About Anne Martin
Since the mid 1970s, producer/host, Anne Martin, has been bringing stories to life through the medium of television. She thrives on tracking down the unusual and her work has encompassed history, geology, heritage and a positive outlook on the world around us. Read more about Anne Martin.
Tag Archives: Canada
Nova Scotia – Tales and Trails
Rugged highlands, lobster traps and bagpipes. Tales and Trails reveals the history behind some of the major attractions in the Province of Nova Scotia … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Annapolis Valley, blacks, Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Dutch, Empire Loyalists, England, Fortress of Louisbourg, France, Fundy tides, Germans, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Halifax, Huguenots, John Cabot, Lunenberg, MicMacs, North Atlantic Schooner Fleet, Nova Scotia, Peggy’s Cove, Quakers, Sainte-Famille vineyard, Sydney, The Bluenose, Tidal Bore, Tidal View Farm, William de Garth
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Québec City: Festival d’été – A Summer of Discovery
The Festival d’été de Québec is our opportunity to unearth the City’s past, discover the present, and glimpse the future. French buskers, acclaimed musical … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Battlefield Park, Canada, Chateau Frontenac, Citadel, English, French, General Montcalm, General Wolfe, Ile d’Orleans, Montmorency Falls, music festivals, Plains of Abraham, Québec City, St. Lawrence River, UNESCO, United Nations, walled city
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Canada: Vancouver Island – Pacific Rim
Long Beach offers one of the most incredible stretches of coastal wilderness. Along with rainforest trails and shore-pine bogs, we explore the Broken Group … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Bald Eagles, Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Broken Group Islands, Canada, Long Beach, Nootka Indians, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Rim National Park, rainforest, Red Cedar, seals, shore-pine bog, Vancouver Island, Western Hemlock
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Québec City: The Battle for Canada
Two miles of rolling lawns and broad shade trees commemorate a 15-minute battle on September 13th, 1759, in which Louis-Joseph Marquis de Montcalm lost … Continue reading
Gaspé, Québec: Forillon’s unique environment
At the end of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Québec a rocky finger of land juts into the Gulf. Here, … Continue reading
Québec: Ancient Rocks & Gannets of Gaspé
The distinctive shape of the Percé Rock, a 375 million year old block of limestone that lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Gaspé Peninsula, geology, Gulf, heritage, Northern Gannets, Percé Rock, Quebec, Sanctuary, St. Lawrence River
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Gaspé, Québec: The Prince of Miguasha
An archaeological find at Miguasha along the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec has provided paleontologists with a vital link in the history of mankind. It … Continue reading
New Brunswick: Acadian Legacy
) Mary’s Point Shorebird Reserve is testimony to how one person can make a difference. Mary Majka who died in February set out to … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadia, Antonine Maillet, Bay of Fundy, Brittany, Cajuns, Canada, colonists, dykes, English, Fort Beauséjour, French, Le Pays de la Sagouine, Maritime Provinces, Mary Majka, Mary’s Point Shorebird Reserve, New Brunswick, New Orleans, Sackville, salt marshes, sandpipers, shorebirds, Tantramar, theatre
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Fundy and Hopewell Parks, New Brunswick
) Dramatic tides have made the Bay of Fundy one of the marine wonders of the world. The tides surge up to 15 metres … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadian forest, Bay of Fundy, Canada, chipmunks, Fundy National Park, Fundy tides, Guinness Book of Records, Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, parks and reserves, Petitcodiac River, rivers, squirrels, waterfalls, white tail deer, wildlife
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Kouchibouguac, New Brunswick
) We explore Kouchibouguac on the south east coast of New Brunswick, a national park established to protect the environmentally fragile areas of the … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginals, Acadian, Barrier Island System, beach, bird-watching, Canada, Carolinas, First Nations, Kelly Beach, Kouchibouguac, lagoons, marram grass, nesting, New Brunswick, nursery, Ontario, Quebec, recreation, rivers, sailing, salt marshes, sand dunes, seals, terns
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