Canada is filled with places that look ordinary on a map, until you learn what’s actually there.
In this Hidden Canada documentary, we explore four remarkable Canadian locations where scientists are still piecing together parts of the story.
We begin with Quebec’s Manicouagan Reservoir, the enormous ring-shaped scar left by an asteroid impact roughly 215 million years ago. Scientists know what created it, but researchers are still refining its exact age and investigating what effect the impact may have had on life during the Late Triassic.
Then we travel to the Saguenay Fjord, one of the southernmost major fjords in the Northern Hemisphere. Beneath its surface lies cold, salty marine water separated by a shallow underwater sill, creating conditions that support Greenland sharks capable of living for centuries and the endangered Saint Lawrence beluga population.
Far out in the Atlantic sits Sable Island, a constantly shifting sandbar famous for more than 350 recorded shipwrecks, hundreds of wild horses, and the largest grey seal breeding colony on Earth. Genetic research has also revealed that the famous story of Sable Island horses descending from Spanish shipwreck survivors probably isn’t true.
Finally, we head to Ontario’s Slate Islands in Lake Superior, an ancient meteorite impact structure recently given a much stronger radiometric age of approximately 456 million years. The islands are also home to an unusual woodland caribou population that nearly disappeared after wolves crossed frozen Lake Superior and reached the islands.
From ancient asteroid impacts and centuries-old sharks to wild horses, endangered whales, disappearing ice bridges and isolated caribou, these are four Canadian places whose stories are much stranger than they appear from above.
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Chapters:
00:00 4 Strange Places in Canada
01:16 Manicouagan Reservoir — The Eye of Quebec
12:38 Saguenay Fjord — Arctic Water Far South
21:50 Sable Island — Graveyard of the Atlantic
31:23 Slate Islands — Crater, Caribou & Collapse
41:01 What These Four Places Reveal
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