into Canada's oldest and one of its most beautiful National Parks. Nestled in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff National Park is sprinkled with glorious turquoise colored glacier lakes set against stunning mountain backdrops. This is a unique place that is both beautiful and dangerous. Follow along with wildlife scientists as they try and learn more about the park's famous and mysterious grizzly bears. Take a heart stopping flight in a helicopter with the Park's wardens as they attempt to rescue injured hikers off of mountain tops. And see, for the first time, ancient sites once used by native people, higher up in the Rockies than archeologists ever thought possible. This is Canada's premier park and by far its' most popular, now it is available for the world to share.

Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve is the ultimate wilderness. On the extreme northern tip of the continent, the park encompasses myriad natural wonders, breathtaking landscapes and abundant high Arctic plants and animals. The ocean coastline is deeply incised by glacial valleys and fjords. To the north, unique shelves of sea ice as much as 80 m thick have held fast to the shore for thousands of years. Lake Hazen is the largest lake north of the arctic circle, and is a 'thermal oasis' in this polar desert. A combination of environmental factors have resulted in vegetation and wildlife being more plentiful here than anywhere else on Ellesmere Island. This austere, arctic landscape provides habitat for Arctic hare, musk oxen, Arctic wolves and endangered Peary caribou.

The PRINCESS ROYAL Park Proposal encompasses 265,000 hectares of central BC coast, approximately two-thirds on Princess Royal Island and surrounding islands, and the balance around watersheds on the mainland. This is a pristine coastal wilderness, with a rich ecosystem that provides habitat for killer whales, several species of salmon and the renowned white, or "Spirit" bears. The landscape ranges from Pacific Coast, to lush rainforest valleys, to alpine peaks over 5,000 feet high. It is the home of the remarkable KERMODE bear, a population of American Black bears that produces, by a recessive gene, white-haired bears approximately one in ten births. The range of these bears is quite extensive, but this particular region has produced the greatest number of these amazing creatures. Bear Biologist Wayne McCrory has spent many years studying these bears and will be our guide and teacher. This is an intact temperate rainforest with ideal bear habitat, denning sites and a large number of rich salmon streams, providing the bulk of the bears' diet.

When BC's Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park was designated in 1993, it created, in conjunction with the adjacent Yukon and Alaska Parks, the largest protected area in the world. It is the only large river drainage that is totally protected from its headwaters to the ocean. The Tatshenshini has become known as one of the wildest rivers in the world. On its 140 mile journey to the sea it cuts through a variety of terrain, from dense forest to deep canyon to broad glacially-scoured valleys. A trip down the Tatshenshini River is a journey into the soul of the park. Although few people lived along the river, it was an important travel corridor for the Champagne-Aishihik people. In the Yukon communities of Klukshu and Shawshe, they catch and smoke salmon, in the same way they have for generations.