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Thread #43380   Message #633197
Posted By: GUEST,petr
22-Jan-02 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: quest for the bay
Subject: quest for the bay
there have been some recent discussions on the Mark Twain documentary. Has anyone seen the Quest for the Bay. its rather like a Canadian 'Survivor' but rather than pitting people against each other and doing pointless tasks, it was designed to recreate a piece of history, namely a 19th century York Boat journey from Winnipeg to York Factory in Northern Manitoba. there is a crew of 8 people, whose task is to take a York boat (a 19th century fur trading boat), with several tons of cargo 1500 km up lake Winnipeg and the rivers to York Factory on the Hudsons Bay coast. The crew are only allowed to have the same gear, clothing that the real Yorkmen had a 150 years ago. Unlike survivor the crew has to figure out ways to work together to accomplish their task. Its full of beautiful Manitoba landscape, (replete with black flies) and wonderful fiddle accompaniment. (I wish they had listed the name of the fiddler) it was on the History channnel (History.ca) is the website I think Just curious if anyone saw it and what they thought of it. (I never actually watched the original survivor but this was far more interesting.) Petr