Free Canadian Proxy for Ice Pilots?

I’ve just been watching a really good program on the History Channel called the Ice Pilots. It’s on the Canadian site as I couldn’t find it on the other versions of the History channel. At the moment in the UK, the whole country has ground to a halt because of the staggeringly low temperatures of just below zero! Anyway, this is a reality show with pilots from a company called Buffalo Airways flying in rather cooler temperatures – excellent show.

What is the Ice Pilots show about ?

Ice Pilots NWT is a Canadian reality television series that follows the daily operations of Buffalo Airways, an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The series follows the pilots, mechanics and ground crew as they fly vintage WWII-era aircraft over the Arctic. It focuses on the extreme weather, dangerous flying conditions and the unique personalities of the pilots as they battle to keep the airline in the air.

Proxies for Canadian TV Outside Canada

The reason I came across this show was I was asked if Identity Cloaker would allow access from outside Canada. Yep, the Canadian History channel blocks everyone who doesn’t have a Canadian IP address. It’s our old friend geotargeting again, seems to be every web site you visit sometimes.  It’s something very familiar to Tv fans all over the world.  Millions of people however use a proxy in the corresponding country to bypass these issues. SO, you can use UK proxies to watch British TV, US ones to watch American TV channels and so on.

I know Identity Cloaker has some Canadian proxies so thought I’d check to see if I could access the series from outside Canada. In truth it was another excuse for me to play with my video capture software which I’m slowly beginning to understand.

Anyway, here’s the instructions for Identity Cloaker users, just click play to watch the video instructions.

Watching History Channel via Canadian Proxy

Hope this video explains it better. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to use a free Canadian Proxy as the flash player won’t work properly with just a proxy. You’d have to find or set up a VPN tunnel to a PC or server based in Canada and surf through that.