Halifax
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2019
Michael Portillo explores Canada's maritime provinces. Clutching his 1899 Appleton's Guide to Canada, Michael begins in the Atlantic port of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2019
Michael Portillo explores Canada's maritime provinces. Clutching his 1899 Appleton's Guide to Canada, Michael begins in the Atlantic port of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2019
Michael Portillo journeys through Canada's maritime provinces. He heads to the Confederation Theatre in PEI's provincial capital, Charlottetown.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2019
Michael Portillo travels from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. He appears to defy gravity on Magnetic Hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2019
Michael Portillo continues his rail adventure. In the Acadian fishing village of Neguac, New Brunswick, Michael takes to the water.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2019
Michael Portillo explores the Province of Quebec. Michael visits the waterfall at Montmorency - a spectacular sight, especially from a zip wire!
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2019
Michael Portillo boards the Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374 that linked the vast nation of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1887.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2019
Michael Portillo explores British Columbia. He discovers how two superpowers nearly came to war over a pig.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2019
Armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo learns how to head off a charging bear in the wilderness of British Columbia.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2019
Michael Portillo boards the Rocky Mountaineer to cross the backbone of the North American continent from Kamloops to the spa resort of Banff.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2019
Michael Portillo arrives in Calgary, Alberta. He saddles up with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, hears about their origins and learns about their role today.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2019
Michael Portillo travels across the vast Canadian Prairie on Canada's last trans-continental passenger line. Michael explores Winnipeg, the nation's chief railroad centre.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2019
Michael Portillo explores the province of Saskatchewan. He learns how a middle-class British boy transformed himself into an 'indigenous' naturalist.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2019
Michael Portillo crosses the Great Plains of Canada by rail. In the cultural hub of Saskatoon he learns how to make a traditional Saskatoon berry pie.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2019
Michael Portillo continues his thousand-mile rail journey from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Jasper, Alberta. Michael explores a glossy, glassy oil-rich Edmonton.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2019
Michael Portillo's rail journey reaches a dramatic scenic conclusion in the Rocky Mountains. Michael is awed by the scale of the vast Athabasca Glacier.