Fishing For History

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Upcoming episodes

Jul 13th
600a

Bigfoot, Big Spurs

Steamship dreams and Bigfoot legends collide in Jefferson, Texas.
Jul 13th
300p

Ferryland

The boys visit Sir George Calvert's historic Colony of Avalon, the best-preserved English Colony in North America dating back to 1621. Searching for backyard treasures of the colonists and digging for traces of their extinct Beothuk neighbours, has the boys uncover the secrets of life in the 17th century.
Jul 14th
600a

Chaffey's Lock

The boys head out to the UNESCO world heritage site of the Rideau Canal and explore the waters around one of the last hand operated locks in North America. The promise of stolen barrels of silver have them excited to see what is in the water and buried under ground!
Jul 14th
300p

Steamboat Arabia Museum

The boys head south to the home of Barbeque, Jazz and the Steamboat Arabia Museum, the largest collection of intact pre-civil war artifacts in the world hoping to snag some sunken pioneer treasures.
Jul 15th
600a

Thames River

The banks of the Thames River in Ontario, was the site of the American won Battle of Moraviantown which saw the defeat of the British and their Indigenous allies during the war of 1812. Known to be the burial site of fallen Shawnee leader Tecumseh, after more than 11,000 years of human settlement these banks may have more than secrets for the boys to unearth.
Jul 15th
300p

River Quay Market

The arrival of the mafia to the Kansas River Quay Market area brought with it prostitution, drugs, gambling and eventually a little murder. The boys go fishing for mafia mementos to see who else if anyone is swimming with the fishes.
Jul 16th
600a

Assiniboine River Breweries

Shea and McDonough, Drewery and Blackwood, names synonymous with the late 19th century Winnipeg micro-brewery scene. Add bootlegging, mini golf and a pair of legendary Clydesdales and magnet fishing for the boys gets a lot more fun.
Jul 16th
300p

Cape Canaveral

The boys blast off to Cape Canaveral Florida on a scouting mission to the American Space Museum, the sky may just be the limit as to what cosmic debris they can attract or unearth from both the waters off the coast and the ancient settlements below the launchpad in their never-ending quest to stump Tobin. Either way the discoveries will be out of this world!
Jul 17th
600a

Frank Slide

Dateline 1903, 4:10am One of the largest and deadliest rock slides in Canadian history nearly buried the mining town including its local bank. In the years after, a legend of $500,000 lost bank notes floated around and the boys will sift through the records to see if they can recover it.
Jul 17th
300p

The Hunt for T-33

Searching Lake Winnipeg for wreckage of a Cold War jet crash, leading to a tribute idea.