2011 Canada and the North Cover Photo © Andrew Stewart, 2009

Eagle-Eye Tours Eagle-Eye 4711 Galena St., Windermere, British Columbia, Canada V0B 2L2 Tours 1-800-373-5678 | www.Eagle-Eye.com | [email protected] Travel with Vision 2011 Canada and the North Cover photo © Andrew Stewart, 2009

Dear Adventurers,

In 2011, we at Eagle-Eye Tours are delighted to present another series of outstanding voyages. Every single one will not only bring you to places of beauty and importance, but will connect you to them. Through the summer season we have the great thrill of exploring the mighty North Atlantic. We’ll range all the way from the cities of Scotland through the Outer Hebrides, north around the ancient settlements of Orkney and Shetland, and end up in St. Andrews, where we’ll help the University celebrate its 600th anniversary. Then there’s unforgettable Iceland, and beyond lies the world’s largest island, Greenland, where we’ll watch giant icebergs calve and meet with the Greenlandic people. Further West, in the Canadian Arctic, or in rugged Labrador or music-filled Newfoundland, we’re on home ground, with expeditions that take us from Inuit art centres like Baffin Island’s Kinngait (Cape Dorset) all the way to The Northwest Passage.

Our itineraries are thoughtfully designed to include areas of exceptional splendour, optimal wildlife viewing and historical significance. Our teams of experts – geologists, botanists, biologists, anthropologists and historians, as well as artists in words, music, painting and more – are there to make sure that we’ll all learn a lot, gaining insight into both the natural and the cultural landscape. Everywhere we go, we make a point of mingling with the local people, since we know that learning, fun and interaction are the great joys of travel. On our cruises we’re committed to providing ample opportunities for each of these elements, and much more. When you return home, your friends will be amazed by the memories that you’ve stored up, in one short cruise.

For nearly 15 years we’ve been exploring special places. We’ve enjoyed sharing them, and the local people we have met on our journeys of discovery, with our guests. We’d like to thank all of our guests for their endless appetite for discovery, learning and fun. As you continue to pursue your own adventures in life we hope that you will think of us.

Yours in adventure, Eagle-Eye

Cam Gillies and Richard Knapton Directors, Eagle-Eye Tours ToursTravel with Vision © Larry Frank, 2010 Cover photo © Andrew Stewart, 2009

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www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca Celtic Quest: A Voyage Through the Scottish Isles Celtic Quest: Voyage through the Scottish Isles 6 Art on the Rock with Kevin Major 52 The Canadian-Scottish Connection 11 The Clipper Adventurer 53 TableGardens Great & Small:of Pre-tour Contents 13 The Ocean Nova 54 Iceland & Greenland 14 The Clipper Odyssey 55 Four Billion Years of Earth History 19 The Trans-Siberian Express 56 Into the Northwest Passage 20 Explore Eastern Newfoundland 58 Walking in Ancient Footsteps 25 Newfoundland Close-Up 59 Out of the Northwest Passage 26 British Columbia’s Coast Mountains 60 Heart of the Arctic 30 Haida Gwaii: The Queen Charlotte Islands 61 Some Thoughts on Inuit Art 35 Pond Inlet: Floe Edge 62 Greenland & Wild Labrador 38 2011 Rates 64 The Land God Gave to Cain 43 2012 Rates 65 About the Arts Float 45 Coming Attractions 66 Newfoundland Circumnavigation 46 Registration Form 67 Exploring Rural Newfoundland 51 Terms & Conditions 68

Adventure Canada specializes in soft adventure programs, where you can experience the best of the natural world while enjoying the comforts of a friendly hotel. Our program features outdoor activities such as walking, wildlife viewing and Zodiac cruising in addition to a full lecture and entertainment schedule onboard our ship. Every day we offer a combination of lively shipboard activities and interesting shore excursions. Our guests choose what elements of the program they want to participate in, with nothing compulsory. It’s up to you! Iceland & Greenland How fit do you need to be? Our excursions onshore will involve a relatively low level of exertion, but you will need a reasonable level of Into the Northwest Passage mobility. For example,you will need to climb into and out of Zodiacs (assistance is provided) for excursions onshore, and some of our landings will be ‘wet’, requiring waterproof boots. All of our participants must complete a medical form verified by their physician. Once Out of the Northwest Passage you have left the Zodiac, you’ll find that we have designed our shore excursions to accommodate both those who wish to enjoy gentle Heart of the Arctic strolls and those who prefer more active hikes. A few of the excursions may involve rough terrain, with rocky beaches leading to steep or rocky or marshy ground. Greenland & Wild Labrador In the seasons we travel, temperatures will vary, according to our altitude on land, or our ship’s position at sea. Itineraries are subject to change, and landings may depend on tides or weather, so, as with all outdoor activities, a flexible approach works best. Newfoundland Circumnavigation When you register we will provide you with a complete list of recommended clothing, essentials to bring, and a suggested reading list. You will also receive a detailed booklet to help prepare you for your adventure. It includes information on the ship and a brief history of your destination, along with news about its people, its landscape, its wildlife, and its distinctive culture. Meals in the ship’s dining room are a great opportunity to meet new friends and to plan or recount the day’s adventures, and special diets can be accommodated with advance notice. Many of our guests form life-long friendships, and we are delighted to find that reunion events often involve people travelling great distances to renew these important ties. We know, of course, that everyone travels for different reasons. Over the years, however, we have found one common element among the guests who choose to travel with us — a thirst for knowledge and authentic experience. Knowing this drives us to ensure the highest quality learning experience on our trips, by taking the time to design in careful detail each trip we offer. May 31- June 10, 2011 aboard the Clipper Odyssey Celtic Quest: A Voyage Through the Scottish Isles

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Our Intended Itinerary Highlights• Relish single malts on the distillery isles of Day 1: Glasgow, Loch Lomond & Oban Islay and Jura Day 2: Islay & Jura • Explore St. Kilda, an island community five Day 3: Staffa, Iona & Lunga hours west of the outer Hebrides, abandoned by the last 38 inhabitants in 1930 : very few Day 4: Mingulay & Barra people ever get to go there! Day 5: St. Kilda • Experience island life on Foula and Papa Day 6: Orkney Islands Stour in the Shetlands Day 7: Foula & Papa Stour • Marvel at the largest collection of prehistoric megalithic structures in western Europe Day 8: Mousa & Fair Isle • Glory in the spring wildflowers and the Day 9: Stonehaven & Aberdeenshire abundant birdlife throughout the western and Day 10: Dundee & St. Andrews northern islands Day 11: Edinburgh • Climb Mousa broch, a stone age fortification almost perfectly intact on the Shetlands • Visit the Highlands, followed by a trip to the old Arctic whaling city of Dundee • Celebrate St. Andrews University’s 600th anniversary, and stroll the streets of the old grey medieval town • Finally, marvel at Edinburgh, where you may wish to extend your tour 8 This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Celtic Quest: Resource Staff

Ted Cowan Bill Lishman Brent Stephenson Douglas Gibson Lizanne Henderson Graeme Gibson Historian Special Guest Ornithologist Publisher Historian & Folklorist Author Educated at Edinburgh Nicknamed Father Goose, Brent was born in New Doug was born and raised Lizanne has a B.A. in History Graeme who is the author of University, Ted taught for Bill is a world renowned Zealand and has been a in Scotland, where he went and Fine Art, from the four novels and the recently 13 years in the Scottish artist. His works include birder since childhood. In to the University of St. University of Guelph, ON, published Bedside Book of History Department award-winning films and 2005 he completed a Ph.D., Andrews. Besides having a and an M.A. in Folklore, from Beasts, is currently joint there. In 1979, he became numerous works of public studying the breeding biology great time there, he boxed Memorial University, NL. Honourary President, with Professor of History and art, a self designed energy of Australasian gannets in for the Scottish Universities She completed her PhD at Margaret Atwood, of BirdLife Chair of Scottish Studies efficient earth integrated New Zealand. In 2003, he team (it won, he lost) became the University of Strathclyde, International’s Rare Bird Glasgow. Currently, she runs at the University of dome home and a best selling rediscovered the “extinct” President of the Students’ Club. For almost ten years New Zealand storm-petrel, Union, and won a scholarship the history program at the Guelph, Ontario, returning autobiography. He was a (in the guise of “The Great a bird known only from to Yale. He came to Canada University of Glasgow. One to Scotland in 1993 as pioneer in microlight aviation Auk”), Graeme organized, three museum specimens in 1967, and became a book of her main research areas is Professor of Scottish and is the first human to and frequently led, birding collected during the 1800s. editor and publisher. As the the Scottish diaspora in North History and Literature at fly with, and lead birds in With support from National Publisher at McClelland & America, Australasia, Africa trips to Cuba and Ecuador. A the University of Glasgow. the air with an aircraft. He Geographic, he has been Stewart for many years, he and the Caribbean. Her books long time conservationist he He has written several pioneered the use of aircraft leading a team conducting worked closely with authors include Scottish Fairy Belief: has been a council member books, and is interested in establishing new migration further research on this such as Pierre Trudeau, Alice A History, editor of Fantastical of WWF-Canada and is in the Vikings, medieval routes for endangered enigmatic seabird. His passion Munro, James Houston, Imaginations: The Supernatural currently Chairman of the Scotland, the Covenants, species of birds. His work for travel, birds, and the ocean Robertson Davies, and in Scottish History and Culture Pelee Island Bird Observatory. Scottish Popular Culture has been documented has led him to many corners Alistair MacLeod. He was and co-editor of A History Graeme was an initial and Scottish Emigration. numerous times, including of the world working on small the first Canadian with of Everyday Life in Medieval organizer and a founding Ted has a keen interest in the feature film,Fly Away expedition ships. It’s a tough his own editorial imprint, Scotland. She is currently editing member of the Writers’ Union Arctic Canada’s exploration Home. He is the recipient of job, but somebody has to do Douglas Gibson Books, and has The Routledge Companion to of Canada and has been era. Ted lives across from the The Canadian Governor it! His passion and knack for won every industry award British and Irish Folklore (2013), president of the Canadian a pub in New Galloway General’s Meritorious Service wildlife photography has led from Editor of the Year to and writing a monograph Centre of International PEN. outside Dumfries in the Medal and the US National to increasing publication of Publisher of the Year. In 2011 Witchcraft and Witch Belief at the He was appointed a Member Scottish borders. Wildlife Federation 2002 photos and articles in books his memoirs of publishing so Dawn of Enlightenment: Scotland of the Order of Canada in Conservation award. and magazines, both within many of our country’s leading c. 1670-1740. She has been 1992. He lives with writer New Zealand and overseas. authors, entitled Stories About working on expedition ships for Margaret Atwood in Toronto. Storytellers, will appear. fifteen years. Matthew Swan, Ian Tamblyn, Mike Beedell, Aaron Russ and others will also be on this voyage, find their biographies within this brochure or online. 9 © Michelle Valberg, 2009 ©Matthew Swan

“I had to write to tell you about how special it was to travel with that amazing group of Adventure Canada resource people. The knowledge, sense of humour and approachability of your team bumped the trip up to a whole new level. Well done again!”

-Betty, Celtic Quest 2007

10 ©Daniel J. Catt ©Larry Frank ,

As you might expect from its title, my book How The Scots Invented Canada focuses mainly on Canada. But while preparing to write it, I felt the need to The Canadian-Scottishdo research in Scotland – partly to understand Connection those Scottish inventors and where they came from, and partly, let’s be honest, for the fun of it. With my wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan, I devoted ten weeks to two separate road trips. We visited Robbie Burns Country and sat in the poet’s old favourite chair. We poked around Abbotsford, the fantastical house that Sir Walter Scott (the man who invented the historical novel) built in the Borders. In Ken McGoogan St. Andrews, we explored the ruins of the cathedral in which the preacher Author & Historian John Knox made his first stand. Ken McGoogan is the author of But mostly we explored more direct connections. In the Ettrick Valley, we an Arctic Discovery Quartet of visited the graves of the ancestors of Alice Munro. North of Inverness, we biographical narratives: Fatal Passage, drove down a dirt road to the ancestral cairn of John A. MacDonald, a cairn Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin’s built of the stones salvaged from the croft of his grandfather. In Avoch, Revenge, and Race to the Polar on Black Isle, we admired the walled memorial that honours Alexander Sea. Hailed as “one of the finest Mackenzie, the first explorer to travel overland (and by river) from the contemporary Canadian writers of Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Arctic exploration history,” Ken has won the Writers’ Trust of Canada In my book, I summarize the road trips in a prologue. But I gloss over two key moments. The first came when we Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors’ stood in the wind at the Mull of Kintyre in the south of Scotland. We had arrived in a morning fog, but as we Association History Award, the UBC stood gazing over the water, the fog lifted and, sure enough, we could see it, not twenty kilometres away: the north Medal for Canadian Biography, and the coast of Ireland. We could almost touch it. Pierre Berton Award for History. He has chased the ghost of Lady Franklin around Tasmania, lugged a memorial The second moment occurred on that coast. Having deked over to Ireland, we were staying at a B&B just outside plaque honoring John Rae into the Ballycastle. One evening, we chased a rugged, cliffside path along the rocky coast until, as promised, we came to High Arctic, and made a cameo the ruins of a magnificent castle. I found myself wondering: why would anyone build such a glorious edifice in a appearance in the BBC docudrama location so hard to reach? To the north, looking out across the water, we could see Scotland: not just Kintyre but based on his book Fatal Passage. He Islay and a few other islands. writes a column for Canada’s History magazine, serves as chair of the Public Then it struck me: this castle, almost inaccessible by land, could easily be approached by sea. It belonged to a Lending Right Commission, sails as maritime world in which it overlooked a bustling thoroughfare. For hundreds of years, people had explored this a resource historian with Adventure water-world by boat. They had sailed regularly between northern Ireland and Scotland, and south to Dublin and Canada and is a fellow of the Royal beyond, and north to the islands of St. Kilda, Orkney and Shetland. And at that point I realized that I would Canadian Geographical Society. never appreciate the Scotland of my ancestors unless I experienced the world the way they did. I would have to explore that world by boat. And if, to some, that rationale seemed inadequate, I would make no apologies: I would Ken will be joining us on our Celtic sail the Scottish Isles for the fun of it. Quest & Out of the Northwest Passage. 11 What’s Different about this Sailing

About OurIn 2011 Partnership we are delighted once againwith to partner The with Walrus the award-winning Foundation magazine The Walrus. The Walrus is published by the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation, which is dedicated to debate on matters vital to Canadians. The magazine – winner of more awards in its seven years of publication than any other Canadian title – is the principal means by which the foundation achieves its mandate, supporting Canadian writers, artists, ideas, and conversations. Along with publishing The Walrus, The Walrus Foundation strives to take the content of the magazine off the page and bring it to life, creating a public square for debate and discussion and an opportunity for Canadians to continue the conversations started by the pieces in the magazine. Margaret Atwood Through its partnership with Adventure Canada, The Walrus Foundation has created a floating forum of its Author engaged, curious, intelligent, spirited friends—and this is your chance to become a Friend of The Walrus, Margaret Atwood is keen birder, just by coming aboard! You’ll receive a year’s subscription to The Walrus, and other Walrus-y treats onboard. ardent conservationist and one of And you’ll have a walrus of a time with celebrated authors Margaret Atwood, Graeme Gibson and Ken Canada’s most celebrated authors. McGoogan. Throughout her thirty years of writing, Margaret Atwood has With the help of The Walrus Foundation, our joint Celtic Quest: A Voyage Through The Scottish Isles program received numerous awards and will feature special guests, smart talk, and a Walrus Foundation Embarkation package. Don’t miss this unique several honorary degrees and floating salon! currently serves as joint president of the Rare Bird Club. She is the In the meantime, why not give The Walrus a try? Visit www.walrusmagazine.com/bestdeal for a free trial issue, author of more than thirty-five and start enjoying one of Canada’s top magazines. volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels. The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize, and in April 2003, her eleventh novel, the Man Booker Prize nominated Oryx and Crake was released to great acclaim. Her latest book is The Year of the Flood. Visit www.theyearoftheflood.com.

Margaret will be joining us on © Matthew Swan, 2007 our Celtic Quest & Out of the Northwest Passage. 12 Visit www.walrusmagazine.com/bestdeal for a free issue May 26 - 30, 2011

Our focus is on the beauty, creativity, learning and fun inherent to gardens great and small in this Scottish Isles Pre-trip. Cost: $2,995 Here we bring together our love of gardens, our ancient human relationships with plants, and the contemporary challenges Single supplement available upon request ofGardens conserving this threatened Great part of our global & biological heritage.Small Max: 16 adventurers The exploration begins at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London – widely considered the world’s premier botanic garden – which has developed through centuries of scientific and cultural evolution. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Tour cost includes: Site, the Kew Gardens encompass 300 acres of stunning themed gardens and collections. Kew illustrates key periods in • Most meals garden design from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and is recognized as a global center of excellence in the study of • Accommodations plant diversity and economic botany. • Admissions & entry fees • Ground transportation from Our Pre-trip program moves around the city of London and the countryside of England to include the Royal morning day 1 to morning day 5 Horticultural Society Gardens at Wisley, the Chelsea Flower Show and Chelsea Physic Garden. Of special interest in our • Services of Guide explorations this year will be the gardens at Sissinghurst, Kent. “The Garden of England”, will enhance our understanding and appreciation for the magic of gardens, and their impact on our lives. Tour cost does not include: • All flights (from your home to Your hosts and guides are delighted to bring several unique elements and personal contacts in this program. Gardens Great London, London to Glasgow, and Small is a botanical adventure like no other, which we trust will inspire, inform and entertain you for years to come. Edinburgh to home) • Insurance • Gratuities • Independent meals Like to try your hand at a round of Golf in St. Andrews following your Voyage Through the Scottish Isles? We • Items of a personal nature Golfinghave some green feeSt. and accommodationAndrews options that may assist you in doing just that. Contact our office for details about this and other golfing opportunities. Fitness Level: Easy 13 August 7 - 18, 2011 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Iceland & Greenland

14 Stewart,2009© Andrew ourney with us to the land of fire & ice! We’ll travel in the path of the Vikings who arrived in Iceland more than 1,100 years ago as we make our way from Iceland to Greenland. Much of Iceland is still taking J shape before your very eyes — raw, dramatic landscapes born of volcanic eruptions and the merciless scour of glaciers. Today’s inhabitants proudly speak the ancient language of the Vikings but are trendsetters in modern culture, most notably in music and art, and are famous for their almost universal level of literacy. We’ll explore Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, before making our way to the Westman Islands where we will find ourselves surrounded by mountains, volcanoes and seabirds.

After crossing the Denmark Strait, we arrive on the shores of Greenland.

East Greenland is one of the most isolated parts of the world, with over 2,600 kilometres of coastline and very few people. Situated between the polar sea ice and the Greenlandic Icecap, this region is primarily accessible by ship. We begin our journey at Angmagsalik,at the very heart of East Greenland, and one of the most beautiful and unspoiled areas in the Arctic.

It will become evident as we sail towards the tip of Southern Greenland, that Greenland has earned its name – the region is filled with shades of green. Southern Greenland has a well-developed farming industry, with extensive grazing pastures for sheep and horses. As we sail along the fjords we may see isolated sheep farms, many accessible only by boat, dotted along the coastline. Here we will seek out ruins from the Norse settlers as we wind our way through the dramatic fjords.

Our journey from Eastern to Western Greenland will highlight the many contrasts found throughout this vast Arctic island: from the traditions of the Inuit and the impacts of modernity, from barren landscapes of blue and gray to the lush greens of fertile farms and flowering plains, to ice- filled fjords, glaciers and mineral-rich mountain vistas. Throughout the trip we’ll explore a region with breath-taking landscapes, majestic wilderness, cold ice, and warm-hearted people.

© Andrew Stewart,2009© Andrew © Andrew Stewart 2009 15 “I was expecting the ice bergs, but I was not expecting such a rich cultural experience. I particularly enjoyed the resource staff. They were knowledgeable, always helpful, and fun!”

-Bob, High Arctic 2008

©Dennis Minty

OurDay 1: ReykjavikIntended ItineraryDay 5 & 6: Prince Christian Sound Day 10: Ivittuut Day 2: Westman Islands Day 7: Sydproven Day 11: Nuuk Day 3: At Sea Day 8: Hvalso Day 12: Kangerlussuaq • Seek out Puffins at the Westman Islands Day 4: Angmagsalik Day 9: Qaqortuk •Highlights Visit the one of the smallest capitals in the world, Nuuk (pop 15,000) • Spend two days in stunning Prince Christian Sound, Greenland’s large southern inland waterway • Explore the unique Arctic flora of Angmagsalik • Seek out sperm, humpback, minke and sei Whales as we cross the icy Denmark Strait • Walk through the best preserved Norse stone church in Greenland at Hvalso • A new exhibit of the Greenland Mummies at the National Museum in Nuuk

16 Our southbound charter flight returns to Toronto, priced at $958. Group fights will be available for the northbound leg. Please call us for details. This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Iceland & Greenland: Resource Staff

Danny Catt Steve Smith Gunna Pálmadóttir Jack Seigel Jane Sproull-Thompson James Raffan Photographer Naturalist Environmental Scientist Naturalist Cultural Historian Author & Adventurer Danny is a internationally Steve has been involved in Gunna is an environmental Jack has spent a lifetime Jane has worked as lecturer, James studied at Queen’s published photographer and 20 seasons of field research in scientist working as a pursuing a passion for zodiac driver and cruise University and holds a biologist, with over 25 years of the Arctic, primarily studying Nature Reserve Officer nature, both professionally director on expedition doctorate in cultural geography experience in environmental seabirds. Over the past two based on cross-cultural Arctic in the National Park and at leisure. After ships around the Arctic for education. He completed decades Steve has led more more than 30 years as a the past ten years. Until research. James has been an Snæfellsjökull in Iceland. studies in wildlife ecology than fifty journeys in the High professor of environmental recently she was professor expedition leader, writer, and and worked in the Canadian Arctic. In 2004 he was Director She has a broad spectrum studies, his commitment of Inuit and native art and consultant for organizations Rockies for Parks Canada. of Operations for Abandoned of work experience in to conservation and culture at the University including The Canadian He carried out post graduate in the Arctic a documentary the environmental and education remain of Calgary, and is a former Canoe Museum. Winner of studies in East Africa and film project that retraced a agricultural fields, and strong. A well-rounded curator for the Glenbow, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal also taught in Asia for the 500km historic retreat route (2000) and the Camsell Medal has worked for the Soil naturalist, Jack has an Newfoundland and Red Canadian International of Adolphus Greely at 82° (2009), he is a Fellow and extensive knowledge of Deer College Museums. Development Agency before North on Ellesmere Island. Conservation Service, past Governor of the Royal plants and animals, and She is a Research Associate shifting to teaching at the An accomplished landscape Forestry Service and the Canadian Geographical Society, post-secondary level. Danny and nature photographer, Nature Conservation the ecological principles and was appointed a Life past Chair of The Arctic has travelled the world, and Steve’s photographs have been Council in Iceland. that bind them. As Member with the Arctic Institute of North America comfortable in the field Institute of North America. leads a number of Adventure published in Natural History, She has also taken on and a Fellow International of as in the classroom, his With husband Callum Canada’s natural history and Outside, National Geographic jobs in other areas, as the Explorer’s Club. Author/ photography trips. His images ability to interpret “the she operates a consulting and National Geographic a horse breeding judge, editor of 15 books including, have appeared in publications Adventure magazines. He is the big picture” in a relaxed business in the field of Emperor of the North, his writing all over the world including co-founder of the Canmore, web developer, store and humorous style is environmental and heritage and photography have been the Globe & Mail, Macleans Alberta-based independent film manager, and has worked sure to entertain as well as conservation, interpretation published by publications and TIME. When not seeking production company, Meltwater in theatre and music. educate. In 1978 he began and planning and has had including Canadian adventures in exotic places, Media. He recently co- Her hobbies include his explorations of the a key role in planning Geographic and National Danny is a faculty member produced and co-directed Arctic singing and songwriting, eastern and western Arctic new heritage and tourism Geographic. His next book, in the Fish, Wildlife and Cliffhangers, an award-winning photographing and wool and first joined Adventure facilities throughout on the future of the Arctic, is Recreation program at the one-hour documentary on taking him around the world at art. Canada’s resource team in Canada. British Columbia Institute of Arctic seabirds. 1994. the Arctic Circle in 2010-2011. Technology. Callum Thompson, Jerry Kobalenko, Julia Szucs, Ted Cowan, Aaju Peter and others will also be on this voyage, find their biographies within this brochure or online. 17 “It is very hard to say that anything was less than excellent, the Clipper Adventurer and her crew, Adventure Canada staff, Resource staff, food, adventures, guests were all second to none. We had the best vacation ever! “

-Randolph, Arctic Quest 2010

18 © Daniel J. Catt, 2010 © Michelle Valberg, 2009 Four billion years of Earth history…. leaves those who peruse it totally awe-struck. The rock record is a gripping tale open to those who learn its alphabet, then study itclosely. Likewere any several), really good book, colliding continents, it and wandering supercontinents, yet with life persisting throughFour mostbillion of it,years of somehow.Earth history, full of violent volcanic eruptions, great floods that would have impressed Noah (there speaking, this was definitely a case of not checking the weather prior to departure!) and continuing with Sir John Franklin, Sir John Ross, and Sir Robert McClure, among many others.was also the(Geologically historical period when polar explorers ventured into Arctic Canada, beginning with Sir Martin Frobisherthe northern hemisphere from the late 14th Century to the end of the 19th Century. Inconveniently,is known the as Littlethe Ice“Little Age Ice Age”, a period of long, cold winters, and short, cool summersAt that the characterizedyoung end theof theclimate geological of time scale, the unique Arctic record includes the most compelling evidence for what (height, length, and width) to the modern Himalayas of south-central Asia. landmass colliding with that of Nunavut, the NWT, and Greenland. The resulting© ranges were similar in every way Marc St-Onge, 2010 years ago with the collision of two ancient continents, Ontario & Quebec’s Baffin Island into West Greenland. These mountains formed 1.8 billion extending beneath Hudson Bay, through northern Quebec and southern Himalayan-scale mountain belt with the ancient, now eroded mountains It’s a unique geological record that includes planet Earth’s first years old, in Arctic Canada. of shallow warm equatorial seas, and now to be found, dated at 2.9 billion formed by bacterial colonies of blue-green algae once living at the bottom “stromatolites” (see inset field photograph from Port Epworth, Nunavut) traces of life itself, specifically circular, dinner plate-size mounds called billion years. It’s a unique rock record that includes some of the earliest billion years old, with the age of the Earth being only a bit more, at 4.55 the oldest rocks in the world – ranging in age between 3.8 and 4.03 record as documented in the Arctic, with the polar record including on this planet. No other place on Earth can claim the full planetary rock geological past is not only remarkably rich and turbulent, but it is unique From the Beaufort Sea to the south-eastern shore of Iceland, the Arctic’s And not a day less. -Marc St-Onge,-Marc Geologist Out of the Northwest Passage theNorthwest of . Out Marc be joininguson will the nations. from the othercircumpolar Arctic Map oftheArctic withcolleagues ofa to theassembly Tectonic 2011). heiscontributing Currently database (final release in February GIS-enabled Arctic andunderlying Mapofthe international Geological led by Canada thatproduced anew international compilation project Medal. Marc isco-leader ofthe and theQueen’s GoldenJubilee from Natural Resources Canada, Awards Merit Sciences Earth Awards from Queen’s University, education, including Teaching Merit contributions toresearch and manyearned honourshis for number ofexpeditions. Hehas ina Arctic andhasparticipated research projects intheCanadian multi-yearled seven field integrated Society.Geographical Marc has and Fellow oftheRoyal Canadian Professor atQueen’s University, (UK), University at Oxford Adjunct of Canada, Research Fellow Senior Survey attheGeological Scientist has evolved. Research HeisaSenior who studieshow theArctic region distinguished researcher andlecturer Marc isaninternationally Marc St-Onge Geologist 19 August 18 - September 1, 2011/ August 10-24, 2012 aboard the Clipper Adventurer

20 Into the Northwest Passage© Andrew Stewart, 2009 enture with us through the famed Northwest Passage! Our first stop in Nunavut is at the picturesque community of The epic quest for a northern route west to silk and spice Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). We’ll be treated to a cultural presentation producing Asia occupied some of the best minds of European there, including throat singing and traditional Inuit games, before Vcivilization for half a millennium, and it still remains an elusive route exploring the town. From here we’ll sail into the famed Northwest that few have had the privilege of travelling. Passage itself. In Navy Board Inlet we’ll keep a keen eye out for narwhal and bowhead whales before landing on Devon Island, where Our journey begins in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, as we make our way we’ll find spectacular Croker Bay and the Dundas Harbour RCMP through one of Greenland’s historical site. Arriving at longest fjords, crossing the Beechey Island, we’ll visit Arctic Circle in the process. the chilling site of the lost As we make our way north Franklin Expedition, and see along Greenland’s shore, the signs of their losing fight we’ll have the opportunity against the harsh Arctic to sail the pretty Sisimiut winter. coast, dotted with the colourful houses typical of Sailing down the coast of Greenlandic communities. Somerset Island, we’ll set Next we visit the UNESCO our sights on Fort Ross. World Heritage Site of the Making landfall in Gjøa Ilulissat Icefjord, where Haven, we’ll have the we will cruise amongst the chance to visit the historic icebergs, and marvel at the ice Northwest Passage Museum. fields. At Karrat Fjord we will Voyaging from here into sail amid the ice and enjoy Queen Maud Gulf, we’ll a hike through the tundra. seek out marine wildlife, the Our last stop in Greenland © Dennis Minty, 2009 impressive summer birdlife, is at the tiny community of and make an expedition stop Upernavik – the farthest north the Vikings are known to have travelled. at the mouth of Bathurst Inlet before arriving in Kugluktuk for a community visit and, our flights home. Crossing Davis Strait to the Canadian Arctic, we’ll have time to catch up with our new friends aboard the ship, learn about the region through Join us in tracing the passage that conjures a history at once tragic our onboard lecture series, and keep our eyes out for the birds, whales and inspiring, a history encompassing hardship and death, but also and seals that frequent the area. courage, determination, and superhuman endurance.

Into the Northwest Passage© Andrew Stewart, 2009 21 “I loved the expedition format which was reinforced by the breadth of information provided by the resource staff. I learnt an amazing amount and had a wonderful wilderness experience as well.”

-Mary, Into the Northwest Passage 2009

DayOur 1: KangerlussuaqIntended Itinerary Day 9: Bellot Strait and Fort Ross • ExploreHighlights the beautiful Greenlandic Day 2: Sisimiut Coast Day 10: Pasley Bay communities of Ilulissat & Upernavik Day 3: Ilulissat Day 11: Gjøa Haven • Marvel at the Ilulissat Icefjord, a Day 4: Karrat Fjord Day 12: Jenny Lind Peninsula UNESCO World Heritage Site Day 5: Upernavik Day 13: Bathurst Inlet • Enjoy the breathaking experience Day 6: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Day 14: Coronation Gulf of sailing down Karrat Fjord as we Day 7: Dundas Harbour & Croker Bay Day 15: Kugluktuk (Coppermine) approach the glacier Day 8: Beechey and Prince Leopold Island • Experience throat singing and traditional Inuit games at Pond Inlet • Contemplate the historic graves of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition • Enjoy hikes on the open tundra at Bathurst Inlet • Visit the last trading post built by the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Ross • Follow in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen as we explore the town of Gjøa Haven • Sail the Northwest Passage 22 Our charter flight departs from Toronto and returns to Edmonton, priced at $1,879. Please call us for details. This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Into the Northwest Passage: Staff

Jon Dudley Paul Prior Robert McGhee Barry Lopez Michelle Valberg Aaju Peter Geologist Ornithologist Archaeologist Author Photographer Culturalist Jon has been reading the Paul cannot recall a time Bob is an archaeologist who Barry Lopez is the author Michelle Valberg is an Born in Arkisserniaq, rocks and sharing their when he was not birding, has carried out field research of thirteen works of fiction award-winning Canadian a northern Greenland stories both as a career and and his passion has always in most of Arctic Canada, and and nonfiction, including photographer, renowned community in 1960, Aaju has as his passion for over 40 been for migrant songbirds. occasionally in other regions Arctic Dreams, for which for her soulful portraiture lived up and down the west years. He first worked in Paul’s passion for birds of the northern world. He he received the National and stunning landscapes. coast of her native country as the Canadian Arctic while has taken him to passerine has investigated questions Book Award. 2011 marks She possesses a magical a result of her father’s teaching still in high school and monitoring / banding related to the earliest pre-lnuit the 25th anniversary of the combination of artistic and preaching career. In became enthralled with stations in Israel, Costa occupations of Arctic North publication of Arctic Dreams creativity, entrepreneurial 1981, Aaju moved to Iqaluit, the land and its people. Rica, northern Ontario America: the development of - a milestone that we will spirit and community in Nunavut, Canada where Having obtained degrees and northern British Inuit culture, and the nature celebrate onboard. commitment with a she has taken up residence. in geology in Toronto Columbia. In more recent of relationships between the diverse career and excellent Here, Aaju worked as an and Calgary, he pursued years his attentions have Inuit and early European His most recent collection of reputation. Valberg’s work interpreter, and she has done a career as a professional steered more to work with travellers to Arctic regions. stories is Resistance. In 2006 has appeared in numerous volunteer work with various geologist, which included Ontario’s endangered His most recent work is he edited Home Ground magazines and has been women’s and interpretation fieldwork and excursions breeding species, specifically The Last Imaginary Place: A with Debra Gwartney, a the subject of her two self- organizations. Aaju has a across Canada. Both with Bald Eagles, Human History of the Arctic dictionary of brief essays published books—Look homebased sealskin garment independently and as a Loggerhead Shrikes and World (2004). He is a Fellow defining 850 landscape Beyond: The Faces & Stories of business, translates, volunteers member of a number of Prothonotary Warblers. of the Royal Society of terms. He has travelled People with HIV/AIDS and for the music society, collects geological organizations, However, he still finds time Canada and of the Arctic extensively in populated Dare to Dream: A Celebration traditional law from Nunavut’s Jon continues to be to indulge in grass-roots Institute of North America, and remote parts of the of Canadian Women, which elders, raises her five children, very active in helping migration monitoring and past-president of the world and his work has became a national bestseller. and is currently involved in youth, teachers, the with the Toronto Bird Canadian Archaeological been widely translated. Each of her book projects has promoting the Inuit right general public, and other Observatory, where as a Association. In 2000, he He is an elected Fellow of raised money for Ottawa- to make a living on hunting geologists appreciate some certified banding trainer was awarded the Massey the Explorers Club and based charities. Valberg is seal. Inuit and others have of the marvels of our with the North American Medal of the Royal Canadian was recently chosen by the currently at work on her challenged the European planet and how all life is Banding Council he Geographical Society. He Association of American third book — The Land & Parliament on their legislation connected to, and shaped continues to pass on his is Curator Emeritus at Geographers as their Life of the Inuit: Through which bans the import of seal by, the ever-changing experience from 15 years of the Canadian Museum of Honorary Geographer for the Generations – due to be products into Europe. geological landscape. banding on 3 continents. Civilization. 2011. released in 2011.

Ted Cowan, Ree Brennin, Matthew Nuquingaq, John Houston, Jack Seigel, Thomas Kovacs and David Reid will also be on this voyage. 23 © Daniel J. Catt, 2010

“This was a life-transforming experience. I will never forget the magic of the Arctic, and hope to be able to return! Adventure Canada did a marvellous job throughout.”

- Lisa, Into the Northwest Passage 2010

24 © Andre Gallant © Daniel J. Catt, 2010 © Robert Poulton, 2009 As I move across the Arctic landscape in search of the past, one thought is forever in my mind—I am walking in Walkingancient footsteps. No matterin Ancientwhere I tread in this Footstepsmajestic land, it is apparent that even its remotest corners contain signs of life once lived, as well as the signs of ongoing life.

At times, evidence of by-gone days is difficult to detect. But sometimes, if we know where to look, we will find ourselves almost overwhelmed by the evidence of ancient human effort, in the form of caribou drive lanes, polar bear traps, or whalebone houses. With Adventure Canada, we’ll work to unravel the story of an ancient world, right Latonia Hartery there, on site. Archaeologist

Like everyone, everywhere, past Latonia has a PhD in circumpolar archaeology from the University northerners lived, loved, played and of Calgary. Her exploration of struggled daily, but with the added this topic has taken her to the challenge of doing these things in one Canadian Arctic, Greenland of the most extreme environments on and Scandinavia. For the past earth. As we travel on this Arctic odyssey decade she has conducted through the Northwest Passage we will excavations on Paleoeskimo sites witness the ingenuity of their survival in Bird Cove-Pond Cove, northern tactics, which reveal both the beauty and Newfoundland. At this location the difficulty of life in the north. she integrates research, tourism and public education. She is also When I reflect on the five thousand year the president of AARA, a non- profit organization dedicated to human history of the Arctic, I believe it

© Michelle Valberg © Michelle Arctic and sub-Arctic studies. was characterized by miraculous journeys An emerging filmmaker, she made over days, years, and generations, as has worked on independent and people moved from Siberia or Alaska to Greenland. As we sail across the vast Arctic Archipelago, we pass through commercial projects for a wide waterways that may well have seen these early journeys. I consider the ability to do this with Adventure Canada not range of broadcasters including only a fantastic opportunity, but also a great gift. This epic experience of covering enormous distances in a relatively APTN and the CBC. For her short period of time, while living life to the fullest, is nearly impossible to achieve on our own. community efforts, and for preserving and promoting Arctic In fact, I must tell you that this two week voyage through the Northwest Passage is the highlight of my year. What and sub-Arctic culture, she has been makes it even better is travelling with people who are encountering archaeological sites for the first time and seeing nominated for the JCI’s national their awe-struck faces. As we embrace the moments of silence that naturally settle upon us at these locations, we Outstanding Young Person’s award. absorb the spirit of past people, which magically remains long after they have moved on. In this moment of solitude, Join Latonia on our Out of the our lives, and our souls, are forever changed. Northwest Passage and our Newfoundland Circumnavigation – Latonia Hartery, Archaeologist 25 September 1 - 17, 2011/ August 24 - September 9, 2012 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Out of the Northwest Passage

© Dennis Minty © Robert Poulton, 2009 26 xperience the spirit of adventure and exploration as we sail Out of the Northwest Passage! On this itinerary we’ll explore some of the least travelled regions in the Canadian Arctic. The presence of ice will dictate Eour precise route as we poke our way through the pack ice, exploring as we go. Our journey begins in Kugluktuk (Coppermine) where we’ll board The Clipper Adventurer and sail west to reach the waters of the Beaufort Sea. Entering Canada’s Northwest Territories we will, ice conditions permitting, head through Prince of Wales Strait, making expeditionary stops on both Banks and Victoria Islands. We also plan to visit the community of Ulukhatok (Holman) on the shores of the Amundsen Gulf.

As we continue to make our way North-east, we’ll visit Winter Harbour and Neil Griffiths Point on Melville Island and delve into the rich waters of Lancaster Sound, famous for its abundance of beluga whales and other marine mammals. Then it’s on to Beechey Island, where History buffs will be struck by the eerie shores that house the lonely graves of the ill-fated Franklin expedition. After cruising among the icebergs and seeking out Walrus, we make our way to Ellesmere Island, following the route to the North Pole. Here we pay a visit to Canada’s northernmost community Grise Fiord or Aujuittuq “the place that never thaws”. We will continue our journey into Smith Sound as far as time and ice conditions permit, before crossing into Greenland.

There, as we arrive at the world’s largest island, we’ll marvel at the large icebergs and vast fjords. Our journey along the Greenlandic coast will include stops at historic Melville Bay, and time to enjoy the natural beauty of Kap York and the quaint town of Upernavik.

A highlight will be our time spent in Ilulissat, the largest town in Disko Bay and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We’ll cruise among the massive icebergs, where North America’s biggest bergs calve from the Greenland icecap as it tumbles down to meet the sea. Heading south we’ll enjoy one more excursion, before ending the voyage with a passage up the stunning Sondre Stromfjord, 185km to Kangerlussuaq.

Onboard our team of resource staff will help us comprehend this vast land, its geography, history, mythology and people. Daily lectures will complement our onshore activities, preparing us for experiences and adventures on land and sea.

© Dennis Minty © Andrew Stewart, 2009 27 “I loved the variety - something for virtually every interest. I was most impressed by the expertise and accessibility of the resource staff. What multi-talented people! It was refreshing to meet experts who do not take themselves too seriously and can have a roaring good time.”

-John, Out of the Northwest Passage 2009

©Daniel J. Catt, 2010 © Andrew Stewart, 2009

OurDay 1: KugluktukIntended (Coppermine) Itinerary Day 7: Bathurst Island Day 13: Kap York Day 2: Ulukhatok (Holman) & Prince Albert Sound Day 8: Beechey Island & Radstock Bay Day 14: Upernavik Day 3: Banks Island Day 9: Devon Island Day 15: Ilulissat Day 4: Prince of Wales Strait Day 10: Grise Fiord Day 16: Itilleq Day 5: Banks Island Day 11: Smith Sound Day 17: Kangerlussuaq Day 6: Winter Harbour, Melville Island Day 12: Kap Alexander

• Sail some of the most remote waterways and Highlightsleast explored areas in Canada • Marvel at the Ilulissat icefield, where 90% of the north Atlantic’s icebergs are born • Seek out Walrus at Croker Bay • Enjoy a cultural presentation at Canada’s northernmost community, in Grise Fiord • Follow in the footsteps of Sir William Parry at Winter Harbour • Trace the route to the North Pole as we venture up Smith Sound

28 Our charter flight departs from Edmonton and returns to Toronto, priced at $1,950. Please call us for details. This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Out of the Northwest Passage: Staff

Pierre Richard David Reid Matthew Swan Carolyn Mallory Mark Mallory Bernadette Miqqusaaq Dean Marine Biologist Adventurer Adventure Canada Field Botanist Seabird Biologist Culturalist As a long-time Arctic The last Scottish recruit for Matthew’s parents emigrated Carolyn Mallory is a Since 1999, Mark has lived in Bernadette grew up in Coral marine mammal the Hudson’s Bay Company from Scotland to Canada writer who is expecting Iqaluit with his wife Carolyn, Harbour on Southampton researcher, Pierre has - David moved from in 1959 and, to their son’s her current book about three children, and a bevy of Island where the spring and focused on the population Glasgow to the Canadian good fortune, they decided to insects in Nunavut to be pets. After spending more than summer seasons were spent biology of belugas and Arctic in 1989 and made bring Matthew with them. published in 2010. It is a a decade studying the effects on the land hunting, fishing narwhals of the Canadian the move to Pond Inlet Matthew has recognized follow up to her popular of acid rain on waterfowl and harvesting. Bernadette Arctic, developing in 1991. For the past 15 opportunities that present Common Plants of Nunavut, and loons in Ontario, Mark has lived in different recommendations for years, he has been involved themselves ever since that co-written with Susan now studies Arctic seabirds, communities in Nunavut, the sustainable use and in the adventure travel big move. He graduated Aiken. As well as writing, particularly the effects of working very closely with conservation of their business and has since led, with a degree in English Carolyn is a librarian and climate change and pollution elders and youth on cultural populations. He is known organized or participated from the University of St. chair of the French school on their ecology. Most of that program development and in Nunavut as “Pieri, in more than 260 Arctic Andrew’s, Scotland. He board. Carolyn can always work takes place in the High angutikutaq qilalugalerei” and Antarctic expeditions, culture camps for Inuit encountered the outdoor be recognized on activities Arctic, where there are few (the tall man who knows trips and projects. In that youth and women. Her training and adventure field off of the ship, as she is about belugas and time, he has travelled mosquitoes, little warmth, and work on Inuktitut language narwhals). Over the years thousands of miles by dog while undertaking an outdoor usually looking down at lots of pesky bears. He and preservation produced he has studied those species sled, ski, snowmobile and instructor’s apprenticeship the amazing Arctic world a his colleagues recently found several albums consisting in almost every corner of on foot. Experienced and program at Strathcona Park few centimetres above the dramatic declines in Ivory Gull of traditional Inuit and the Canadian Arctic and comfortable exploring the Lodge on Vancouver Island. permafrost. She has three populations in Canada, which contemporary songs, stories has collaborated in studies polar regions; from penguins Returning east, Matthew children, two dogs, five cats, led to the species being listed and legends. She has been with other whale scientists to polar bears, David’s shifted focus and worked in and four birds and lives in as Endangered in 2006. As a cultural advisor to various from Greenland, Alaska and passion and enthusiasm for the emerging white water Iqaluit with her husband penance for this sad finding, museum exhibits in the Russia. He is the author sharing everything to rafting industry on the Mark, in their house Mark is Chair of two National US and on documentary of a Nunavut school book do with ice and snow Ottawa River. Strathcona and overlooking Frobisher Bay. Recovery Teams for rare films about Inuit and arctic on Marine Mammals of with clients from all over the Ottawa were the catalysts She has always wanted to species, Ross’s Gulls and Ivory history. She produced and Nunavut and several french the world, helps people for Adventure Canada, live by the ocean but did not Gulls. However, if you ask him, co-directed Inuit Piqutingit: language books on whales understand just how unique created in 1988 with his expect the Arctic Ocean to he will go on at length on how What belongs to Inuit with and mammals of Eastern and precious our polar brother Bill and friend David steal her heart. the most remarkable Arctic famed Inuk film maker Canada and the Arctic. regions are. Freeze. bird is the northern fulmar. Zacharias Kunuk.

Aaju Peter, Latonia Hartery, Marc St-Onge, Ken McGoogan, Dennis Minty, Ian Tamblyn, Jim Halfpenny, Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson will also be on this voyage. 29 September 12 - 24, 2011 aboard the Ocean Nova Heart of the Arctic

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© Andrew Stewart 2009 31 “All the activities that were planned on the ship so we could benefit from the amazing group of people as part of the staff, learn more about the communities where we were going and the interaction with local people when we were in the town visits.”

-Michelle, Heart of the Arctic 2009

OurDay 1:Intended Kangerlussuaq ItineraryDay 5: Pangnirtung Day 9 & 10: Kinngait (Cape Dorset) Day 2: Kangamiut Day 6: Monumental Island Day 10: Markham Bay Day 3: Nuuk Day 7: South Baffin Coast Day 11: Savage Islands Day 4: At Sea Day 8: Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) Day 12: Iqaluit

• Explore quaint Kangamiut, Greenland •Highlights Visit the one of the smallest capitals in the world, Nuuk • Explore the printshop and tapestry studio at the Uqqurmiut Art Centre in Pangnirtung • First Hudson Bay Company trading post in the Baffin Region at Kimmirut • Spend time in the Inuit Art Capital of the World, Kinngait • Seek out Walrus at Monumental Island • Explore Nunavut’s Capital city, Iqaluit • Take part in onboard printmaking workshops with Andrew Qappik • Meet elders, artists and community leaders in each hamlet on our route

32 Our charter flight departs from Toronto and returns to Ottawa, priced at $1,612. Please call us for details. This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Heart of the Arctic Resource Staff

Ree Brennin John Houston Mike Beedell Gerald McMaster Callum Thompson Andrew Qappik Marine Biologist Filmmaker, Curator,Culturalist Photographer & Adventurer Curator, Author, Artist Archaeologist Artist & Culturalist Ree is a zoologist specializing A member of the well- Mike is one of Canada’s For the past 30 years, Dr. Callum was brought up in the Andrew is a master print- in marine life. She studied known Houston family, John leading photographers and Gerald McMaster has British Isles before emigrating maker from Pangnirtung, beluga population genetics spent the first eight years explorers with over 30 worked as a visual artist, to Canada in 1968. He was Baffin Island in Nunavut. across the Canadian of his life in Cape Dorset. years of journeys to his curator, and scholar to educated at the University of Originally inspired by images Arctic and in 2007 she He studied art in Paris credit. Mike has been part increase the knowledge Calgary, Memorial University of in the comic books he read as helped to organize an and graduated from Yale of a number of fascinating and understanding of First Newfoundland and Bryn Mawr a child, Andrew now finds his international workshop on University in 1975; that same expeditions which have Nation, Métis, and Inuit College, obtaining degrees in subjects in the stories, tradi- belugas that brought together year, he took up the position been the subject of several art, both nationally and archaeology and anthropology. tions and day-to-day events Inuit hunters, wildlife of Art Advisor to the documentaries and books. internationally. He began His principal research focus of his world. His images managers and aquarium Pangnirtung Co-operative’s His photographic and his career with the Canadian during more than thirty years describe the local landscape, professionals to collaborate printmaking project. In 1998, video work has illustrated Museum of Civilization, of fieldwork in the Canadian the animals, the people as on conservation initiatives. well as family activities and Ree spent nine years John co-wrote and directed subjects ranging from in Ottawa; then with the Arctic has been on the history his first film. His 2007 film: sovereignty, culture, Smithsonian National and archaeological evidence camp life. As a printmaker, working at the Monterey Andrew uses relief printing, Bay Aquarium and taught Kiviuq, was recently awarded environment, youth, Museum of the American for maritime adaptations of ‘Best Documentary Film’ at conservation and tourism. Indian. He is currently the cultural groups living in extreme etching and lithography. He Environmental Science is most widely recognized and Policy at the Monterey Dreamspeakers 12th annual Mike has been compelled Fredrik S. Eaton curator and marginal environments, for the subtle layering of Institute of International International Aboriginal to spend part of every year of Canadian Art at the including aboriginal people, colours in his stencil prints. Studies. Since moving back Film & Television Festival in for three decades in the Art Gallery of Ontario, whalers, settlers and explorers. As a designer, Andrew uses to Ontario in 2004, Ree Edmonton. His latest film, North to travel slowly and in Toronto. This past year He has spent the last 30 has worked as a consultant, The White Archer is based on thoughtfully “to feel the he edited Inuit Modern: years as an archaeologist symbolic colours and imagery combining her expertise James Houston’s children’s pulse of the land” and live The Samuel and Esther with museums, government, to communicate ideas. He is in science, education and novel of the same name. with the unique cultures Sarick Collection along with aboriginal groups and industry best known for his contri- public policy. She has worked The novel is written from an of the Arctic realm. He is presenting the ground- undertaking environmental and bution to the design of the with Environment Canada Inuit legend and deals with the author of the book The breaking exhibition at the archaeological inventories and Nunavut flag, logo and coat and also developed and revenge and the beginnings Magnetic North. Mike lives AGO. He is currently assessments and conducting his of arms. He conducts work- taught a course in Marine of resolution Inuit and Innu, with his wife, Bonnie and co-Artistic Director of the own field research projects. shops for people of all ages Environmental Issues at who traditionally viewed their dog/child, Laird in 2012 Biennale of Sydney, and often travels to the south Queen’s University and the one another with fear and Chelsea, Quebec. the prestigious international to demonstrate and promote University of Ottawa. mistrust. festival of contemporary art. Inuit printmaking. Annie Qappik, Jane Sproull-Thompson and others will also be on this voyage, find their biographies within this brochure or online. 33 ©Andrew Stewart

“The most memorable part of this trip for me was waltzing with Kenojuak at the Cape Dorset community hall. People, you can’t beat that!”

- Paul, Heart the of the Arctic 2009

©Andre Gallant 2009 © Larry Frank, ©Andre Gallant

34 ©Matthew James Bradley-Swan. 2009 ©Michelle Valberg, 2009 “Art can never be understood, but can only be seen as a kind of magic, her newborn is to experience a glimpse of the Arctic rich with the most profound and mysterious of all human activities.” - Bill Reid both the familiar and the exotic. Realizing the distance the artist must travel just to quarry the stone and the dangers inherent in The phenomena that we know collectively as Inuit Art, has this exercise raises the level of motivation beyond the challenges Someenjoyed a presence inthoughts the art world for over 50 years.on While Inuitof artists elsewhere. Art The raw materials of stone, bone and antler curators, dealers and government funding agencies struggle with emerge from the Arctic landscape. When we hold a beautifully the definitions and parameters of these exciting visual forms, carved piece we are in touch with this landscape. those of us who encounter works by Inuit artists are immediately touched by their Paper for limited edition prints and drawings Carol Heppenstall honesty, intimacy and power to communicate. and textiles used for weaving and wall Arts & Culture The art of any cultural group is a window of hangings are newer materials for these artists. Carol has been leading tours opportunity for insight and understanding. Both these mediums afford a narrative means for Adventure Canada for What better way to experience Canada’s last of sharing information. Prints that illustrate seventeen years. Her love of frontier, and its most exotic landscape, than life in the communities, often contrasting Inuit Art that she showcased through the artistic outpourings of it’s people. then and now, bring us closer to their way of in her Philadelphia life. Sprinkled with humour and imagination, gallery first led her north The art of the Inuit, Canada’s Arctic people, prints have become sought after by collectors. in 1992. Her continuing has a history of some 4,000 years. Its means of The excellence with which they are produced passion for Inuit Art and expression took the form of highly decorated is a tribute both to the many artistic advisors her belief in the power of material culture. Whether these objects were who come north to share their expertise and communication through used for hunting or personal adornment, their the talent of the artist to capture the idea the arts, has drawn her back repeatedly to the Arctic. significance is unquestionable. The aesthetic on paper, translate it in the print medium Designing smaller tours appeal beyond western understanding and produce the print. Weavings and wall with an art/culture focus underlies the amazing collections to be found hangings expand the traditional sewing skills and working as a Resource in the world’s great museums and galleries. For of women and are a richly decorative and Guide on the Arctic cruises the Inuit, this rich artistic outpouring created highly personalized art form. has allowed her to keep a spiritual bond, a means of communicating in touch with artists and with the world around them and the spiritual As the Inuit artist gains recognition, a more community leaders in an forces that controlled that world. For a non-literate people, art personal vision may inform his or her work. We often see signature ever- changing artistic and was a means by which they translated isumasi (our thoughts). That pieces that characterize the work of a particular artist. Personal cultural landscape that is they have a rich oral history which complements this tradition thoughts and ideas are translated into stone or on paper, or an the Canadian north. She graduated Cum Laude has only come to light within the last century. artist may choose to work in a new medium such as film, video or in Art History from the precious metals. At times we are challenged by notions of what University of Pennsylvania Today’s Inuit artist continues the role of communicator. This is traditional, what is art? These questions are not limited to art and earned a Masters voice honours the land and its people and initiates a dialogue with made by Inuit or anyone else. Suffice to say that as we encounter in Museum Education those who encounter the works of art. To confront a stone carving the art of the Inuit we experience what Reid calls a kind of magic, while running her gallery, of a polar bear dancing to its own music or a mother nursing a gift of seeing and knowing another. ArtSpace.

Join Carol on Heart of the “Roaming Walruses” ©Andrew Qappik – Carol Heppenstall, Arts & Culture Arctic. 35 About Our PartnershipThe with Royal CanadianCanadian Geographical GeographicSociety is dedicated to imparting a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada — its people and places, its natural and cultural heritage and its environmental, social and economic challenges. The Society is one of Canada’s largest non-profit educational organizations and is funded primarily by its members and generous donations. The Society’s Board of Governors and its program committees are comprised entirely of volunteers.

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society was founded in 1929 with a mandate “to make Canada better knownAbout to Canadiansthe Society and to the world.” Celebrating its 82nd anniversary in 2011, its mandate is fulfilled mainly through the publication of Canadian Geographic in English and Géographica in French, and through the Society’s geographic education program, speaker series, research grants and expeditions programs.

Published by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society,About Canadian Canadian Geographic Geographic is one of the most widely read magazines in Canada. Each issue of the magazine allows readers to explore, discover and learn about their country. The Canadian Geographic Photo Club, Canada’s largest online photographic community, is the home of the annual Canadian Geographic Photo Contest and the Wildlife Photography of the Year Contest. This year, the Society and Canadian Geographic are proud to partner with Adventure Canada to offer their Heart of the Arctic expedition. Those on the Adventure Canada mailing lists are entitled to a one-year subscription to Canadian Geographic magazine at the special price of $24.95. Phone 1-800-267-0824 to subscribe. All 2011 travellers will receive a one-year © Mike Beedell, 2009 subscription to Canadian Geographic, compliments of Adventure Canada. Please visit www.rcgs.org or www.canadiangeographic.ca for more information 36 ©Larry Frank, 2010 ©Mike Beedell,2009

“The combination of time for interacting with nature and time for interaction between resource staff and Inuit was a great thing. Well done!”

- Julie, Heart of the Arctic 2009

38 ©Dennis Minty ©Dennis Minty and anunforgettableend pointtoaremarkable trip. city,John’s,St.oldest America’s in North ends adventure Our party! a kitchen in traditional partake to chance a have will we where Botwood, and Conche of communities the visit we’ll here From everywhere. reminders Viking World,with New the in settlement European known at Meadows, earliest is aux the L’Anse Newfoundland in stop first Our bald eaglesandaspeciesofspecialconcern, duck. population theeastern oftheharlequin herd, moose,caribou with bear,along woodland black threatened to home also areosprey, Mountains. Steeped in the traditional history of the first peoplespark,nationalLabrador’s second Mealy of the site proposed the ofat in call theFromwe’ll here land, these mountains ChurchMoravian in1776, community ofHopedale. aswell asthelively the byOkak, and founded Hebron of settlements abandoned the species.birdvisit We’ll dozen a bear,than bear,polar home;more black area and caribou,wolves, the whales call fjords the overhang that crags modest topping 3,000 ft. the On our zodiac cruises and hikes even we hope to spot a with number of species await scale,that us. massive skies a on is grand and Everything foliage fall fjords, immense peaks, Towering Park. National days threethe of south,Torngatsailing scenery awe-inspiring bydominatedthe view the next Mountains the spend we’ll Inuit, Labrador the of home the Nunatsiavut, Entering from residents. local Georgethe River. We’llexplore townthe on foot, community and land the about learning of Kangiqsualujjuaq, bank be the on will nestled Canada Nunavik in call of port first Our of Baffinwaters seekBay out andwe’ll walrus during our Zodiaccruise aroundthe Monumental Island.frequent to known whales the for watch we’ll Canada to way our Making famous the see can we Here mummies, Greenland. explore themarkets, cuisine. andsamplelocal of centre cultural and political the and world the in capitals smallest Nuuk,the visit of Canada, one into we’ll Strait Davis the crossing town.GreenlandicBefore tiny this dot that houses colourful pretty the past wander we’ll through the icebergs at Evighshedfjord before visiting the community ofKangamiut. Here Strait.Davis the to wejourney as Arctic circle Headingsouth, cruise enjoy Zodiac a we’ll einn i Knelsuq Genad e rs the cross we Greenland Kangerlussuaq, in Beginning wild coastofLabrador. J aua wnes f otws Genad n the and Greenland Southwest of wonders natural oin us as we discover the divine landscape and sublime © Andrew Stewart, 2009 39 “This trip was a first for us but definitely not a last. The breathtaking geography of northern Labrador was wonderful enough for any trip’s success, but it was only the context for the community of fascinating travel companions who made the trip absolutely unique and unforgettable.”

-Carol, Atlantic Arts Float 2009

Our Intended Itinerary • VisitHighlights Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk Day 1: Kangerlussuaq • Purchase some highly prized qiviut product Day 2: Evighshedfjord & Kangamiut (muskox wool) Day 3: Nuuk • Seek out walrus at Monumental Island Day 4: Monumental Island • A chance to experience the Northern Lights Day 5: Kangiqsualujjuaq • Spend three memorable days among the Day 6/7: Torngat Mountains National spirits in the Torngat National Park as you Park sail down the Labrador Coast Day 8: Torngat Mountains National • Call in at the proposed site for the Mealy Park & Hebron Mountains National Park Day 9: Okak • Explore the community of Hopedale Day 10: Hopedale • Marvel at the magnificent fjords and inland Day 11: Mealy Mountains lakes at Saglek & Hebron Day 12: L’Anse aux Meadows • Take part in a traditional Newfoundland & Conche kitchen party Day 13: Botwood • Explore the earliest known European Day 14: St. John’s settlement in the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows

40 Our charter flight departs from Toronto, priced at $958. Commercial airfare must be arranged from St. John’s. Please call us for details. This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Greenland & Wild Labrador: Resource Staff

©Dennis Minty

Zippora Nochasak Denis St-Onge Dennis Minty Hamilton White Shelagh Rogers Culturalist Geologist Photographer & Naturalist Culturalist CBC Host Zippora is a long-time Past President of the Royal Canadian Born in Twillingate, Hamilton was born in North Shelagh is a veteran broadcast- promoter of Inuktitut language Geographical Society, Denis has Newfoundland, Dennis has West River, Labrador but moved journalist. She’s hosted flagship and Inuit culture. In her career, had a long and distinguished followed a varied path to arrive to Happy Valley, Labrador at a programs with CBC Radio, she has been Minister of career as a scientist and educator. A at his current profession as a very young age. After graduating including This Morning and Sounds Lands and Natural Resources geomorphologist who has worked photographer. Through 30 years high school, Hamilton joined the Like Canada. In 2000, she won and Status of Women for the with the Geological Survey of of both local and international Canadian Army where he spent ten the John Drainie Award, Canada’s Nunatsiavut Government, Canada and on the Polar Continental work, Dennis has served as an years with the airborne Signal Corps. highest broadcasting honour. Executive Board Member for Shelf Project, Denis has been award winning wildlife biologist Hamilton spend a great deal of his Two years ago, she received a the Nunatsiavut Government fascinated by the Arctic since and environmental educator. One career working with the department Transforming Lives Award from for Happy Valley-Goose Bay, 1959 when he started studying the of his environmental education of Natural Resources in Labrador, as CAM-H for speaking publicly and Assembly Member for evolution of landforms of Ellef projects, “Finding the Balance, a Water Bomber Dispatcher. Over about depression. In 2010, the Happy Valley-Goose Bay for Ringnes Island. He is an Officer of Environmental Issues on a Global the last five years, he has worked at Mood Disorders Association of the Labrador Inuit Association. the Order of Canada, a past Chair Scale” was officially endorsed by the several locations on Baffin Island Ontario gave her their Hero Award. In her travels as a volunteer and civil servant over many years, of Geography at the University United Nations. Dennis has also as a Polar Bear Monitor. In the She has been honoured for her Zippora worked on issues of of Ottawa, a fellow of the Arctic received the Canadian Governor summer of 2010 Hamilton worked work in reconciliation between shared concern with a range of Institute of North America and General’s Medal for his work in out of a tugboat refuelling over Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal recipient of the Scottish Geographical environmental education. As a twenty North Warning System sites people in Canada. Currently, she agencies, including other Inuit Medal. The Canadian Association photographer/biologist/educator, from Herschel Island in the Yukon is the host of The Next Chapter regional governments, the of Geographers has presented Dr. he has travelled extensively to Territories to Shepherd Bay in the on CBC Radio One, a program Inuit Circumpolar Conference St-Onge its Award for Service and the many countries of Africa, Northwest Territories. Hamilton devoted to Canadian writers and (ICC), and the Inuit Tapiritt the Geological Association of Canada the Seychelles, the Caribbean, is equally at home on land or sea songwriters. She is passionate about of Kanatami (ITK). She is an its Ambrose Medal for “sustained Europe and North America. But and can never get enough of the the north and northerners and feels accomplished Inuktitut speaker, distinguished service to the earth his favourite place is his home, beautiful scenery the North has Adventure Canada trips to the and possesses knowledge and sciences in Canada”. In 2002 he was Newfoundland and Labrador. to offer and is looking forward to north change you at a cellular level. familiarity of all four Inuit presented with Queen Elizabeth II seeing you in 2011. regions in Canada. Golden Jubilee Medal.

Others will also be on this voyage, find their biographies within this brochure or online. 41 ©Dennis Minty ©Michelle Valberg, 2009 © Michelle Valberg, 2009

“Meeting an incredible group of people, both onboard the ship and ashore. I love travelling with Canadians! We were in some unbelievable scenery and I feel so fortunate to have been able to see the Torngat Mountains. The visit to Hopedale was so special. The wildlife sightings were amazing, especially the polar bears and the whale who kept swimming round the ship!”

-Joan, Atlantic Arts Float 2009 © Daniel J. Catt, 2009

©Andrew Stewart, 2009 42 Valberg © Michelle © Andre Gallant Torngats: They call this place the land of the spirits, the place human inhabitants anymore, the Inuit of Nunatsiavut still where Torngat, the spiritual entity of the Inuit people rests. hunt and fish in this area. The spirits of our ancestors still Along the shores you will see evidence of people before us, walk the land, watching over us, and will walk among us as Thespanning thousands Land of years, and youGod cannot help but Gave feel their we embrace to this beautifulCain... place. This place is for the curious. presence. In Nachvak Fjord we tread lightly on the remains of a five hundred year old village, where the remnants of sod houses Okak is a beautiful abandoned village that thrived until the overlay the even older Paleo Eskimo settlement. Millennia of arrival of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. Here, Lena Onalik human history lie here, outlasted only by the creatures that call we are at the beginning of the tree line. All that remains of Archaeologist this land home, and by the ancient rocks that tower above it all. this once thriving community are the foundation stones of the Moravian Church, and the succulent tartness of the Lena Onalik grew up in Makkovik, To the south is Ramah, where the vast Rhubarb garden left behind, Labrador. She spent her summers beautiful translucent chert received still frequented by descendants of during childhood fishing in its name. This material was traded those who once occupied this land. Island Harbour with her father’s throughout the eastern seaboard, down family, the McNeill clan, who also into Maryland, to Ontario, and north At Hopedale (Agvituk), we find the fished with Bob Bartlett’s family. to Nunavut. Shaped into magnificent striking coastal community of about Lena is an archaeologist, the first Labrador Inuk to obtain this title. tools used to hunt the animals and 600 people that serves as Nunatsiavut’s She also held the position of Chief seek out survival, the precious chert capital. The original Moravian Mission Archaeologist for the Nunatsiavut accompanied the burials of our ancestors. Church and Museum still stand on Government. Lena’s primary the bare rocks of its rugged landscape. interest is Inuit archaeology. At Hebron, the history dates back Upon arrival, we are likely to be Through her knowledge and thousands of years, with the most greeted by the many smiling children experience working in coastal recent inhabitants being the Moravian who bring life to this community. Labrador, she has strengthened Missionaries in the early 1800’s. The her interest in her own culture, community thrived with the German When asked to join the Adventure which includes preserving her missionaries and Inuit living in harmony Canada team on the Greenland & Inuit language. Lena is also a until 1959. When the Newfoundland Wild Labrador expedition, my reaction descendent of the Hebron and Government made the decision to close the only store, the was nothing short of ecstatic. To visit the beautiful shores Nutak relocations that took place missionaries decided to pull out of Hebron. That same year, the of Greenland was thrilling enough, but to share the home is 1957-59. Lena shares her culture Inuit were forced out of their homes and faced a devastating of my ancestors with curious minds is a great honour. On through storytelling, crafts, singing relocation to the south. To this day, the atrocities endured this journey of discovery I will share a special moment, and Inuit drum dancing and by the Inuit of Labrador are present in the lives they live. travelling to the birth place of my dearest friend, my late throat singing. Lena still enjoys Looking over the landscape, and visiting the memorable grandmother (Kangidsualujjuak). The spiritual presence hunting and fishing when she can, graveyard with its German inscriptions, we will find the of the Torngat Mountain’s is one that beckons you back especially ice fishing. She is the Mission and Church buildings still standing, and the newly again and again. All along the beautiful coastline there mother to two rambunctious boys erected Apology plaques recognizing and remembering those is a story to tell. One such story is that of Jacques Cartier and her little sister. who were removed from their home. Although there are no who named this place, “the land God gave to Cain”.

©Mike Beedell Join Lena on Greenland & Wild – Lena Onalik, Archaeologist Labrador. 43 Greenland & Wild Labrador: Artistic Accompaniment

Tom Barlow Washboard Hank Kevin Major Barney Bentall Kathleen Winter Ian Tamblyn Musician Musician Author Musician Author Singer, Songwriter, Adventurer Tom has been a writer and If you ever get a chance to Kevin Major has published During the 1990s, Barney’s Kathleen Winter grew up in A composer, songwriter, performer on the Canadian see him, Washboard Hank 16 books, ranging from novels music was a staple on the Newfoundland and Labrador singer, instrumentalist, music scene for 20 years. is an entertainer you will to non-fiction, from poetry radio with hits that included after emigrating from the playwright, environmentalist, During that time he has never forget. He started on and plays to works for young Life Could Be Worse. With northeast of England as explorer and producer, Ian garnered three Juno Award the streets of North America people. He has won numerous two platinum and four gold a child. She has written has captured the spirit of nominations, a Canadian where he developed his awards, including a Governor CDs, a Juno Award and a dramatic and documentary many remote & beautiful Radio Music Award unique blend of medicine General’s Award for his first string of top ten singles to his scripts for Sesame Street and parts of the world, from nomination and won the show/vaudeville/hillbilly style. book (soon to be a film), credit, Barney and his band CBC Television. Her novel the Arctic to the Antarctic. Canadian Independent Rising Folks of all ages from San Hold Fast. The best-selling The Legendary Hearts were Annabel, about a mysterious Through 32 albums of Star Award. Tom has toured Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf As Near to Heaven by Sea: A renowned for their take-no- child of a trapping family original music, his work has across Canada and around the to the Edinburgh Fringe History of Newfoundland and prisoners standing-room-only in the beautiful, spare become known & respected world in such disparate places Festival have given themselves Labrador traces the story of his live shows. By 1997, seeking environment of remote around the world & he has as China, Europe, The United sore faces from laughing homeland from continental a change in perspective, he coastal Labrador, has been played a significant role in the States and Nicaragua. With a at Hank’s show. Besides drift to modern political did a “one-eighty,” bought a translated internationally folk music scene in Canada new record deal Barlow is now his patented “Stradivarious upheaval. His novel (and long- cattle ranch and walked away. and was a finalist for the & internationally. His newest back working on his much Washboard”, Hank plays a running stage play) No Man’s He continued playing but 2010 Governor General’s album, Gyre, is a collection anticipated sophomore album. wide variety of instruments, Land tells a tragic tale of the felt the pull back to a simpler, Award, the Rogers Writer’s of 12 new songs. He is now The new album sees Barlow including the “Perfected Newfoundland Regiment in stripped-down acoustic Trust Award, and the is working on the third of reconnecting with co-writer/ Twin Membrane Kazoo” WWI. His most recent novel approach to songwriting. Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her his four coast project -The producer Mladen and the “Mark IV One Man New Under the Sun, dealing Over time, Bentall assembled story collection boYs won Darkened Light about the producer Tawgs, the same Band” and the “Kitchen Sink with the myriad of cultures the songs for a new CD, the Metcalf-Rooke Award Arctic coast. He was recently production team that helped Tuba”. Through the years to inhabit southern Labrador Gift Horse, released in 2007. and the Winterset Award. awarded 2010 Songwriter of create his debut work. Once Hank has played many major and the northernmost tip of September 2009 saw the Kathleen fools around on Year Award by the Canadian again Barlow is singing songs folk festivals, exhibitions and Newfoundland, promises to release of the much anticipated the concertina and has Folk Music Awards for about the social realities of our concerts and in 1992 he was be one of his most acclaimed CD The Inside Passage, a learned the words to a few his CD Gyre. Ian has been planet and our communities, awarded the Confederation works yet. All that and he country-folk-roots sound that Newfoundland and Labrador travelling and guiding in the infusing pop melodies with Medal for contributions to writes a wine blog, too. is resonating with listeners songs, and has written a few Arctic and Antarctic since keen lyrical observations. Canadian culture. from coast to coast to coast. of her own. 1984.

44 Adventure Canada’s educational programs have always been a combination of science and art, which has produced some really interesting and Aboutrewarding collaborations. the Arts Take a group Float... of bright, interested explorers, add days full of breathtaking first hand experiences in the natural world, throw in a series of lectures by distinguished fellow-travellers who are becoming friends, and add to the mix the artistic expression of enthusiastic songwriters, musicians, photographers, painters, sculptors, authors and poets. The recipe is unbeatable. It makes Adventure Canada what we are.

In 2009 we extended our collaborative vision of arts and science with the launch of our Arts Float series. A troupe of visual artists, musicians and authors joined forces with our team of anthropologists, botanists and naturalists to explore the landscape in a multi-disciplinary fashion. As a result, through the collective experience, a great deal of fine artistic work emerged, while songwriting, sketching, painting, sculpting and creative writing workshops heightened the adventure for everyone.

In 2011 Adventure Canada is launching the second Arts Float on a voyage to The Land God Gave To Cain – the wilds of Labrador. Untamed and gigantic, Labrador is a land of inspiration. The team of expert staff will not only help you to understand and experience the land and people we visit. Our group of creative artists but help you write your own soundtrack to what you see, and express your reactions. We invite you to join us and participate in all elements of our program. Everyone is a learner here. Sample new creative techniques and hone your skills. Seek new horizons. Have fun learning things you never thought you could do. Surprise yourself. Penny whistle, anyone? ©Dennis Minty

A gang of old and new faces join us on this fall’s adventure. Singer, songwriter and playwright Ian Tamblyn leads our award-winning team of musicians in educating, challenging and entertaining you through song. Ian is joined by Newfoundland’s Daniel Payne, collector of traditional jigs, reels and stories and esteemed fiddler and accordion player (and demon on the penny whistle!). Songwriter, cattle rancher and founding member of the Legendary Hearts, Barney Bentall will delight guests and locals alike. Zany Wash-board Hank brings out the fun with his entertaining showmanship, while Port Credit’s own singer & songwriter Tom Barlow will anchor our evening get-togethers and keep you entertained well into the early hours of the morning. Bring your own instruments, sing along, and write your own score.

CBC’s own gracious host, Shelagh Rogers, will use all her skills as she helps us get to know the prized Newfoundland authors Kevin Major and Kathleen Winter. In their much-praised work both authors deal extensively with the province, people and land we will travel through. Last but not least we’ll be joined by members of the Canadian art sensation Drawnonward, today’s answer to the Group of Seven (though they hate that line). Whether you’re looking for basic or advanced instruction, or just to set your canvass down with a group of like-minded individuals, the opportunities for painting, drawing and sketching in memorable settings are available at every landing.

45 September 30 - October 10, 2011/September 22 - October 2, 2012 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Newfoundland Circumnavigation

46 © Dennis Minty hat better way to see a place so shaped by sea than by ship? In 2011, we are pleased to once again be returning to one of our favourite destinations, Newfoundland and Labrador. The warmth, wit and hospitality of her people, the soul stirring Wmusic and the rough beauty of her shores draw us here year after year, each time with new surprises and delights to greet us along the way.

Setting out from historic St. John’s, North America’s oldest port, we sail for Bonavista – home of Newfoundland’s first school. Here we will meet the first of our community hosts. The next three days will have an emphasis on archaeology beginning with L’Anse aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the only authenticated Viking site in North America, and is widely regarded as one of the most important archaeological sites globally. At Red Bay, on the Labrador coast, we’ll explore the remains of the ancient Basque whaling station, where three 16th century Basque whaling galleons and four small chalupas haunt the deep waters, making it an important historical site and earning it a well-deserved UNESCO nomination.

Continuing on to L’Anse-Amour, we visit the oldest burial mound in North America at about 7,500 years old. This important site, located on the Strait of Belle Isle, was occupied between at least 5500 and 2000 BC by the Maritime Archaic people who used the area for fishing and for hunting harp seals and walrus.

As for Gros Morne, mid-way down Newfoundland’s west coast, it has been said that, “Gros Morne is to geology what the Galapagos are to biology.” Spectacular scenery including Precambrian cliffs, deep inland fjords and volcanic “pillow” rocks formed as lava cooled underwater — is just one of the reasons we stop here year after year, to see where the ancient ocean bed lies on top of high hills, establishing the truth of the “Tectonic plate” theory.

For the next four days we will be the guests of countless Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, all keen to welcome us to their homes with the kindness of a long lost friend. Our community visits will allow for us to meet locals throughout the province, presenting a slice of regional cultures. At Miawpukek (Conne River) we’ll be treated to a special cultural presentation, including a performance by the world-renowned the Se’t A’newey Choir.

Before disembarking the Clipper Adventurer at St. John’s we’ll pay a visit to France during our stop at Miquelon — the sole remaining vestige of France’s once vast North American possessions.

Autumn is a delightful time to visit Newfoundland and Labrador, with warmer weather and rich fall colours. Our fall itinerary is designed specifically to showcase Newfoundland’s great natural wonders with a focus on archaeology, geology, history, music and culture.

Come, and discover Newfoundland the way it was meant to be seen – by sea.

© Dennis Minty © Dennis Minty 47 “I would like to thank Adventure Canada and all those involved with the circumnavigation of Newfoundland for such a wonderful and unique cruise. One I will never forget and will highly recommend to my fellow Aussies and I hope to be sailing with you again in the not too distant future.”

-Diane, Newfoundland, 2010 ©Dennis Minty

Our Intended Itinerary Highlights Day 1: St. John’s Day 7: Garria Bay & Ramea • Visit the earliest known European settlement Day 2: Bonavista Day 8: Francois in the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows Day 3: L’Anse aux Meadows Day 9: Miawpukek (Conne River) • Investigate the remains of a 16th century Day 4: Red Bay & L’Anse Amour Day 10: Miquelon, France Basque whaling station at Red Bay Day 5: Gros Morne National Park Day 11: St. John’s • Visit the “Galapagos” of geology hiking the Day 6: St. George’s Bay tablelands in Gros Morne National Park • Pay a visit to France during our stop at Miquelon • Experience a piece of the Miawpukek culture during our community visit in Conne River • Take part in a traditional Newfoundland kitchen party and sample traditional Newfoundland cuisine • Enjoy the warm weather and rich fall colours as we sail “round the rock” • Roam the magical streets of St. John’s, the oldest city in North America

48 This is just a sampling of the outstanding staff on this voyage. Please visit our website for a full list of staff members.

Newfoundland Circumnavigation: Staff

Daniel Payne Robert Poulton Holly Hogan Matthew James Bradley-Swan Michael Crummey Musician / Culturalist Photographer Wildlife Biologist Assistant Expedition Leader Author / Culturalist Daniel Payne comes from a long Robert Poulton is an award- Holly’s fascination with birds An adventurer at heart, Matthew Michael was born in Buchans, line of traditional accordion and winning editorial and travel began in her teens when she first James grew up sailing Canada’s a mining town in central fiddle players from Cow Head on photographer based in Toronto. discovered that they could be beautiful coastlines. He returns Newfoundland. He was raised the Great Northern Peninsula of An obsessed traveller and identified by sound. As a person annually to Canada’s northern there and in Labrador West. His Newfoundland. He is a well- Anthropology keener, Robert’s with strong musical affinities, she territories and Maritime provinces first book, Arguments with Gravity, known singer, actor and multi- portfolio quickly developed found this particularly intriguing. as assistant expedition leader aboard appeared in 1996. Since then he instrumentalist who teaches at the as a documentation of the Putting this new-found interest Clipper Adventurer. With a passion has published half a dozen others, Vinland Music Camp in Gros human condition and cultural to work, she did her graduate for the outdoors, wild places and including Hard Light and Salvage Morne National Park. Daniel has exploration. Multiple trips to degree at Memorial University photography Matthew is thrilled to (poetry), Flesh and Blood (short performed both as a musician and Morocco quickly built a vast of Newfoundland on songbird share the treasures of the East coast stories) and three novels. His first actor throughout North America, collection of images of the community ecology. Ultimately with you. When not in the field novel, River Thieves, was published Australia and Europe. He is a iconic Berbers & west African drawn to the marine environment, leading hikes, driving zodiacs and internationally and appeared on half recipient of the Newfoundland and Muslim culture, which was she has worked primarily on coordinating the onboard program a dozen award shortlists, including Labrador Arts Council’s Emerging followed by another successful seabirds for the last 25 years, and Matthew joins the Adventure the Giller Prize. The Wreckage (2005), Artist Award and played a leading series based on the Incas of has worked on seabird colonies Canada team at brain central in was a national bestseller, short- role in the Newfoundland-Ireland Peru and South America. on both sides of the continent, Port Credit, the place he calls home. listed for the Rogers’ Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize and long-listed for the production of the TV miniseries, Robert’s newest series of including British Columbia, Matthew James has been involved Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. Random Passage, a portrayal of life the Inuit in Canada’s North, Alaska, Newfoundland and in the family business for longer His latest novel, Galore, won the in early Newfoundland. In 2004 photographed on Adventure Labrador. Holly currently manages than he can remember and enjoys Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Daniel started DOP Productions, Canada’s High Arctic 2009, two seabird ecological reserves for the process of getting to know Canadian Authors’ Association which has since released four received an Applied Arts 2010 the province of Newfoundland and Adventure Canada guests - right Fiction Award, and was shortlisted titles, an album of accordion music Photo Annual nod for “Best Labrador. When the birds leave from the time when you first call to for the Governor-General’s Award. entitled The Four Stops, two button Editorial Series”. Robert is their breeding colonies for the get your brochure to sending you After 14 years in Kingston, ON he accordion instructional DVDs, looking forward to capturing home after a fantastic expedition winter, Holly is singing the blues. came home to Newfoundland for and his first solo album, released in Newfoundland with you. in his favourite place in the world - Her husband and three children good in 2000. He lives in St. John’s spring 2008 entitled Chain. Canada. put up with it most of the time. with his wife and three children.

Latonia Hartery and others will also be on this voyage, please find their biographies within this brochure or online. 49 ©Andrew Stewart ©Dennis Minty

“Please extend our sincere thanks to the staff and resource staff at Adventure Canada on the 2010 Newfoundland Circumnavigation. The expedition was truly wonderful: well planned, well organized and well executed. As we had not previously had the opportunity for similar travel, we did not know what to expect, but were surprised and delighted at every turn. Many many thanks! “ - Janet & Roger, Newfoundland Circumnavigation

50 ©Daniel J. Catt ©Dennis Minty They’d been coming to settle here for thousands of years; the Maritime Archaic Indians, the Paleoeskimo people, the Beothuk, Exploringthe Norse and finally the RuralEuropeans. The landscapeNewfoundland... is rugged and remote, the ocean is often furious and inhospitable; but the abundance of cod made it all worthwhile. The settlements were not organized by proximity to services, transportation hubs, or good soil conditions; they were built wherever there were good fishing grounds and shelter from the winds.

A lot has changed over the years, but a lot remains constant here. The fishing grounds no longer matter; the fish are gone. The Tony Oxford sheltered harbours, fishing premises and drying flakes are no longer needed; technology has taken over. There’s no longer need to Musician & Culturalist live in isolated villages because the employment opportunities are almost all centralized in urban areas. So are medical facilities. Born in a tiny rural Newfoundland But the people remain! They hold on to fishing village, Tony Oxford has their rural roots and a way of life that’s lived and learned the charm and endured for generations. I’ve visited nearly splendour of outport living. all the outports, especially the tiniest and Although at the insistence of his most isolated. It’s always a total delight. father he choose a career path In the face of economic hardship and other than fishing, he has kept a uncertainty the spirit and resiliency of our close eye on the fishery’s evolution people is as strong and unwavering as ever. from the last days of drying cod The two standard opening conversation to this the nineteenth year of a questions invariably have to do with where cod moratorium. In many of you’re from and if you’d like a lunch. We’ve his provincial, regional and local got our own words and definitions for nearly volunteer roles he has been a strong and outspoken advocate ©Dennis Minty everything and “stranger” seems more to do with a good friend you didn’t know until for rural Newfoundland. Since his retirement from educational now. administration Tony has dedicated Stay a day or two and you’ll discover other layers of spirit. The social fabric is tight and woven around charity and a need to even more time to advocating organize for the public good. We get together a lot to celebrate, usually in support of some social group or person who’s in for outport Newfoundland and need. Feasting and music are at the core of most gatherings. The music is not mainstream Canadian but it’s hard for your feet immersing himself more and more to stay still when it’s going good, and there’s no shortage of players and singers. I’ve been asked numerous times in the most in local folklore. Since 2005 he has fervent of tones if everybody in Newfoundland can play and sing! enjoyed the opportunity to present the music, language and culture One of our provincial tourism ads suggests we’re about as far away from Disney World as one can get. Well, we’re about the of his province to the friends of same distance from WalMart! It’s amazing how the skills of self-sufficiency have been so well preserved. It’s now referred to Adventure Canada who choose as craftsmanship, but a lot of household and clothing items are made in the homes of rural Newfoundland and are adorned to visit. Delighted with AC’s with artistic pride. Mittens and quilts are standard conversation pieces. And if there was a world record for Mason jars per preference for visiting tiny and capita, we’d probably hold it!! sometimes remote communities, Human warmth is a wonderful feeling and I consider myself blessed for being immersed in it around the tiny villages of he’s quite eager to help present Newfoundland and Labrador. May children live in our outports forever and may the fresh ocean breeze absorb the sounds of “the essence of who we are”. their laughter for just as long! -Tony Oxford, Musician & Culturalist Join Tony on our Newfoundland Circumnavigation. 51 ©Dennis Minty

With Kevin Major October 10-13, 2011

Literature, music, visual art, theatre—Newfoundland has it all, and in abundance far beyond anything you might expect of Cost: $999 USD + HST halfArt a million people.on Join the celebrated Rock Newfoundland writer Kevin Major for an insider’s look at the culture of his Island, three art-filled days at the edge of the North Atlantic. Let him take you through the multi-hued streets and back lanes of St. John’s, Single supplement please add $375 + to his favourite galleries and music haunts. Meet artists and poets and musicians (sometimes all three in one). Spend time in HST their studios. Hear them explain their art. Listen as they read from their award-winning books, and relax and chat with them Max: 18 Adventurers over wine. From the intimacy of an ornate nineteenth century reading room to the sweeping views of the city from the ultra- modern galleries of The Rooms (what The Globe and Mail has called ‘one of the world’s great small museums’), you’ll know Tour cost includes: you’re in the midst of a culture like no other in North America. Aesthetically, you might think yourself in Europe. Whether • All meals walking the stage of the LSPU Hall (where Mary Walsh and Rick Mercer honed their skills) or enjoying a pint and a song at • Four nights accommodations The Ship or The Crow’s Nest, you’ll know for sure you’ve fallen into the arms of a spirited arts scene. • All transportation • Your guide, Kevin Major Food? Of course. Whether your preference is fine international cuisine or fish ‘n chips at Chess’, St. John’s doesn’t • Special guest appearances disappoint. Shopping? That, too. From books personally autographed, to paintings and prints, to fine and funky crafts. • Admission to galleries, museums You’ll take the scenic route to the historic settlements of Cupids and Brigus, along Conception Bay, an hour outside the and special events city. In Cupids, discover the landscape that became home to the first English settlement in Canada, established by John Tour cost does not include: Guy in 1610. Take lunch in what was once St. Augustine’s Church, now Cupid Haven’s Tearoom. That afternoon we’ll • Transportation to/from St. John’s venture to Brigus, one of the most beautiful of Newfoundland’s outport communities, and one thoroughly steeped in • Alcoholic beverages history. Here is to be found the home of the famous Arctic explorer Bob Bartlett, as well as a cottage that in 1914 was • Items of a personal nature the residence of American artist Rockwell Kent (before he was forced out by locals who suspected he was a German • Any expenses incurred due to spy!). Through the centuries there have sailed from Brigus countless fishing vessels, often bringing salted codfish directly itinerary changes beyond our control to the markets of Europe and South America. Fitness Level: Easy Then it’s back to St. John’s for the evening meal together in one of the city’s finer restaurants. There’ll be chance to relive the three delightful days, before offering a final rousing toast to Newfoundland’s culture and people. 52 The Clipper Adventurer

The 118-passengerClipper Adventurer, is among the very few vessels in the world specifically constructed for expedition voyages to the far reaches of remote lands. She has advanced communications and navigation equipment, and newly installed, state-of-the-art Sperry Gyrofin stabilizers. With extensive renovations, the Clipper Adventurer is a handsome expedition vessel, done in the style of great ocean liners. With lots of varnished wood, brass, and wooden decks, the ship has all new outside cabins, with private showers & facilities. You will enjoy relaxing in the Main Lounge, Clipper Club, library/card room, sauna or beauty salon, keeping trim in the gymnasium, or picking up souvenirs in the gift shop. Meals include International and Continental cuisine. The ship has a fleet of 10 Zodiacs and a special loading platform. An ice class rating of A-1 allows the Clipper Adventurer to go to places that larger cruise ships can only dream of, and she does it in comfort and style unsurpassed by other vessels her size.

Category Amenities 1 Quad Lower Forward, 2 upper 2 lower berths, porthole window. 2 Triple Lower Deck, 1 upper 2 lower berths, porthole window. 3 Junior Double, two lower berths, porthole window 4 Double, two lower berths, midship, porthole window. Main Double, two lower berths, porthole window. Technical Specifications: 5 Registry Bahamas Length 101m 6 Deluxe Double, two lower berths, midship, porthole or picture window. Gross Tonnage 4,376 Beam 16.5m 7 Superior Double, two lower berths, picture window. Built 1975 - Russia Draft 4.72m 8 Junior Suite, two lower berths, sitting area, picture window. Refurbished 2010 - Scandinavia Capacity 118 passengers 9 Suite, two lower berths, sitting area, picture window. Ice Class A-1 Electricity 220 V. 10 Owner’s Suite, two lower berths, shower & bathtub, picture window. 53 The Ocean Nova

Ocean Nova (formerly called Sarpik Ittuk) made its debut operating as an expedition ship in Antarctic waters in 2006. Built in 1992 in Denmark, Ocean Nova was commissioned as one of three “sister ships” to navigate Greenland’s icy waters as a coastal passenger ferry connecting the isolated villages of West Greenland.

The ship’s captain and bridge crew have extensive experience in navigating polar waters, and the Greenlandic hotel and dining room staff are first-rate. She is a very quiet ship, with bow and stern thrusters providing excellent maneuverability, and a shallow draught that allows anchorage closer to landing sites than ships with a deeper hull. Being positioned closer to shore, makes for shorter transfer times during landings. Ocean Nova is fitted with sophisticated navigation and communication equipment, and telephone and email access is available to passengers. All cabins have private facilities and outside views.

Category Amenities 1 Lower Quad, 2 upper 2 lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, 2 wardrobes, porthole window.

2 Lower Triple, 1 upper 2 lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, 2 wardrobes, porthole window.

3 Lower Double Bunks, 1 upper, 1 lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, wardrobe, porthole Technical Specifications: window. Registry Bahamas Length 73 m Lower Double, two lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, wardrobe, porthole window. Gross Tonnage 2,183 Beam 11 m 4 Built 1992 - Denmark Draft 3.7 m 5 Main Double, two lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, wardrobe, picture window. Refurbished 2006 Capacity 90 passengers 6 Superior Double, two lower berths, private facilities, desk/chair, wardrobe, picture window Ice Class A-1 Electricity 220 V. 54 The Ocean Nova The Clipper Odyssey

The Clipper Odyssey is a small luxury ship, ideally suited for expedition cruising - equipped with state-of-the-art navigational and communication equipment. While travelling in comfort and style, this 110-passenger vessel allows us to reach remote corners of the map and offer an in- depth look at the destinations we visit. All cabins are spacious and comfortable with an ocean view (either portholes or windows) and en suite facilities that include a shower and small bath tub. All cabins have a safe, minibar, individually controlled heat/air conditioner, in-room music system, North American style outlets (two flat prongs) at 110 volts, and sitting area with sofa.

Category Amenities 1 A-Deck Triple, two lower berths, one sofa bed, private facilities, porthole windows. 2 A-Deck Double, two lower berths, private facilities, 2 porthole windows. 3 Main Deck Forward, two lower berths, private facilities, window. 4 Main Deck Double, two lower berths, midship, private facilities, window

5 Lido Deck Double, two lower berths, midship, private facilities, window.

Technical Specifications: 6 Superior, two lower berths, private facilities, large window. Registry Bahamas Beam 15 m 7 Junior Suite, two lower berths, midship, private facilities, private veranda. Gross Tonnage 5,218 Draft 4 m Suite, two lower berths, separate sitting area, private facilities, private veranda Built 1989 Capacity 110 passengers 8 Refurbished 1998 Electricity 110 V. Length 102 m 55 July 1 – 13, 2011 aboard the Golden Eagle Train

Providing one of the world’s greatest railway journeys, the Trans-Siberian Railway runs like a steel ribbon connecting east and west Thefrom Moscow, Trans-Siberian over the Urals, across the magnificent Express Russian steppes and alongside the shore of the world’s largest freshwater lake to Ulaan Bataar in Mongolia. The Imperial State Budget spent 1.455 billion rubles from 1891 to 1913 on the railway’s construction all the way to the Pacific, an expenditure record which was surpassed only by the military budget in World War I. Opened in stages between 1891 and 1916, this extraordinary engineering achievement is a vital national asset - and by far the best way to experience the grandeur of Russia’s rarely visited interior. This is Russia as it was meant to be seen.

We travel aboard our private train - the luxurious Golden Eagle - on a voyage of over 5,000 kilometres, from Moscow to Ulaan Baatar as we discover the mystery and majesty of Russia and Mongolia. Onboard, we’ll have a lecture series, meals inspired by the regions we visit and world-class service. Almost everything is included, from gratuities to local beers and international wines. Equally important, this journey offers plenty of time off the train to explore the many cities and towns along the way.

Along this monumental journey, we will have the chance to experience everything from the rich architecture of Moscow, the “Paris of Siberia” at Irkutsk and the natural beauty of Lake Baikal. We will be treated to private concerts, and will be able to sample local vodkas and caviar, besides delving into the fascinating history of the Czars. Entering into Mongolia, we arrive in the capital, Ulaan Baatar just in time to be part of the spectacular Naadam Festival. We attend the festival, staying in traditional Mongolian yurts before making our way home or onward to Beijing.

56 Our Intended Itinerary • HighlightsImmerse yourself in Moscow’s rich Day 1-2: Moscow Day 8: Lake Baikal architectural heritage Day 3: Kazan Day 9: Ulan Ude • Travel on one of the world’s most luxurious Day 4: Yekaterinburg Day 10: Ulaan Baatar and exclusive trains Day 5: Novosibirsk Day 11: Ulaan Baatar • Visit the Kremlin Fortress at Kazan • Explore a stunning mosque and Russian Day 6: On Board Day 12: Ulaan Baatar - Naadam Festival Orthodox Cathedral at the UNESCO World Day 7: Irkutsk Day 13: Ulaan Baatar - Naadam Festival Heritage Site • Visit Yekaterinburg and the spot where the Russian Royal Family were executed by the Bolsheviks • Wander in Irkutsk – The Paris of Siberia • Attend the vibrant Naadaam Festival in Mongolia • Stand on the shores of Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake. • Experience the capital of Mongolia and the home of Genghis Khan, Ulaan Baatar • Stay two nights in a Mongolian Yurt

July 17 - 23, 2011

ListenExplore to the explosive Eastern spout of a humpback Newfoundland: whale as it breaks the surface Photographic of Cost: $2,995 USD Adventure + HST, Your Guides: a clear blue ocean. See the comical flight of a full-bellied puffin as it tries to Single supplement please add Dennis Minty & get airborne. Smell the salty landwash where the sea touches North America’s $495 USD + HST eastern-most land and where First Light really is first. Antje Springmann Max: 6 adventurers Dennis has a long With camera in hand we will take you to the heart of the most easterly corner of history with North America, still largely undiscovered by the vast majority of travellers. This Tour cost includes: Adventure Canada • All accommodations is a tour for photographers of all levels, their companions and the artistically- • All meals as naturalist and minded. Your particular needs and interests are addressed in a multi-dimensional • Ground transportation photographer. He is tour that mixes group instruction, experiential learning and one-on-one coaching • Your instructor/guide(s) an award winning in the midst of cultural and ecological wonders. Presentations are interactive, • All park/tour fees environmental inspiring and informative; the hikes are filled with vistas and natural beauty educator, wildlife biologist, park that invite hours of artistic contemplation; the traditional home-cooked meals Tour cost does not include: manager and author of several books. Antje and accommodations celebrate the best of Newfoundland hospitality. We will • Insurance Springmann has called Newfoundland home amble through charming historic communities like Brigus, Trinity and St. John’s; • Alcoholic beverages since coming there from Germany when she experience gannets, puffins and whales closer than almost anywhere on earth, • Flights to/from St. John’s was twelve. She guided her first cultural tours hike trails that take us along towering cliffs, and through gentle meadows and • Items of a personal nature of St. John’s 20 years ago. She has a varied that explore Newfoundland’s famous rocky beaches. • Any expenses incurred background in educational design, arts due to itinerary changes and culture, tourism, marketing, event beyond our control Your guides have deep roots here and will open doors to places and experiences organization and partnership development. A undiscovered by the casual tourist. So pack your camera and join celebrated Fitness Level: Easy to budding photographer in her own right, she nature photographer, Dennis Minty, and his partner Antje Springmann, Moderate recently joined her husband, Dennis Minty, in for Explore Eastern Newfoundland: Photographic Adventure, an unforgettable developing workshops that bring people experience that will leave you inspired and more adept at capturing the natural closer to the natural world. world with your camera. 58 June 26 - July 3, 2011

NewfoundlandJoin us on a photographic adventure Close-Up: featuring two magnificent A Photographic UNESCO World Heritage Adventure sites and Cost: $3,495 USD + HST many delightful gems along the path that connects them. This is a tour for photographers ready to move Single supplement please add beyond the basics and immerse themselves in an inspiring, rugged landscape as they hone their skills. We $495 + HST mix group instruction, experiential learning and professional one-on-one coaching for a custom tailored experience in the midst of cultural and ecological wonders. Max: 6 Tour cost includes: Gros Morne National Park is a spectacular natural phenomenon filled with sparkling bays, ancient fjords, • All accommodations and the awe-inspiring Tablelands. Rich in wildlife and magnificent vistas, it is also the place where geology • All meals commands centre stage. Our home base is the luxurious Neddies Harbour Inn, nestled in serene Bonne Bay • Ground transportation where the North Atlantic laps at the shore outside our window. From here we explore the heart of Gros • Your instructor/guide(s) Morne with plenty of time to capture the landscape with our cameras. • All park/tour fees From Gros Morne we travel north, traversing primal, barren landscapes dotted with tiny, isolated communities where local Newfoundlanders still follow the traditional way of life. There are many hidden Tour cost does not include: treasures along our way, from graveyards with stories to tell, to lighthouses and dune-strewn sandy beaches, • Insurance even a glimpse of Labrador across the straight. Our destination is the very tip of Newfoundland’s Northern • Alcoholic beverages • Flights to/from Deer Lake Peninsula, a finger that reaches high into the North Atlantic. Here we walk in the footsteps of the Vikings • Items of a personal nature who wintered in this place over a thousand years ago in defiance of the barren land. On our return to Gros • Any expenses incurred due to Morne we keep a look-out for icebergs that are often plentiful here. itinerary changes beyond our So pack your camera and join celebrated nature photographer, Dennis Minty, and his partner Antje control Springmann, in this ancient, rugged place. Your guides are Newfoundlanders who will open doors to places and experiences undiscovered by the casual tourist. Don’t miss this extra-ordinary photographic journey Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate that will leave you inspired and refreshed, and your photography portfolio brimming. 59 Both photos ©Mike Wigle

Birding Sea to Summit June 4 – 10, 2011

BritishJoin us for an adventureColumbia’s in BC’s dramatic Coast coast Mountains:Cost: $3,795 USD + HST Single supplement available upon request mountains! We explore this fascinating area looking for the birds and other wildlife by boat, Max: 12 adventurers Highlights• Heli-hiking in the alpine amid foot, van, and helicopter! We begin in the coastal stunning scenery community of Bella Coola and base ourselves at Fitness Level: Moderate: one full day hike and • Drifting on the Atanarko River the very comfortable Tweedsmuir Park Lodge. A several half day hikes helicopter flight into the high alpine county will • A boat trip on Bella Coola inlet give us chance to go for a hike and look for some Tour Price Includes: for birds and possibly whales specialized alpine birds, including Gray-crowned • Your guide, Steve Ogle • The towering forests and fjords of Rosy-Finches. A boat trip on the inlet should • Accommodation this very wild area produce scoters, murrelets and, with luck, one or • All meals during the tour • Staying at the wonderful more of the local cetaceans, perhaps even killer • Transportation during the tour Tweedsmuir Park Lodge whales. During a river float we’ll enjoy watching • Helicopter flight • Flying over Mt. Waddington, American Dippers foraging (they flit from branch to • River and inlet boat trips rock then disappear under water,true to their name). BC’s highest peak Heading east, we keep our eyes open for grizzly Tour Price Does Not include: bears and moose. Then we hike into the Rainbow • Flights from your home to Bella Coola and range, looking for both Willow and White-tailed home from Anahim Lake Ptarmigan. This area also holds several other • Optional fixed wing flight over Mt. Waddington surprises, including nesting Arctic Terns and Yellow • Personal expenses Rail. We’ll finish with an optional flight over BC’s • Insurance highest peak, Mt. Waddington. 60 ©Daniel J. Catt

July 15 - 24, 2011

Join Carol Heppenstall on a journey to Haida Gwaii: the Queen Cost: $5,295 USD + HST HaidaCharlotte Islands Gwaii: and home of the Haida The - one ofQueen the most culturally Charlotte rich Islands and developed groups of people to inhabit early North America. Among Max: 14 adventurers the southern islands are many ancient villages - K’uuna (Skedans), Cumshewa, T’annu and SGaang Gwaii (Ninstints). These sites contain Tour cost includes: • Visit to the Haida Gwaii Museum the remains of the great longhouses and the best remaining examples • Most meals Highlights of original totem poles in the world. Now is a particularly good time to • Hotel night in Vancouver and new Qay’llnagaay Heritage visit these islands, since every year nature ages and slowly deteriorates the • Accommodations Centre magnificent totem poles which are slowly deteriorating. SGaang Gwaii is • Museum and park fees • A fabulous traditional Haida meal recognized as a World Heritage Site, and though the old villages are now • Passage onboard Island Roamer hosted at the home of a Haida uninhabited, the Haida have watchmen to protect their heritage and to • All ground transportation elder greet visitors appropriately. • Tips to the ship’s crew • Village stops in old growth forests The chance to listen to a Haida story, to learn about the traditional and Tour cost does not include: • Visit to Nan Sdins (Ninstints), modern Haida life, is for many people a highlight of the trip. A unique • Flights: your home to the oldest recorded village on the opportunity found almost nowhere else on the coast. We find that our Vancouver and Vancouver to encounters with the Haida teach us about their art, legends, customs and Sandspit return island food gathering methods. As a result, we gain an understanding of how the • Mandatory emergency medical • Refreshing outdoor pools of Haida related intimately to their environment to produce a unique and and evacuation insurance healing waters highly evolved art form. • Items of a personal nature • A chance to chat with Haida elders • Any expenses incurred due to and watch age-old cedar bark craft With over one hundred islands, forested creek walks, rugged headlands changes beyond our control and towering mountains, our excursions will provide ample scenery. demonstrations Bird watching is excellent, with puffins, auklets and eagles; hundreds of Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate • Quiet moorings afford the luxuries thousands of seabirds nest on the islands. We hope to see Stellar sea lions to sketch or photograph. and spot a variety of whales from our vessel, the Island Roamer. Bring your Please call us to receive additional camera, journals and sketchpads and be seduced by one of Canada’s most noble destinations. information on this departure. 61 All photos © Michelle Valberg

Rugged mountains, stunning glaciers, flocks of Day 1: Arrival in Ottawa northern seabirds, the wonderful Narwhal, and Cost: $5,295 USD + HST The tour begins in the evening in Ottawa, Ontario. We meet over a traditionalPond Inuit cultureInlet: – this is what Floe awaits us onEdge welcome dinner to discuss the coming adventure. Those arriving early Max: 12 adventurers a truly amazing tour to the wilderness of northern may enjoy a visit to the Canadian Museum of Nature before dinner. Baffin Island. We experience this dramatic Arctic Tour cost includes: Night at our hotel in Ottawa. landscape at a time of year when the sun never • 4 hotel nights, 5 nights camping Day 2: Travel to Pond Inlet sets and wildlife is returning to this very rich (equipment provided) area of the Arctic. There are northern birds in • Most meals We leave Ottawa in the morning for our flights to Pond Inlet at the northern tip of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. After a plane abundance, including Thick-billed Murre, Black- • Travel by komatik (sled) to floe edge change in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, we should arrive in Pond Inlet legged Kittiwake, and King and Common Eiders. • Services of guide(s) in the afternoon. After dinner we will have plenty of time for a short Other highlights include Sabine’s and Thayer’s walk around town because the sun does not set at this time of year. gulls, Red-throated Loon and we may even see Tour cost does not include: Hotel night in Pond Inlet. the all white Ivory Gull! In addition, the mixing • Roundtrip airfare to Pond Inlet of ocean currents from Baffin Bay and Lancaster • Mandatory emergency medical Day 3: Travel to the floe edge Sound makes the marine life very rich! At this insurance • Items of a personal nature In the morning we will explore the shoreline, tundra and ponds close to time of year, the sea ice is melting back and marine • Any expenses incurred due to Pond Inlet. We will encounter some of the more common species such mammals are traveling north along the ice floe itinerary changes beyond our as Lapland Longspur, Horned Lark and Snow Bunting, and we will be edge where food is concentrated. As a result,this is control looking for Common Ringed Plover here and elsewhere. This mostly the perfect spot to see Arctic wildlife of all sorts, • Gratuities to local guides Palearctic species has a very small breeding range in North America, including several species of seals and the amazing restricted to the eastern Arctic of Canada. After lunch, we will depart Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate for the floe edge. We travel by komatik, which is a wooden sled lashed spiral-tusked Narwhal. With luck we will also walking together and pulled behind a snowmobile. This is the traditional means see polar bear or the endangered bowhead whale. of travel for the Inuit. The difference today is that snowmobiles have Remote wilderness, striking Arctic landscapes, rich replaced dog teams. northern wildlife, and fascinating culture – this promises to be the experience of a lifetime!

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Enroute we may have the opportunity to get up close and personal with several icebergs that Loon, Greater Snow Goose, and Long-tailed Duck. It should be a spectacular setting on the have spent the winter frozen in place. These can be both beautiful and enormous as they await tundra surrounded by the rugged snow-covered mountains that rim the eastern Arctic. break up of the ice before they continue to drift southward. The floe edge is where the winter ice meets the open waters of Baffin Bay and it is where the wildlife is concentrated on their Visit to Seabird Colony northward migration. We should have wonderful opportunities to photograph and enjoy the From our camp, if ice conditions permit, we will travel to the seabird colony on Bylot Island. wildlife. The birding at the floe edge should be superb! Hundreds of Northern Fulmars, Brant, North of Cape Graham Moore, cliffs rise thousands of feet and host over 40,000 Thick-billed Common and King Eiders, and all three species of Jaegers will be a treat. We will see hundreds or Murres and 6,500 Black-legged Kittiwakes. Hundreds of them will be coming and going from even thousands of Thick-billed Murres, many Black Guillemots, and with luck, several Dovekie their precarious ledges as they head east to feed at the floe edge, the region’s great buffet table. in their very sharp breeding plumage! We will also see a collection of northern gulls: Glaucous, Thayer’s, Sabine’s, Black-legged Kittiwake, and with much luck, Ivory Gull. You have to travel At the Floe Edge very far north to find this beautiful all white arctic gull, but here we will be in the heart of its We will likely spend most of our time at the floe edge with the hope of seeing some of the more range. Unfortunately, they have become quite scarce in the last several years and are now an elusive species that will be moving by, including the marine mammals. Waiting patiently right at endangered species. We will have the opportunity to watch as these and possibly other species the floe edge should improve our chances of seeing that amazing northern whale, the Narwhal. move northward along the floe edge. We will be watching for groups of these bizarre creatures, with their long spiraled tusks – the male’s tusk can be up to 7 feet long! This will surely be a highlight! It is also possible to see Days 4–7: Floe edge and Bylot Island Bowhead Whales, Walrus, and that creature of legend, Nanook, the Polar Bear, but we will need Our daily activities will depend on the location of the floe edge and weather conditions, but will some luck for these. The floe edge will also give us the chance to see Ringed seals, and possibly likely include these highlights. We will use a camp near the floe edge for these nights. Bearded and Harp Seals as well.

Bylot Island Day 8: Return to Pond Inlet Bylot Island is part of the recently declared Sirmilik National Park and is one of the largest After a final morning at the floe edge, we leave our camp to return to Pond Inlet. On our journey bird refuges in the world. We plan to go for a walk near our camp to see the remains of several we may view the towering hoodoos of Bylot Island plus the spectacular landscape of mountains traditional sod and whalebone houses, used until recently by the Inuit. On the tundra, we look and massive glaciers. Hotel night in Pond Inlet. for many of the common northern species that are returning from the south at this time of year. Shorebirds are sparsely distributed, but we hope to find several species nesting including Day 9: Travel to Ottawa and onward American Golden-Plover, Baird’s Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper and Red Phalarope. On We reluctantly leave this magical northern hamlet and fly south to Iqaluit and on to Ottawa, the cliffs, we will look closely for Gyrfalcon, including white-morph individuals, and Peregrine arriving in the afternoon, usually with time to catch connecting flights home. We will head home Falcon. In the ponds on Bylot Island and around Pond Inlet, we will search for Red-throated with many fond memories from this amazing adventure in the land of the midnight sun. 63 All rates are in USD. Prices are cash/cheque discounted; please find credit card prices on the back cover.

Trans-Siberian Iceland & Into the Out of the Greenland & Wild Newfoundland Voyage Celtic Quest Heart of the Arctic Express Greenland Northwest Passage Northwest Passage Labrador Circumnavigation Dates 2011May 31 - June 10, 2011 RatesJuly 1 - 13, 2011 Aug. 7 - 18, 2011 Aug. 18 - Sept. 1, 2011 Sept. 1 -17, 2011 Sept. 12- 24, 2011 Sept. 17 - 30, 2011 Sept. 30 - Oct. 10, 2011 Vessel Clipper Odyssey Golden Eagle Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Ocean Nova Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Category 1 $3,895 Heritage - $8,695 $3,495 $6,595 $6,795 $3,995 $3,995 $3,495 2 $4,695 Silver - $12,295 $4,395 $7,895 $8,395 $4,955 $4,895 $4,195 3 $5,250 Gold - $15,295 $5,295 $8,895 $9,395 $6,795 $5,995 $4,795 4 $5,950 N/A $6,295 $9,895 $10,595 $7,995 $6,595 $5,295 5 $6,595 N/A $6,995 $11,395 $11,895 $9,295 $8,195 $6,195 6 $6,995 N/A $7,750 $12,395 $13,295 $9,995 $8,750 $6,795 7 $7,495 N/A $8,295 $13,295 $14,195 N/A $8,995 $7,595 8 $8,295 N/A $8,995 $13,895 $14,795 N/A $9,595 $8,195 9 N/A N/A $9,495 $14,695 $15,395 N/A $10,195 $8,595 10 N/A N/A $9,995 $15,295 $15,995 N/A $10,995 $8,995 Discovery Fund N/A N/A $250

Gardens Great & British Columbia’s Explore Eastern Haida Gwaii: The Queen Voyage Newfoundland Close-Up Art on the Rock Pond Inlet: Floe Edge Small Coast Mountains Newfoundland Charlotte Islands Dates May 26 - 30, 2011 June 4 - 10. 2011 July 17 -23, 2011 June 26 - July 3, 2011 October 10 - 13, 2011 July 15 - 24, 2011 June 13 -21, 2011

Price $2,995 $3,795 + HST $2,995 + HST $3,495 + HST $999 + HST $5,295 + HST $5,295 + HST

Sailing Solo? 30 UNDER 30 SPECIAL! Already booked a trip Single travellers not requiring private accommodation on with someone else? shipboard programs can be matched with another single Family is important! In order to promote traveller at no extra charge. Single-occupancy cabins are multi-generational travel, we are offering a No problem! We’ll cover your cancellation also available. 30% discount to travellers under 30 years of age. fees with a credit of up to $500 if you chose Please call us for pricing & availability Please call us for details! to travel with us instead. Call us for details!

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Into the Out of the Greenland & Wild Newfoundland Your Voyage Includes: Voyage • All entry & park fees Northwest Passage Northwest Passage Labrador Circumnavigation • Your complete itinerary 2012 Rates • Team of resource specialists Dates Aug. 10 - 24, 2012 Aug. 24 - Sept. 9, 2012 Sept. 9 - 22, 2012 Sept. 22 - Oct. 2, 2012 • Educational program and pre-departure Vessel Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer materials • All shipboard meals Category 1 $6,995 $7,195 $3,995 $3,595 • All Zodiac excursions • Service charges and port fees 2 $8,395 $8,995 $5,095 $4,395 3 $9,495 $9,995 $6,195 $4,995 4 $10,495 $11,295 $6,795 $5,495 Your Voyage Does Not Include: • Commercial & charter flights 5 $12,195 $12,595 $8,495 $6,395 • Mandatory medical / evacuation insurance 6 $13,195 $14,095 $8,995 $6,995 • Personal expenses 7 $14,195 $15,095 $9,295 $7,895 • Additional expenses in the event of delays or itinerary changes 8 $14,795 $15,695 $9,895 $8,495 • Discretionary gratuities to ship’s crew (approx. $10 - 14 per passenger per day) 9 $15,595 $16,295 $10,495 $8,895 • Visas, or inoculations, if required 10 $16,195 $16,995 $11,395 $9,295 • Physician’s fees confirming you are fit to travel Discovery Fund $250 • Possible fuel surcharges

Early Booking Bonus! Book and pay in full on any 2011 shipboard departure by January 31, 2011 and save 5%. *Our 2011 Northwest Passage expeditions AboutEach area we visit our has rich Discovery cultural experiences andFund wild treasures to offer. As guests, we have made a point to source and support local projects in the areas through which we travel. A contribution from each passenger represents a portion of the and Celtic Quest are excluded. money we donate to ensure the longevity and success of educational, environmental and cultural initiatives in these regions.

In 2010 the following programs were supported: Amina Anthropological Resources Association, Amos Comenius We Love Bagpipers! Memorial School, Atlantic Whales.com, Avanersuaq Cultural Qaannaaq, Greenland, Battle Harbour Historic If you can play the bagpipes, Trust, Blueprint for Life, Hobbema RCMP Cadet Program, Killinik School Foundation, Kugluktuk Association, bring them along and ask about MLC – making life count, National Inuit Youth Council, Nattinnak Centre Pond Inlet, Northern Youth Abroad our bagpiper’s rebate! Living Works, Project North, Pulaarvik Kablu Spousal Abuse Counselling, ROM, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, The Sibley Family of Ramea, Skills Canada, The Walrus Foundation, West Parry Sound Health Centre, Woody Point Historical Theatre and Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention. 65 Please call us to express your interest in these programs and claim your spot!

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Credit Card pricing is as follows: 2011 Celtic Quest: C1 $5,051, C2 $4,883, C3 $5,461, C4 $6,188, C5 In keeping with our philosophy of small group travel, most of our land based programs operate with 10 - 30 participants. If we do not get the $6,859, C6 $7,275, C7 $7,795, C8 $8,627 - 2011 Trans-Siberian Express: Heritage $9,043, Silver $12,787, Gold $15,907 -2011 Iceland & Greenland: required number of people and cancel a tour, you will be notified as soon as possible. In the event of a cancellation, all deposits and tariffs paid will C1 $3,635, C2 $4,570, C3 $5,507, C4 $6,547, C5 $7,275, C6 $8,060, C7 $8,627, C8 $9,355, C9 $9,875, C10 $10,395 -2011 Into the Northwest be returned to the passenger in full with no further obligation on the part of Adventure Canada (AC), Eagle-Eye Tours (EE), and The Human Nature Passage: C1 $6,859, C2 $8,211, C3 $9,250, C4 $10,291, C5 $11,851, C6 $12,891, C7 $13,827, C8 $14,451, C9 $15,283, C10 $15,907 – 2011 Company (HNC). Single rooms, if available, will be provided on request for an additional fee as outlined in program literature. For participants Out of the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,067, C2 $8,731, C3 $9,771, C4 $11,019, C5 $12,371, C6 $13,827, C7 $14,763, C8 $15,387, C9 $16,011, travelling alone, but wishing to share, AC will arrange for a room if possible. If a roommate is not available, a single supplement will be charged. C10 $16,635 – 2011 Heart of the Arctic: C1 $4,155, C2 $5,153, C3 $7,067, C4 $8,315, C5 $9,667, C6 $10,395 –2011 Greenland & Wild Labrador: Insurance C1 $4,155, C2 $5,090, C3 $6,235, C4 $6,859, C5 $8,523, C6 $9,100, C7 $9,355, C8 $9,980, C9 10,603, C10 $11,435 –2011 Newfoundland Due to the nature of the tour in which the passenger will be participating, passengers must have in place prior to departure comprehensive insurance Circumnavigation: C1 $3,635, C2 $4,363, C3 $4,987, C4 $5,507, C5 $6,443, C6 $7,067, C7 $7,899, C8 $8,523, C9 $8,939, C10 $9,355 -Gardens coverage including without limitation medical, emergency evacuation, trip cancellation and interruption, accident and baggage insurance. Emergency Great & Small $3,115 -British Columbia’s Coast Mountains $3,947 + HST, Explore Eastern Newfoundland $3,115 + HST, Newfoundland Close-Up medical and evacuation coverage is mandatory for trip participation and policy documentation will be required. Any losses sustained by the $3,635 + HST -Art on the Rock $1039 + HST, Haida Gwaii: The Queen Charlotte Islands $5,507 + HST, Pond Inlet: Floe Edge $5,507 + HST -2012 undersigned passenger as a result of its failing to obtain proper insurance coverage shall be the sole responsibility of the passenger. For full coverage Into the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,275, C2 $8,731, C3 $9,875, C4 $10,915, C5 $12,683, C6 $13,723, C7 $14,763, C8 $15,387, C9 $16,219, passengers are recommended to obtain insurance at the time of deposit. C10 $16,843 – 2011 Out of the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,483, C2 $9,355, C3 $10,395, C4 $11,747, C5 $13,099, C6 $14,659, C7 $15,699, C8 $16,323, C9 $16,947, C10 $17,675 –2012 Greenland & Wild Labrador: C1 $4,155, C2 $5,299, C3 $6,443, C4 $7,067, C5 $8,835, C6 $9,355, C7 Images and Privacy $9,667, C8 $10,291, C9 10,915, C10 $11,851 – 2012 Newfoundland Circumnavigation: C1 $3,739, C2 $4,571, C3 $5,195, C4 $5,715, C5 $6,651, On these trips we take many photos, some of which we use for promotional purposes. If you would not like photos which include you to be used, please C6 $7,275, C7 $8,211, C8 $8,835, C9 $9,251, C10 $9,667. For wire transfers, passengers should note that the transferring financial institution may let us know in advance. We may also celebrate your birthday onboard, let us know if you would like to abstain. charge a service fee, which shall be at the passenger’s expense. Returned cheques, credit card changes and refunds are subject to a $25 USD fee. 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If a written will be refunded without further obligation on the part of AC, including, but not limited to the payment of interest accrued thereon. Decisions to alter the notice of cancellation is received by Adventure Canada between 91 and 120 days prior to the scheduled date of departure, the passenger shall receive itinerary/program as aforesaid shall be made in the best interest of all passengers aboard the vessel. AC, expressly reserves the right in its sole discretion a refund of 35% of its tour fees. Please note that within the 90-day limit, all fees, deposits and tariffs received by Adventure Canada are forfeited. to cancel the reservation of, or remove from the tour, any passenger at any time. For these and other reasons mentioned below, passengers are strongly advised to obtain trip cancellation insurance. No refunds shall be made to passengers who do not participate in any part of, or otherwise do not complete, the tour for any reason whatsoever. 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