North America: Growth of a Continent

North America: Growth of a Continent was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario

TVOntario

TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...

in 1980-81. The series was narrated by Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...

Episodes

"From the Beginning"
"Mapping the Land"
"Patterns and Climates"
"Vegetation and Soil"
"Then Came Man"
"Tilling the Land"
"Logging the Land"
"Harvesting the Sea"
"From the Ground Up"
"The Fossil Storehouse"
"The Search for Power"
"The Man-Made World"
"Delivering the Goods"

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