The Search for Vikings - St. Anthony's, Newfoundland

We check out Newfoundland's whaling and Viking history up in the northern part of Newfoundland and southern part of Labrador. We travel across the Strait of Belle Isle to visit Red Bay National Historic Site of Canada, where the archaeological remnants of twenty whaling stations have been unearthed over the last 15 years. We then explore another National Historic Site, L'Anse aux Meadows, where we learn of the early Viking history of this area, and also of the early Dorset Eskimos who made their camps along the southern shore of the bay. We visit with a young air cadet boy who is obsessed with building and flying planes. Jay tells us about the differences between the landscape and life in both Newfoundland and Labrador and why the largest percent of the population lives in Newfoundland. In Jay's Gee! Ology he explains why icebergs, which can weigh several hundred tonnes, float.