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Inside Centre Block - The Restoration Part 2

Inside Centre Block—The Restoration takes viewers behind-the-scenes to witness Canada’s largest and most complex heritage rehabilitation project. Narrated by award winning Canadian actor Colm Feore, Inside Centre Block—The Restoration explores Centre Block’s renewal, showcasing the progress since its doors closed in 2019. It’s an insider’s view of one of the most challenging restoration projects ever, offering a complete look of what’s taking place behind the scaffolding and tarps and sharing the perspectives of those who are making it happening it happen. In this episode we learn about the building’s excavation work, see how both houses of Parliament are being modernized, and join the team working on the masonry restoration.
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Inside Centre Block - The Restoration Part 2 (English DV)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Inside Centre Block—The Restoration takes viewers behind-the-scenes to witness Canada’s largest and most complex heritage rehabilitation project. Narrated by award winning Canadian actor Colm Feore, Inside Centre Block—The Restoration explores Centre Block’s renewal, showcasing the progress since its doors closed in 2019. It’s an insider’s view of one of the most challenging restoration projects ever, offering a complete look of what’s taking place behind the scaffolding and tarps and sharing the perspectives of those who are making it happening it happen. In this episode we learn about the building’s excavation work, see how both houses of Parliament are being modernized, and join the team working on the masonry restoration.
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Inside Centre Block - The Restoration Part 1

Inside Centre Block—The Restoration takes viewers behind-the-scenes to witness Canada’s largest and most complex heritage rehabilitation project. Narrated by award winning Canadian actor Colm Feore Inside Centre Block-The Restoration explores Centre Block’s renewal, showcasing the progress since its doors closed in 2019. It’s an insider’s view of one of the most challenging restoration projects ever, offering a complete look of what’s taking place behind the scaffolding and tarps and sharing the perspectives of those who are making it happen. In this episode we learn about the project, the history of Centre Block, and the delicate balance between restoration and the need to modernize.
00:55:10

CPAC Documentaries

Inside Centre Block - The Restoration Part 1 (English DV version)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Inside Centre Block—The Restoration takes viewers behind-the-scenes to witness Canada’s largest and most complex heritage rehabilitation project. Narrated by award winning Canadian actor Colm Feore Inside Centre Block-The Restoration explores Centre Block’s renewal, showcasing the progress since its doors closed in 2019. It’s an insider’s view of one of the most challenging restoration projects ever, offering a complete look of what’s taking place behind the scaffolding and tarps and sharing the perspectives of those who are making it happen. In this episode we learn about the project, the history of Centre Block, and the delicate balance between restoration and the need to modernize.
01:11:50

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Returning Home (English DV version)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Canada’s Residential Schools are the legacy of a world where relationships are severed in the service of power and where people become detached from one another and the complex webs of interdependence. Among the Secwépemc in British Columbia, one such story is that of Phyllis Jack-Webstad, a residential school survivor whose experiences inspired the Orange Shirt Day movement. RETURNING HOME follows Phyllis Jack-Webstad on a nationwide educational tour, while her family struggles to heal multigenerational wounds at home in Secwépemc territory. Amid a global pandemic and the lowest salmon run in Canadian history, the film also explores the absence of salmon along the upper Fraser River, and how a multi-year fishing moratorium is tearing at the fabric of Secwépemc communities. By bearing witness to the trauma experienced by Phyllis and her family, RETURNING HOME holds a mirror to the trauma experienced by the natural world, too. For the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are one and the same.
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Returning Home

Canada’s Residential Schools are the legacy of a world where relationships are severed in the service of power and where people become detached from one another and the complex webs of interdependence. Among the Secwépemc in British Columbia, one such story is that of Phyllis Jack-Webstad, a residential school survivor whose experiences inspired the Orange Shirt Day movement. RETURNING HOME follows Phyllis Jack-Webstad on a nationwide educational tour, while her family struggles to heal multigenerational wounds at home in Secwépemc territory. Amid a global pandemic and the lowest salmon run in Canadian history, the film also explores the absence of salmon along the upper Fraser River, and how a multi-year fishing moratorium is tearing at the fabric of Secwépemc communities. By bearing witness to the trauma experienced by Phyllis and her family, RETURNING HOME holds a mirror to the trauma experienced by the natural world, too. For the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are one and the same.
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Wings of Honour: A Century of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Wings of Honour is the latest feature-length documentary from Canadian Geographic Films, and presents a powerful and emotional story celebrating the 100-year history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Through its backdrop of rarely seen RCAF archival footage and dramatic contemporary footage, the film showcases compelling stories from past and present RCAF members from across Canada.
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CPAC Documentaries

Wings of Honour: A Century of the Royal Canadian Air Force (English DV version)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Wings of Honour is the latest feature-length documentary from Canadian Geographic Films, and presents a powerful and emotional story celebrating the 100-year history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Through its backdrop of rarely seen RCAF archival footage and dramatic contemporary footage, the film showcases compelling stories from past and present RCAF members from across Canada.
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Wings of Honour: Premieres June 2nd

Wings of Honour is the latest feature-length documentary from Canadian Geographic Films, and presents a powerful and emotional story celebrating the 100-year history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Through its backdrop of rarely seen RCAF archival footage and dramatic contemporary footage, the film showcases compelling stories from past and present RCAF members from across Canada.
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CPAC Documentaries

Wings of Honour: Premieres June 2nd

Wings of Honour is the latest feature-length documentary from Canadian Geographic Films, and presents a powerful and emotional story celebrating the 100-year history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Through its backdrop of rarely seen RCAF archival footage and dramatic contemporary footage, the film showcases compelling stories from past and present RCAF members from across Canada.
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Seeing Canada: Indigenous Cooking in Victoria and a Sunshine Coast Adventure

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Victoria, British Columbia, where she learns to cook an Indigenous meal with Cree-Metis executive private chef Shirley Lang. Then Brandy travels to the Sunshine Coast where she takes a helicopter ride with Sunshine Coast Air, visits the Bricker Cider Company, and meets Indigenous artist Levi Purjue.
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Seeing Canada: Visiting the Quebec Maritime Region and Edmonton

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk visits the Quebec Maritime region where she learns how to make paper from rags with poet and artisan Cynthia Calusic at L'Algue d’Or in L’Isle-Verte. Then she tries wine made from maple sap at Domaine Acer in Auclair, Québec. Next Brandy travels to Edmonton, Alberta, where she learns how to make green onion cakes with the Green Onion Cake Man. Then she explores the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, which is an open-air museum telling the story of Ukrainian settlement in east central Alberta from 1892 to 1930.
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Seeing Canada: Seaweed Gin, Métis Stew and Whisky

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Sooke, British Columbia where she learns about seaweed from Amanda Swinimer at Dakini Tidal Wilds. Then she visits Sheringham Distillery where she tries gin made with seaweed. Brandy then goes to Alberta where she plows a field with horses and tries whisky at the Eau Claire Distillery in Turner Valley. In Calgary, Brandy learns how to cook a Métis stew at the Heritage Park Historical Village.
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Seeing Canada: Richmond's Chinese Food, Birding and the Rocky Mountaineer

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk visits Richmond, British Columbia where she goes on an Authentic Asian Easts Tour with Michelle Ng from Vancouver Foodie Tours. She tries delicious Chinese pastries at Kam Do Bakery and Chinese BBQ at HK B.B.Q. Master. Then Brandy meets with Nature Photographer and Birding Guide, Liron Gertsman, who goes birding with her at the Terra Nova Rural Park. Next Brandy travels on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver, British Columbia to Banff, Alberta.
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Seeing Canada: Exploring British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin Region

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to the Cariboo Chilcotin Region in British Columbia where she learns how to make cinnamon buns at The Historic Cariboo Chilcotin Lodge in Riske Creek. Then Brandy learns how to trim a horse's hooves at the Terra Nostra Ranch in Kleena Kleene. In Clinton, Brandy meets David Arlen Park, a Musician and Owner of The Junction Cafe, who teaches her how to be a barista.
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Seeing Canada: Boating on Ontario's Rideau Canal and Visiting Abbotsford, B.C.

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Smith Falls, Ontario where she learns how to drive a luxury boat with Le Boat down the Rideau Canal which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Then Brandy flies west across Canada to Abbotsford, British Columbia where she makes samosas at the Mann Farm and learns about the owners’ South Asian Culture. Nearby Brandy explores the Seaside Pearl Farmgate Winery and tastes wine made with grapes from across British Columbia’s wine regions.
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Seeing Canada: New Brunswick and a 1000 Islands Helicopter Tour in Ontario

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Carters Point, New Brunswick where she learns about sturgeon caviar from Cornel Ceapa from Acadian Sturgeon and Caviar Inc. Then Brandy visits with the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation for an Indigenous tourism experience with Stephen and Florence Paul from First Nations Tourism. Next Brandy goes to Gananoque, Ontario where she sees the magnificent 1000 islands in a helicopter tour with Kouri's Kopters Inc.
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Seeing Canada: Indigenous Tourism and Art in Southeastern Ontario

Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk meets the rare and endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses and makes a corn husk doll at the Mādahòkì Farm in Ottawa’s Greenbelt. Brandy then travels to Akwesasne where she makes traditional Mohawk cornbread. In Kingston she learns to paint with artist Francisco Corbett at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
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Seeing Canada - Indigenous Cooking in Victoria & Sunshine Coast Adventure (DV)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk travels to Victoria, British Columbia, where she learns to cook an Indigenous meal with Cree-Metis executive private chef Shirley Lang. Then Brandy travels to the Sunshine Coast where she takes a helicopter ride with Sunshine Coast Air, visits the Bricker Cider Company, and meets Indigenous artist Levi Purjue.
00:26:45

CPAC Documentaries

Seeing Canada - Visiting the Québec Maritime Region and Edmonton (DV)

Note: This version includes English-language described video. Canadian journalist Brandy Yanchyk visits the Québec Maritime region where she learns how to make paper from rags with poet and artisan Cynthia Calusic at L'Algue d’Or in L’Isle-Verte. Then she tries wine made from maple sap at Domaine Acer in Auclair, Québec. Next Brandy travels to Edmonton, Alberta, where she learns how to make green onion cakes with the Green Onion Cake Man. Then she explores the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, which is an open-air museum telling the story of Ukrainian settlement in east central Alberta from 1892 to 1930.