A Documentary about Canada

[Music] this is a film about Canada I've always asked myself what does it mean to be Canadian this is a difficult question but even most people living here have a hard time answering Canada is an incredibly large country and it is my belief that can leaner problems is to feel disconnected most Canadians are very proud of the places they live in this sense of pride is contagious but I feel in some cases they undervalue the rest of the country so for Canada 150 I decided to hit the road and seek adventure from East Coast to west coast to find an answer to my question get ready to learn about some places in Canada that you may not be familiar with and hear inspiring stories from other fellow Canadians stories that will help unite us even more [Music] I started my journey in cape speare just to it's a distinction this is the most easterly point in our continent the views are breathtaking and impossible to describe [Music] learn about the culture and tradition spoke with Morrie McCartney she's really passionate about keeping Newfoundland traditions alive I really want to expose people to age-old tradition care in New Zealand whether that boil ups on the beach or very thickening the wood and it's really all about passing on our cultural food it's pretty much wrapped up in the Zelda right in those moments that you remember as a child they are they're powerful and they create memories that you just you can't let go right so it's often the path that on growing up a new plan is really about a lifestyle right you know you don't come here for the weather no one settled here right for a very long time because the lake was harsh here you come a new plan for the people and a lifestyle and it seems the more that people come here the more they want to come here and they want to be a purse of you know I call it a magic lifestyle it's a very special place spectacularly beautiful here from the beaches to the coastline we've got some beautiful areas to go and see and every time you stand on the edge of the cliff and you look out there I mean it's about as magical as the place game [Music] Newfoundland and Labrador are very special places the landscape the people there's so much history I encountered one fishing village after another places with big hearts and welcoming embraces Newfoundland truly has a lot of character we're not very gogo around here it's really a lot about sit back and join the people and the place and the moment that you're in and you're able to just give people an idea of what life was like here what life is feel like here what it can be right if you don't know where you come from how are you going to know where you're going it keeps the sense of groundedness and it's about remembering how much work it takes to put the food on your plate [Music] you [Music] gross more National Park is captivating the most impressive thing about this park is its diversity so many different types of terrain and features encapsulated in a relatively small geographical area within a two-hour drive you can go from one end of the park to the other Grossman is home to one of the most unique landscapes in all of Canada here I met with two girls that are part of a tourist organization called wild women expedition you really know that you're on a unique landscape the table lands in particular are really fascinating and when you go there you're just like where do they come from it's a big orange flat rock just there on the landscape surrounded by mountains of green and then if you keep going north you can take a beautiful boat ride into West River pond which is 1.3 billion years old peanuts the oldest rocks you can buy on earth the beauty and majesty of the place never gets old it has that effect still to this day on me but I love getting to relive it every time I take a new group in there you just see the aw on their face right because it is so big the pond is so long and the cliffs are just so sheer that it's a very dramatic experience it's open it's just there and big and you can just appreciate it I've seen women with tears with other eyes in their because they just have this overpowering feeling of enormity and it really has the great opportunity to kind of put things into perspective I just love how gross more National Park as a whole is hugs basically all these tiny little fishing communities and those communities are a really important part of the story of the park I don't think you can go there and I miss that and I don't think it should be overlooked they're just inside the park there is a charming coastal town called true River where we had an interesting conversation with the local fisherman I'm a fish I was certainly fishing up for 30 years fishery is pretty much the main industry in this area a lot of my friends like their fathers and the grandfather's of fish and they still fish the exact same lands they did Bundy 80 years ago you have your beautiful day I mean if you were fishing today it's beautiful underwater but I mean those days you have to quit and it's risky at time you in these areas who have a love for the land and water and that's what makes it so so beneficial for all set I think it's never taken for granted from Newfoundland we took the ferry to Sydney Nova Scotia where we met mrs. Wanda Robson I'd like to tell you a story about my sister violet there was nobody else in Nova Scotia that offer the services and deliver and sell beauty products to black women so what's up November the 8th 1946 as she nears New Glasgow she hears a funny noise in the car so she stops at a garage he looks at it and he says to her I can't fix it but I need a part which I don't have but I have to get from the next time so you don't have to stay overnight she left to go to movies but she didn't give herself much time for pleasure so she goes in with me ask the cashier I'll have them 1 ticket down please - he looks at her and she says we're not allowed to sell downstairs ticket to you people so she said well here's the money here's the difference I'm going to sit down there she came to her and said you know if you don't use the move I'll have to call a manager well when cincy said I'm not causing a fuss I've offered the extra money you can't call the manager because I'm not moving the manager went to the courthouse to get an order for her arrest and she was put in jail it worked out that they'd find found her guilty of trying to defraud the government of not paying the provincial amusement tax that they have on theatre tickets which was a grand total of one-fifth mrs. Robson is a true example of determination in 2007 at the age of 77 she graduated from University perhaps it was that grit that led her to fight for greater awareness surrounding the events that led to her sister violas arrest in 1946 I can't believe it in 2009 it just seemed like an avalanche it was like I was getting phone calls I was getting people coming to the door people ready me letters the government then I spoke at the problem self and that was the day they gave her a pardon and something I had never expected but then I thought oh by Allah you've done it you've done it you tell it in recent years viola Desmond's memory has been honored in a few different ways Ferry and Halifax was named after her she has been memorialized in one of our Canadian stamps and in 2018 she will become the first Canadian woman to appear on a Canadian banknote the slogan Canada's ocean playground couldn't be more true picture-perfect lighthouses and coastal scenery nothing compares to looking at the distant horizon across the Atlantic Ocean imagine standing by a lighthouse at dawn or studying the many spectacular rock formations along Nova Scotia's coastline [Music] [Music] [Music] nana ganesh we had the opportunity to talk with the syrian refugee family that have been welcomed into canada not long ago this is their story the refugee means that you lose everything especially lose your sense of belonging that's losing your home losing your friends your connections everything you have been building since ever you alone will be lost in one moment so we were in lebanon and we didn't know where to go from illinois then you know we have this opportunity from the canadian embassy that they invited me and my family to come to this country they offer everything they can to make us feel safe while the other countries close the borders everything in tears of the refugees can open the doors and chipped us in a safe slide to just arrived here and give us the chance to start our life again that's what it was really amazing thing that we didn't happen before in any other country everything they cared about was because we are human beings and we are seeking safety to arrive you know in in our new country and to feel that this is really our home again then we discuss what we are going to give back for the country receiver so we started our business against the chocolates actually got used to work in syria making chocolate in 40's and my father started his business in Damascus my father thought he will not be able to start his business in ten years when he arrived here in the beginning then he realized it's easy by better board of the Canadians and he told you are in Canada because you are in Nova Scotian because you are in Antigonish that has been very fast because we have people around us they embraced us and they really care but I feel we have the luckiest because we came to parent we discussed what to call the company and it was the message that we are here for and we said we need to deliver and elect everybody knows that our story through our name and the whole time we agreed on the name piece by chocolate just a Satana Ganesh we talked with Bradford who is nearing the end of a run across Canada for a very Novica basically you know I'm doing it to raise awareness around violence against women and also you know just to try to raise the conscious level of all eight I'm just sharing what I know but also you know I'm just feeling grateful Jesus and work right it's beautiful work and I enjoy being a runner and just trying to carry that message as far as possible just trying to inspire and motivate as many people as possible even though I fell into addiction I overcame it so I started racing when I was really young and playing hockey as a child and I went back to it I went back to my original teachings so that's why I'm able to resurrect myself resurrect that actually inside me you have a fulfilling life have a peaceful life joyful life then along seven months of running I'm tired you know so I'm expecting you know a good indication to Newfoundland there's I have 20 20 days of running left but at the same time this you know I I want to carry my message deep into New Zealand with a lot of focus a lot of Drive just like any other community when you want to run across Canada you have to expect all kinds of conditions and you have to not to expect a lot and you can't complain you know this is what you want to do go someplace on October 24th care blue eggs arrived in st. John's Newfoundland after many months on the road he finally achieved his goal of running across Canada [Music] Prince Edward Island can be described as a storybook place picturesque towering cliffs emerald seas to red sandy beaches intensive colors everywhere you look just like a fairy tale some people may not realize the story of Confederation started here in Charlottetown we met Lacey a young entrepreneur who demonstrated to me that when a person is driven it doesn't matter how old they are so since I was little I've grown up dancing on PEI and I've been to almost every dance school that I live has and there are quite a few but as I got older I started to want more of an experience of what it's like working in the dance industry the pea I didn't really have an opportunity for me to learn these things so I would have to go off violin and I didn't want that to be the case for all the dancers that are here now so I thought if I was able to bring this opportunity to PEI for the dancers giving them all the things that I wish I had when I was growing up I'd be able to make a difference so that's what I've done I've started my business in April of 2016 at 16 years old I've grown very quickly from two classes up to 16 cost of the week and I have about 80 students so I hired choreographers from off-island come in and work with my dancers for special workshop I'm the primary teacher though and I absolutely love it so that's a little bit about 24 dance going really well and yeah it's crazy when I said oh wow but I love it [Music] thing is that I always wanted to leave but now that I've had all these amazing opportunities and I'm meeting all these amazing people on PEI really cool mentors lots of cool projects going on new businesses opening I'm realizing that Pei is an amazing place like especially to start a business the support you get here is incredible there's tons of funding available it's just a really great place so I definitely will go off and travel and learn more but I'm always going to come back here because there's no place there's no place like home not far from Lacey there's a 92 year old farmer named John Lister John has been farm use entire life and is still passionately caring for the land after all these years it's a great place to farm I run cattle grow grain excited I'm not going to stop until I can't do it anymore I'm looking at a hundred right now if I didn't come I probably wouldn't be around that's what's wrong with a lot of people they quit 65 draw their pension quit 70 put them in a box if you quit you're dumb because it and then he slows down if you don't do nothing I tend to keep both as long as I possibly can and that maybe four or five more years maybe more I don't need out I don't eat in restaurants a fast food outfit forever no because I make all my own you may mean I make it I suppose my secret is the fact I don't drink I don't smoke and I don't eat dog poop it's full of preservatives you want me to handle that sort of stuff I don't want at least to be stressed and innocent get it hot why warning angry at the end of the day across the confederation bridge headed for month and new browser [Music] semaa new brunswick is working very hard to break economic barriers nobody deserves to be excluded from opportunity for any reason we started with 50 children and one teacher it was madness and chaos that's the only thing I can say you know we had a lot to learn and we have progressively learned over time and today it's so exciting in New Brunswick we now have the largest Systema inspired program in all of Canada we have eight locations throughout the province we have Systema centres in the north and the south of the province we engage Anglophones francophones First Nations children and newcomers to New Brunswick today we have more than 15 orchestras in almost a thousand kids involved in our programs the great thing about it is it's a story that all of New Brunswick shares in because to create a program like this doesn't happen by one person or three people it takes everybody in the community to make it happen and so as a result children who would never ever have an opportunity like this attend three hours every day five days a week with a fully professional staff team of teaching artists there are a lot of people told us kids in North America wouldn't do that but they do it and they say in fact we have two to three times more applicants than we have space for so kids want to be here and once they arrive they stay it's about engaging children through otherwise would be left out because I don't think there's anything more tragic than that kids from economically disadvantaged families have as much capacity to be great as any one from a middle or upper income home so why would we expect anything but excellent and through this experience children are inspired to achieve their full potential [Music] New Brunswick husband jokingly referred to it the drive-through problems but I can assure you the problems has a lot more to offer if you're willing to take the time and stop it is a wilderness paradise 84% of the province is covered in trees [Music] renowned for its main trails with lush forests its rivers teeming with fish you Brent occurs themselves do not take this place for granted they love being outdoors and all season New Brunswick is also well known for its fresh and abundant seafood when I visited Grand Manan I was amazed by the hard work that is required to be a lobster fisherman I was most astonished by Sarah I met her and saw how skilled the fisherman she was I was just nice to be there spent 20 years of my life on the waters and it's normal for me to be on the water I enjoyed sunrises and enjoy the sunset there's always something different to look at couple days ago I saw shark breach week before that at all an orca and yesterday for someone I have done all of the jobs that are involved in lobster fishing but it takes it takes a special captain to hire females physically where weekers and Zinman but give them a little bit of time because we can do the job pretty much any woman can do none that's what you want to do a normal day will get up her in four or five depending on the type and where we're going to the collar cat so that is ten minute drive get to the boat there's for less than our crew and it takes us about an hour and a half to get it to our trap well haul as many as we can probably stay at very food and resolvers it just depends on the time a normal day for us see here it doesn't matter with fishermen we don't use a fisher girl or the fisher woman or fisher at its a job and we just going to do it especially if you can do the job then go do it [Music] the province of Quebec offers the perfect balance of new world and old world it is the largest province in Canada it is also the largest french-speaking territory in the world Quebec City has more romance and European charm than any other city in North America Montreal has earned a reputation for producing great artists and fostering a true creative spirit this is a place that's aged gracefully wearing its years with quiet elegance [Music] when I arrived in Montreal I went in search of the best bagel you can find inspiration in anything even a piece of bread so we have hot bagels coming out of the oven every 5 minute so it's very convenient for someone to walk in buy a dozen bagels or a bigger tool they're hot they're fresh they're if you resist the world the bigger shop opened up in 1957 we have the perfect recipe the perfect combination of employees stop and everything so that's where our they go for the best we do it with love we do with passion there is nothing more than that so you can see when they come out of the oven you have a nice shiny golden look to it that's because of the honey and the second thing is we bake our bagels in the look of it the fact that we bake it in a wood oven gives it a different texture and that's what makes our Vega stand up every morning I wake up with a smile on my face coming to work because I love making bagels it's my passion when I make the bagels and I serve customers seeing them with a smile on their face makes it very satisfying for me my name is Giovanni Varma I work at save a tobacco shop in Montreal and we are open 24 hours a day 7 a 2 [Music] when you think about sodas probably there are only two brands of will come dear mind but innovation is also possible in Montreal a talk with Sebastian that is 1642 Cola made with Canadian maple syrup focus s calendar a vasila des des Sun des modem oil savvy dono so tip de Marseille Marseille des eaux de yeah do hose company kikyo-sama ki baate to evolve even Taranaki sated hill buda castle VAR j VD d possibility st possible innovation la casa el and booty [Music] in collapse denali farik the signature event commercial technological shows on you can adapt see on contact a shikhandi paseo de la serda Tatsunoko mauvais al Masri a mobile to mobile mobile memorial Madinah not wanna do me do me Madhu named isn't a mission Alma Toma developable area came over el parque asthma's ambience in DiCamillo some multicultural diverse spontaneity I don like a stroke or edema no my company tell mom okay let's prepare the dryer the valve obvious pressure duodenal example o canada' see my contribution my sister ship repaired annalisa disposal [Music] nonno I met Sahin Banali who truly embodies the Canadian dream not long ago she immigrated here from Algeria North Africa with only a hundred dollars in her pocket I was coming from people or I just wanted to know safe place I have an in diversity degree but when you come here you have to start from scratch and you don't have you know to be to be Fred just roll your clip and take any kind of job I just wanted to join the workforce which is what I want we wanted to work and work hard and be independent and actually it was in the winter it was the first shot it was minus 20 people for someone coming from North Africa we're in winter you know it's 15 degrees of quite a shot but once you know you get a good pair of boots and a good coat and a good hat like you can go through winters because was quite a stretch for my skin and I start having bad skin problem with skin conditions I thought about the argan oil which is an all-natural and very powerful moisturizer that grows in my region and the woman who produce the olhar doesn't know how to read all right the only source of income is producing people you know make it that by hand and provide the best quality ever and it's my way to empower them Canada gave me the opportunity to be self-employed to be independent to be a breadwinner and those women need it health and this is my way to give back the Ottawa community has been amazing because it's a very Green City they took the first order an event or equivalent argument a third order today my products is available around the country learn from 10 source to 300 stores and this can happen unknown country 40% of the population of Canada live here in Ontario for a good reason [Music] Toronto is a cosmopolitan city a modern metropolis bursting with energy but at the same time very relaxing one thing that really stood out to me about the city was how lies it felt no matter what time of the day it was there's something here for everyone a truly multicultural metropolis that is very tolerant and inclusive more than half the population here was born outside of Canada [Music] [Applause] edie Whitlock's symbolizes the true spirit of Ontario the story taught me the importance of overcoming challenges that age is just a number the real accomplishment in life is always being able to remain young at heart my name is Ed with luck I'm 85 years old and I came to Canada when I was 21 in the main thing that struck me when I came onto here from England he was a tremendous spirit of optimism among all the people I was associated with in the mining industry in those days was no running up there until I quit money didn't start running again till I was 40 now it is train running around a very small cemetery only about a third of a mile from a lot and then I run round and round like that or sometimes when I start off five or ten minutes sometimes when I'm up to the training with man now for marathon it's over three hours it's peaceful there you have to worry about drivers and that sort of things my dream about sunday is that I will get my pace and right and that I will on the proper pace start of the race then I hope to give weather-permitting hope it will be less than four hours I've been running Wallace continuously since I'm 42 now 85 and I waste a lot of time training I don't know whether it's really really worth it when it is to be on October 2016 Edie broke another world record running a sub four-hour marathon in Toronto at age 85 sadly this would be his last marathon Edie passed away on March 2017 his competitive spirit and running achievement inspire people in the years to come [Music] Manitoba is home to vast farmland surrounded by thousands of acres of grain Winnipeg feels like an oasis the Gateway of the prairies located at the heart of Canada [Music] Manitoba is once a key strategic point and trading centre no exploration of Canada is complete without visiting Manitoba every city has monuments that represent and symbolize the ideas of the people that live there but in Winnipeg they took this principle and went bigger they have the Canadian Museum for Human Rights which opened his doors of September 2014 this is the first national museum since 1967 and the only one west of Ottawa this museum and it's been a game changer for certainly tourism to Winnipeg and we see that we've had 63 percent of our visitors since April have come from outside of Winnipeg so it's drawing people here which is sparking all kinds of um economic development and conferences and conventions are coming here that would not otherwise it's chosen Winnipeg we're part of a whole Renaissance of development in Winnipeg well we've got a new park and zoo is about a new airport we've got a new football stadium a new hockey arena all kinds of new hotel and restaurant development so it's really happening in Winnipeg and it's really making one a Biggers quite proud the architecture of the building is a piece of art a monument to human rights in and of itself it's also about multiple perspectives so the museum looks very different if you change your angle and your point of view if you walk around to a different side both outside and inside and that's an important concept human rights as well if we change our point of view things might look totally different and we get a new understanding [Music] this museum is not based around a collection of things spaced around an idea so what we're doing is trying to illuminate that idea primarily with storytelling and so we use all different methods to tell those stories this is a place where people can come and learn more about human rights talk about human rights and we hope that it'll spark the kind of educational climate that can help us understand why human rights is important and maybe get ideas about what they can do to promote human rights well [Music] everybody deserves a second chance in life and this is exactly what JD and the Sunshine Band are doing I feel there should be one in every city well we come from a place called the sunshine house and the sunshine house is a drop-in center in downtown Winnipeg that provides Street involved people with the recreational activities we started a band out of a project that we were running there we wrote a song together made a video and release the video and then we decided that we should run an entire project on music a lot of people that come to the drop-in center aren't necessarily musicians but they still contribute to the music with their stories and their little tidbits of their own lives so there are some some people that can play instruments so we have but we have our crew of shiners we call them and shiners are the people that play the percussion and give the kind of like janessa qu'atsu our music you know the intangible element and we take the stories the slang the humor off the streets of Winnipeg give them a backbeat in a melody and put them back on the streets with renewed swagger feel very comfortable and confidence they're my friends you know it's real we've created an entity nice we've created a real real thing and it's it's great you have created something that had the input from so many different places and people you can overlook certain things in on the streets or in the city or in life generally but you can also focus on trying to honor some things where you wouldn't expect and that's something that big our band is able to do it's a great opportunity to try and honor the the voice of the community [Music] [Music] saskatchewan is the land of endless horizons it's impossible not to feel free here I thought Regina was the most unexpected place I visited everything was enjoyable the open landscape the people there's nothing missing in this city you will find amazing parks impressive buildings sport complexes and some very neat history it is fantastic for a city of its size [Music] this city is one of the friendliest in Canada with a strong sense of community [Music] if you're accepted to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Regina is where you're going to train here we talk to one officer who shared with us her personal experience as in our c MP I'm born and raised in Bamako Mali I left there when I was 12 to come back to Catherine for high school before I joined I went to the University of Saskatchewan I was going to become a teacher and I wasn't sure if that was for me so I decided to change careers decided to join the RCMP and essentially that was because I wanted to see if I could have that opportunity to do that and if I'm tough enough and if I'm strong enough let's see if I can try and let's see if I can do it and so that's really what brought on the career decision and it worked out and Here I am 13 years later it's been awesome it's been great it's been it's been everything and it's been much more than I ever anticipated the reason I joined was to be that person for somebody who's having their worst day and in general Duty that's really what it is about you're working with people on their potentially the worst day of their life I wanted to be that person for them and I wanted to be in their corner and so if it came to safety if it came to protection that's what I got to do and that was that was so rewarding and not an opportunity everybody gets in their jobs on a daily basis and it's an amazing opportunity and the RCMP to be able to be there for someone I've had the benefit of growing up in both cultures what it's really meant for me is really instilled what it is to be Canadian and represent this country wherever you go Canada for me is about being open our country is vast it's open but we're also very open people there are some who would say that if you're in Saskatchewan there's nothing to see and it's the complete opposite if you're in Saskatchewan you can see forever you can see for miles it really is the province to the land of the living side and if you leave the city and take a look at our Sun sets and the prairies you understand what it means to live in Saskatchewan so you can breathe it's beautiful Canada is hockey and there are very few here who would dispute that often hockey is falsely perceived as being a male or an aggressive sport but women also practice it with passion and intensity we had the opportunity to attend a hockey match of the University of Regina women's team and talked with Sara Hodges she is one of the very few women in the country that is full-time coach of a hockey team I think hockey is the one real Canadian thing that everybody identifies Canadians with and I think it supports or our national pride international identity we always want to see you the Canadian to do well whether it's the world cup coffee or the Olympics anywhere on the international scene and I think it's what we're known for and we're expected to do well with it's just a way of life in Canada and you know over 30 years i am i start hockey and when i started i wasn't allowed to play oh there was no girls hockey at the time the only option was to play boys and they didn't let me play when I was six so I started playing when I was seven I think the women's game is more refined and there's more emphasis on skill that the men say there's a lot more crashing and banging and I think he can be a big player that's got some speed and be successful or as women talking you have to be skilled all-round to be a good one to talk to players so I think that's a difference on the ice girls hockey is also expensive to play it's also the parents sisa kind of a carrot at the end of the road so I mean boys they they all want to make the NHL I think with the girls they all wanna play a university play in the national team so there's a goal for them which makes you own the parents maybe a little bit too intense the time while I'd worked hard I think it's important to change and grow all the time so going started coaching I was 23 and I'm not at the same coach now as I was 18 years ago I've changed every year and I've tried to get better and I think that's important to be successful at any thing that you do [Music] the first thing that people relate to sketch one other prayers but J Brown argues that there is a lot more than flatland here the core of what south pecker is is to provide people the information that they need to find hiking trails throughout the province I love spending time outside fishing Saskatchewan outdoors and I wanted more people to do that and I figured the best way to do that was just to show people where to go so showing what this province is it's it's a lot different than what I think most people think it is I think everybody thinks that Saskatchewan is you know the Wheatfield and the sunset in the elevator right you know we've been saying that for 100 years so why would you think any differently the trans-canada highway is the major highway I think that's the most people's experience in Saskatchewan is getting on that Highway and putting their crews in you know the reason that that highway was built there because it was it's flat and it's easy to build a highway but if you're willing you know to take a left off the highway you know go down a dirt road go somewhere where you maybe not a high percent comfortable you'll see something that you've never seen before because it only exists here to access it isn't as easy as just you know driving and parking the car you have to go for you have to find it you have to go when you're actually dressed to go spend time in nature you can see how the people lived here for thousands of years [Music] let me tell you this about BAM it's everything you'd imagine plus more people from all over come to see the Rockies which rise majestically from the Alberta plane it's impossible to exaggerate the beauty of this place a few hours away you will find at the Badlands the landscape is unlike anything I'd ever seen the whole province is overflowing with natural beauty [Music] calgary is a young and modern city with a particular Western feel [Music] southeast of Calgary I visited a ranch and met with Brenda fer Brenda and her husband run a very unique initiative 300 horses or more per day are going through the slaughterhouse they are for the most part healthy horses and me to ship to Europe so what we do here is we get them healthy teach them train them and hopefully in the future adopt them out to new home we have everything from like registered quarter horses we have a granddaughter of Seattle Slew who was a Triple Crown winner we have some of the best bloodlines there are in Canada here believe it or not and there's no reason for them to be shipped but breeders are looking for that one special horse so they'll breed 80 mares or better to get that one the rest they don't care about on average at least a year they're here some will go out sooner depending on what the person is looking for but we like to give them a good base of ground worth training and you know be safe to be around those sorts of things so on average a year some are here for in five years before we find the right home for them on average we have 30 to 35 horses but we have been up to 60 so we keep our numbers where we can manage to look after them properly what we do is we have someone that's interested come here and actually work with the horse and I look to see if there's a connection between that person and the horse if there's not a connection or if the person doesn't know what they're doing then though we don't adopt them out but we also do offer a program here if we have room they can board the horse here and we teach them how to teach their horse [Music] it's a passion and we love them and I believe that no horse deserves to go to slaughter they just don't [Music] I would say to do is kind of like I was in a chaotic moment in my life and woke up one day totally had an out-of-body experience went out to Brad Creek totally got lost in the woods and I would say that that was kind of the first day that I guess I spelled nature and when that day happened I remember sleepy Gann exploring every day after that and before that I never really did it had anything to do with photography at all you know I didn't really plan any of that you know before I was 9 to 5 desk job kind of thing and so my audience would see me go through this whole transition kind of being stuck a little bit to uh to finding the vitality of life of everyday in nature one day Dax had the courage to follow his heart he left his day job to write his own history and started this adventure this was the catalyst for him to become a well known and recognized nature photographer and since then he's been hired nationwide for his unique way to share nature I mean to Babbitt is amazing everywhere you turn there's like a hidden kingdom of beauty around you if you're just open enough to find them right you don't need to necessarily get to a destination I don't really like to explore under a timeframe or under an itinerary what I'd like to do is like pull over on the side of the road and then just walk Vancouver has been on my radar as a city to visit for quite some time this place is impressive everything from the people to the architecture to the city itself it just has a really different vibe that separated itself from any city of travel to Canada the rainforests surrounding the city is incredible the city felt extremely fresh to me first nation culture is respected and celebrated here Vancouver is a very progressive place there is a real sense of freedom here it's one of the most livable cities on earth just inside downtown Vancouver I met Judy Williams who is passionate about preserving rec Beach rec beach then a clothing-optional Beach since the 1920s where you can be naked if you choose right now you can walk from the Acadia section all the way around to the must be reserved because it's all parkland now and you can be nude the entire way around if that's what your preference is and we didn't want to give up one inch and we have fought all these years to keep the beach clothing optional and we fight for what we believe in and we fight for having a right to be as we wish to be down here we're nonviolent or protective of this Beach and that's the way we want to keep it it's about personal freedom it's about being able to really be at one with nature to appreciate the beauty of this lovely Beach this is where I came and healed myself and that's what made me free nowhere else can you be 15 minutes from a major metropolis and come here and have the illusion of wilderness this is where concrete steel and glass incarcerated humans can come to feel at one with nature when you're coming down that trail you leave that workaday world the fantasy world up there because this is the real world here [Music] this is where our hearts are and as you get closer to the bottom of the steps everything lists and you can just float through these three in today's world there is no place for any kind of discrimination SD home and taught me that whatever obstacles you face you should always stand up for your own rights the queerest festival is a multidisciplinary festival I joined because it wasn't a place for me in the art world and so I made that place I encourage people to do that if you can't find your places try to you know get involved with something and make it happen so being the change that I wanted to see I guess it's hard to fund a festival called queer but we are successful and you can see that by the new works I think that it's created and I think that offshoots have come you know come from the festival who have lots of other group that have been inspired to do things that I don't see happening in other cities of our side our success is because we just don't give up we just keep pounding against that door and are willing to do what we need to do on to bring the art tend to make the artist feel like they have a place to create and be themselves how do we measure success one of my favorite stories is and it goes back to being in a community center is we had a very hard-hitting piece I'm Mary Taylor in there a few years ago called homophobia kill and she had these huge walls and they were lined with weapons that were used in homophobic and trans murders and we had a group of four voice coming from them basketball they just wandered into the gallery and they were sat there fingering at the were projected onto the wall and our president Jeff Gibson who works in the school came over and talked to them and explained to him what the work was about and they grew thoughtful and silent and missus and then they went away and 20 minutes later they brought their whole basketball team in to view the work and so from in 20 minutes Pam time they went from being bullied to allies right and that that that's my measure of success [Music] the truck didn't end in Vancouver we took a ferry to Vancouver Island and spent a little time in Victoria before heading west we arrived in a paradise called Tuffy M a beautiful beach with great waves this was the perfect spot to take a deep breath to think a little bit about our adventure I was overwhelmed by Canadian openness almost everybody that we approached welcome to us and did everything they could to make this project a success we should feel very proud of it living in this beautiful vast country I think the easiest way to describe what it means to be Canadian is having a culture that embraces differences and works to take the best of them instead of pushing them away we are a mosaic of cultures that have defined this country and will stay like that for future generations we know we are not perfect but accept that to work every day to strive to do better and to be better together we are better [Music] [Applause] you

Channel: Untold Films

Views: 2,091,346

Rating: 4.8697991 out of 5

Keywords: canada150, canada, 150, documentary, canadian, All Rights reserved, Toronto, Moncton, Calgary, Halifax, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Regina, Moving to, Charlottetown, Quebec, Montreal, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, PEI, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, St. Johns, Labrador, Banff, Gros Morne, Tofino

Id: TYqSUtQk12E

Length: 59min 16sec (3556 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2017

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Didn't watch. Assuming it's Canadians doing what they do best: bragging.