Canada's Volcanoes: The Cradle of Life | Full Documentary | TRACKS

Our adventurers explore volcanism across BC while visiting the volcanic plateau of Mount Edziza, hiking Black Tusk Mountain, and flying over Mount Garibaldi and more.

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[jbrobertson]

I was an Oiler/Marine Engineer on the Canadian ship Endeavor an Ocean Research/Defense Research Ship it was us who discovered the Endeavor Ridge and Vents

[mariapereira]

So very poetic way to describe the box canyon. Thanks for the beautiful documentary..

[Luluwien]

Ooooh, i envy people who live there!
I enjoyed watching this beautiful nature, with all the History behind it.
My home country is Austria, we have just those boring Alps around.😄
All my thumps up for Canada🎉❤👣

[rikkispencephoto]

You are quite right about eruption potential.. All cascade volcanos are in various stages of reactivating.

[mariapereira]

Thank you for the great documentary, I learned so much from it. Our Earth is indeed stunningly beautiful. 👍

[t-bonejones]

Mt. Garibaldi is not the northernmost Cascade volcano.
Mt Meager is

[jacquelinezwahlen]

I would have liked to take part in this hike too. Beautiful!

[jbrobertson]

Hey thanks for the video its an awesome program I'm on Vancouver Island and I didn't realize that we had that many volcanoes in BC

[eyetrollin]

I spent a month of my life being up close and personal with mount edziza.

So unbelievably amazing.

And sad that most people don't even know it exists

[knossos]

I cruise through the rockies regularily, Western Canada is home to me. All of this fascinates me. This is a great quality video that really captures the imagination, how matter evrywhere in and on this earth continues to form and change, and just how massive these plates are that we sit on. It's awesome, it really is. Love learning good science, thank you.

[marinareynolds]

Thank you 🙏🏻 very mucho ✊🫂for your extraordinary knowledgeable content ✊💋🙏🏻

[Wutzmename]

I just love this video. Where I live in Ridgecrest California we experience thousands of micro earthquakes a year due to the volcanic activity in the area. We also have a bunch of tectonic plates and faults in the area as well. The largest earthquake I have ever experienced in my 47 years of living was here back in July 4 and 5th 2019. 6.5 and a 7.1 respectively. The crust moved so fast that parked vehicles appeared to move as if they were accelerating from a standing stop. I've been through so many earthquakes in California that it's hard to count them.

[seitisetsoh]

Really interesting, I didn't even know we had volcanoes in Canada, much less so close to where I lived! I wonder if it was because they would have had to talk about the tribes that lived in the area? We barely covered any of the tribes of Canada, other than the ones important to the first settlers. Buuut, I also lived in a poorer town, so maybe it was just a resource thing

[GFYYT]

Awesome content.
💡 would building a mountain of dirt between the volcano and town work?
Can be done ... control the flow of lava

[toddvanderheyden]

So did all water on surface of present day come from magma in volcanoes?

[just_kos]

Props for saying "Juan de Fuca" the way the natives of BC, WA, OR and CA call it! (Granted, it's not the CORRECT way to say it, per español, but still....)

[Levchukkostya]

I hiked up to Garibaldi last year. Had no idea it was a volcanoe...

[bonnieballew]

The most fertile soil seems to be close to volcanoes. Italy for example.

[learning-chinese-online]

what’s the last background music name？

[frankperino]

It’s interesting! I live in Toronto…we have no volcanoes 🌋, but in the earlt eighties I was lying in bed my whole room started to shake…we had an earthquake!