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ReCollections

by Parks Canada
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About the show

Parks Canada is known worldwide as a leader in nature conservation, but we do much more than that. Together with our partners, we commemorate the people, places, and events that have shaped what we now call Canada. Join us to meet experts from across the country, as we explore the sites, stories and artifacts that bring history to life. ReCollections will take you on a journey, coast-to-coast-to-coast, from a Viking Age Norse settlement in Northern Newfoundland to a sacred Haida village site in Gwaii Haanas, where the rainforest meets the wild Pacific Ocean... with many stops in between. Each episode explores new places and stories to help make sense of a complicated past.

Latest episodes

  • Bar U Ranch: Grass Into Money

    February 5, 2026 · 49 min

    For seven decades, the Bar U operated as a corporate ranch, with thousands of cattle fattening up on protein-rich fescue grass in Alberta’s Rocky Mountain foothills. But that grass has a history of its own, co-evolving on this landscape…

  • Waterton Lakes: Archaeology in a Burned Landscape

    January 29, 2026 · 38 min

    In August 2017, a lightning strike near Waterton Lakes National Park sparked a devastating wildfire that burned nearly 40% of the park. But in the wake of destruction came a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We’ll hear from archaeologists…

  • Fort Lennox: The Accidental Immigrants

    January 22, 2026 · 37 min

    In 1930s Europe, thousands of Jewish men and teenagers escaped the Nazi regime as refugees, only to be labelled as “enemy aliens” and sent to internment camps across eastern Canada. One of those camps was at Fort Lennox, an old military…

  • Red Bay: Discovering the Basque Whalers of Terra Nova

    January 15, 2026 · 48 min

    The southern coast of Labrador in the 1500s was the scene of Canada’s first oil boom. Each summer, Basque crews from Spain and France traversed the Atlantic to hunt whales and render their blubber into a precious commodity: oil that lit…

  • ReCollections is back for Season Two

    January 14, 2026 · 3 min

    ReCollections, the award-winning history and archaeology podcast from Parks Canada, is back for Season Two. Four new stories from national parks and national historic sites across Canada: Red Bay: Discovering the Basque Whalers of Terra…

  • Introducing ReCollections: A Parks Canada Podcast

    April 17, 2023 · 2 min

    Join us for a journey of national historic significance.

  • L’Anse aux Meadows: The Saga of Vinland

    April 17, 2023 · 29 min

    Travel back to the Viking Age to uncover the remnants of a thousand-year-old Norse encampment. We’ll hear about their incredible journey from Greenland to northern Newfoundland from a diverse group of experts including historians…

  • Dawson City: A Ruby in the Rough

    April 17, 2023 · 35 min

    Welcome to Ruby's Place in Dawson City, Yukon, “the Paris of the North.” Through the remarkable lives of Madam Ruby Scott and her employees, we’ll hear about Dawson’s Gold Rush heyday and the boom/bust cycle of both the mining and sex work…