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Nova Scotia

60 min

Baffin Island

60 min

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60 min

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Vancouver Island

60 min

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60 min

Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World

TV Series

20091h6.8

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Vancouver Island

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Mar 12, 2009

As Billy nears the end of his 10,000 mile journey he heads even further south towards Vancouver Island through the isolated White Pass Mountains which are below freezing for most of the year. He learns how literally to stake a claim on a piece of the Yukon, goes hunting for a moose, sees a bear in the wild, takes part in a Native American sweat lodge ceremony, hangs out with some real cowboys and fulfils an ambition to fall a tree. Billy starts the final leg of his journey meeting mineral prospector, Shawn Ryder, who studies geological data to predict where lucrative mineral deposits might be. He then stakes a claim on these pieces of land for mining. Shawn shows Billy how to do this by making a post from a tree before signing and dating it and putting it in the ground. This can be sold to the highest bidder if minerals are subsequently found.

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Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World

TV Series

20091h6.8

Documentary

Now playing

Vancouver Island

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Mar 12, 2009

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