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.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Railway Adventures across Canada: The Rail Trails of Newfoundland
The old railway tracks of Newfoundland offer a new lease on life as hiking and biking trails across the province. Explorations reveal ghost towns, … Continue reading
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Tagged berry-picking, fishing, hiking, hunting, museum, Newfoundland, railway museum, St. John’s, trails, trains
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Toronto 175 – Part 6: Ethnic Origins
Toronto, the global village today, and how it looked to immigrants in the 1800s.
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Tagged Black Creek Pioneer Village, Canada, city, documentary, ethnic communities, farm, Grist Mill, history, Ontario, Street cars, Toronto, tourism, TTC, urban, York
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Cayman Islands – Stingray City
Stingray City is a unique underwater attraction in the Caribbean. Originally attracted to the shallow waters off the Cayman Islands where fishermen cleaned their … Continue reading
Toronto 175 – Part 5: A Learning Experience
A brewer and a bishop, two of the central characters who brought their educational philosophies to York (today’s Toronto) in the 1800s.
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Tagged architecture, Bishop John Strachan, Byzantine, Canada, education, Egerton Ryerson, Enoch Turner, Home District Grammar School, Jarvis Collegiate, Kings College, Lt. Governor’s residence, Norman, Ontario, Osgoode Hall, public schools, Romanesque, Ryerson University, St. Andrews Church, students, Toronto, Trinity Church, University of Toronto, Upper Canada College, York
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Railway Adventures across Canada: Vikings and Gros Morne, Newfoundland and Labrador
Revelations on location at L’Anse Aux Meadows, a base for the early Vikings, plus the geological diversity of the World Heritage site of Gros … Continue reading
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Tagged alpine, arctic, boreal forest, Caitlin, Canada, fossils, geology, Gros Morne, Gulf of St. Lawrence, L'Anse Aux Meadows, Labrador, Long Range Mountains, longhouse, Newfoundland, Norsted, smithy butternuts, Tablelands, Vikings, Vinland, World Heritage
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