Producers: Summerhill Entertainment

As Jamie and Jennifer arrive in Canada’s largest city, they quickly realize it’s a wild place, full of animals, trees and nature! Meeting up with 11 year-old bird watcher Sydney Peck, they visit with Michael Mesure, director of the Fatal Light Awareness Programme (FLAP). FLAP is trying to help prevents birds from flying into the city’s sky-scrapers and gives the kids some tips on what they can do for the city’s birds. Sydney suggests they pay a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum, where her Ornithologist father can tell them what good can come from birds that are killed in the city. The R.O.M. operates a “bug room,” a place where 100,000 dermestid beetles are used to clean the carcasses of dead animals. The skeletons can be used for research and collections in museums around the world.

Visiting one of the natural world’s greatest attractions, Niagara Falls, Jamie and Jennifer soon realize there’s a lot more to the area. Philip Wylie’s family has been growing grapes in the area for over 100 years. This 13 year-old helps out on his family’s vineyard and shows Jamie and Jennifer the ins and outs of grape production. They learn that this area is one of Canada’s most important fruit growing regions, a result of its situation between the Niagara Escarpment and two Great Lakes. Philip takes the hosts to Fernland Vineyards, where they sample some fizzy grape juice and learn how it’s made.

Jamie and Jennifer arrive in Toronto to learn about its cultural diversity. In 1971 Canada was the first nation in the world to adopt a multiculturalism policy. Nowhere is this more clearly reflected than in Toronto. In order to visit as many different communities as possible, Jamie and Jennifer split up. Jamie explores Kensington Market, an area long frequented by many nationalities, with 11-year-old Aisa Saho. She’s half-Greek and half-Gambian. Her father owns an African art and drum store, where Aisa helps out on weekends. Aisa joins in on a drumming session in the store. Meanwhile, in Little India, 10-year-old Chandni Singh and her mum show Jennifer how to wear a sari. They talk about how they incorporate their Sikh and Punjabi heritage into their lives in Canada

Jamie and Jennifer explore a winter wonderland: Ontario’s Algonquin Park and surrounding area. The park is one of the largest in Ontario, covering 7725 square kilometres. It was established over a hundred years ago as a wildlife sanctuary. It sits on the Canadian Shield, a geological region that covers almost 5 million km2 and gives the park its distinctive vegetation and mineral make-up. 13-year-old Sarah Gunter is going to teach the pair how to get around the park in winter: by dogsled. First she shows them how to care for and transport the dogs. Heading out on the trails, they explore the area a little, looking for animal tracks, and enjoying the natural beauty of the park.

In the series opener, Jamie and Jennifer head to the Grand Manan Island, located in the Bay of Fundy. The island was formed millions of years ago, when a volcano erupted, the lava cooled and formed the western half of the island. Its people have close ties to the ocean. A local, 15 year-old Jesse Lloyd, teaches them to dulse by harvesting edible seaweed from the island’s rocks. Then it’s all aboard with some lucky kids on the floatable Whale Camp, to explore the Bay of Fundy and search for the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.

In this episode, Jamie and Jennifer explore the Miramichi region of central New Brunswick. Renowned for its extensive river system, thick forests and annual salmon run, the hosts jump right in – literally. They meet up with Terry McAllistair, an 11 year old living along the banks of the north west branch of the Miramichi. Terri is a canoe enthusiast who gives the hosts a fun lesson in canoeing. She even teaches them a few tricks!

Jamie and Jennifer are exploring Nova Scotia’s eastern island, Cape Breton. Everywhere they go, they see how the region’s Gaelic culture mixes with its natural history. Arriving in Sydney, the hosts meet Kelsey MacNeil, who shows them a thing or two about step dancing at a traditional Ceilidh on the docks. Kelsey lives on the banks of Bras d’Or Lake, one of the world’s only inland seas, and after some kayaking with their young friend, the hosts press on to meet up with Eugene Eagle Denny. Eugene is a sixth generation Mi’kmaq medicine man, who is also an eagle conservation expert. He explains why the area has such a large population of bald eagles, and what their spiritual significance is to the First Nations people of the island.

A bicycle adventure takes Jamie and Jennifer through the beautiful countryside of Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island. The island’s soil, rich in iron oxide, make agriculture one of the most important industries on the island. Wanting to learn more, the hosts enlist the help of Kyle Jewell, a 14-year-old dairy farmer. He’s competing at the annual 4H Rural Youth Fair. Jamie and Jennifer have fun learning how to care for all sorts of animals, before heading back to Kyle’s family farm to hear about what’s involved with running a dairy farm.

Located in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, Quebec’s Les Îles de la Madeleine are the destination on this episode. The islands are mostly French-speaking, but a small Anglophone minority, including 14-year-old Terry Lapierre also make their home here. Terry joins Jennifer and Jamie in a body-surfing expedition of the seaside caves, before taking them out on his family’s boat, to learn how to fish for Mackerel, just one of the fish caught off the Islands. The hosts soon realize that fishing is the island’s most important industry.