Canadiana

- Season 3

(2022)

When we think of swashbuckling tales of pirates and plunder, we think of Blackbeard, palm trees, and the sun-scorched shores of the Caribbean. Yet, some of the most ruthless men and women of the seven seas razed hell up North, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the jagged coasts of the Maritimes. Take to the lawless seas in search of treasure and tall tales in a veritable "who's who" of pirates and privateers on Canada's East Coast.

Climb back aboard to witness the turbulent end of "The Golden Age of Piracy" in Canada. From the most notorious pirate to have sailed the seas of the North Atlantic, to the most infamous pirate trial in Halifax's history, we find out how East Coast piracy declined and...turned legitimate.

A forest with a story that spans the Atlantic Ocean, pitting lumberjacks against an emperor, during one of the most pivotal moments in Europe's history. Napoleon, meet Toronto's Rouge Valley. Explore Canada's only Urban Park: Rouge National Urban Park.

Three days after the end of WWII, a relieved and exhausted Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was about to find out that post-war peace was to be short-lived. The RCMP had something to report to him: there were spies in Ottawa. Russian spies. A cipher clerk by the name of Igor Gouzenko had finally managed to turn himself in after 24 hours of panic, incompetence, and utter absurdity on the part of Canadian officials. His defection revealed a spy ring that shook the Western world - some refer to it as "the spark that ignited the Cold War."

The stone walls of Quebec City have protected its residents from more than just invading armies. In the middle of the 1700s, the Gazette de Québec reported that a werewolf was on the loose. It was far from the first "loup-garou" to stalk the colony: stories of werewolves had accompanied French settlers to Canada ever since they began crossing the Atlantic. But this beast appeared at a particularly uneasy time: the first decade of British rule over New France. The werewolf was said to terrorize the colonists for years, hunted and feared, until he finally disappeared ...

The story behind one of Canada's most famous highways...and how it was built by a foreign army. From the Rocky Mountain foothills, all the way to Alaska-we take a road trip finding clues to its origins: rusted old trucks, strange-looking buildings, and abandoned gravel roads. This is the tale of the largest American invasion into Canada since the Gold Rush. This is the Alaska Highway.

The story of the heroic Newfoundland dogs that helped shape Canada.