Zig Zag: Canada
Canada is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s & 1990s, covering geography for primary school pupils.
Paul Coia takes a journey across Canada, from Toronto to British Columbia, reporting on modern and historical aspects of life, including the building of the railways, gold mining, lumberjacking and log birling, Totem Poles, and the beaver.
Episode List
# | Title | Broadcast |
---|---|---|
1. | The Railway | 9 Mar 1987 |
2. | A Tale of Two Cities | 16 Mar 1987 |
3. | Timber | 23 Mar 1987 |
4. | Wildlife | 30 Mar 1987 |
Broadcasts
Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1986-87 | Spring 1987 | Monday, 11:00am | Wednesday, 2:15pm | BBC2 | ||||
1989-90 | Spring 1990 | Monday, 11:00am | Wednesday, 1:40pm | BBC2 |
Credits
Presenter | Paul Coia |
Resources
There were teacher's notes and a project book (called The Canadians) available.
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- Zig Zag: The EskimosZig Zag looked at the life of Inuit people in Canada a few years earlier.
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