Great Canadian Parks Wood Buffalo National Park

Great Canadian Parks Wood Buffalo National Park

Wood Buffalo’s name reveals its greatest asset: Canada’s largest free-ranging bison herd. The park also protects the last natural nesting ground for the endangered whooping crane. The park has abundant natural features that led to its UNESCO status. Most of the 1700 square mile, internationally significant Peace-Athabasca Delta lies within park boundaries. The park also has some of the most extensive karst topography in North America.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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Great Canadian Parks Wapusk National Park

Great Canadian Parks Wapusk National Park

Canadas 7th largest park was created in1996 near Churchill, Manitoba. Wapusk National Park protects an area of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, which contains the worlds largest concentration of polar bears. Wapusk National Park sits along the northern tree line, which is characterized by treeless tundra and boreal forest. During the short, intense summer, a variety of wild flowering plants spring from the tundra soil.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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Great Canadian Parks Auyuittuq National Park

Great Canadian Parks Auyuittuq National Park

Auyuittuq means ‘the land that never melts’ in Inuit. But, in summer, the deep and narrow Aksayook Pass provides an ice-free corridor through the magnificent Baffin Island terrain. The pass is an ancient route, and stone cairns, called inukshuks, mark the trail. Dizzying mountain peaks and active glaciers dominate the scenery.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks

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Great Canadian Parks Willmore Wilderness Park

Great Canadian Parks Willmore Wilderness Park

Willmore Wilderness Park is situated in west central Alberta, sandwiched between the B.C. border, Jasper National Park and the Continental Divide. Willmore’s landscape is typical Rocky Mountain, with foothills and mountainous terrain. Peaks along the Continental Divide exceed 3,000 meters in elevation. The Willmore is home to over 20% of Albertas bighorn sheep and mountain goats and about 600 woodland caribou. Other mammal species include moose, elk, black and grizzly bear.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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Great Canadian Parks Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve

Great Canadian Parks Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve

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.

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Great Canadian Parks Churn Creek Provincial Park

Great Canadian Parks Churn Creek Provincial Park

This park protects British Columbia’s rarest landscape: dry grassland. Only 1.8% of the province’s native grassland remains, and provides much-needed habitat for a variety of species. At the core of the Churn Creek protected area is a historic, still-operating cattle ranch, which is also serves as the administrative center of the park.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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Great Canadian Parks Spirit Bear Princess Royal Island

Great Canadian Parks Spirit Bear Princess Royal Island

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.

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Great Canadian Parks Yoho National Park

Great Canadian Parks Yoho National Park

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.

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Great Canadian Parks Greenwich National Park

Great Canadian Parks Greenwich National Park

A separate and self-contained addition to the existing PEI NATIONAL PARK, Greenwich protects a unique, migrating parabolic dune system. The spectacular dunes leave rare vegetation communities in their wake; and the continuously blowing sand has created an adjacent “skeletal” forest. Cultural artifacts have revealed 6000 years of M’iqmaq occupation, and an Acadian farming settlement.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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Great Canadian Parks Kitlope Valley Provincial Park

Great Canadian Parks Kitlope Valley Provincial Park

The Kitlope Valley is the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest in the world. It’s a complete primary watershed from the glacial headwaters to the salt water of the ocean. Hidden in an isolated area of northwestern British Columbia, the rugged terrain of the Kitlope is cloaked in old growth trees, many of which are up to 800 years old and 10 feet in diameter. Species in the area include bald eagles, peregrine falcons, mountain goats, black bears and grizzly bears. The rivers of the Kitlope hold large spawning runs of all five Pacific salmon species.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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