''The Canadian Experience'' is a television documentary series shown on

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...

; each of its one-hour episodes present an event or story from

Canadian history The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Canada were inhabited for millennia by ...

. The first episode aired on January 22, 2004. The series is produced by the CBC Documentary Unit, the team behind '' Canada: A People's History''.

Episodes

# "The Queen and the Skipper: The Story of The '' Bluenose''" - The history of the famous racing

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# "Talking Canadian" - A look at distinctly

Canadian English Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English native to Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French ( ...

words and modes of speech # "The Underground Railroad: Flight to Freedom" - The Canadian role up to and during the American Civil War # "Year of the Hunter" - The making of '' Nanook of the North'', the first true documentary

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# " Expo 67: Back to the Future" - The success of the World's Fair in Montreal, and its effect on Canada # "Sisters in the Wilderness" - The story of

Susanna Moodie Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Biography Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, ...

and her sister

Catharine Parr Traill Catharine Parr Traill (born Strickland; 9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life in Canada, particularly what is now Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada). In the 1830s, Canada ...

, writers in early-19th-century Upper Canada. ''two-hour episode''

Specials

*"The 13th Mission" - The story of a World War II Lancaster bomber, including the women who built it and the men who flew it, in the context of the war era. First aired June 6, 2004, the 60th anniversary of

D-Day The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D ...

. *"The Liberation of Holland" - The story of the Canadian First Army's task to liberate the Netherlands, and particularly the grueling Battle of the Scheldt in the autumn of 1944. First aired May 2005, near the 60th anniversary of VE Day.

External links

Official Website
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