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Springhill Junction to Moncton

Michael Portillo travels from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. He appears to defy gravity on Magnetic Hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville.

Clutching his 1899 copy of Appleton's Guide to Canada, Michael Portillo travels on the Ocean train from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick. Along the way he investigates the world's biggest tide at Hopewell Rocks and admires its dramatic rock formations and caves.

He apparently defies gravity on Magnetic Hill in a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. North of Moncton in Miramichi, he joins the Elsipogtog First Nation in a pow wow, where he learns about quilting and traditional dress. In Amherst, Michael investigates the history of an ambitious ship railway designed to ferry ships by rail over the Isthmus between the Bay of Fundy and the Northumberland Strait. And he quarries highly prized Wallace sandstone for a 150-year-old family firm.

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Role Contributor
Presenter Michael Portillo
Series Editor Alison Kreps
Director Dave Minchin
Production Company FremantleMedia

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