The Canadian Experience


The Canadian Experience is a television documentary series shown on CBC Television; each of its one-hour episodes present an event or story from Canadian history. The first episode aired on January 22, 2004. The series is produced by the CBC Documentary Unit, the team behind . Reruns of the series can be seen on bold.

Episodes

  1. "The Queen and the Skipper: The Story of The Bluenose" - The history of the famous racing schooner
  2. "Talking Canadian" - A look at distinctly Canadian English words and modes of speech
  3. "The Underground Railroad: Flight to Freedom" - The Canadian role up to and during the American Civil War
  4. "Year of the Hunter" - The making of Nanook of the North, the first true documentary film
  5. "Expo 67: Back to the Future" - The success of the World's Fair in Montreal, and its effect on Canada
  6. "Sisters in the Wilderness" - The story of Susanna Moodie and her sister Catharine Parr Traill, writers in early-19th-century Upper Canada. two-hour episode

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