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BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part one

BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part one

Part one this week of an epic Canadian road trip like no other to the Great White North with a look at the rise of Canadianism
BACK ROADS BILL: Different views of who’s howl

BACK ROADS BILL: Different views of who’s howl

Bill says this winter there seems to be a good many wolves out on the back roads, and through a Wolf ID 101 explains the current state of who thinks what
BACK ROADS BILL: White Otter Castle

BACK ROADS BILL: White Otter Castle

This week Bill takes us on a back roads’ winter tour of a northern Ontario log cabin like no other
BACK ROADS BILL: Snowshoeing, heritage activity in a modern context

BACK ROADS BILL: Snowshoeing, heritage activity in a modern context

This week, Bill invites us to go snowshoeing with a primer on a truly winter heritage activity
BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train - Part two

BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train - Part two

This week in part two of two stories Bill does a repeat on the Budd car – a train ride through a winter wonderland and more for many different reasons
BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train, part 1

BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train, part 1

This week, in part one, of two installments, Bill does a repeat on the Budd car – a train ride through a winter wonderland and more
BACK ROADS BILL: Winter ice roads

BACK ROADS BILL: Winter ice roads

This week Bill is out and about on the north’s ice roads
BACK ROADS BILL: Winter with dogs

BACK ROADS BILL: Winter with dogs

This week Bill shows us there are lots of things to do with your dog on the back roads in winter
BACK ROADS BILL: shares significance of 'People of the Watershed'

BACK ROADS BILL: shares significance of 'People of the Watershed'

This week, Bill tells us about John Macfie, a settler who travelled the Hudsons Bay watershed in the 50s and 60s capturing images of life in isolated northern Indigenous communities - and about a travelling exhibit of his photos curated by Paul Seesequasis
BACK ROADS BILL: Field guide to dumb birds

BACK ROADS BILL: Field guide to dumb birds

This week Bill looks at a different sort of field guide for bird identification on the back roads