Shining Mountains - Land of Riches

How did the world discover the Rockies? In this documentary, Guy Clarkson follows in the footsteps of the earliest European visitors to find out. The newcomers 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.

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Film Credit

director
Guy Clarkson
producer
Guy Clarkson
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

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