Located in the Northern and Western Hemisphere, Canada is located in North America and is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere, and the second largest country in the world. Canada has two main climate zones; many different weather patterns; six different time zones; and more fresh water tha ... See program details

The eight major landform regions of Canada are explored. Each region influences whether people will live there; the types of communities found in each; the kinds of jobs; available resources; the climate of the region; wildlife commonly found there, etc. See program details

Native people were the first people to live in Canada and can be divided into six main cultural groups - Northwest Coast; Plateau; Plains; Eastern Woodlands; Subarctic; and Arctic. Each group had homes, methods of transportation and sources of food that suited the region where they lived and the wa ... See program details

The people who discovered and explored Canada and North America, did so for many reasons. The first known visitors, the Vikings, discovered North America by accident and left for reasons still not understood. Columbus’ discovery of North America in 1492 was also an accident as he tried to find a c ... See program details

Since the early 1500s, for many different reasons, the settlers of Canada came from different places - first France and England and then the United States. Later, settlers came from many other countries looking for a better life. Some came to fish, others to take part in the fur trade and still othe ... See program details

Canada's natural resources are found on the land, under it, in the oceans and rivers, and in the air. Fish, forests, minerals, land, water and wildlife are the reasons Canada first grew into a country and these resources have shaped the modern Canada of today. Some of Canada's resources, such as fis ... See program details

Most minerals are pure, solid materials made up of smaller particles or elements that occur naturally as part of the Earth's crust. Found all over the world, they are usually considered to be inorganic - meaning they are not made up of plant or animal material. Minerals have different colours, shape ... See program details

All living things need some things in order to survive. Some of those things are supplied by other living things, and some are supplied by nonliving things. The interaction between living and nonliving in an area creates an ecosystem. The living elements of an ecosystem are water, soil, light and ai ... See program details

The Energy Cycle is the movement of energy from one living thing to other living things. Plants, the producers, use the energy from the sun to make food. Animals, the consumers, get that energy by eating plants. Other animals (secondary consumers) get that energy by eating the animals that ate the p ... See program details

The geological history and development of Canada is explained in this DVD using original, high quality video footage from across Canada and excellent motion graphics. A comprehensive overview of the major forces of aggradation and degradation, from plate tectonics to water erosion; from seafloor spr ... See program details

The world into which Native people have been brought since the arrival of Europeans is a wider world than their ancestors knew. It involves many lands and many people - yellow, black, red and white. The Medicine Wheel represents wholeness and within the Medicine Wheel, or Circle of Life, are the Fo ... See program details

The life of the people the Europeans found inhabiting this continent was rooted in the Earth. They lived in daily contact with Earth’s creatures and most of their life was spent under the sky. The hills and mountains were special places; sacred places where they went to receive their vocations or ... See program details