Monday, April 13th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel Canada HD
World's Most Scenic River Journeys The Potomac
Navigating the historic Potomac River from West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay, passing through Washington, D.C. and the national monuments and ending at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.
Cosmic Vistas The Milky Way
Exploring the Milky Way from the mythology of ancient sky watchers to how scientists are mapping it from the inside out.
Canada 1812: Forged in Fire Laura Secord
With her husband wounded, Laura Secord sets out to warn the British of a possible American attack.
Extreme Weather Salvage The Moment of Truth
A salvage maestro returns to raise more valuable tropical hardwood trying not to wreck his own boat in the process; the multimillion dollar operation to salvage America's biggest shipwreck.
Learn if a perfect storm of drought, earthquakes, and disease made cities fall.
WWII Battles in Color Barbarossa
Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.
Air Warriors Stuka Dive Bomber
A look at the rise and fall of the infamous Nazi dive bomber Ju-87 Stuka, an aircraft of World War II.
Untold Arctic Wars Race for the North
The German war industry urgently needs more iron; Hitler has his eye on the Norwegian coast and especially on the harbor of Narvik, through which iron ore is shipped from Sweden.
Untold Arctic Wars Northern Iron Curtain
A different view of the events in the Arctic during World War II, with unknown details; a focus on the struggle of the great powers for control of the area and its natural resources.
Learn if a perfect storm of drought, earthquakes, and disease made cities fall.
How Did They Fix That? UPS Worldport
Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky; two million packages go through here every day.
How Did They Build That? Parking & Sparkling
A dazzling new 1400 foot tapering skyscraper is built right next to New York's Grand Central. A curving wine museum requires ingenious engineering in Bordeaux, France. And possibly the world's most glamorous parking garage.
Extreme Airport Africa Close Encounters Of The Bird Kind
A skilled canine team tracks birds disrupting Africa's busiest airport. Mechanics race to fix a cargo hauler for the largest bush airline. Helicopter pilots meet ships near the Cape of Good Hope, while flying doctors deliver life-saving surgery.
Ice Airport Alaska Shivering Timbers
A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career; a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style; two bald eagles hitch a first-class ride.
Aerial Mexico The Industrious Highlands
In Mexico's North, ancient runners defy impossible distances and living fossils reveal Earth's secrets; from Monterrey's industrial city to Guanajuato's revolutionary past, discover how mighty mountains forge unbreakable spirit.
Extreme Airport Africa Close Encounters Of The Bird Kind
A skilled canine team tracks birds disrupting Africa's busiest airport. Mechanics race to fix a cargo hauler for the largest bush airline. Helicopter pilots meet ships near the Cape of Good Hope, while flying doctors deliver life-saving surgery.
Ice Airport Alaska Shivering Timbers
A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career; a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style; two bald eagles hitch a first-class ride.
Aerial Mexico The Industrious Highlands
In Mexico's North, ancient runners defy impossible distances and living fossils reveal Earth's secrets; from Monterrey's industrial city to Guanajuato's revolutionary past, discover how mighty mountains forge unbreakable spirit.
Extreme Airport Africa Close Encounters Of The Bird Kind
A skilled canine team tracks birds disrupting Africa's busiest airport. Mechanics race to fix a cargo hauler for the largest bush airline. Helicopter pilots meet ships near the Cape of Good Hope, while flying doctors deliver life-saving surgery.
Ice Airport Alaska Shivering Timbers
A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career; a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style; two bald eagles hitch a first-class ride.
Aerial Mexico The Industrious Highlands
In Mexico's North, ancient runners defy impossible distances and living fossils reveal Earth's secrets; from Monterrey's industrial city to Guanajuato's revolutionary past, discover how mighty mountains forge unbreakable spirit.
Extreme Airport Africa Close Encounters Of The Bird Kind
A skilled canine team tracks birds disrupting Africa's busiest airport. Mechanics race to fix a cargo hauler for the largest bush airline. Helicopter pilots meet ships near the Cape of Good Hope, while flying doctors deliver life-saving surgery.
World's Most Scenic River Journeys The Yukon
A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers.
Mysteries From Above From Far Above
A perfect circle carved around an ancient peak; a scary phenomenon in the Pacific; strange shapes in a Middle Eastern desert; a formation below the ocean's surface.
Extreme Weather Salvage Bladerunner
The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull.