For those who don’t know, CBC TV’s Land & Sea is a half-hour documentary show running stories of Atlantic history and culture, running Sundays at noon. In the past months they’ve aired “The Last Sardine Outpost” about North America’s only remaining sardine cannery in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick and “Rum Running,” about prohibition-era run trade between Atlantic Canada and the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
This Sunday, March 4 at noon, Land & Sea will air “Pirates and Privateers,” which introduces the viewer to several notorious pirates who pillaged Atlantic Canada and looks into the practise of privateering. The story “recalls the blunderbuss, the cutlass, evil deeds, and supposed buried treasure,” according to the press release.
If you can’t watch the show on Sunday, go to cbc.ca/landandsea after the broadcast time to see the doc and other recent programs available to be watched at your convenience.
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.
Regarding the Pirate & Privateer documentary on CBC.
Piracy and Privateering is alive and well in North America.
Our company, Loyalist Arms & Repairs Ltd. (Halifax), has been supplying pirates and privateers with armaments, coins, cannons, nautical instruments and clothing for years. The pirates we supply are the REEL ones, not the real ones.
Our products have been used on all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, as well as Master & Commander, not to mention thousands of pirate and privateer reencators worldwide.
Piracy and privateering is still big business, especially in the Maritimes.
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