Special DVD features: Canadian History Trivia Quiz; making history documentary on the making of the series; additional documentary footage; web site links; interactive menu; chapter indexing.

Based on: Canada: a people's history / Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon.

v. 1. disc 1. When the world began. Adventurers & mystics; Disc 2. Special features -- v. 2. disc 1. Claiming the wilderness. Battle for a continent; disc 2. Special features -- v. 3. disc 1. A question of loyalties. Special features -- v. 4. disc 1. The pathfinders; disc 2. Rebellion & reform -- v. 5. disc 1. The great enterprise; disc. 2. From sea to sea -- v. 6. disc 1. Special documentary edition -- v. 7. disc 1. Taking the west; disc 2. The great transformation -- v. 8. disc 1. Ordeal by fire; disc 2. Hard times -- v. 9. disc 1. Special documentary edition; disc 2. Original soundtrack -- v.10. disc 1. The crucible; disc 2. Comfort and fear -- v.11. disc 1. Years of hope and anger; disc 2. In an uncertain world -- v.12. Special documentary edition.

CBC Home Video ; senior producers, Gordon Henderson, Hubert Gendron ; director of research, Gene Allen ; editorial director, Louis Martin ; conceived and produced by Mark Starowicz.

Narrator, Maggie Huculak.

This television series tells the history and prehistory of Canada,with dramatic recreations of historical events and including many hours of archival footage, documentary evidence from the native Canadians through British and French settlers to modern times.

DVD; widescreen letterbox version (1.33:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Digital stereo.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.