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Great Canadian Railway Journeys is a travel documentary series produced by the BBC that aired on BBC Two. It is presented by British journalist and broadcaster Michael Portillo (Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca, How To Kill a Human Being). The documentary was inspired by the 1899 Appleton's Guidebook to the railways of the United States and Canada. Portillo goes on to explore the historic Canadian railways described in the book and learns about the places along the way. The concept of Great Canadian Railway Journeys is quite simple: each first episode of a season features a starting place and each subsequent episode revolves around a certain trajectory by railway. These include wonderful journeys between places like Sainte-Anne de Beaupre to La Malbaie, and Vancouver Island to San Juan Island.

Total number of episodes:6Last broadcast:26/01/2022 at 05:35

Rating:3.7 of 5 (12x)

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Season 4

Season 4, Episode 8 - Saint-Anne De Beaupre To Winnipeg

Expired26/01/2022 3.0 40 x

Following his guidebook to the beautiful basilica at Sainte Anne de Beaupré, Michael discovers the racks of crutches discarded by the healed and meets modern day visitors in search of miracles. The Train de Charlevoix, built to transport pilgrims, now conveys tourists along the north bank of the mighty St Lawrence river to...

Season 4, Episode 7 - Springhill Junction To Quebec City

Expired25/01/2022 3.0 55 x

Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way he investigates the world’s biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves. He apparently defies gravity on a magnetic hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville.

Season 4, Episode 6 - Halifax To Prince Edward Island

Expired24/01/2022 4.7 54 x

Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the Ocean line to explore Canada’s maritime provinces, en route to Quebec City. Clutching his 1899 Appleton’s Guide to Canada, he begins in the Atlantic port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he discovers an 18th century British hilltop citadel, manned at the time of his ...

Season 4, Episode 5 - Kamloops To Calgary

Expired21/01/2022 3.0 40 x

Michael Portillo boards one of the world’s most famous trains, the Rocky Mountaineer, to cross the backbone of the North American continent from Kamloops to the spa resort of Banff. This magnificent journey takes him to the highest point of the 19th century transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway line at Kicking Horse Pa...

Season 4, Episode 4 - Vancouver Island To Kamloops

Expired20/01/2022 4.0 32 x

Michael Portillo explores British Columbia, steered by his Appleton’s Guide to Canada, published in 1899. He discovers how two superpowers nearly came to war over a pig and joins the Royal Canadian Navy to firefight on board the frigate HMCS Regina.

Season 4, Episode 3 - Skagway To Vancouver

Expired19/01/2022 4.0 17 x

Michael Portillo embarks on a second spectacular rail journey through Alaska into Canada on the White Pass and Yukon railway. Arriving in Skagway by seaplane from railwayless Juneau, Michael heads first for Dyea and the Chilkoot trail, which the first gold prospectors hiked a hundred years ago to the Klondike.

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