After posting about the documentary Pioneer Quest last week several of you chimed in recommend I watch Quest For the Bay. “Quest For The Bay follows an eight-person volunteer team as they attempted to recreate the journey made by fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company during the 1840s by travelling from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. The trip covered a distance of 800 miles and took the team though the heart of the Canadian wilderness.”
Well, I did… and aside from one too many shots of men’s bums as they jumped into the water, it was AWESOME. 🙂 It’s free on Amazon Prime and totally worth your time!
Let me know what you think if you decide to watch it–or if you have already seen it.
Peace out Girl Scouts & have yourself a great weekend,
~Mavis
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Marcia says
I am on episode two or three. I agree about the bums. I use it to put my 4 year old to sleep.
It’s also on Hulu if you’ve got that.
I don’t think I could do the pemmican. Yucky.
AlysonRR says
I watched it a while ago and thought it was very interesting, particularly all the portaging and how much effort it all took!
There’s Klondike: Quest for the Gold, but I found it the least interesting of the three. I didn’t like the reenactors and thought the men treated the one woman unfairly. There was not much of the “fun” these series usually have. Probably that makes it historically appropriate!
Lisbeth says
I live in Winnipeg. I haven’t watched Pioneer Quest yet but I remember when it came out. I think it’s pretty cool that you are watching this. I’ll add it to my list of movies to watch. 😉
Cheri says
If you enjoy this kind of show, you might like the PBS shows from the ’90s (I think): Frontier House, 1940s House, Manor House, 1900s house, and Colonial House. They took ordinary modern people from different walks of life and trained them to live according to the setting they would be “experiencing.” Then they placed them in a pseudo-setting from one of the eras above and had them live that live for a few months. It was really interesting. For Frontier House, for example, the participants had to create a homestead just like Pa Ingalls would have. One of the families was very wealthy and real life, and it was interesting to see how they viewed the world and their lives after they got back home.
Cheri says
Sorry, just caught my typo mistakes and can’t correct them. Hope all that made sense.