Agency - English program:.North West Centre. Agency:.Produced by Shining Mountains Film Production Ltd. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, History Television, National Film Board of Canada, National Geographic Canada, with the participation of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Banff Centre, the CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund, and the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry.

Director, Guy Clarkson ; producer, Guy Clarkson ; executive producer, Michael Kot, Graydon McCrea ; producer, Bonnie Thompson ; camera, Guy Clarkson, René J. Collins, Glen Crawford, Bob Landis, Patrick Morrow, Douglas Munro, Art Raham, Roger Vernon, A.J. Vesak ; editor, Paul Mortimer ; music, Bruce Leitl ; writer, Guy Clarkson, P.J. Reece ; sound recordist, Margot McMaster, Larry MacDonald, Mike Myrden, Igal Petel ; animation, Richard Hertle ; graphics, Louise Overy, Pierre Landry, Gaspard Gaudreau ; research, Bonnie Hamilton, Robert Sandford, Holly Quan, Jon Whelan ; consultant, Douglas Chadwick, Wayne Choquette, Mike Demuth, Ted Hart, Kim Heinemeyer, Harvey Locke, Brian Luckman, Marty Magne, Dan McCarthy, Brian Patton, Stephen Pyne, Brian Reeves, Robert Sandford, David Schindler, Douglas Smith, Henry, Jr. Vaux ; supervising sound editor, Patrick Butler, André Gagnon ; sound editor, Bennett Suba, Cory Gray ; foley, Bennett Suba, Cory Gray ; re-recording mixer, Patrick Butler, Cory Gray, Luc Léger.

Recorded 2005.

How did the world discover the Rockies? To find out, Guy Clarkson follows in the footsteps of the earliest European visitors. They arrived by canoe and by horse and dogteam to expand their fur trading empires as far as the Pacific Ocean. The Rockies were at first nothing more than a barrier to be conquered. Game trails that had become footpaths became roads and a railway that not only consolidated business but unified a country. On those first CPR trains came esaterners armed with easels and cameras and climbing gear. Wilderness became like a religion for the affluent, and their evangelizing informed the world of an all-too-accessible Shangri-La. Clarkson joins modern-day adventurers and historians to relive how the earliest visitors reveled in a Land of Riches. It's a journey by dogteam, locomotive, canoe and climbing party to the roof of the Canadian Rockies. From there, Clarkson can almost see forever, and that's the problem. The future is cause for concern.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).