GREAT CANADIAN RIVERS
explores the vast and beautiful waterways that exemplify the diversity, history and culture that is Canada.
Each of the 13 episodes reveals the character of a different river, journeying from western glacial meltwater, snow-peaked mountains and dense forests to the sandy coastal shores of eastern Canada. With stunning photography we will espy a great variety of wildlife: from hungry grizzly bears and migrating caribou herds; to endangered Atlantic salmon and colonies of nesting shore birds.
Amid the Canadian wilderness we will voyage into the past and witness how First Nations peoples used the rivers to provide for their people; how European adventurers paddled across them as avenues of trade; and how immigrants landed along their banks in the hopes of a brighter future.

Our rivers provide a magnificent harmony of nature and culture, inextricably linking our landscape to our identity.

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In a country webbed with fresh water, the lakes of Canada have long molded the lives of the people who have reached their shores.

Canada's lakes are rich with the trials of exploration and triumphs of settlement. They are places where tales of heroes and scoundrels echo across the water. These are waters that run deep in our consciousness as Canadians - places that reflect our past as well as our present.

Through the people and communities tied to the lakes today, we will tell the stories of our varied ancestors' and their struggle to survive and thrive in these places of abundance and peril.

Lake Ontario, Ontario/New York
Great Slave Lake, NWT
Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba
Kootenay Lake, British Columbia
Lake of the Woods, Ontario/Manitoba
Bras D'or Lake, Nova Scotia

Great Lakes will air starting in the fall of 2003 on History Television and APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network)

Word Slingers
Canada boasts more Scrabble talent per capita than any other country in the world today. Canada also has some of the best players. Word Slingers follows the exploits of the top Canadian players at the World Scrabble Championship in Las Vegas. This quirky documentary explores a hobby that is both intensely cerebral and plain old fun, shedding light on the curious history of a game that was invented during the Great Depression and now has millions of enthusiasts. Word Slingers will air on CBC Rough Cuts at 10:00pm 10th of DEC, 2002.

Top Ten Canadian Parks & Top Ten Canadian Places To See Wildlife:
Canada is blessed with glorious protected spaces that have made Canada's park system world famous. Take a tour of the absolute best parks Canada has to offer watch the hour long travel program TOP TEN CANADIAN PARKS. Canada's is also fortunate to have vast tracts of untamed wilderness. In these wild spaces live a myraid of wondrous creatures. To find out the secret places to watch these creatures close up tune in to TOP TEN PLACES TO SEE WILDLIFE. Both hour-long programs will be shown on Discovery's Travel Channel in the United States beginning in 2004, and on CTV Travel in 2003.