Comments on: Visions® of Canada

By: Bob Gordon

Bob Gordon — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:20:39 +0000

Shame on you. As an American who spent 44 days in Saskatchewan and visited Manitoba and Thunder Bay in Ontario, I was disappointed in watching Visions Canada and having the two provences omitted and Western Ontario. We even visited Newfoundland, where was it?

By: Tim Whelan

Tim Whelan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:09 +0000

Other problems with Visions of Canada
While visiting Montreal, the narrator says:
“Not long ago Canada and Quebec were actually part of the British Commonwealth.”
OK – so you don’t now what the British Commonwealth is or that Canada is, and always has been, a member.
A list of commonwealth countries:
http://www.workpermit.com/uk/commonwealth_countries.htm
Lets put this in terms that might apply to the USA
“Not long ago the USA was actually part of NATO.”
Yes, it is that stupid.

OTHER ISSUES
Rather than saying that Canada is “one of the largest countries in the world” would it not be more informative to say “Canada is the second largest country in the world?”

If a documentary made by the BBC described Washington as “surprisingly modern” (as this program describes Ottawa) would you think the BBC:
a) condescending, or
b) ignorant

Pronouncing Saskatchewan is admittedly difficult but the version employed in this program is entirely new.

That’s all – I fast forwarded through the rest.

Hard to get good research help – try the Internet.

By: BP

BP — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:33:36 +0000

I too was disappointed that the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan were totally left out. There is so much to see when you leave Toronto and before you arrive in Calgary. What a disservice to the people of not only Canada but to the viewers. Manitoba has 100.000 lakes, the Capital city of Winnipeg has so much heritage to show. 20 minutes north of the city is Lower Fort Garry just to mention a couple of things.

By: ta

ta — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:50:08 +0000

I noted a number of factual errors for the portions dealing with my part of the country, leaving me wondering how accurate the rest of the information given is.

For example:
-there is certainly no ferry from Canada Place in downtown Vancouver to Vancouver Island
-the Queen whose statue is found on the grounds of the legislature in Victoria is not Queen Elizabeth II, but Queen Victoria (imagine that!)

I also doubt the proposition that Victoria was chosen over the “metropolis” of Vancouver as provincial capitial as this occurred before the railway arrived later that century. I have not researched the point, but would not be surprised to find that Victoria’s population was greater at the time.

In short, the lack of fact checking in this documentary is deplorable.

By: Steve Czajka

Steve Czajka — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:56:32 +0000

Hi,

While I have not seen this particular video (Canada) I have seen many others on HDNet. Your team does absolutely Amazing Work! Please make more.

If you are looking for a calligrapher to provide personalized titles for each place name check out my work at:

http://steveczajka.posterous.com

Thanks
Steve

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:29:29 +0000

Visions of Canada-when will that be shown again?

By: ER Weidman

ER Weidman — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:25:38 +0000

There are 1700 miles between Toronto and Calgary. Nothing from this 1700 miles appears in your “sites visited”.
Also, nothing in the sites mentioned is from the 90% of Canada which lies more than 150 miles north of the US border.
A rather limited “vision”.