2012-13 Canada and the North

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Eagle-Eye Tours Eagle-Eye 4711 Galena St., Windermere, British Columbia, Canada V0B 2L2 1-800-373-5678 | www.Eagle-Eye.com | [email protected] ToursTravel with Vision Cover photo © Michelle Valberg Dear Adventurers,

As the summer season approaches our excitement is palpable – Arctic travel is upon us. For the past seven years we have known the delights of the northern landscape by ship: wide open spaces, magnificent vistas, northern lights, warm smiles, towering peaks, abundant birds, wild and powerful animals and the many blues of an iceberg. With a renowned commitment to education, conservation and cultural immersion, these voyages have a well deserved reputation as exceptional travel experiences – a reputation that we are proud of and continue to build on.

TheDiscovery Voyage Series has revolutionized the travel experience to Canada’s distant coastlines, home to some of Canada’s best scenery and hiking. Many small and inviting communities have only remote access. We offer fully escorted, all-inclusive, thoughtful, high quality experiences for a congenial group of travellers. Whether travelling by ship or on land we aim to create a capacity for understanding and dialog and the many joys derived from new truths and shared experiences. We do this by visiting extraordinary places and working with a resource team of outstanding experts, locals and academics that bring to the table a breadth of knowledge, experience, humour and passion.

Our vessel, the Clipper Adventurer, allows us to explore these remote areas in style and comfort. With sixty well appointed outside cabins, two lounges, a library, state of the art stabilizers, clinical and massage services, a fleet of Zodiacs and ample deck space she is the perfect platform for expeditionary travel. Our dining room has large picture windows, allowing for superb viewing while savouring delicious meals and fine wine. Enjoy the luxury of unpacking just once, yet covering large tracts of land and sea. Sailing aboard Clipper Adventurer guests and resource staff mingle casually and develop a sense of camaraderie and intimacy widely associated with our experience.

In 2012, we have an outstanding line up of ship and land based adventures. Our shipboard series explores the diverse landscapes and people of Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories and Greenland. Looking ahead to 2013, we have included East Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Scotland and the North Pole! Through our thematic small group programs you can enjoy exceptional birding, hone your photography skills, experience wildlife in their natural setting, participate in festivals and conferences and meet with authors, performers and visual artists.

We invite you to peruse our ship based offerings as well as a selection of our land based programs. Visit us online to see more of our land based birding programs. We look forward to joining you on your next great adventure. Yours in adventure, Eagle-Eye

ToursTravel with Vision Cam Gillies and Richard Knapton Directors, Eagle-Eye Tours

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Epic High Arctic Into the Northwest Passage

Out of the Northwest Passage Greenland & Wild Labrador

Newfoundland Circumnavigation My Arctic - Eh! 7 The Clipper Adventurer 50 Torngat Safari 74 Arctic Safari 8 More than a Ship 51 Alianait Arts Festival 76 Siqiniup Qilauta 13 Scotland & Greenland 52 Great Bear Rain Forest 78 TableEpic High Arctic of Contents 14 Heart of the Arctic 56 Haida Gwaii: The Queen Charlotte Islands 79 Magic Happens 19 Arctic Explorer 60 Bears of Churchill 80 Into the Northwest Passage 20 Newfoundland Close-Up 64 Caribou Migration 81 A Bird’s Life 25 Gros Morne and the Northern Peninsula 65 Scotland Slowly 82 Out of the Northwest Passage 26 Explore Eastern Newfoundland 66 Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands 83 Mammals Loom Large in the Arctic 31 Western Newfoundland: Fall Colours 67 2012 Rates 84 Greenland & Wild Labrador 32 Narwhal and Polar Bear Safari 68 2013 Rates 85 The owerP of Music 39 Walrus and Bowhead Safari 69 About our Discovery Fund 86 Newfoundland Circumnavigation 40 Birding the Canadian Rockies 70 Registration Form 87 Storytellers 47 Birding the High Arctic & Northwest Territories 71 Terms & Conditions 88 Art on the Rock with Kevin Major 48 Quebec Birds & Whales 72 Why Adventure Canada? 49 Santa Fe Style 73

Adventure Canada specializes in soft adventure programs, where you can experience the best of the natural world while enjoying the comforts our friendly floating hotel. AboutOur program Small features outdoorShip activities Cruising 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 — we always provide several options. It’s up to you! Our excursions onshore will involve a relatively low level of exertion, but you will need a reasonable level of mobility. For example, you will need to be able to get up and down the gangway (floating staircase) and climb into and out of Zodiacs (assistance is provided) for excursions onshore, and some of our landings will be ‘wet’, requiring waterproof boots. Once you have left the Zodiac, you’ll find that we have designed our shore excursions to accommodate both those who wish to enjoy gentle 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; we will brief you about the terrain prior to arriving at shore. 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. 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, landscape, wildlife, and 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. Special diets, including gluten-free, can be accommodated with advance notice. Many of our guests form life-long friendships (and even some marriages), 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. © Michelle Valberg © Michelle Valberg

“The most memorable part of this journey was how breathless I felt when we were hiking and discovering by yourself. Walking around the communities. I wanted to see, smell, touch everything!” – Mary Lou, Arctic Safari 2011

6 © Dennis Minty © Michelle Valberg © Michelle Valberg ©Michelle ©Michelle Valberg My mother says that the reason Mywhy I spent Arctic three years in - Eh! Ushuaia, Argentina, was because it was the furthest that I could get from home. Well, half of that is true; it was the furthest that I could get - but the goal was Shoshanah Jacobs never to distance myself from Expedition Leader home, specifically. Adventure, Shoshanah became a sailor when she exploration, these are things was 6 years old and her parents bought that have become synonymous a 12 metre motor yacht. Until that time, with our species and it was very her first dive, though technically in a difficult for me as a child to swimming pool at the age of 4, was by contend with the fact that I could far the most exciting moment of her life. That experience created a path towards not just pick up and go off on my becoming a marine biologist from which own. For several years now, home she would never divert. Originally from has been my big black canvas Ottawa, Shoshanah moved to the east bag that can, miraculously and coast of Canada, where she earned a BSc without explanation, contract and expand between 18 and 23 kg depending upon weight restrictions. I am a in Marine Biology. Her MSc dissertation focussed on the acoustic ecology of seals wanderer, a person without a fixed address. and the effects of aquaculture on their population distribution. She returned to Every destination I am lucky enough to visit inspires me to continue to explore and the list of unseen Ottawa in 2001 to complete her Doctoral destinations seem endless. Though this lifestyle gives me the freedom to wander aimlessly, there is one part of dissertation on the energy dynamics this tiny planet that keeps me coming back as though it was home: The Canadian Arctic - My Arctic, Eh! of Arctic seabirds. Her fieldwork led her to some of the most isolated areas of Canada, sparking a passion for 2001 marked the first time that I ventured up North to work on a scientific expedition on a remote bird colony expeditions and travel. In 2005, she began near Resolute Bay and since then I have returned North every summer. It is my sense of home that many taking tourists on ship-based expeditions wanderers often seek but never find. It is familiar and wondrous, spooky and exciting, harsh and inviting; a to Canada’s North. She has worked in land of delightful contradictions that make you care for it as you would a loved one. It is the place that gave me pretty much every onboard job from deck hand to Expedition Leader while glimpses into the secret lives of arctic fox, seal and muskox. It is place that causes my heart to pound with close maintaining an active scientific career and encounters of polar bears and it is the one that delights me when stories are shared with local friends. It is the publishing record. most difficult place I have ever travelled but it has brought out the best in me and my companions, it challenges us, it teases us, and then it compliments us with its beauty and wilderness. Our Arctic is one of culture, of nature, Join Shoshanah on our 2012 Arctic Safari and of vast landscape. It is my home, and one that I invite all to explore. Epic High Arctic, Into the Northwest Passage, Greenland & Wild Labrador and -Shoshanah Jacobs, Expedition Leader Newfoundland Circumnavigation. 7 July 30 – August 9, 2012 July 17 -27, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer

Arctic Safari

8 he timeless lure of the North has drawn many to the upward reaches of our planet. The Aurora Borealis, the ice, the marvelousT creatures, the midnight sun, the endless landscape are all a part of the magnetism that beckon us and calls us forward on our journey. Thousands of years of human history lies behind us on our journey of exploration. Northern people, attune to the harsh realities of their natural environment, have cultivated ingenious adaptations to thrive in Arctic. Only a few hundred years ago early European explorers navigated the icy waters of Baffin Bay in search of whales, gold, a route to the Orient and, in the case of the Vikings, a new home. Our classic Arctic expedition, Arctic Safari, connects areas of great cultural, historical and natural significance.

Beginning in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland we set sail down one of the country’s longest fjords, crossing the Arctic Circle. Striking North past pretty colourful houses that dot the Greenlandic coast, we’ll call in at the splendid town of Ilulissat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A Zodiac cruise into the ice-fjord, where towering icebergs calve from the massive Greenland icecap as it tumbles down to meet the sea, will surely leave you breathless and refreshed.

Crossing Davis Strait, we will encounter the east side of Baffin Island, one of the world’s dramatic coastlines. We will visit the vibrant Inuit communities of Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) and Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) making new friends along the way. We’ll meet with local hosts; elders, school kids, community leaders - all eager to showcase their home. We’ll learn about centuries of traditions, the impact of modernity in the north and how communities are searching for a balance of old and new.

Join us as we have a look at some of the wilder places in this untamed land: the sheer bird cliffs of Bylot and Prince Leopold Islands, the ocean trench paralleling Isabella Bay - home to bowhead whales, and the winding fjords of Northeast Baffin.

With such a variety of excursions and peak summer weather – long days, blooming tundra flowers and (usually) calm, warm weather – we recommend this trip as the best way to experience the Arctic © Michelle Valberg © Michelle for the first time. 9 “I cannot overstate how much I loved the scenery and the wildlife. Having said that, the highlight of the trip was meeting the wonderful people- onboard, both staff and passengers, and the community people. What a wonderful gathering of like-minded people, kind, gracious, funny, bright and talented. I truly felt like I was among friends and family”

– Judy, Arctic Safari 2011

OurDay 1: KangerlussuaqIntended Itinerary Day 7: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) • MarHighlightsvel at the Ilulissat icefield, where 90% Day 2: Itilleq Day 8: Bylot Island of the North Atlantic’s icebergs are born Day 3: Ilulissat Day 9: Prince Leopold • Thousands of birds on the cliffs of Prince Day 4: Isabella Bay Day 10: Devon Island & Beechey Island Leopold Island Day 5: Kanngiqtugaapik (Clyde River) Day 11: Qausuittuq (Resolute) • Visit the largest uninhabited island on Day 6: Buchan Gulf earth during our stop at Devon Island • Cross the Arctic circle while sailing in the shadow of the longest fjord in Greenland • Visit the historic graves of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition • Enjoy the town of Pond Inlet, with breathtaking peaks of Bylot Island and the hospitality of the townspeople • Have tea with locals in a traditional greenlandic home • Opportunity to view the highly threatened bowhead whale in Isabella Bay

10 Our charter flight departs from Toronto and returns to Ottawa, the cost is $1,667 USD pp. 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.

Arctic Safari: Resource Staff

Denis St-Onge Paul Prior Jane Sproull-Thomson Allister Pedersen Danny Catt Dave Freeze Geologist Ornithologist Archaeologist & Art Historian Telecommunications Technologist Photographer & Naturalist Expedition Team Past President of the Royal Paul cannot recall a time Jane writes and lectures in Eight days aboard Canada’s Danny is an internationally Dave grew up on the edge Canadian Geographical when he was not birding, cultural history, archaeology largest icebreaker measuring published photographer of a vast forest in North Society, Denis is a and his passion has always and art history to museum, satellite signals cemented and biologist, with close to Vancouver. His teenage geomorphologist who has been for migrant songbirds. university and avocational Allister’s love of Arctic travel. 30 years of experience in working life consisted mostly worked with the Geological Paul’s passion for birds groups. Until recently she Another similar trip involved a the field of environmental of outdoor education and Survey of Canada and on has taken him to passerine was professor of Inuit and “very cool” 1370 km drive from education. He has a diploma wilderness travel with the the Polar Continental Shelf monitoring / banding native art and culture at the Whitehorse to Inuvik and then in Fisheries & Wildlife YMCA, which lead him to a Project, Denis has been stations in Israel, Costa University of Calgary, and along the MacKenzie Ice Road management, a BSc in career as a backcountry guide fascinated by the Arctic Rica, northern Ontario and is a former curator for the to Tuktoyaktuk. After 34-years in Biology and an MSc in and water based adventure since 1959 when he started northern British Columbia Glenbow, Newfoundland and radio-communications, Allister Wildlife Ecology . His specialist. With a flair for the studying the evolution of and Arctic Canada. In more Red Deer College Museums. turned his background and career with Parks Canada unusual and a high degree landforms of Ellef Ringnes recent years his attentions She is a Research Associate experience towards Search & spanned 13 before he of risk tolerance, he decided Island. He is an Officer have steered more to and was appointed a Life Rescue (SAR). Allister volunteers shifted to teaching at the to start a business with of the Order of Canada, a work with Ontario’s Member with the Arctic with Cranbrook Ground SAR post-secondary level in BC. Matthew Swan in 1987. The past Chair of Geography at endangered breeding Institute of North America. and Air SAR. He is a certified Danny has explored over transition from a carefree the University of Ottawa, a species, specifically with Jane has worked as lecturer, civilian spotter, military spotter 60 countries around the guide loving his time in the fellow of the Arctic Institute Bald Eagles, Loggerhead Zodiac driver and cruise and navigator. As Air SAR world. His photographs have outdoors to an office based of North America and Shrikes and Prothonotary director for the past ten years. Training Officer he teaches appeared in a broad range environment, while perhaps recipient of the Scottish Warblers. However, he With husband Callum she courses in spotting, navigation, of publications including the natural evolution of the Geographical Medal. The still finds time to indulge operates a consulting business radio-communications, radio the Globe & Mail, New maturing species, did not Canadian Association of in grass-roots migration in the field of environmental direction-finding and GPS. York Daily News, Chinese go well. Seven years later Geographers has presented monitoring with the and heritage conservation, In 2011 he participated in 6 Geographic, Macleans and he took a fork in the trail to Dr. St-Onge its Award for Toronto Bird Observatory, interpretation and planning searches looking for hunters, TIME. When not seeking seek new adventures. Today Service and the Geological where as a certified banding and has had a key role in an elderly diabetic, an early- adventures in exotic places, Dave splits his time between Association of Canada its trainer with the North planning new heritage and onset Alzheimer subject and an Danny is a faculty member training guides for Thompson Ambrose Medal and in American Banding Council tourism facilities throughout abducted 3-year old boy. Allister in the Fish, Wildlife and Rivers University’s 2002 he was presented with he continues to pass on his Canada. will offer navigation workshops Recreation program at the Adventure Guide Program Queen Elizabeth II Golden experience from 15 years of and insight on Arctic shipping British Columbia Institute of and his business RippleRock Jubilee Medal. banding on 3 continents. technology. Technology. Consulting. Matthew Swan, Matthew James Swan, Heidi Langille, Lynda Brown, Pierre Richard, Shoshanah Jacobs and Cedar Swan will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies within this brochure and online. 11 © Michelle Valberg © Andrew Stewart

“This was a trip that far exceeded my expectations and I had high expectations. I fell in love with the arctic. I would love to return many times. The staff and passengers became so much more than travel partners, they became friends; or at least it felt like this. The group of us developed into family/community over the 11 days. The staff are exceptional. I can’t believe you got so many quality people to come on one trip. I felt very lucky. Thank you for making me feel so at home.”

– Pam, Arctic Safari 2011

12 © Daniel J. Catt © Daniel J. Catt © Dennis Minty There is a legend amongst the Inuit about the halo that appears around the sun, known Siqiniupin some parts as “Siqiniup Qilauta Qilauta” roughly translated to ‘The Sun’s Drum’. For Inuit it is a good sign, a symbol of good luck.

There are approximately 56,000 Inuit living in Canada in four distinct areas as well as urban centres such as Ottawa. Led Lynda Brown by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Heidi Langille Culturalist Culturalist the National Organization representing Inuit in Canada, each Lynda was born in Nunavut, her Heidi is an Urban Inuk with mother’s family originates from area (Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik family roots in Nunatsiavut Pangnirtung, and her father is of (Northern Labrador). She and Nunatsiavut) shares common Scottish descent. Upon graduating is one of the founders of cultural practices but celebrate from Trent University with an the Ottawa Inuit Children’s different histories. For instance, in Honours Bachelor of Arts degree Centre which empowers Inuit Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), in Native Studies and Psychology, families in Ottawa with many she moved to the nation’s capital. the Moravian Missionaries have programs and services. Heidi

© Robert Poulton In Ottawa, home to the largest was nominated as one of the been present since the 1700’s, but southern Inuit community, Lynda National Aboriginal Role in Nunavut, ongoing contact with government representatives didn’t really start to and her husband Rob Nicholson, raise their three young children. Models in 2010-2011 which happen until the 1950’s. Inuit is the Inuktitut word meaning ‘the people’. One person is has enabled her to motivate ‘Inuk’, two people are ‘Inuuk’ and three or more are Inuit, pronounced ee-new-eet. You Lynda loves her work with the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre and inspire Aboriginal youth may have heard the term ‘Eskimo’ which was commonly used until recently. Eskimo and is very involved with her across Canada. One of the is a northern Cree word meaning ‘eaters of raw meat’, although it has truth behind it, community. She volunteers her many things that Heidi Inuit much prefer to be called Inuit! time, primarily focussing on enjoys is providing interactive Inuit women and children and presentations to all walks of life about the Inuit Culture, Siginiup Qilauta is the group name of the duo, Lynda Brown and Heidi Langille, both affordable housing. She is the President of Inuit Non-Profit including throat singing, located in Ottawa, they have travelled nationally and internationally demonstrating Housing Incorporation, and has history, current events, traditional and contemporary Inuit throat singing, drum dancing and games as well as been serving on this board for 6 drumming and Inuit Games. providing interactive workshops on the history of the Inuit and current realities. They years. She participated in the 2008 Along with her husband, believe strongly in the strength and resiliency of a cultural people that moved from Governor General Leadership Heidi is currently raising six Igloo to iPod in such a short time span. They enjoy sharing their culture and the many Conference. Lynda is a traditional children. throat singer and drummer, and questions and interests that people have surrounding the Inuit. Sharing the beauty and shares her cultural knowledge the strength of this dynamic culture, Lynda and Heidi hope to create a better world, through demonstrations, full of understanding, for their children and all Inuit children and youth. information sessions and workshops. She performs locally, Join Heidi and Lynda on nationally and internationally. our 2012 Arctic Safari.

13 August 9 - 19, 2012 aboard the Clipper Adventurer

© Dennis Minty 14Epic High Arctic he magic and mystery of the far north beckons as we once again combine its landscapes, people and communities into our favourite HighT Arctic Adventure. Travelling well-beyond the Arctic Circle and into the far North, we explore Devon Island and the historic route to the North Pole.

Our journey begins where one of the most famous of Arctic expeditions went fatally wrong; on Beechey Island we find three graves, men of the lost Franklin expedition. An eerie mecca for history buffs, Beechey Island presents a convergence of the European narrative.

From here, we will journey further north (dependant on ice conditions, of course!) into the Smith Sound. This expedition features some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Arctic - ice capped mountains, fjords, and glaciers. Here the vista should be filled with ice - a perfect scene for photographers!

After crossing Smith Sound, we arrive in Greenland, a place where the ice comes alive in iridescent blues, delicate tundra flowers briefly bloom and towns shine with a brilliant montage of bright colours. This self-governing province of Denmark is the largest island in the world, covering nearly 3.5 million km2, and more than 80 percent of it is covered either by the ice cap or small glaciers.

Throughout the voyage we have ample opportunities to view and photograph the unique wildlife that calls the Arctic home. Narwhal, polar bear, and the rare and immaculately white Ivory Gull are all found here. Nesting colonies on Coburg and Prince Leopold Islands host tens of thousands of Thick-billed Murres and Black-legged Kittiwakes. We are also likely to encounter shorebirds, Dovekie, Northern Fulmar, and, with luck, Gyrfalcon. At each stop, we board Zodiacs to go ashore, or position ourselves for the best views or photographs of the wildlife, flowers, icebergs and landscapes.

Join us as we venture to the top of the world!

– Leon, Arctic 2011

Our Intended Itinerary • ThousandsHighlights of birds on the cliffs of Prince Day 1: Resolute Leopold Island Day 2: Prince Leopold & • Visit an abandoned RCMP Arctic post Beechey Island • Cross the Arctic circle while sailing in Day 3 :Devon Island the shadow of the second-longest fjord in Day 4: Coburg Island Greenland Day 5: Grise Fiord • Visit the historic graves of the ill-fated Franklin (Aujuittuq) Expedition Day 6: Smith Sound • Follow the route to the North Pole as we Day 7: Kap York journey up Smith Sound Day 8: Karrat Fjord • Cruise amidst North America’s largest Icebergs Day 9: Ilulissat • Enjoy a cultural presentation at Canada’s Day 10: Itilleq northernmost community, in Grise Fiord Day 11: Kangerlussuaq • Take in the breath-taking scenery as we cruise Karrat Fjord - one of Greenland’s beautiful hidden gems

16 Our charter flight departs from Ottawa and returns to Toronto, cost is $1,781 USD pp. 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.

Epic High Arctic: Resource Staff

Jon Dudley Jim Halfpenny Steve Smith Romani Makkik Thomas Kovacs Deanna Leonard Geologist Author & Scientist Naturalist Culturalist Musician Marine Mammolist Jon has been reading the Jim is an author, scientist Steve has been involved in Romani grew up in One word describes a Deanna was born and raised rocks and sharing their and educator whose interest 20 seasons of field research Igloolik, Nunavut with musical performance by in the Northwest Territories stories both as a career and in exploration has taken him in the Arctic, primarily her grandparents, Guy Thomas Kovacs … fun! where she developed a life- as his passion for over 40 to all seven continents and studying seabirds. Over and Alexina Makkik Tom approaches his long love of nature. After years. He first worked in Greenland. Jim’s specialties the past two decades Steve and her mother, Jacintha music with a great deal of graduating from University, the Canadian Arctic while include environmental has led more than fifty Makkik. Much of her seriousness and is especially Deanna moved to Boston still in high school and ecology, animal tracking journeys in the High Arctic. childhood was spent with proud of his vocal skills. to work as a research-intern became enthralled with and carnivores. His In 2004 he was Director of her grandparents during Playing for soldiers in the studying whales on the coast the land and its people. greatest love, bears, led to Operations for Abandoned the camping and hunting Persian Gulf in 1991 for of New England. During in the Arctic a documentary Having obtained degrees 20 years studying polar season. After completing five months taught him her years on the Eastern film project that retraced a in geology in Toronto and grizzly bears. Jim has high-school Romani some valuable lessons in Seaboard, Deanna became 500km historic retreat route and Calgary, he pursued authored over 25 books attended the esteemed connecting and having a skilled whale-watch of Adolphus Greely at 82° a career as a professional Nunavut Sivuniksavut fun with audiences. Since Naturalist and fell in love and videos including his North on Ellesmere Island. geologist, which included latest, Yellowstone Bears in An accomplished landscape Training Program (NS) then, Tom has focused with teaching in a natural fieldwork and excursions the Wild and Track Plates and nature photographer, in Ottawa, ON. Upon on interacting with his setting. As the Director, across Canada. Both for Mammals. He is a Steve’s photographs have been completion she returned to audiences and making of the Center for Oceanic independently and as a Fellow of the Explorer’s published in Natural History, Nunavut and was employed them a part of the show. Research and Education, member of a number of Club and received the Outside, National Geographic with the Qikiqtani Inuit Tom knows that people can she developed education- geological organizations, Antarctic Service medal. and National Geographic Association before moving easily listen to music in the outreach programs for both Jon continues to be A past Research Fellow of Adventure magazines. He into the government comfort of their own home commercial whale-watch very active in helping the Institute of Arctic and is the co-founder of the services. Currently Romani so going to see live music vessels and for classrooms. youth, teachers, the Alpine Research, Jim was Canmore, Alberta-based is completing a degree in must offer more. And Tom A true northerner at heart, general public, and other Director of the Mountain independent film production Indigenous Learning at does just that by providing Deanna made her way back geologists appreciate some Research Station and the company, Meltwater Media. Lakehead University. humor, entertainment, and home in 2007 to continue her of the marvels of our Long-Term Ecological He recently co-produced and of course ... great music! work as a wildlife biologist in planet and how all life is Research program in the co-directed Arctic Cliffhangers, the Northern frontier, joining connected to, and shaped Alpine. Currently he is an award-winning one-hour Fisheries and Oceans Canada by, the ever-changing president of A Naturalist’s documentary on Arctic in Yellowknife. geological landscape. World. seabirds.

Matthew James Swan, Steve Gorman, Aaron Spitzer, Julia Szucs, Matthew Swan, Shoshanah Jacobs and David Freeze will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies online. 17 © Dennis Minty ©Dennis Minty

“My favourite part was standing on deck & watching the ice bergs. Then being on the Zodiacs & driving right up to those massive chunks. But the biggest thrill was walking on the boardwalk in Ilulissat to the top of the hill & seeing the mighty icefield coming out of the ice cap fjord. Wow!!”

18 © Dennis Minty © Mike Beedell © Daniel J. Catt “If you want to take better photographs,” I tell myself, “put yourself in front Magicof better scenery.” Happens It sounds like a simple solution – a surefire way to jumpstart your photographic creativity – and it is. There’s nothing mysterious about it, it’s utterly practical. You just have to be there, camera in hand, eyes wide open. When you are there, when you are ready, magic happens. Stephen Gorman Photographer So when I follow my own advice, I spend a lot of time in spectacular places, like the Canadian Arctic. I’m a better photographer when I‘m in the Steve goes deeper into the wild presence of something magnificent like the Grand Canyon, the Canadian for the perfect shot. For days, weeks and even months at a time, Rockies, or the Ilulissat Ice fjord. In places like these opportunities to take he sets off into the wilderness in great photographs are both bountiful and ephemeral. The scenery changes search of striking images of the with the light from one moment to the next, and each scene is more natural world. To portray the spirit breathtaking than the one before. It’s magical. of these special places, he uses his sharply honed photography This is the magic I know we will discover aboard the Clipper Adventurer as we explore the Epic High Arctic this and wilderness travel skills. His powerful connection to his summer. I want to be there to photograph the serrated, ice-capped peaks of Ellesmere Island; the haunting beauty of subject matter results in the most Devon Island; and the towering ice fjords of Greenland. evocative images. Steve’s colour photo books include the best- I want to be ready to seize the moment. Every moment. selling The American Wilderness: Journeys into Distant and Historic Landscapes; Thoreau’s New England; Wild New England; Northeastern Wilds: Journeys of Discovery in the Northern Forest, which was a finalist for the prestigious 2003 IPPY Award presented by the Independent Publishers Association; and Arctic Visions: Encounters at the Top of the World, which won the prized 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award for best gift book from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Join Stephen on our Epic High Arctic Expedition. All images © Stephen Gorman

19 August 19 - September 2, 2012 / August 6 -20, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Into the Northwest Passage

20 © Michelle Valberg enture with us through the famed Northwest Passage! The epic quest for a northern route west to silk and spice producing Asia occupied someV of the best minds of European civilization for half a millennium. Until recently the ice-choked waters of the passage provided extreme challenges to navigators; it still remains an elusive route that few have had the privilege of travelling.

Our journey begins in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, as we make our way through one of Greenland’s longest, and arguably most beautiful fjords, crossing the Arctic Circle in the process. As we make our way north along Greenland’s shore, we’ll have the opportunity to sail the coast, dotted with the colourful houses typical of Greenlandic communities. A highlight will be our visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ilulissat Icefjord, where we will cruise amongst the icebergs, and marvel at the ice fields.

Our first stop in Nunavut is at the picturesque community of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). We’ll be treated to a cultural presentation here, including throat singing and traditional Inuit games, before exploring the town. From here we enter the mouth of the famed Northwest Passage! We’ll keep a keen eye out for narwhal and walrus before landing on Devon Island, where we’ll find spectacular Croker Bay and the Dundas Harbour RCMP historical site. Arriving at Beechey Island we visit the home of the graves from the lost Franklin Expedition, and a base for many rescue missions, passage seekers and modern explorers.

Sailing down the coast of Somerset Island, we’ll cruise through Bellot Strait seeking out whale and polar bear. Making landfall in Taloyoak, we continue to follow in the path of famed explorers. Formerly known as Spence Bay, the area has a long history of exploration, including the famed John Ross expeditions in the 1830s that resulted in the pinpointing of the Magnetic North Pole. The area later became central in the search for the legendary Franklin Expedition.

Join us in tracing the passage that conjures a history at once tragic and inspiring, a history encompassing hardship and death, but also courage, determination, and superhuman endurance.

© Michelle Valberg 21 “I can’t really name one most memorable thing, as I keep thinking about different parts of it, it was such a deep and rich experience in all ways. Everything was beyond my expectations, but at the top of my list, just looking at the landscape, listening to the icebergs, and feeling very small and insignificant, yet a part of it.”

– Michele, Into the Northwest Passage 2011

OurDay 1: KangerlussuaqIntended Itinerary Day 9: Bellot Strait • HighlightsVisit the oldest museum in Greenland in Day 2: Sisimiut Coast Day 10: Taloyoak Upernavik Day 3: Ilulissat Day 11: Rae Strait • Enjoy a Zodiac cruise at the head of a Day 4: Karrat Fjord Day 12: Jenny Lind Island glacier in Croker Bay • Experience throat singing and traditional Day 5: Upernavik Day 13: Boothia Peninsula Inuit games at Mittimatalik Day 6: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Day 14: Coronation Gulf Day 7: Devon Island • Seek out Narwhal and Polar Bear during Day 15: Kugluktuk (Coppermine) our cruise through Bellot Strait Day 8: Beechey Island • Visit the community of Taloyoak in the heart of the Northwest Passage • Enjoy hikes on the open tundra at surrounded by siksiks (Arctic ground squirrel) • See some of the best examples of Stromatolytes at Port Epworth • Sail the famed Northwest Passage

22 Our charter flight departs from Toronto and returns to Edmonton, cost is $1,950 USD pp. 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: Resource Staff

Ken McGoogan Andrew Qappik Bernadette Dean John Houston Carolyn Mallory Carol Heppenstall Author & Historian Artist & Culturalist Culturalist Filmmaker & Culturalist Field Botanist Arts & Culture The award-winning Andrew is a master Bernadette grew up in Coral A member of the well-known Carolyn is a field botanist Carol has been leading tours author of ten books, Ken printmaker from Harbour on Southampton Houston family, John spent and writer whose book for Adventure Canada for is best-known for his four Pangnirtung, Baffin Island Island in northern Hudson’s the first eight years of his life Common Insects of Nunavut nineteen years. Her love of acclaimed narratives about in Nunavut. Originally Bay, where the spring and in Kinngait (Cape Dorset). was published in December Inuit Art that she showcased Arctic exploration: Fatal inspired by images in the summer seasons were spent He studied art in Paris and 2011. It is a follow up to her in her Philadelphia gallery Passage, Ancient Mariner, comic books he read as a on the land hunting, fishing graduated from Yale University popular Common Plants of first led her north in 1992. Lady Franklin’s Revenge, child, Andrew now finds and harvesting what the land in 1975. That same year, he Nunavut, co-written with Her continuing passion for and Race to the Polar Sea. his subjects in the stories, and hunters provided. Since began a five year adventure as Susan Aiken. She is working Inuit Art and her belief in These works earned him traditions and day-to-day then she has lived in different Art Advisor to the Pangnirtung on updating and revising the the power of communication the Writers’ Trust of events of his world. His communities in Nunavut, Co-op’s printmaking project, plant book as a new edition through the arts, has Canada Biography Prize, images describe the local and has worked very closely during which he regained his will be published in the near drawn her back repeatedly the Canadian Authors’ landscape, the animals, the with elders and youth on fluency in Inuktitut. After a future. She is also hard at to the Arctic. Designing Association History people as well as family cultural program development, career assisting in the making work on a picture book for smaller tours with an art/ Award, the UBC Medal for activities and camp life. culture camps for Inuit youth of films such asNever Cry children and a novel. Carolyn culture focus and working Canadian Biography, and As a printmaker, Andrew and women and Inuktitut Wolf, in 1998 he co-wrote and can always be recognized on as a Resource Guide on the Pierre Berton Award for uses relief printing, etching language preservation projects directed his own first film, activities off of the ship, as the Arctic expeditions Popular History. and lithography. He is producing several albums Songs in Stone. The six Arctic she is usually looking down has allowed her to keep Before moving mainly to most widely recognized of traditional Inuit and films he has created provide at the amazing Arctic world in touch with artists and books, Ken worked as a for the subtle layering of contemporary songs, stories glimpses into the world of a few centimetres above the community leaders in an journalist for two decades colours in his stencil prints. and legends. She has been Inuit ideas. All have won permafrost. She has three ever- changing artistic and at three major dailies. He As a designer, Andrew a cultural advisor to various national and international children, four dogs, five cats, cultural landscape that is has a BA in journalism from uses symbolic colours and museum exhibits in the awards. When not up North, one cockatiel, a lizard, and the Canadian north. She Ryerson University and a imagery to communicate USA and a cultural advisor or off on other adventures with a miniature pig. Carolyn graduated Cum Laude MA in creative writing from ideas. He is best known on documentary films about his son Dorset and daughter and her husband Mark have in Art History from the the University of British for his contribution to the Inuit and arctic history. She Becky, John and his partner recently made the move University of Pennsylvania Columbia. Ken made a design of the Nunavut flag, produced and co-directed Ree are busy developing from Iqaluit to Canada’s and earned a Masters cameo appearance in the logo and coat of arms. Inuit Piqutingit-What belongs co-presentations, writing, and East Coast after living in in Museum Education docudrama based on his to Inuit with famed Inuk film working on film projects from the Arctic for the last twelve while running her gallery, book Fatal Passage. maker Zacharias Kunuk. their Halifax home. years. ArtSpace.

Shoshanah Jacobs, Cedar Swan, Clayton Anderson, Ree Brennin, Thomas Kovacs and Michelle Valberg will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies online. 23 © Michelle Valberg © Michelle Valberg

“It is the most informative trip we’ve ever taken. Having such knowledgeable and friendly resource people (easy to talk with and readily available for our questions). It was great having the different resource people eat dinner with us and we wished we could have more opportunities - greedy aren’t we!”

– Michael & Barbara, Into the Northwest Passage 2011

24 © Michelle Valberg © Michelle Valberg © Dennis Minty © Michelle © Michelle Valberg

Forget the ubiquitous cell phones, the white noise of city streets, industries or farm machinery, and even the regular passage of aircraft.A WhenBird’s you get to theLife... Arctic, what do you hear? Perhaps nothing (really … nothing!), but more likely you hear wind, either rolling gently over the tundra and shorelines, or swirling off of glaciers and cliffs. And what do you hear on the wind? Birds.

The Canadian Arctic is full of birds, some 50,000,000 of them! Mark Mallory Nunavut alone hosts over 260 species, and more than 150 of those Biologist have nested there. From the tiniest Hoary Redpoll to the giant Sandhill Crane, birds can be found in the verdant river deltas Dr. Mark Mallory is a Canada Research Chair in Coastal draining the barrenlands to the lunar landscape of glacial Devon Wetland Ecosystems at Acadia Island. Some of their names connote polar images: Tundra Swan, University, Nova Scotia, where he Snow Goose, Snowy Owl, Snow Bunting (not surprisingly, all studies coastlines in the Canadian of which are white). The Arctic Tern lives here, the animal that Maritimes and Arctic. However, travels farther each year than any other organism on Earth. from 1999-2011, he lived in Iqaluit, Nunavut, with his wife Carolyn and three children (Conor, When you cruise along Arctic coastlines, it is often difficult to Jessamyn and Olivia), where reconcile the stark, (seemingly) simple and spartan surroundings he was a government biologist with the abundance of life they support. How can 500,000 birds studying seabirds, particularly make a living on one chunk of rock and a lot of ice? the effects of climate change and pollution on their biology. Most of Mark’s northern work takes him to Leaning on the railing around the rear deck of the Clipper the High Arctic, where there are Adventurer, watching Northern Fulmars effortlessly trail along few mosquitoes, little warmth, and the wake of the ship, wing tips just touching the crests of the lots of pesky polar bears. He has waves, one cannot help but truly marvel at these creatures. To me, written over 130 scientific papers, including co-editing a book on birds are harbingers of good news. I think of how much joy those Hudson Bay called A Little Less early explorers must have felt as they crossed the ocean, and knew Arctic – Changes to Top Predators they were approaching land when they saw seabirds. How thrilled Hudson’s crew must have been to see the bounty of food in the World’s Largest Northern available to them at the murre colonies of Digges Sound. The wonder that Sverdrup’s crew must have experienced seeing Inland Sea, and his studies led to eiders and fulmars return to Hell Gate, despite hundreds of kilometres of sea-ice in every direction. the creation of two new national wildlife areas on eastern Baffin Island, and the uplisting of Ivory Perhaps at no other point in history has the contrast between life in the Arctic and life in the “south” been so dramatic. Gulls to Endangered status in Southern society can be fast-paced, hyper-connected and noisy. But step onto an Arctic coastline, and feel wonderfully slow, 2009. removed, and silent. But not for too long ... sooner or later, those little harbingers welcome you. Join Mark Mallory on the Into the Northwest Passage expedition! - Mark Mallory, Biologist 25 September 2 - 18, 2012 / August 20 - September 4, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Out of the Northwest Passage

26 xperience the spirit of adventure and exploration as we sail Out of the Northwest Passage! On this itinerary we’ll explore some of theE least travelled regions in the Canadian Arctic. The presence of ice will dictate our 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. A highlight of the voyage will most definitely be 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 Aujuittuq (Grise Fiord) “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.

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. Another highlight will be our time spent in Ilulissat, the largest town in Disko Bay and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This itinerary is an expedition in the truest sense. The Arctic remains a landscape where nature reigns supreme, and we will go only where the ice and weather conditions permit. We recommend this expedition to our most adventurous guests! © Michelle Valberg

27 “‘Ship’s Time’ ! Everyday was an adventure and schedule changes make it all the better. It is like a surprise package every day.”

– Jenny, Out of the Northwest Passage 2011

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

Highlights• Sail some of the most remote waterways and least explored areas in Canada • Buy some prints and local crafts at Uluhaktok • Walk on the tundra on Canada’s westernmost Arctic island • Sail Prince of Wales Strait while seeking out muskox on Banks Island • Follow in the footsteps of Sir William Parry at Winter Harbour • Trace the route to the North Pole as we venture up Smith Sound

*This itinerary is an expedition in the truest sense. Our route will be determined by ice conditions and is subject to change at the Captain’s discretion. 28 Our charter flight departs from Edmonton and returns to Toronto, cost is $1,950 USD pp. Please call us for details. Out of the Northwest Passage: Resource Staff

David Pelly Ian Tamblyn Lois Suluk-Locke Thomas Johnston Latonia Hartery David Reid Historian Musician Culturalist Culturalist Archaeologist Expedition Team As a writer, David’s work Ian first began writing Lois was born and raised Thomas has lived in the Latonia has a PhD in The last Scottish recruit for has been largely based on at the age of seventeen. in Arviat, the southern- Baffin region of Nunavut circumpolar archaeology the Hudson’s Bay Company - Inuit traditional knowledge Since the he has recorded most community in the his whole life including the from the University of David moved from Glasgow he collected over the twenty- nine albums and Kivalliq Region, along the communities of Mittimatalik Calgary. Her exploration of to Canadian Arctic in 1989 past 30 years. He has over 1500 songs; many Hudson’s Bay coast. Lois (Pond Inlet), Kinngait this topic has taken her to the and made the move to published eight books and recorded by other artists. followed the footprints of (Cape Dorset) and his Canadian Arctic, Greenland Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) in countless articles about Ian most recently won her grandparents, learning, hometown Iglulik. He began and Scandinavia. For the past North Baffin Island in 1991. the North, the land, its the English Songwriter of preserving and performing performing Inuit Games decade she has conducted For the past fifteen years, history and its people. His the Year for his CD Gyre Inuit traditional songs, and and Drum Dancing during excavations on Paleoeskimo he has been involved in the recent book, Sacred Hunt, by the Canadian Folk teaching about the mix of school days at the Nunavut sites in Bird Cove-Pond adventure travel business is about the profound Music Awards in 2010 as traditional and modern Sivuniksavut program at Cove, Newfoundland. At and has since led, organized relationship between well as being honoured day life in the North. small venues to fundraise this location she integrates or participated in more than Inuit and seals. He has with the Distinguished Working with youth and for the program. Since then research, tourism and public 260 Arctic and Antarctic worked with biologists Alumni Award from elders in Arviat, Lois he has moved on to bigger education. She is also the expeditions. Experienced and and archaeologists, Trent University in 2007. teaches the different types things such as performing president of AARA, a non- comfortable exploring the developed and written Ian has over twenty years of Inuit songs, including at the 2010 Vancouver profit organization dedicated polar regions, David’s passion documentary films, served experience in expedition throatsinging, and the jaw Winter Olympics and stars to Arctic and sub-Arctic and enthusiasm for sharing as co-curator of Inuit art travel, as lecturer , Zodiac harp. She has travelled to as the host of tv show called studies. As a filmmaker, she everything to do with ice and exhibitions, and assisted driver and musician. France, Europe, the United Qanurli? What Now? which has worked on independent snow with passengers helps with numerous community Currently Ian is at work States and throughout he is also the writer for and documentaries and other people understand just how cultural projects across on CD three of the Four Canada performing and an editor. The comedy show films for a wide range of unique and precious our polar Nunavut. An adventurer in Coast Project - Walking the speaking. She still resides airs on APTN (Aboriginal broadcasters including regions are. A member of The his own right, he has also Bones of the Past - Arctic in Arviat with her husband Peoples Television Network) APTN and the CBC. For International Explorers Club, led several dozen northern Coast. It is due for release and two children. and is completely in her community efforts, and David travels extensively in the expeditions, travelling by in late June. He will also Inuktitut. He now lives in for preserving and promoting off-season, working on various canoe and by dog-team for be producing an album for Iqaluit with his 5 and 7 year Arctic and sub-Arctic culture, projects as well as promoting thousands of miles in the Peter Hodgson- aka Sneezy old daughters. she was recently given JCI and marketing the Baffin Arctic wilderness. Waters in May of this year. Canada’s Outstanding Young region, Nunavut and Arctic Person Award. Canada.

Matthew Swan, Pierre Richard, George Sirk, Dennis Minty and Stefan Kindberg will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies online. 29 ©Michelle Valberg © Andrew Stewart

“Can’t decide whether it was the sunrise reflecting on the coast of Ellesmere under a double rainbow, or the twenty polar bears, or the magical combinations of light and colour at Etah, or just feeling very, very small in an enormous, still and ancient landscape.”

– Kate, Out of the Northwest Passage 2011

30 © John Sylvester © Dennis Minty © Andre Gallant AMammals platoon of long-walkers madeloom their large in the Arctic way up a hill on Devon Island and upon reaching the top were shushed and told to pull out their binoculars and cameras

and quietly move to the hilltop. Below Valberg ©Michelle the hill, about 600 metres down the slope, a dozen round brown shapes with Pierre Richard golden mantles were standing in a sedge Marine Biologist meadow. Big ones, small ones! “Muskox” Pierre is a life-long naturalist and whispered the trekkers excitedly, as they marine mammal specialist, who fumbled for their cameras. The scene recently retired after 30 years of was amazing. The muskox were in full Arctic Marine Mammal research for the Department of Fisheries and light, between us and the shore, and a Oceans. His research focused on the kilometre from shore in the background, the good ship Clipper Adventurer waited at anchor. population biology of belugas and narwhals of the Canadian Arctic, Later that week, along the Greenland coast, the sea was perfectly calm and the setting sun bathed everything in a developing recommendations for golden hue. Suddenly, a tall blow rose ahead of the bow, followed by the raspy sound of the whale’s breath. Soon the sustainable use and conservation of their populations and habitat. another blow followed … and another; the ship was surrounded by six large whales, which lingered for an amazing He is known in Nunavut as “Pieri, 30 minutes until we lost them with the receding light. angutikutaq, qilalugalerei”, Pierre the tall man, the one who knows The Arctic’s treeless landscape and its waters provide priceless opportunities to admire terrestrial and marine about belugas and narwhals, but is mammals. While seabirds are the ship’s constant companion on Adventure Canada expeditions, the sudden affectionately calledThe Big Mammal by his AC Family. Pierre joined appearance of a group of muskox, a polar bear, a large whale, or a pod of belugas, sends a wave of excitement through Adventure Canada as a Marine passengers onboard or onshore. Large mammals are plentiful in polar environments, but they tend to be aggregated Biologist Leader in 2005 and will be and many are shy, so spotting them tends to be feast and famine. We go for days without seeing any and suddenly on two adventures this summer. He is the ship is surrounded by them. Here, a herd of harp seals, there three walruses, and finally a polar bear. the author of a Nunavut schoolbook Marine Mammals of Nunavut and several French language books on The Inuit rely heavily on large mammals for subsistence but they also marvel at their majesty and ability. Their whales and mammals of eastern conversations are rich with stories about these mammals and how they long for their meat, skin and fat. While Canada and the Arctic. Pierre likes stories of the demise of Arctic mammal populations abound in the southern media, they are often exaggerated. Most to spend a lot of time on the ships’ Canadian large mammal populations, with few exceptions are plentiful. They are nevertheless the subject of much decks, out in a Zodiac or on land to debate regarding sustainable hunting levels and more recently how climate change will affect their numbers and spot and photograph mammals and birds. condition. -Pierre Richard, Marine Biologist Join Pierre on our Arctic Safari and Out of the Northwest Passage expeditions. 31 September 18 - October 1, 2012 / September 4-18, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer

32 Greenland© Dennis Minty & Wild Labrador oin us as we discover the divine landscape and sublime natural wonders of JSouthwest Greenland and the wild coast of Labrador. Our journey begins in the gateway to Greenland - Kangerlussuaq. Here we board our vessel, the Clipper Adventurer before sailing down the 168km fjord to the coast. Drawing explorers and adventurers for thousands of years, Greenland is a powerful place of immense beauty - deep fjords, immense icebergs and colourful houses. A highlight will be our visit to Nuuk, Greenland’s capital and home to the 500-year-old Qilakitsoq mummies.

From here we cross Davis Strait into Canada. Entering the Inuit territory of Nunavik, we are welcomed by our hosts at Kangiqsualujjuaq.

Untamed and gigantic, Labrador is a land of inspiration. Entering Nunatsiavut, the home of the Labrador Inuit, we’ll spend the next three days sailing south, the view dominated by the awe-inspiring scenery of the Torngat Mountains National Park. From the Inuktitut word Torngait, meaning “place of spirits,” the Torngat Mountains have been home to Inuit and their predecessors for thousands of years and is one of Canada’s newest National Parks. It is a coastline of immense beauty and fjords surrounded by towering peaks - the highest mountains in Canada east of the Rockies - and a favourite destination among the AC staff!

We’ll visit the abandoned settlements of Hebron, founded by the Moravian Church in 1776, as well as the communities of Makkovik and Cartwirght.

Our first stop in Newfoundland is at L’Anse aux Meadows, the earliest known European settlement in the New World, with Viking reminders everywhere. Our adventure ends in St. John’s, North America’s oldest city, and an unforgettable end point to a remarkable trip.

Adventure Canada’s expeditions have always been a combination of science and art, which has produced some interesting and rewarding collaborations. On our Greenland & Wild Labrador expedition we broadened our collaborative vision of arts and science with an extended troupe of visual artists, musicians and authors joining forces with our team of biologists, geologists and archaeologists, to explore the landscape in a multi-disciplinary fashion.

© Dennis Minty 33 “There were times where I’d be alone on the deck of the ship staring into the most beautiful scenery I’ve every experienced. I was in a totally different world, if just for a couple of moments. Remembering those moments now, in the chaos of a regular day, helps keep me sane.”

– Connie, Greenland & Wild Labrador 2011

OurDay 1: Intended Kangerlussuaq Itinerary Highlights• Visit Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk Day 2: Evighshedfjord & Kangamiut • Purchase some highly prized qiviut (muskox Day 3: Nuuk wool) Day 4: At Sea • A chance to experience the Northern Lights Day 5: Kangiqsualujjuaq (George River) • Spend three memorable days among the Days 6-8: Torngat Mountains National Park spirits in the Torngat National Park Day 9: Hebron • Visit the culturally significant abandoned Day 10: Makkovik site of Hebron Day 11: Cartwright • Take part in a traditional Newfoundland Day 12: L’Anse aux Meadows & Conche kitchen party Day 13: Notre Dame Bay • See the French Store Tapestry at Conche Day 14: St. John’s • Explore the earliest known European settlement in the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows • Experience a glimpse into Inuit culture and heritage in Makkovik • Participate in artistic workshops onboard • Enjoy daily onboard musical entertainment

34 Our charter flight departs from Toronto, cost is $1,036 USD pp. Commercial airfare must be arranged from St. John’s. Please call us for details. 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 83rd anniversary in 2012, 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 Greenland & Wild Labrador 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 2012 travellers will receive a one-year © Mike Beedell, 2009 subscription to Canadian Geographic, compliments of Adventure Canada.

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Lena Onalik Richard Wardle Leander Baikie Fred Harrington Jerry Kobalenko Pete Barrett Archaeologist & Culturalist Geologist Culturalist Ecologist Arctic Explorer Artist & Culturalist Lena grew up in Makkovik, Richard (Dick) Wardle Leander is a Labrador Inuit Fred is a behavioural Canada’s premier arctic Pete has been a Fiber Artist NL. She spent her summers arrived in Labrador in 1976 hailing from the beautiful ecologist and retired traveller, Jerry has logged for over 40 years with metal during childhood fishing fresh from a doctorate central Labrador community university professor who over 7,000 miles in the Arctic arts joining her repertoire in Island Harbour with her program in geology. In the of North West River. He has worked on a variety over the course of some 35 in 1995 to create visual father’s family, the McNeill ensuing years a variety of loves to spend a great deal of wildlife species and skiing, hiking and kayaking landscapes used in wall art clan, who also fished with field projects took him to of time in the outdoors environmental issues in expeditions. He typically or jewellery. Her art is often Bob Bartlett’s family. Lena most parts of Labrador but of Labrador with family Labrador since 1986. spends three months a year a combination of fabric, is an archaeologist, the first especially to the Torngat and friends He has spent Caribou and the issue of in a tent in the North. Both paint, metals, bone and Labrador Inuk to obtain this Mountains, where he was many years as a community low-level military jet fighter a photographer and a writer, clay. Her work has shown title. She also held the position co-leader of a mapping volunteer and worked in the training introduced him to Jerry’s work appears around in several Centers for the of Chief Archaeologist for project covering this fields resource management, the “Land God gave to Cain.” the world in such publications Arts in Newfoundland and the Nunatsiavut Government. magnificent mountain chain economic development and Later, black bears became as Canadian Geographic, Labrador, Quilt Canada Through her knowledge and that separates Ungava Bay as a musician with traditional the focus of a five-year study Outside and Condé Nast exhibit in Waterloo, experience working in coastal from the Labrador Sea. Labrador recording artists, in Hebron Fiord, just south Traveler. His literary travel Mealy Mountain Gallery, Labrador, she has strengthened This work contributed to The Flummies. He spent of the Torngat Mountains. book, The Horizontal Everest, Cartwright, and in private her interest in her own culture, international collaborations many years as a music festival In the ‘90s, he wrote the “…is refreshingly free of collections internationally. which includes preserving her aimed at deciphering the organizer of the renowned wildlife inventories for both the hubris that marks much One of her larger pieces was Inuit language. Lena is also geological evolution of the North West River Beach the Torngat Mountains and adventure writing,” writes purchased for the Winter a descendent of the Hebron eastern Canadian Arctic Festival, did a stint in Mealy Mountains National The New York Times Book Games VIP Lodge in and Nutak relocations that and Greenland. Dick looks International marketing of Park feasibility studies for Review. “The reader never Whistler, BC. For 23 years took place is 1957-59. She forward to sharing his Labradorite stone found at Parks Canada. Outside of feels assaulted by Kobalenko’s she was the Craft Consultant shares her culture through knowledge of Labrador Ten Mile Bay, Nunatsiavut. Labrador, he has chased daring, only inspired by with the Government of storytelling, crafts, singing, – Greenland geology and He is a manager for his own wolves from Minnesota to it.” His most recent book, Newfoundland and Labrador. Inuit drum dancing and throat to demonstrating how family business, and is proud Ellesmere Island, and coyotes Arctic Eden, combines Jerry’s Being nomadic like her Innu singing. Lena still enjoys geologists have unraveled the to be one of the few graduates from Manitoba to Cape photography, writing and ancestors she roams between hunting and fishing when she 3 billion year history of this of the Labrador Institute of Breton. If you’ve watched travel skills. When he is not Labrador and Newfoundland can and is the mother to two wild and exciting region. Northern Studies. the movie “Never Cry Wolf ” on an extreme journey, Jerry and works from any of the rambunctious boys and her you’ve heard some of his wolf lives in Canmore, Alberta three studios her husband little sister. recordings. with his wife Alexandra. George has created for her.

36 Matthew Swan, Matthew James Swan, Jason Edmunds, Dennis Minty, David Reid, Shoshanah Jacobs, Tom Barlow and Rob Saley will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies online. Tyler Yarema Margaret Atwood Kevin Major Daniel Payne Graeme Gibson Cedar Swan Musician Author Author Musician Author Adventure Canada Tyler is an award winning Margaret is a keen birder, Kevin Major has published Daniel comes from a long line of Graeme who is the author Cedar first began her travels piano player, singer, and ardent conservationist, 16 books, ranging from traditional accordion and fiddle of four novels and two to Northern Canada in composer. He has played and one of Canada’s novels to non-fiction, from players from Cow Head on the miscelanies, The Bedside 1994. Since that time she has on over 50 cd’s ranging most celebrated authors. poetry and plays to works Great Northern Peninsula of Book of Birds and The Bedside travelled extensively through from blues and jazz, to Throughout her thirty years for young people. He has Newfoundland. He is a well- Book of Beasts, is currently Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, reggae and pop. The Juno of writing, she has received won numerous awards, known singer, actor and multi- joint Honorary President, Newfoundland & Labrador, winner has been in constant numerous awards and including a Governor instrumentalist who teaches with Margaret Atwood, Nunavik, and Greenland. demand for many Festivals, several honorary degrees, General’s Award for his first at the Vinland Music Camp of BirdLife International’s Inspired by the beauty and theatre concerts nation and she currently serves book (soon to be a film), in Gros Morne National Park. Rare Bird Club. For almost and serenity of the north wide. Tyler has been the as joint president of the Hold Fast. The best-selling Daniel has performed both as a ten years (in the guise of she signed onto the family main attraction every Rare Bird Club. She is the As Near to Heaven by Sea: musician and actor throughout “The Great Auk”), Graeme business with the dream of Tuesday and Saturday at author of more than fifty A History of Newfoundland North America, Australia and organized, and frequently sharing the polar world with the world famous Reservoir volumes of poetry, fiction, and Labrador traces the Europe. He is a recipient of the led, birding trips to Cuba like-minded individuals Lounge in downtown and nonfiction and is story of his homeland from Newfoundland and Labrador and Ecuador. A long time from around the globe. Toronto for a decade. His perhaps best known for her continental drift to modern Arts Council’s Emerging Artist conservationist he has been Cedar adores Labrador and prowess at the piano, and novels. The Blind Assassin political upheaval. His novel Award and played a leading role a council member of WWF- the Torngat National Park crooners voice, and an won the 2000 Booker Prize, (and long-running stage play) in the Newfoundland-Ireland Canada and is currently and through her experiences absolute drive for people and in April 2003 her No Man’s Land tells a tragic production of the TV miniseries, Chairman of the Pelee Island there has fine-tuned this to have an unforgettable eleventh novel, the Man tale of the Newfoundland Random Passage, a portrayal Bird Observatory. Graeme adventure. She looks forward evening at his concert, BookerPrize–nominated Regiment in WWI. His of life in early Newfoundland. was an initial organizer and to sharing some of her Tyler is an absolute “Must Oryx and Crake was most recent novel New In 2004 Daniel started DOP a founding member of the favourite places with you See” performer. Tyler released to great acclaim. Under the Sun, dealing with Productions, which has since Writers’ Union of Canada and to ensuring you have an first ventured north with Her most recent novel is the myriad of cultures to released four titles, an album of and has been president of outstanding experience on Adventure Canada in 2010 The Year of the Flood, and inhabit southern Labrador accordion music entitled The the Canadian Centre of Adventurer and in the Big and has since been inspired her collection In Other and the northernmost tip of Four Stops, two button accordion International PEN. He was Land. by the bounty of the north Worlds: SF and the Human Newfoundland, promises to instructional DVDs, and his first appointed a Member of the and a spirit of adventure. Imagination was released in be one of his most acclaimed solo album, released in spring Order of Canada in 1992. He the fall of 2011. works yet. All that and he 2008 entitled Chain. lives with writer Margaret writes a wine blog, too. Atwood in Toronto.

Matthew Swan, Matthew James Swan, Jason Edmunds, Dennis Minty, David Reid, Shoshanah Jacobs, Tom Barlow and Rob Saley will also be on this voyage. Please find their biographies online. 37

“Spending two wonderful weeks enjoying the beauty of the sea, Zodiacing around icebergs and glaciers while basking in the sun, exploring remote Inuit areas and local villages, visiting Newfoundland, and making new friends. And for me, getting to spend two weeks with my very best girl friend who I normally only see a couple of weekends per year.”

– Claire, Greenland & Wild Labrador, 2011

38 © Michelle Valberg © Dennis Minty © Dennis Minty

Music plays a major part in all our lives – songs influence Thehow we feel,Power what we want of to feelMusic and serve as the emotional markers of our life. The inclusion of music as a key component to Adventure Canada’s adventures is a unique and, I believe, integral part of the company’s philosophy of opening up our

minds and spirits to the cultures and landscapes we visit. Poulton© Robert Tom Barlow Every culture in the history of the human species has had music Musician as a central cultural touchstone. Many academic disciplines Tom has been a writer and performer have ignored this remarkable fact for centuries. With modern on the Canadian music scene for developments in fMRI technology we have been able to look 20 years. During that time he has garnered three Juno Award into our brains and see the effects of music on neural activity nominations, a Canadian Radio and other physiological processes for the first time. Music Award nomination and won the Canadian Independent Rising The influence of music on the human brain and on human social Star Award. Tom has toured across Canada and around the world in such interaction has spawned an exciting new branch of music-based disparate places as China, Europe, research. Books such as This is Your Brain on Music have become The United States and Nicaragua. © Robert Poulton© Robert best sellers examining the power of music to profoundly affect In January 2012 Tom released his our minds our bodies and our interactions with each other. sophomore album “Burning Days” (Coalition-Warner). Once again Tom is singing songs about the The inclusion of musicians on Adventure Canada expeditions social realities of our planet and our not only entertains passengers but also acts as a social communities, infusing pop melodies passport in the various isolated communities we visit. Music with keen lyrical observations. The debut video from the album, “Steal allows a conversation to begin where language may leave us Like A Billionaire”, was partially disconnected. Music conveys ancient stories and passes on shot during Adventure Canada’s traditional learning. 2011 Greenland & Wild Labrador expedition and features several passengers and AC staff. Hearing Aaju Peter sing in Inuktitut as we approach Baffin © Andrew Stewart Island or Daniel Payne strike up a jig on his fiddle as visit a tiny Join Tom on our Greenland & Wild community in Newfoundland connects us to those places in a Labrador expedition. magical and primal way – and in turn connects these places to us.

39 October 1 - 11, 2012 / September 18 - 27, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Newfoundland Circumnavigation

40 hat better way to see a place so shaped by sea than by ship?

AdventureW Canada’s awarding-winning Newfoundland Circumnavigation is making a return in 2012. This tried and true itinerary has long been an Adventure Canada favourite! The rugged beauty, endless coastline, soul stirring music and endearing hospitality of this Island lures adventurers here year after year. Our fall itinerary is specifically designed to showcase the best of Newfoundland – the stunning fall scenery, the natural wonder of Gros Morne National Park, the only authenticated Viking Settlement in North America, coupled with visits to remote outports is sure to instill the spirit of Newfoundland within you!

Setting out from historic St. John’s, North America’s oldest port, we sail to Fogo Island - considered one of the four corners of the Earth. The next three days will have an emphasis on archaeology with visits to with L’Anse aux Meadows, Red Bay and L’Anse Amour.

Located at the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, L’Anse aux Meadows 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 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 coast we’ll be treated to spectacular scenery including Precambrian cliffs, deep inland fjords and volcanic “pillow” rocks formed as lava cooled underwater —where the ancient ocean bed lies on top of high hills, establishing the truth of the “Tectonic plate” theory.

Spending the next few days along Newfoundland’s south coast, we’ll visit the isolated outport community of Francois and the Mi’kmaw community of Miawpukek (Conne River).

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.

The warmth, wit and hospitality of her people, the soul stirring music 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. Come, and discover Newfoundland the way it was meant to be seen – by sea. © Robert Poulton 41 “This trip for me was the trip of a lifetime. I have always had a desire to see more of my own country in-depth. Newfoundland has a peculiar hold on me and at times during this cruise feel I have been there before and am sort of at ‘home’. I plan to go back again - hopefully soon.” – Louise, Newfoundland Circumnavigation, 2011 ©Robert Poulton

Our Intended Itinerary Highlights Day 1: St. John’s Day 7: Garria Bay • Visit the earliest known European settlement in Day 2: Fogo Island Day 8: Francois the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows • Investigate the remains of a 16th century Basque Day 3: L’Anse aux Meadows Day 9: Miawpukek (Conne River) whaling station at Red Bay Day 4: Red Bay & L’Anse Amour Day 10: Miquelon, France • Visit the “Galapagos” of geology hiking the Day 5: Gros Morne National Park Day 11: St. John’s tablelands in Gros Morne National Park Day 6: Cox’s Cove • Pay a visit to France during our stop at Miquelon • Experience a piece of the Mi’kmaw 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 • Visit Cox’s Cove, home of your own onboard guide Tony Oxford!

42 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

Paul Dean Fraser Carpenter Holly Hogan Eugene Flynn Tony Oxford Clayton Anderson Geologist Marine Biologist Wildlife Biologist Culturalist Musician & Culturalist Adventure Canada Paul was born and raised in Fraser has spent most of her Holly’s fascination with birds Eugene Flynn has a Born in a tiny rural Formerly of “no fixed Newfoundland and Labrador. adult life at sea or simply began in her teens when she Masters of Science/ Newfoundland fishing village, address,” Clayton joined As a professional geologist, messing about in boats. Her first discovered that they could Education and has spent Tony has lived and learned Adventure Canada to he has already had a diverse career on the water was be identified by sound. As a the past 20 years teaching the charm of outport living. head up the marketing career in research, mineral department. After launched in the early 1980’s person with strong musical natural history and Although at the insistence of exploration, public service and with a number of off shore affinities, she found this outdoor pursuits primarily graduating the University his father he choose a career public education. He is the yacht deliveries leading particularly intriguing and to Adventure Tourism of Western Ontario in path other than fishing, he former Executive Director of to a position working as a she completed her graduate students at a technical 1998, he was an newspaper the Johnson GEOCENTRE, naturalist/crew on board a degree at the Memorial College on Newfoundland’s has kept a close eye on the editor in Costa Rica, lived a world-class geological sailing yacht operating between University of Newfoundland west coast. This position fishery’s evolution. In many in Australia and Mexico, interpretation centre focusing Cape Cod and the South East on songbird community took him to many of of his provincial, regional wrote travel guide books on the geological evolution of Bahamas. Discovering a great ecology. Ultimately drawn the natural, cultural and and local volunteer roles in Montreal and edited a Newfoundland and Labrador. love of all things and places to the marine environment, historic sites around the he has been a strong and magazine before joining In his 25 years of public wild she eventually, along with she has worked primarily province as part of the outspoken advocate for Adventure Canada. Having service, Paul served as the her partner, built a steel yacht on seabirds for the last 25 interpretative component rural Newfoundland. Since traveled extensively to all Assistant Deputy Minister and spent 14 years sailing years, and has worked on of the program. During the 2005 he has enjoyed the seven continents over the of Mines and Deputy around the world. Voyaging seabird colonies including summer months he leads opportunity to present the past few years, Clayton has Minister of Environment led voyages to Peru, the into the high latitudes of British Columbia, Alaska, tourists on ten day guided music, language and culture and Conservation. Paul Svalbard, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador. adventures to sites such Galapagos Islands, Africa, of his province to the friends is constantly engaged in Iceland, and South Georgia Holly currently manages as Gros Morne National Russia and the Arctic. He of Adventure Canada who exploring the links between she developed further her two seabird ecological Park, Red Bay, L’Anse Aux is a keen photographer, geology, landscape and interests in nature and nature reserves for the province of Meadows, Twillingate, choose to visit. Delighted Zodiac driver and will culture. He is also a story photography. Sailing to remote Newfoundland and Labrador. Bonavista and more. with AC’s preference for be your host on this writer, a story teller and places brought her a variety When the birds leave their visiting tiny and sometimes expedition. advocate for traditional of rewards, including the breeding colonies for the remote communities, he’s music and dance. His stories opportunity to join research winter, Holly is singing the quite eager to help present have been published in the projects in remote areas with a blues. Her husband and three “the essence of who we are”. Newfoundland Quarterly and variety of subjects from rats to children put up with it most The March Hare Anthology. reindeers. of the time.

Latonia Hartery, Cedar Swan and others will also be on this voyage, please find their biographies within this brochure or online. 43 What’s Different about this Sailing

About OurIn 2012 Partnership we are delighted once againwith to partner The with Walrus the award-winning Foundation e Passo er Should we polygamy? Stealing land magazine The Walrus. The Walrus is published by the charitable, non- dilemma legalize in Colombia 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, 2011 and conversations. e New

Along with publishing The Walrus, The Walrus Foundation strives to take the Newfoundland 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.

Through its partnership with Adventure Canada, The Walrus Foundation has created a floating forum of its engaged, curious, intelligent, spirited friends—and this is your chance to become a Friend of The Walrus, just by coming aboard! You’ll receive a year’s subscription to The Walrus, and other Walrus-y treats onboard. And you’ll have a walrus of a time with celebrated author Michael Crummey.

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“The most memorable part of this expedition was the sense of the people of Newfoundland, their history and passions. This came most strongly through the resource people just being themselves; also through Tony’s presentations, the music onboard and ashore, and the opportunity to meet local people.”

– Judi, Newfoundland Circumnavigation, 2011

All photos ©Robert Poulton

“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 2010

46 © Robert Poulton When I travel on the mainland, I’m often asked to explain the remarkable national and international success of Newfoundland writers, musicians and entertainers. It does seem to require some explanation. For a Storytellers...province representing less than 2% of the population of Canada, the wealth of talent seems bizarrely out of proportion. Wayne Johnston, Great Big Sea, CodCo and This Hour has 22 Minutes, Lisa Moore, Michael Michael Crummey and Kathleen Winter, Hey Rosetta!, Rick Mercer, Bernice Morgan, Ron Hynes, Republic of Doyle, Ameila Author & Culturalist Curran, the list seems endless. Maybe there’s something in the water. Or it might be a part of our cultural Michael was born in Buchans, a mining DNA. town in central Newfoundland. He attended Memorial University in St. I grew up around storytellers, although I never thought of it that way as a youngster. It was just people John’s and two years of graduate studies at talking or singing or telling a joke or some old foolishness. My father, in particular, had a repertoire of stories Queen’s University before dropping out he would dip into on nights he’d had a drink or two. They were just incidents from his own life, but they to concentrate on his writing. His first diverting, often hilarious, and occasionally terrifying. Much of what I know about telling a story I learned book, Arguments with Gravity, appeared from listening to him talk. in 1996. Since then he has published half a dozen others, including Hard Light and Salvage, Flesh and Blood and three It’s only as an adult I started to see the novels. His first novel,River Thieves, was Newfoundlanders’ gift of the gab as a cultural published internationally and appeared on trait, something unique to the place and its half a dozen award shortlists, including circumstances. Storytelling was how people the Giller Prize. The Wreckage, published in isolated communities entertained one in 2005, was a national best-seller, short- another, how local history was kept alive, how listed for the Rogers’ Writer’s Trust Fiction the long winter nights were passed. It was Prize and long-listed for the Dublin a survival strategy as much as anything and IMPAC Literary Award. His latest novel, its become a defining characteristic of the Galore, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Canadian Authors’ Association people here over the course of generations. Fiction Award, and was shortlisted for You still hear it in local kitchens and pubs, the Governor-General’s Award. His at the corner store, on the wharves. And if work has appeared in The Penguin Book I had to guess, I’d say that tradition is also of Canadian Short Stories and in The New part of what makes the contemporary novels Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. and films and songs of Newfoundland so After fourteen years in Kingston, Ontario compelling and entertaining. he came home to Newfoundland for good in 2000. He lives in St. John’s with his wife Sit down a spell. Have a listen. and three children.

Join Michael on our Newfoundland Circumnavigation.

47 With Kevin Major October 11-14, 2012

iterature, music, visual art, theatre—Newfoundland has it all, and in abundance far beyond anything you might expect of Cost: $999 USD + HST half a million people. Join celebrated Newfoundland writer Kevin Major for an insider’s look at the culture of his Island, LthreeArt art-filled ondays at thethe edge of Rockthe North Atlantic. Let him take you through the multi-hued streets and back lanes of St. Single supplement please add $465 + John’s, to his favourite galleries and music haunts. Meet artists and poets and musicians (sometimes all three in one). Spend HST time in their studios. Hear them explain their art. Listen as they read from their award-winning books, and relax and chat Min: 6 Adventurers with them 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’), Tour cost includes: you’ll know you’re in the midst of a culture like no other in North America. Aesthetically, you might think yourself in Europe. • Dinner Oct. 11 - Lunch Oct. 14 Whether walking the stage of the LSPU Hall (where Mary Walsh and Rick Mercer honed their skills) or enjoying a pint and • Three nights accommodations a song at 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 Ches’s, 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 a scenic trek south of St. John’s, part way down the Southern Shore, an hour outside the city. In Ferryland and special events you’ll explore an on-going archaeological dig – the Colony of Avalon, where in 1621 the future Lord and Lady Tour cost does not include: Baltimore and an intrepid group of colonists established one of the earliest permanent settlements in North America. • Transportation to/from St. John’s Lunch is at The Captain’s Table, where fresh Newfoundland seafood fills the menu. All along the route are outport • Alcoholic beverages communities steeped in their Irish ancestry, as interesting as their names suggest – Bay Bulls, Witless Bay, Cape Broyle. • Items of a personal nature And it is in these places that an array of artists and craftspeople have settled. You’ll visit them in their homes and studios, • Any expenses incurred due to the full Atlantic seascape just outside their doorsteps. You might even be lucky enough to spot a whale or, if your eyesight itinerary changes beyond our control is really good, a puffin. Fitness Level: Easy Then it’s back to St. John’s for our last 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. 48 With Matthew Swan, Founder & President

1. It’s A Family Business changes the majority of the expedition staff on each sailing, even as we offer AdventureWhy Canada Adventure is registered as a Corporation, Canada? but it very much back to back departures. This keeps the staff fresh and makes it possible for operates like the family business that it is. The company was started by us to maintain the 70 to 80 people we work with in the field each year. The brothers Matthew and Bill Swan and their good friend David Freeze trip becomes a special event for the staff as much as it does for passengers. in 1988. The next generation of Matthew’s family – Cedar, Alana and The typical Adventure Canada staff size on a 118-passenger vessel like Matthew James are actively involved in day to day operations. In Port Clipper Adventurer would be 15 to 18 resource team members (part of the Matthew Swan Credit our office staff of 10 works like a family team that have been extended AC family!). Adventure Canada working together for years. A good tip when looking to select a tour Matthew’s parents emigrated from operator – go on the trips the owners are on (so all of them!) 5. Repeat and Referral is our Single Biggest Source of Business Scotland to Canada in 1959 and, In the travel industry, good customer loyalty is both a silver lining and a has recognized opportunities that 2. We Don’t Try to Do Everything good test of the quality of the product a tour operator is presenting. To present themselves ever since that By design, Adventure Canada does not try to operate trips everywhere; have repeat levels on departures approaching 10% is considered good in big move. He graduated with a we believe that it is extremely challenging to do that and do it well. the travel business. Adventure Canada benefits from a very loyal following BA in English from the University We are known for our polar programs, North and South as well as our of past travellers. Our usual repeat and referral level averages 35% on of St. Andrew’s. Encountering the expeditions to the Celtic Isles and Galapagos Islands – all AC classics. We any given departure – one past traveller has been on 27 expeditions in outdoor training and adventure are very well known for our programs in Canada, especially the coastlines 24 years! Often it is well above that, such as our last voyage around the field while undertaking an – Newfoundland and Labrador and Arctic Canada and Greenland. When Scottish Isles where 42% of our travellers were repeat customers, or our outdoor instructor’s apprenticeship we do add a new destination, like our new Torngat Safari, it is thoroughly Circumnavigation of New Zealand where a remarkable 90% had travelled program at Strathcona Park th researched by a member of our team in order to provide the highest with us before. Now in our 24 year, we are seeing second generation Lodge on Vancouver Island quality experience possible. travellers coming from the same family and increasingly grandparents Matthew shifted focus and bring children or grandchildren along with them. We are very appreciative worked in the emerging white 3. We Travel With People From the Area and flattered to have this level of support. It also means that our water rafting industry on the I have had the pleasure of travelling the world for more than thirty-five expeditions are highly addictive – so watch out! Ottawa River. Strathcona and years. Although knowledgeable, I am still not born and bred and will never Ottawa were the catalysts for be able to speak with the same first-hand and life-long experience of those 6. We Are English Majors Who Love Music Adventure Canada, created in who call the area home. To experience a special place like the Arctic, you Adventure Canada is a travel company who’s head office is dominated 1988 with his brother Bill and want to visit in the company of Inuit who are cultural ambassadors with by History and English majors. We like scientists and we think we travel friend David Freeze. Researching excellent cross-cultural interpretation skills. We conduct training programs with some of the best biologists, naturalists, geologists and ornithologists. and delivering travel programs has for both our Inuit and non-Inuit staff to enhance this level of interpretation However one of the things that sets Adventure Canada apart would taken him to some of the most and understanding. When we circumnavigate Newfoundland, the majority be our interest in the artistic perspective. We quite regularly travel beautiful parts of the country, an of the onboard expedition staff are Newfoundlanders, same in Ecuador, with painters, sculptors, folklorists, culturalists, filmmakers, curators, experience he describes as having same in Scotland – anywhere we venture. photographers and we always travel with authors and musicians. We an “elemental effect” on his view think the artistic interpretation lends a unique element to our departures. of Canada. He developed many 4. We Look At Every Departure As A Special Event And we love the cross-over specialists; the archeologists and historians programs in the Arctic that Many years ago Adventure Canada made the decision not to become an who can sing and the Zodiac drivers that write poetry! Our recent continue to be the company’s “industrial tour operator”. We resisted the temptation to add departure Greenland and Wild Labrador expedition was a case in point; we had most successful destination. after departure even when looked like we might be in a position to do so. five professional musicians, two authors, a painter and two culturalists Matthew and his three children, Guiding at it’s best is a very demanding occupation, days are long, the staff who moonlighted as singers, and a photographer who plays the flute, and Cedar, Alana and Matthew James are on the go morning till night. It is a great challenge to sustain the type a passenger who brought her fiddle! Needless to say we have some fine and grand-daughter Leah, live of energy required trip after trip. The industry norm is to hire less than a evenings on board around the piano and some great community visits in a remote, wilderness part of dozen expedition staff for a half season, or even an entire season which where we have music and dancing from both the hosts and the visitors. Mississauga, but very near the could be up to 100 days long! Again by design, Adventure Canada usually airport. 49 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. 50 More than A Ship

Small-ship travel is more than a floating hotel and the Clipper Adventurer is more than just a vessel. Adventure Canada has been sailing aboard the Clipper Adventurer for three seasons now, and each summer when we first step on the gangway, it is like coming home. Year after year we are welcomed by the friendly and familiar faces of the ships crew – from the seaman helping us into and out of the Zodiacs, the friendly hotel staff who greet us each morning to our wonderful Captain. This feeling is not isolated to the staff (or the AC junkies who travel with us each year) – with a ship that carries a maximum of 200 crew and passengers, it is only a matter of days before a tightknit shipboard community is formed. The relaxed, casual feeling onboard, coupled with Kenth Grankvist open seating plans, ample deck space and open bridge policy breeds a strong onboard camaraderie not only Captain between the passengers and staff, but with the ship’s crew as well. It’s a form of travel that will change your Captain Grankvist signed on his first ship perspective and many long-lasting friendships are formed. when he was only 16 years old, already then convinced that the “big blue” was his future. Sailing the Seven Seas for years, he was working his way from Deckhand “It was a small close group, we felt like family, very special to me” – Sarah, Arctic 2011 to Chief Officer. At the age of 32, he became Master with licence for unlimited “I really appreciated the care of the crew. Felt cherished!” – Francine, Arctic 2009 trade, and was happy to command his first ship. A few years later, he started his work onboard expedition cruise “Safety was top priority for crew and it showed; next to that was knowledge and enthusiasm exhibited ships worldwide. He is very devoted to wildlife and loves to explore remote and by all was impressive” – Sue, Greenland & Wild Labrador 2009 unique areas in both arctic and tropical waters. Among all the exciting places he “It is very hard to say that anything was less than excellent, the Clipper Adventurer and her crew, the has visited around the globe, he fancies Adventure Canada staff, the resource staff, food, adventures, guests were all second to none. We had the frosty Polar regions the most. Ice navigation is one of his specialities, and the best vacation ever!” – Randolph, Arctic Quest 2010 he has captained several expedition ships safely on fantastic voyages in Arctic and Antarctic waters over the course of thirty years. His experience from places like Svalbard, Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica, has made him to one of a few, highly skilled Ice Masters in the world. In 2003 he bought his own expedition ship together with a colleague and started the ship management company Master Mariner AB. He is a well respected and competent Senior Captain/Operations Manager and is seen as a mentor and a treasured friend among past and present fellow officers. Kenth has been working All photos ©Robert Poulton with Adventure Canada since 2005. 51 June 12 - 24, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Scotland to Greenland

52 oin us for a new adventure as we journey from the rolling hills of Scotland, to the remote island shores of the Faroe Islands, the geothermal wonders of Iceland and the dynamic Jglaciers of Greenland. Our journey takes us from the North Sea, though the North Atlantic, touching into the Norwegian Sea and on to the Arctic Ocean. This is a voyage of variety and contrasts, with Celtic, Norse and Inuit cultures represented as we explore their language, culture, bird life and history.

Beginning in Aberdeen, Scotland we’ll call in at beautiful Fair Isle. A key destination in Viking times, it now hosts a hospitable population of some 70 people who happily combine a respect for tradition with a modern outlook. Great skuas greet visitors seeking puffins, while a charming museum is devoted to island heritage. We’ll call into Lerwick, capital of the Shetland Isles, for our last taste of Scotland before heading out to the remote Faroe Islands.

The Faroes have ancient ties to Irish, Scottish and Viking cultures, but today are a self- governing dependancy of Denmark. As early as the fourth century, Saint Brendan, an Irish monastic saint, named one of the islands the “Paradise Island of Birds,” a moniker that remains true to this day. On our visit to the Mykines, we’ll find Faroese subspecies of the Common Eider, European Starling, Winter Wren, Puffin, Gannet and Black Guillemot. BirdLife International has identified this area as an Important Bird area, because of the almost 2,000,000 birds that come here to breed. We’ll also start to see the transition towards Arctic-alpine flora as we set sail for our next great island - Iceland.

Iceland will bring us a new language, culture and landscape as we sample some of the natural wonders that have made this island famous. Volcanoes, bird and marine life will give way to the lively city of Reykjavik - and we’ll cap it all off with a relaxing visit to the famous Blue Lagoon. Twenty-four hours of daylight will let you enjoy each day to the fullest.

From Iceland we sail onto the remote eastern side of Greenland, sparsely populated, but rich in glaciers, looming mountain ranges and marine life. Here, we’ll pick up the East Greenland Current and follow the icebergs down the coast of Greenland into the sheltered waters of beautiful Prince Christian Sound. Emerging on the west side of Greenland, we’ll make our way North, with visits to the small, colourful Greenland village of Ivigtut and then the world’s smallest capital city - Nuuk. Here we’ll visit the final resting place of the Greenlandic mummies, before heading North, into the Arctic Circle and one of Greenland’s longest and most picturesque fjords.

This voyage promises to be one of great variety, with diverse cultures, dramatic landscapes and natural wonders as we head into the land of the midnight sun. ©Andrew Stewart 53 “Every day held a special appeal - it is really hard to pick just one! I am still trying to process all we saw and did and I want (need!) to go back and do it again!” – Patricia, Celtic Quest 2011

• Experience the Summer Solstice in OurDay 1: AberIntendeddeen, Scotland Itinerary Day 8: At Sea Highlights Greenland Day 2: Fair Isle & Lerwick Day 9 / 10: Prince Christian Sound, Day 3 /4: Torshaven & Mykines, Faroes Greenland • Enjoy and explore several distinct cultures Day 5: At Sea Day 11: Ivigut and regions Day 6: Reykjavik Day 12: Nuuk • Visit lovely Fair Isle and known for their Day 7: Westmann Islands, Iceland Day 13: Kangerlussuaq famous woolen jumpers • Visit the bird cliffs at Mykines Island in the Faroes • Bathe in the healing waters of Iceland’s Blue Lagoon • Travel through the natural beauty of Prince Christian Sound • See the famous Greenlandic mummies in Nuuk • Sail the rich waters of Denmark strait, looking for marine mammals • Follow in the historic footsteps of the Vikings

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“Beyond the excellence of the visits ashore, there is the entire Adventure Canada atmosphere. Opportunities to learn and to have fun at the same time. The resource people were top-notch.”

- Theresa, Celtic Quest 2011

©Michelle Valberg ©Andrew Stewart ©Andrew Stewart 55 June 24 - July 6, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer Heart of the Arctic

56 © Michelle Valberg oin us in the land of the Midnight sun! We’ll be arriving in Greenland just after the Summer solstice, providing 24 hours of daylight as we explore some Jof the richest areas of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic. Here, as Spring turns to Summer, we have the excellent chances of wildlife this early in the season as the ice is breaking up and the birds are in the height of their breeding season. This diverse itinerary will allow us to explore three separate regions of the north: Greenland, Nunavut and Nunavik.

We’ll start off your Arctic experience with a sail down one of Greenland’s most picturesque fjords. Turning north and crossing back into the Arctic circle, we will enjoy a hike on the tundra before spending two glorious days in the iceberg capital of the North Atlantic - Ilulissat. We’ll sail among the icebergs and hike out to one of the world’s most spectacular views as we watch as the Sermeq Kujaleq Glacier produce city-block sized chunks of ice.

Crossing the Davis strait we’ll sail up Frobisher Bay into Nunavut’s capital city. Here we’ll have a chance to visit the recently-rebuilt St. Jude’s Anglican cathedral, built to resemble a traditional igloo, and have a chance to explore Nunavut’s only city. Heading back out the sound, we call in at the Savage Islands, where there are good opportunities for polar bear, whales and bird life.

No Heart of the Arctic voyage would be complete without visiting an artistic community, and the beautiful town of Kimmirut will not disappoint. Here, we’ll find a variety of carvings, tapestries and prints that the community has worked the long winter months to prepare for us, the first ship of the season. We’ll also be treated to Inuit games, fresh bannock and local music.

Crossing Hudson Strait, we’ll enter into Nunavik and stop at the small hamlet of Kangiqsujuaq, also known as Wakeham Bay. With a population of just over 500, the arrival of a ship is a major event and we’ll be entertained by local throat singers and drum dancers. Moving onto Diana Island, we’ll have a chance to hike on the tundra in an excellent area to spot muskox.

Heading south into Ungava Bay, we’ll stop by Akpatok island, which has historically been a great place for us to find polar bear, and it’s crowded bird cliffs are sure to provide for excellent Zodiac cruising.

Join us on the Heart of the Arctic and enjoy the communities, landscapes and wildlife of the Arctic. © Michelle Valberg 57 “We had a great time - it was a trip of a lifetime and we hope to do another one sometime soon.” – Stuart, Arctic 2011

Day Our 1: Kangerlussuaq Intended ItineraryDay 6 & 7: Crossing Davis Strait Day 11: Kangiqsujuaq Day 2: Kangerlussuaq Fjord Day 8: Iqaluit Day 12: Diana & Akpatok Islands Day 3: Sisimiut Coast Day 9: Savage Islands Day 13: Kuujjuaq Day 4 & 5 :Ilulissat Day 10: Kimmirut

Highlights• Cross the Arctic circle while sailing in the shadow of the second-longest fjord in Greenland • Seek out muskox in Kangerlussuaq Fjord and Diana Island • Spend 2 days exploring the town of Ilulissat, home to the Sermeq Kujaleq Glacier • Enjoy a cultural presentation and town tour of Nunavut’s capital - Iqaluit • Seek out polar bear during our Zodiac cruise of the Savage Islands • Visit with world-renowned Inuit carvers in Kimmirut • Enjoy the sounds of talented throat-singers • Seek out birds, walrus, whale and polar bear at Akpatok Island

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“The zodiac cruises and wilderness hikes were an integral part of the trip. They gave the trip meaning, value and were a chance to see sights that few people are lucky enough to see”

- Noreen, Arctic 2011

©John Sylvester

©Andrew Stewart ©Michelle Valberg ©Michelle Valberg 59 July 27 - August 6, 2013 aboard the Clipper Adventurer 60 ©Arctic Dennis Minty Explorer n amazing voyage of discovery awaits you on our Arctic Explorer Expedition. We’ll seek out rugged mountains, sweeping tundra, icecaps and glaciers, and beA greeted by the warmhearted people who call the Arctic home.

After setting sail from Resolute, we begin our journey remembering the Arctic explorers who came before us during our stop at Beechey Island – home to the graves from the ill-fated Franklin expeditions.

The Summer months are peak birding season and we’ll get our first glimpse of the overwhelming amount of bird life found here during our cruise at Prince Leopold Island – a Migratory Bird Sanctuary and home to tens of thousands of Thick- Billed Murres, Northern Fulmars and Black-legged Kittiwakes.

Arriving in the community of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), we will be awestruck by the immense beauty of nearby Bylot Island. Our Inuit hosts will showcase their town and we’ll be treated to Inuit games and throat singing at their Community Centre. Heading south we’ll venture deep into the fjords of Baffin Island, surrounded by immense mountainous peaks indicative of Baffin Island and an ideal place to seek out whales and other marine mammals. Perched above a floodplain and surrounded by soaring mountains, we find the community of Kanngiqtugaapik (Clyde River). We’ll enjoy some country food with our friends in the community before taking a tour of the town.

A highlight of our expedition will be our time spent in Isabella Bay. Isabella Bay (or Nigingnaniq) was designated a National Wildlife Area in 2008 and is a pristine late summer feeding ground for a large proportion of the threatened Davis Strait- Baffin Bay bowhead whale population. We hope to catch a glimpse of these 18m whales as we cruise through the bay.

Arriving in Greenland we are welcomed to the land of colourful houses and giant icebergs in the community Uummannaq, dominated by the 1175 m high mountain “Hjertefjeldet”, which means “Heart-shaped Mountain”, after which the city is named. We continue our route south, visiting the Ilulissat Icefjord and the small fishing town of Itilleq. Our journey comes to an end as we sail 168 km down the spectacular Kangerlussuaq Fjord.

Our Arctic Explorer Expedition provides an ideal balance between expedition and community visits, allowing for wide breadth of Arctic experiences. Our adventure is spent entirely north of the Arctic Circle and the endless summer days provide ample time to explore on foot and in Zodiacs. Join us as we experience life North of 60!

© Michelle Valberg 61 “I loved it all. I guess the thing that stood out in my mind were the zodiac trips. I loved going on shore. I liked the instruction we had because it made what we were seeing come alive with history and details. I enjoyed all talks on board and I learned a lot from them... all of them. The friendliness of the staff was great” – Dianne, Arctic 2011

• Experience the midnight sun OurDay 1: ResoluteIntended Itinerary Day 7: Karrat Fjord Highlights • Seek out the thousands of birds that call the Day 2: Prince Leopold & Beechey Island Day 8: Uummannaq Arctic home during the peek Summer season Day 3: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Day 9: Ilulissat Day 4: Northeast Baffin Island Day 10: Itilleq • Search for whale as we explore Northeast Baffin Day 5: Kanngiqtugaapik (Clyde River) Day 11: Kangerlussuaq • Enjoy a cultural presentation and country food Day 6: Isabella Bay at Kanngiqtugaapik • Keep watch for bowhead whale as we cruise Isabella Bay • Take in the breath-taking scenery as we cruise Karrat Fjord - one of Greenland’s most beautiful • Visit Greenland’s heart as we explore the colourful town of Uummannaq • Visit the site of the famous Greenlandic Mummies • Participate in or cheer on our annual sporting match in Itilleq

“We would like to repeat that this was a Great Adventure. Which has given us a completely different perspective of our Canadian North its people, climate, the mammals, polar bears, geography, geology and archaeology of the Arctic. We are now very concerned with the climate and its changes all over the world.”

©Robert Poulton ©Andrew Stewart 63 “I have only high praise for the quality of instruction, the hands-on assistance and the amazing itinerary (you) created for not only making pictures, but for enjoying some totally unique, thrilling and fun outings. And if you have never been to Newfoundland, the main character in this experience, just be prepared to be wowed.” -Rick, Newfoundland Close-Up 2011

With Dennis Minty And Antje Springmann

Newfoundlandany of us feel that the best wayClose-Up: to really see a place is through Photographic the lens of a camera. AdventuresYour Guides: Whether we aim to capture expansive vistas or focus on the petal of a flower, a camera Dennis Minty & Antje Springmann invitesM us to experience our world close-up with uncompromised intimacy. What better place Dennis’ winding path, from his small island to indulge your passion for photography than the magnificent island of Newfoundland. From roots in Twillingate, Newfoundland, to his the raw and primal landscape of Gros Morne’s Tablelands and the Northern Peninsula, to the current career as a photographer and eco- charming historic villages of the Avalon and Eastern shores, Newfoundland presents outstanding tour leader has included: graduation as a photographic opportunities at every bend. Rich in colour and texture, wildlife and natural beauty, wildlife biologist; designing and managing a it broadens the traveller’s horizons and inspires creativity. Those who have discovered it are nature education and wildlife rehabilitation inevitably drawn to return. centre; 30 years as an environmental educator in Newfoundland/Labrador, Africa, the Join us for one of three unforgettable land-based photographic adventures: Seychelles, and the Caribbean;. authoring • Gros Morne and the Northern Peninsula seven educational and photographic books; a stint at dairy farming; • Eastern Newfoundland and even serving as a polar bear guide in Churchill, Manitoba. • Western Newfoundland’s Fall Colours Antje Springmann has called Newfoundland home since coming Under the expert guidance of photographer, naturalist and author, Dennis Minty, you will have there from Germany when she was twelve. She guided her first an opportunity to develop your photography skills. On these trips we don’t take photographs, we cultural tours of St. John’s twenty years ago. She has a varied make them. We take our time, linger in places that inspire, spend time in the company of those background in educational design, arts and culture, tourism, who have chosen to make this place their home. Accommodations feature comfortable, cozy marketing, event organization and partnership development. After B&B’s and inns with congenial local hosts in wonderfully picturesque communities. Enjoy choice spending six years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation cuisine including traditional cooking with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients (your chance she joined her husband, Dennis Minty, in developing tours and to try toutons and cod tongues!). Limited to only six participants, there is ample opportunity for workshops designed to bring people closer to the natural world. one-on-one coaching and room to explore your particular interests. Our passion is sharing this “Newfoundland is close to my heart. It is uncompromising and yet magnificent part of the world with fellow adventurers. Come join us for a look at Newfoundland will draw you in on its own terms. I have seen it transform people. It Close Up. is my joy to help others discover this astonishingly beautiful place.” 64 All photos © Dennis Minty

June 30 - July 7, 2012

Grosoin us onMorne a photographic and adventure the featuring Northern two magnificent Peninsula UNESCO World Heritage 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 Jbeyond the basics and immerse themselves in an inspiring, rugged landscape as they hone their skills. We $595 + 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.

July 22- 28, 2012

Easternisten to the Newfoundland:explosive spout of a humpback whaleAvalon as it breaks and the surface Bonavista of a clear blue ocean.Peninsulas See the Cost: $2,995 USD + HST comical flight of a full-bellied puffin as it attempts to get airborne. Smell the salty landwash where the Single supplement please add Lsea touches North America’s eastern-most land and where First Light really is first. $595 + HST

With camera in hand we will take you to the heart of the most easterly corner of North America, still Max: 6 largely undiscovered by the vast majority of travellers. This is a tour for photographers of all levels, their Tour cost includes: companions and the artistically-minded. Your particular needs and interests are addressed in a multi- • All accommodations dimensional tour that mixes group instruction, experiential learning and one-on-one coaching in the • All meals midst of cultural and ecological wonders. Presentations are interactive, inspiring and informative; the hikes • Ground transportation are filled with vistas and natural beauty that invite hours of artistic contemplation; the traditional home- • Your instructor/guide(s) cooked meals and accommodations celebrate the best of Newfoundland hospitality. We will amble through • All park/tour fees charming historic communities like Brigus, Cupids and Trinity; experience gannets, puffins and whales closer than most anywhere on earth, hike trails that take us along towering cliffs, through gentle meadows Tour cost does not include: and explore Newfoundland’s famous rocky beaches. • Insurance • Alcoholic beverages Your guides have deep roots here and will open doors to places and experiences undiscovered by the casual • Flights to/from St. John’s tourist. So pack your camera and join celebrated nature photographer, Dennis Minty, and his partner • Items of a personal nature Antje Springmann, for “Eastern Newfoundland Close Up”, an unforgettable experience that will leave you • Any expenses incurred due to inspired and more adept at capturing the natural world with your camera. itinerary changes beyond our control

Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate

October 7 - 12, 2012

Westernros Morne Newfoundland’sNational Park is spectacular at any Fall time of the Colours year but it is in the fall that it shows its true Cost: $2,995 USD + HST colours. Vibrant oranges, reds and yellows of birch, larch and maple, are splashed among evergreens Single supplement please add onG rolling hillside. The majestic, primal Tablelands provide a stunning backdrop. Barrens along the coast $495 + HST sheltered only by ancient, stunted tuckamore explode with the vivid crimson, purple and magenta of wild blueberry shrubs cast among brightly coloured lichen. Based at the celebrated Neddie’s Harbour Inn, Max: 6 we spend four full days exploring the best Gros Morne has to offer in the fall, including the Tablelands, Tour cost includes: walks along the coast, hidden vistas and a boat trip on the sheltered waters of Bonne Bay. The final two • All accommodations days of our adventure takes us to the Bay of Islands hugging the mighty Humber Arm, which Captain • All meals Cook explored in the mid 1700’s. Charming outport communities along the way offer abundant photo • Ground transportation opportunities and a view into traditional Newfoundland life punctuated by the bright orange dories unique • Your instructor/guide(s) to this area. Our tour ends in Corner Brook at the Glynnmill Inn, one of Newfoundland’s most historic • All park/tour fees hotels. It hugs the river that gives the town its name and on a fine evening invites a stroll along the Corner Brook Stream Trail. Tour cost does not include: • Insurance • Alcoholic beverages • Flights to/from Deer Lake “The best thing about the tour is that the photos I ‘made’ will always conjure up so many great memories for me - the • Items of a personal nature places I stayed - the great friends I made - the wonderful food - the ‘unexpected’ and treasured moments with local • Any expenses incurred due to people - the ‘quiet’ periods of reflection and introspection as I wandered off to ‘shoot’. You have exceeded any, and all, itinerary changes beyond our expectations…” - Marcia control

Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate

June 10 - 17, 2012

Narwhalestled between and the majestic Polar mountains Bear of north BaffinSafari Price: $9,700 USD + HST Island and Bylot Island – Sirmilik National Park, experienceN abundant wildlife that congregates along the ice Airfare: $3,256 (Ottawa to Pond Inlet) floe edge that only a few have seen. The spring floe edge is Highlights• Observe the tusked narwhal from pods a fascinating eco-system where wildlife thrives. During this Max: 10 adventurers of 1 to hundreds resting, feeding meters from the floe edge time in spring, wildlife gathers at the floe-edge and there Fitness Level: Moderate • Polar Bears, harp seals, bearded seal, exists the chance to see pods of narwhal resting only meters ring seals, and possibly walrus from the edge – their misty breathe sparkling in the 24 hour Tour Price Includes: • Journey by snowmobile to traditional sun. In addition you’ll have a good chance of seeing polar • Your guide Inuit hunting grounds bears, a variety of species of seals, an incredible variety of sea • Accommodation • Enjoy tea made of melt-water from birds including thick billed Murre, Kittiwake, Guillemot, • All meals during the tour hundreds of year old ice bergs along the Ivory Gull, along with many other species of gull. Bowhead • Transportation during the tour route and Beluga also frequent this area. • Settle into a high-end tented base camp Tour Price Does Not include: on the 2m sea ice at the floe edge. A senior Inuit guide will explain the traditional ways of Inuit • Flights from your home to Ottawa / • Hike on Bylot island and see an old whaling station, remains of a shipwreck, life over five days as you embark on a journey of discovery of Pond Inlet the arctic, the abundant wildlife and its beauty. Hiking on the Inuit tent rings, flowering spring fauna • Personal expenses • Gaze up at 100m stepped waterfall of land, breaking icicles off of glaciers, gazing up at thousands of • Mandatory Medical Insurance birds at the nearby bird cliffs, and drinking glacier melt-water glacier melt-water and carve it’s way on day excursion are just a few of the activities that you can through sea ice participate in. • Visit the Bylot Island bird cliffs with 20,000+ birds

July 8 - 15, 2012

he waters of the Foxe Basin are some of the richest in the Price: $9,100 USD + HST WalrusArctic and haveand attracted Bowhead Inuit hunters for Safarimore than four Tthousand years. Our daily sorties will take us across to the ice Airfare: $2,899 (Ottawa to Igloolik) floe edge via snowmobiles and qamutiks. From there, we take Highlights• See the northward migrating bowhead boats out into the open waters. Whether sitting quietly on the Max: 12 adventurers whales breach playfully, fin sideways and floe edge waiting for a passing bowhead or having lunch on the slap their immense fluke on the mirror floating pack ice amongst the walrus, we will constantly be aware Fitness Level: Moderate smooth water amongst the floating ice of the effect of the ice’s movements as we travel over, between pancakes and past almost every kind of ice. Tour Price Includes: • Large herds of walrus sunning • Your guide themselves on floating ice islands This a journey of amazing panoramas. Whether you’re facing a • Accommodation • Snorkel or dive along the ice floe edge, hundred walrus, reflecting on the beauty of an absolutely mirror- • All meals during the tour calm ocean, staring up mountains of ice, or watching for animals and exhilarate in the moment when a along the tundra, there are countless unforgettable scenes. Some • Transportation during the tour bowhead whale swims by are so lucky as to connect with the animals and peer into the • Listen to the chirps and whistles of eye of a passing bowhead or directly into the eyes of a polar bear Tour Price Does Not include: the whale songs while underwater, or swimming by our boat. • Flights from your home to Ottawa through a hydrophone on the surface / Igloolik • Experience all aspects of the high Arctic Watching the animals under the midnight sun is simply magical. from Inuit culture to spectacular wide • Personal expenses Dusk moves directly into dawn, with each sunset followed by an open landscapes, to ancient Inuit sod immediate sunrise, creating a dramatic play of light and shadow • Mandatory Medical Insurance house settlements across the ice and the open sea. The shallow depths are ideal for • A good chance of seeing Polar Bear divers, who can easily reach the bottom while ice diving and can explore walls covered in life. Open water diving from the floe hunting for seals among the floating edge along walls of ice is an unforgettable experience, especially pans of ice for snorkellers and divers wishing to experience the sights and • Bask in the warm glow of the midnight sun experiences underwater without venturing below the ice. 69 Both photos ©Eagle-Eye Tours

June 8 - 18, 2012

Birdinghis tour combines the greatCanadian bird and mammal Rockies watching Price: $3,925 USD + HST based on amidst spectacular mountain scenery. We visit the famed double occupancy; single supplement MountainT National Parks of the Canadian Rockies – Banff, please add $695 USD + GST • Spectacular mountain scenery in the Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay as well as Kananaskis Country Highlights Max: 12 adventurers heart of Canada’s Mountain National and a few lesser known but equally charming areas. We Parks explore both sides of the continental divide including the Fitness Level: Moderate • Excellent bird and mammal watching headwaters of the Columbia River and the very productive across a range of elevations and habitats Columbia River wetlands – the longest wetlands in North Tour Price Includes: • White-tailed Ptarmigan America. • Your guide • American Dipper • Accommodation • Black Swift We visit a wide range of habitats from alpine tundra to prairie • All meals during the tour • Lewis’s Woodpecker grasslands. We amble through magnificent Rocky Mountain • Transportation during the tour • Black-chinned Hummingbird forests looking for warblers and other passerines, scan clear • Ferruginous Hawk mountain streams for American Dippers, and search the • Varied Thrush Tour Price Does Not include: • Moose prairies and astonishingly productive potholes for grassland • Flights from your home to Edmonton • Mountain Goat birds, raptors, ducks and shorebirds. We take the longest tram and home from Calgary • Bighorn Sheep ride in Canada to the Whistlers and look for high elevation • Personal expenses • Pronghorn species such as White-tailed Ptarmigan. Finally we should • Mandatory Medical Insurance see lots of mammals - elk, moose, bear, deer, coyote, beaver, porcupine, mountain goat, bighorn sheep and more.

June 27 - July 7, 2012

his very special tour takes in three different areas; exquisite Price: $5,450 USD + HST based Birdinghigh Arctic tundrathe aboveHigh the Arctic Arctic Circle and far& north ofNorthwest on double occupancy, Territories single theT treeline on the south shore of Victoria Island at Cambridge supplement please add $725 USD + Bay (Ikaluktutiak), where the sun never actually sets; boreal GST Highlights• Amazing wildlife, from Muskox to forest and lakes around Yellowknife, NWT, on the north arm of jaegers and King Eiders to Yellow- Great Slave Lake; and aspen parkland and potholes of Central Max: 12 adventurers billed Loons, amidst fascinating Alberta where Beaverhill Lake and Elk Island National Park Fitness Level: Moderate tundra and taiga habitats lie, and where we may find northern owls such as Northern • Great breeding bird and flower Hawk-Owl and Great Gray Owl. We encounter a diverse array Tour Price Includes: photography opportunities of birds and other wildlife on our tour; nesting King Eiders, • Your guide • Yellow-billed Loon Sabine’s Gulls, Greater White-fronted Geese, Pacific and • Accommodation • King Eider Yellow-billed Loons and Long-tailed Ducks in arctic pools, • All meals during the tour • Sabine’s Gull breeding shorebirds such as Red and Red-necked Phalaropes, • Transportation during the tour • Red Phalarope Semipalmated, Baird’s and Stilt Sandpipers, Ruddy Turnstones, • Long-tailed Jaeger and American Golden-Plovers on the tundra, and Long-tailed Tour Price Does Not include: • Snowy Owl and Pomarine Jaegers and Snowy Owls may be nesting, provided • Return flights from your home to • Thayer’s Gull that lemmings are in good numbers. The sight of several herds of Edmonton • Great Gray Owl Muskox out on the open tundra will not be long forgotten! The • Personal expenses • Arctic Fox area is steeped in history and culture, from explorers searching • Mandatory Medical Insurance for the Northwest Passage, Amundsen’s Maud, to the Inuit of the western Arctic. The high quality, cultural experience and exciting wildlife viewing make for a long-remembered tour! 71 Both photos ©Eagle-Eye Tours

September 28 - October 7, 2012

Quebecood birding Birds and whale-watching & at Whalesa fine time of the year, the Price: $3,075 USD + GST based on fall, when autumnal colours cover the countryside, in la Belle double occupancy, single supplement GProvince, Quebec! Starting in historic Quebec City, we first explore please add $595 USD + GST the Leon-Provancher marsh and woodland trails for waterfowl, Highlights• Several splendid wildlife spectacles marsh birds, song birds and shorebirds along with Ospreys and Max: 12 adventurers - from thousands of Snow Geese Peregrine Falcons, then to the Cap Rouge area with its beach and to impressive encounters with big Fitness Level: Moderate parkland trails for aquatic and shore birds. Next we head down whales along the mighty St Lawrence River first to Cap-Tourmente Tour Price Includes: • Charm of Quebec City where thousands of Greater Snow Geese and other waterfowl • Your guide • Spectacular autumnal colours have gathered at the national wildlife area, next to the remarkable • Accommodation • Greater Snow Goose Grands-Jardins park for boreal and tundra species, followed by a • All meals during the tour • Razorbill day along the spectacular Charlevoix landscape on to Tadoussac • Transportation during the tour • Boreal Chickadee and the mouth of the Saguenay River for shorebirds and whale- • Common Eider watching. Whale-watching boat rides should put us close to many Tour Price Does Not include: • Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow whales of several different species - Fin Whale, Minke Whale, • Return airfare from your home to • Beluga Whale possibly even Blue Whale, and especially Belugas. We take the Quebec City • Fin Whale ferry across the St. Lawrence, looking for pelagics such as Razorbill, • Personal expenses • Other baleen whales possibly shearwaters, Common Eiders, jaegers and kittiwakes to Rivière- • Mandatory Medical Insurance including Blue Whale du-Loup, where we make an effort to find Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow. We make our way back along the St Lawrence, taking in several choice spots, and end in Quebec City.

72 September 17 – 24, 2012 With Carol Heppenstall

he city different as it is called reflects a certain something that is hard to find anywhere in North Price: $2,995 USD based on double occupancy; single supplement please add $950 SantaAmerica. UNESCOFe Style defines it as part of the creative cities network worldwide but those of us who liveT here simply rest easy in its ancient roots. It is a melting pot of ancient cultures, European conquerors, restless Anglos, artists, musicians and new age seekers. It is at once a spiritual landscape nestled in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and a heady oasis for the postmodern traveller. Its population rises and falls with the cultural seasons yet its very fabric is enduring, constantly being reinvented by its • Seven nights in a Four-Star Hotel, including ever-changing flow of admirers. Inclusions:breakfasts • 4 lunches and 1 dinner If you come, be prepared for eye-opening extremes. From ancient Native Culture to sacred sites of the • Daily cocktail wine and cheese Spanish Colonial era – the palette is endless. We’ll meet contemporary artists and writers but catch up • Georgia O’Keeffe home in Abiquiu with mythic figures like Georgia O’Keeffe and Willa Cather who changed the perceptions of this once • Museum passes for Georgia O’Keeffe, sleepy town. Remember the Old Santa Fe Trail? Once traversed by wagon trains and restless adventurers, History and International Folk Art this historic path still winds its way to the heart of the city - the famous plaza alive with shops, museums Museums and restaurants. And speaking of food, our choices are limitless and we might indulge in a little experiential • Sactuario at Chimayo foodery at the world famous Santa Fe Cooking School. • Private collections • Santa Fe Cooking School, class and lunch I invite you to come explore Santa Fe Style! • Final Dinner -Carol Heppenstall

Your Guide: dventure Canada is thrilled to present two intimate experiences on Labrador’s wild and Torngat Safari Mike Beedell stunningly beautiful Northern coast. This Inuit homeland is also Canada’s newest National Mike’s first journey to Newfoundland and Park,A the Torngat Mountains. Inuit legend holds that in these mountains everything – the rock, Labrador began 30 years ago on an assignment the soil, the air - has a spirit - and we say, it’s where you can find yours. for Parks Canada in Gros Morne National park. Since his initial explorations of the rugged and The Torngat Mountains have been home to Inuit and their predecessors for thousands of years. geologically outstanding coast Mike has returned The spectacular wilderness of this National Park comprises 9,700 km2 of the Northern Labrador to lead expeditions and photograph this inspiring landscape time and again . He has been inspired by Mountains natural region. The park extends from Saglek Fjord in the south, including all islands living amongst its inhabitants who are sculpted by the sea and land and who and islets, to the very northern tip of Labrador; and from the provincial boundary with Quebec create unique art ,music, literature & lifestyles. Mike began exploring the in the west, to the iceberg-choked waters of the Labrador Sea in the east. The mountain peaks Torngat Mountains twenty years ago long before it evolved as a National along the border with Quebec are the highest in mainland Canada east of the Rockies, and Park. He has logged thousands of kilometres by ski, kayak, trekking and are dotted with remnant glaciers. Polar bears hunt seals along the coast, and both the Torngat yacht over the years. He looks forward to sharing his passion for this place Mountains and George River caribou herds cross paths as they migrate to and from their calving with the most impressive mountainscapes in eastern North America. grounds. Mike has had 30 years experience as a wilderness tour leader, photographer and guide. He is the director of O Canada’ Expeditions Hosted by Adventure Canada guide extraordinaire, Mike Beedell, and a team of Inuit expedition which specializes in small group travel to spectacular places less traveled. professionals and scientists from Nunatsiavut and Parks Canada, our two excursions offer exciting He has been a resource person for Adventure Canada since 1988. opportunities for both the advanced and moderate adventurer and are designed to give you an up-close look into the life, culture and wilderness of this Northern world. Mike’s love for wilderness travel and other cultures is infectious. His marvelous sense of humour and natural gift of music contribute to a most memorable experience.

74 July 20 - 28, 2012 July 27 - AUG 4, 2012

Price: $4,995 USD + HST Price: $6,995 USD + HST HelihikingGet out and experience the true EnjoyBase the wonders Camp of the Big wilderness on this active hiking Min: 6 adventurers Land from our base, a safari-style Min: 8 adventurers adventure. Kick off your week by standing tent camp complete with Fitness Level: Advanced experiencing the full grandeur of all the creature comforts. Designed Fitness Level: Moderate the Torngat National Park as you Tour Price Includes: after traditional Inuit camps, our Tour Price Includes: travel by helicopter over towering • Your guide tents are insulated and have raised • Your guide mountains and winding rivers • Trained bear guard beds for ultimate warmth. We will • Accommodation from basecamp to our drop off • Charter flight strike out from camp each day by • Trained bear guard point. Over the next five days • Accommodations longliner, speedboat, helicopter and • Charter flight we will cover 60km on foot in a • Breakfast July 21 - breakfast foot to explore the majesty of Saglek • Dinner July 27 - July 28 stunning and exhilarating landscape. Bay. Throughout our week we will breakfast Aug. 4 • Transportation during the Accompanying Mike will be an experience wildlife viewing of polar • Transportation during tour experienced local bear guide who bear, foxes and whales, archaeological the tour • Helicopter drop-off • Stewardship levy will share with you the many legends • Stewardship levy site visits, fishing and cultural and recent experiences of the Inuit activities including soapstone carving, Tour Price Does Not of the region. Tour Price Does Not include: storytelling and sampling traditional include: • Return airfare from your home foods. Throughout the week your • Return airfare from your to Goose Bay guide, Mike Beedell will offer a series home to Goose Bay • Personal expenses of workshops on photography tips. • Personal expenses • Mandatory Medical Insurance • Mandatory Medical • Meals July 20 Insurance 75 Both photos ©Ed Maruyama

June 28 - July 5, 2012

oin Adventure Canada for one of the coolest events at the top of the world! In 2012 Alianait is a non-profit chari- AlianaitAC heads to Iqaluit Arts for the 8Festivalth annual Alianait Arts Festival. Bringing together table organization whose mis- music,J theatre, film, storytelling, circus, dance and visual artists from across Nunavut sion is to help build a healthier and Canada, the Alianait festival is truly one of a kind. Your guide, Aaju Peter, is a Nunavut through the arts. They resident of Iqaluit and is thrilled to share the ins and outs of her hometown. work proactively with local schools and community organi- Throughout our week, you will have the opportunity to tour the many important zations to present family-friendly, alcohol-free events, and to historic and political sites, get out on the land, meet with local elders, artists, facilitate outreach opportunities between artists and students. performers, youth and decision makers and participate in private behind the scene workshops at both the Alianait Arts Festival and the Nunavut Arts and Crafts The Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association Festival. (NACA) promotes the growth and appreciation of Nunavut artists, and the production of The vibrant capital of Nunavut, Iqaluit is a bustling community. With a population their arts and crafts. Created as a non-profit of just under 7,000, Iqaluit is in undergoing a period of great economic and social incorporated society in October 1998, NACA invigoration. As the gateway to Canada’s great north Iqalungmiut are joined with currently works on behalf of Nunavut’s visual folks from around Nunavut and Canada, working together to build a fantastic artists - carvers, printmakers, ceramic pot- community of creative, opportunistic residents. We look forward to taking you tery makers, painters, photographers, jewellers, tapestry art- behind the scenes and sharing Iqaluit’s dynamic culture and enthusiasm. ists and seamstresses. Through activities such as conferences, workshops, the yearly Nunavut Arts Festival and other events, Adventure Canada is excited to celebrate Canada Day with the Polar World’s finest NACA strives to create a better business and working environ- musicians and artists. We are proud to support the Alianait Arts Festival and The ment for artists. Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association. 76 ©Ed Maruyama ©Mike Beedell

Your Guide: Price: $4,295 USD + HST based on double Aaju Peter occupancy. Single supplement please add $995 Born in Arkisserniaq, a northern USD Greenland community in Minimum: 6 adventurers Highlights• Behind the scenes involvement and 1960, Aaju has lived up and workshops at the Alianait festival down the west coast of her Fitness Level: Moderate • Private workshop by master Nunavut native country as a result of her Tour Price Includes: artist father’s teaching and preaching • 7 nights accommodation at the Frobisher Inn • Opportunity to meet with artist and career. In 1981, Aaju moved to • Dinner day 1 through breakfast day 8 purchase art, clothing and crafts Iqaluit, in Nunavut, Canada where she has taken • Alianait Festival Pass direct from artists up residence. Here, Aaju worked as an interpreter, • 2 private workshops with Alianait artists • Organized meetings with notable and she has done volunteer work with various • 1 private workshop with the NACA Nunavut personalities women’s and interpretation organizations. Aaju has • Local transportation • Personalized town tour a homebased sealskin garment business, translates, • Home visits • Spend time at Unikkaarvik Visitor volunteers for the music society, collects traditional • Guiding services Centre law from Nunavut’s elders, raises her five children, • Local food sampling • Tour Nunavut’s Legislative and is currently involved in promoting the Inuit right Assembly building to make a living on hunting seal. Aaju has over a Tour Price Does Not include: • Visit Nunatta Sunakkutaangit decade of guiding experience and looks forward to • Return airfare from your home to Iqaluit Museum showcasing her hometown with you. (Group airfare is available from Ottawa the cost • Visit Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park is $1,295 USD) • Spend time with locals at an evening • Personal expenses bonfire • Travel Insurance 77 September 20 - 29, 2012

ome along with us as we explore the magnificent fjords and Cost: $6,495 USD + HST Greatspectacular islandsBear of the Rainforest Great Bear Rainforest on the British CColumbian coast. We travel aboard the 68 ft sailboat Island Odyssey Max: 13 adventurers enjoying birds as well as both grizzly and black bears, whales, and Tour cost includes: possibly wolves among pristine watersheds of towering forests. • Most meals Highlights• Magnificent fjords From Bella Bella, we cruise through the Queen Charlotte Strait • Hotel night in Vancouver and • Extensive forests of tow- Bella Bella to a backdrop of mountains and seascapes, and there is a good ering trees chance of Humpback and Killer Whales, Dall’s Porpoise and • Return airfare from Vancouver to Bella Bella • Spectacular islands Pacific White-sided Dolphin. On our crossing to the Great Bear • Tips to ship’s crew Rainforest area, birding can be very rewarding; possibilities include • Admission fees • Sailing along marvelous pelagic birds such as Cassin’s Auklet, Black-footed Albatross, • Passage onboard Island Odyssey and inaccessible coast- • Guiding services of Mike Beedell jaegers, Sooty Shearwater, Leach’s and Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels. lines The Hakai Conservation Area, renowned for its tiny islets and Tour cost does not include: white sand beaches is an excellent spot to search for Sea Otters, • Roundtrip airfare from your home • Shore excursions to Brandt’s Cormorants nest on rocky shores, Harlequin Ducks bob to Vancouver coastal forest • Mandatory emergency medical and in the sheltered coves, and Steller’s Sea Lions lounge on rocks. We evacuation insurance • Seeing some of the wild- have opportunities to walk through rainforest among giant trees, • Items of a personal nature est areas of remaining for songbirds and woodpeckers. Finally, we marvel at the west coast Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate coastal temperate rain- fjordland, for stunning scenery and lovely rivers and estuaries. Our forest voyage along the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest ends in the coastal town of Bella Bella. This will be an unforgettable voyage Please call us to receive additional • Viewing of Grizzly and to a wildlife rich region like no other! information on this departure. Kermodie bears 78 July 6 - 15, 2012

oin Carol Heppenstall on a journey to Haida Gwaii: the Queen Cost: $5,495 USD + HST HaidaJCharlotte Islands Gwaii: and home of the HaidaThe - one Queen of the most culturally Charlotte Islands rich and developed groups of people to inhabit early North America. Max: 14 adventurers Among 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. 79 Both photos © Robert R. Taylor

October and November 2012

Price: $5,399 USD + HST, Single Supp. ocated on the western shore of Hudson Bay and not accessible by road lies the small northern $725 USD Bearsseaport of Churchill,of Churchill Manitoba. In the fall, before Hudson Bay freezes over, the great white polar Lbears make their way to this tiny town.

Explore the world-famous northern town of Churchill where there are just as many polar bears • Enjoy a guided tour of the area Highlights: as there are people. On this tour you’ll experience the arctic wildlife out on the tundra including surrounding Churchill ptarmigan, arctic fox and of course the mighty polar bear as well as have the opportunity to explore • Enjoy an exhilarating ride behind a this unique northern town and learn about the culture of the people of the north. Led by an expert strong team of huskies on a custom- interpretive guide this adventure includes a dog sledding program, a town and area tour as well as visits made sled to the Eskimo Museum, which is home to the largest collection of Inuit artifacts in the north. Our dog • Visit the Eskimo Museum, one of sledding program will showcase the role and importance of dog sledding in northern culture as well as Canada’s finest collections of Inuit take us on our own dog sledding experience through the beautiful boreal forest. carvings, kayaks and artifacts dating from pre-Dorset, Dorset, Thule, and We’ll spend two days on the open deck of a Tundra Buggy, along the shores of the Hudson Bay, safely modern Inuit times getting up close to polar bears in the wild bringing us face to face with these magnificent animals - • An up-close encounter with the majestic truly a photographers delight! polar bear (from the comfort of your tundra buggy!) • Picnic style lunches and refreshments while you are bear watching 80 Both photos © Robert R. Taylor

May 6 - 11, 2013 Photo Safari May 12-17, 2013

Cost: $8,915 USD + HST itness from the air and within arms reach, one of Max: 8 adventurers CaribouCanada’s greatest Migration: unknown natural spectacles – Tour cost includes: • Aerial view of the Qamanirjuaq theW great spring migration of hundreds of thousands of • Staff Escort and local Inuit Guides Highlights: caribou. • All transportation to/from and the caribou stretching horizon to tundra base camp including private plane horizon Every spring, in early May, the Qamanirjuaq caribou from Arviat • Listen to the rumble of • All day trips including snowmobiles thousands of caribou passing by herd begins to gather together and the call to reach their • All accommodations from Arviat – 2 within arms length calving grounds drives them northward 300miles/480km. nights Arviat and 4 nights arctic safari- • Smell, hear, and observe caribou The Qamanirjuaq caribou number in the hundreds of style base camp • All meals from Arviat on their annual spring migration thousands and are one of the healthiest herds in Canada. • Hotel transfers in Arviat • Northern Lights The nature of the northern topography where the caribou Tour cost does not include: • Wildlife photography roam, from treeless taiga and tundra, to river valleys, to • Flights • Short hikes large lakes, form natural corridors that the caribou follow • Mandatory emergency medical and • Snowmobiling on predictable routes that to reach their calving grounds. evacuation insurance • Items of a personal nature It is in these corridors that we will establish a tented base • Any expenses incurred due to changes camp to fly you into and allow for unprecedented access beyond our control to this natural spectacle. Fitness Level: Easy to Moderate

June 2-12, 2013

cotland’s western and northern isles offer a rich supply of culture, heritage and natural history. In ScotlandMedieval Times an Slowlyalready archaic society in the Hebrides evolved into the Lordship of the Isles, a sea- kingdomS blending Gael and Viking under the powerful domination of Clan Donald. In the north, Orkney Day 1: Glasgow & Oban and Shetland were welded into a formidable Scandinavian earldom. Both island groups preserve some of the OurDay 2: IslayIntended & Jura Itinerary oldest monuments in Europe, dating back to the Stone Age, while today both exploit the latest computer Day 3: Isle of Skye technologies to place them at the forefront of modern developments. Kinship and community are two of Day 4: Staffa & Iona the constants in this story; Gaelic-speaking clans retained their independence despite acknowledging the Lords of the Isles, while free Norse landholders battled the forces of feudalism in the Northern Isles. As Day 5: Mingulay & Barra our ship, Clipper Adventurer, winds its way through the western isles and the Pentland Firth to Orkney Day 6: St. Kilda and Shetland, history will illuminate the present while tradition will enhance our understanding of the Day 7: Isle of Lewis past. The abundant bird and mammal population of the area will be observed, studied and surely enjoyed. Day 8: Orkney Islands June is an ideal month to visit Scotland in search of birds, with breeding well underway, watchers will be Day 9 & 10: Shetland Islands rewarded with excellent opportunities. Photographers will have time to focus their attentions on improving Day 11: Aberdeen technique and getting small group tutorials. Island folk have always been extremely conscious of the natural environment, as the riches thereof have sustained them. We’ll experience a bit of island life too with music and laughter in community halls and local pubs. With modern touches in many homes, the people who live here still remain close to their roots with nuances and traditions imbedded by the original settlers who first made their homes here hundreds of years ago.

April 2013

oin us once again for our voyage to the real Middle Earth as we experience Ecuador and the EcuadorJGalápagos Islands. & Starting inthe the highlands Galapagos of Ecuador, we’ll have Islands a chance to explore the UNESCO world heritage site of colonial Quito, shop in the shadow of a volcano at the Otavalo • Visit historic Quito and the beautiful Market, and stand on the equator before heading to the Galápagos Islands. highlandsHighlights of Ecuador • Daily opportunities to snorkel and many We’ll explore the islands synonymous with Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. Each chances to kayak day will bring us a variety of activities both above and below the water with daily chances to • Join expert-guided educational walks among snorkel and hike. Our fleet of sea kayaks are also available at many stops in the archipelago. the wildlife on the islands • View tortoises in the wild in the highlands of The islands promise an unforgettable experience where the water, land and air are alive with the Galápagos Islands birds, plants and animals, many of which are found no place else on Earth. This is one of the • Have ample time to relax and enjoy the most comprehensive voyages in the region, providing access to the best variety of wildlife. tropical weather Each day brings new species and new experiences. Snorkel with sea lion pups, marine iguanas, • Observe wildlife close-up with plenty of time to photograph penguins and sea turtles. Explore the volcanic islands alongside giant tortoise and the flightless • Find new species each day as we visit a cormorant. Our local resource staff are second to none, and will introduce us to the history, fantastic assortment of island ecosystems flora and fauna of these unique islands through guided walking tours, Zodiac cruises and • Swim with penguins and sea lions onboard lectures. • Birders will love the variety and volume of bird life 83 All rates are in USD. Prices are cash/cheque discounted; please find credit card prices on the back cover.

Into the Out of the Greenland & Wild Newfoundland Voyage Arctic Safari Epic High Arctic 2012 Rates Northwest Passage Northwest Passage Labrador Circumnavigation Dates July 30 - Aug. 9, 2012 Aug. 9 - 19, 2012 Aug. 19 - Sept. 2, 2012 Sept. 2 -18, 2012 Sept. 18 - Oct. 1, 2012 Oct. 1 - 11, 2012 Vessel Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Category 1 $3,600 $4,045 $6,995 $7,195 $3,995 $3,595 2 $4,645 $5,145 $8,395 $8,995 $5,095 $4,395 3 $5,845 $6,245 $9,495 $9,995 $6,195 $4,995 4 $6,345 $6,895 $10,495 $11,295 $6,795 $5,495 5 $7,845 $8,545 $12,195 $12,595 $8,495 $6,395 6 $8,645 $9,045 $13,195 $14,095 $8,995 $6,995 7 $8,945 $9,345 $14,195 $15,095 $9,295 $7,895 8 $9,345 $9,945 $14,795 $15,695 $9,895 $8,495 9 $9,745 $10,545 $15,595 $16,295 $10,495 $8,895 10 $10,545 $11,445 $16,195 $16,995 $11,395 $9,295 Discovery Fund $250

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• Commercial & charter flights • All entry & park fees We Love Bagpipers! • Mandatory medical / evacuation insurance • Your complete itinerary If you can play the bagpipes, • Personal expenses • Team of resource specialists bring them along and ask about • Additional expenses in the event of delays • Educational program and pre-departure or itinerary changes materials our bagpiper’s rebate! • Discretionary gratuities to ship’s crew • All shipboard meals (approx. $12 - 14 per passenger per day) • All Zodiac excursions • Visas, or inoculations, if required • Service charges and port fees • Physician’s fees confirming you are fit to travel Pay in Full Bonus! 30 UNDER 30 SPECIAL! • Possible fuel surcharges • Pre & Post Hotel Nights Book and pay in full on any 2013 shipboard Family is important! In order to promote • Optional excursions departure and guarantee no fuel surcharges. multi-generational travel, we are offering a Clothing packages are available 30% discount to travellers under 30 years of age. Please call us for details! 84 Please call us for details! All rates are in USD. Prices are cash/cheque discounted; please find credit card prices on the back cover.

Into the Voyage Scotland Slowly Scotland to Greenland Heart of the Arctic Arctic Safari Arctic Explorer Northwest Passage Dates2013June 2 - 12,Rates 2013 June 12 - 24, 2013 June 24 - July 6, 2013 July 17 -27, 2013 July 27 - Aug 6, 2013 Aug. 6 - 20, 2013 Vessel Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Category 1 $3,995 $2,995 $3,895 $3,995 $3,995 $7,195 2 $4,995 $3,995 $4,995 $5,395 $5,395 $8,795 3 $5,995 $4,595 $5,995 $6,495 $6,495 $9,895 4 $6,595 $5,495 $6,795 $7,395 $7,395 $10,795 5 $7,995 $6,695 $7,995 $8,595 $8,595 $12,595 6 $8,995 $7,495 $8,995 $8,995 $8,995 $13,595 7 $9,595 $7,995 $9,695 $9,995 $9,995 $14,595 8 $9,995 $8,495 $9,995 $10,595 $10,595 $15,195 9 $10,495 $8,895 $10,495 $10,995 $10,995 $15,995 10 $11,395 $9,995 $10,995 $11,795 $11,795 $16,595 Discovery Fund $250 Out of the Greenland & Newfoundland Voyage Northwest Passage Wild Labrador Circumnavigation Sailing Solo? Dates Aug. 20 - Sept. 4, 2013 Sept. 4 - 18, 2013 Sept. 18 - 27, 2013 Single travellers not requiring private accommodation on shipboard programs can be matched with another single Vessel Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer Clipper Adventurer traveller at no extra charge. Single-occupancy cabins are Category 1 $7,595 $3,995 $3,695 also available at 1.6 times the regular cost. 2 $9,395 $5,595 $4,495 Please call us for pricing & availability 3 $10,295 $6,695 $5,095 4 $11,695 $7,495 $5,695 5 $12,995 $8,995 $6,595 Already booked a trip 6 $14,395 $9,895 $7,095 with someone else? 30 UNDER 30 SPECIAL! 7 $15,495 $10,495 $7,995 8 $15,995 $10,995 $8,595 No problem! We’ll cover your cancellation 9 $16,695 $11,495 $8,995 fees with a credit of up to $500 if you chose 10 $17,595 $11,995 $9,395 to travel with us instead. Call us for details! Discovery Fund $250 85 Each area we visit has rich cultural experiences and wild treasures to offer. As guests, we have made a point to source and support local projects in the areas through which weAbout travel. A contribution our Discovery from each passenger representsFund a portion of the money we donate to ensure the longevity and success of educational, environmental and cultural initiatives in these regions.

Passenger 1 Passenger 2 In 2011 the following programs were supported: Amina Anthropological Resources Association, Amos Comenius Memorial School, Atlantic Whales.com, Avanersuaq Cultural Qaannaaq, Greenland, Blueprint for Life, Hobbema RCMP Cadet Program, Killinik School Foundation, Kugluktuk Association, MLC – making life count, Full Name: Title: First: Last: Title: First: Last: National Inuit Youth Council, Northern Youth Abroad Living Works, Pulaarvik Kablu Spousal Abuse Counselling, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Skills Canada, The (as on passport) Walrus Foundation, Woody Point Historical Theatre,Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention, Ottawa Children’s Centre, Project North, Torngat National Parks Clean-Up Project, Nova Scotia Archaeological Society, Students on Ice, Options Mississauga, Unikkausivut, ImagiNative, Riverside Public School, ITK. Address: Street: Street: dventure Canada is proud to announce City: Prov/St: City: Prov/St: roject North consists of a group of our four-year partnership on an exciting PCanadians committed to enhancing and projectA with the National Film Board of improving the lives of children in Canada’s Canada (NFB) and the Inuit Relations Country: Postcode: Country: Postcode: North. Project North’s goal is to galvanize Secretariat (IRS) of Aboriginal Affairs and E-mail: Canadians from coast to coast to coast to Northern Development Canada (AANDC). look North, become more aware, and lend Telephone: Home: ( ) Work: ( ) Home: ( ) Work: ( ) a hand to support children - our country’s The Inuit have a long and vibrant tradition of passing tales and legends down greatest resources. from one generation to the next using visual arts and storytelling. For over 70 Emergency Medical & Evacuation I require emergency medical insurance I require Cancellation and Interruption insurance, please get me a quote years, the National Film Board of Canada has been documenting life in the Insurance is mandatory for this Both literacy and fitness are significant Arctic, producing an impressive collection of more than 110 films by and about program. Date of Birth: Passenger 1 DD/MMM/YY Date of Birth: Passenger 2 DD/MMM/YY ie. 01/JAN/45 contributors to health, well being, success the Inuit—a unique and powerful portrait of Inuit life, past and present. and positive personal development in later No, I do not require insurance, I will provide you with my policy information. life. As Arctic children and youth are the The goal is to provide this unique collection for free, to Inuit as well as to all future stewards of their land, Project North Canadians in Inuktitut, French and English. This past fall, the project reached Participant(s) Signatures: Passenger 1 Passenger 2 aims to contribute to enhancing their (indicates agreement to Release the 53 Inuit communities of Canada and the Inuit in the urban centres with and Terms and Conditions ) SIGNATURE REQUIRED SIGNATURE REQUIRED educational opportunities and physical well-being in order to better equip them the launch of a DVD box set of 24 films. This historic NFB undertaking will to meet the challenges facing them as adults. ensure this collection is available online by 2015, making Unikkausivut a bold Where did you first hear heritage initiative of unprecedented scope. of this trip? Adventure Canada is thrilled to be involved with Project North and has assisted in bringing the donated hockey equipment to these Arctic VISA With your support the Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories will provide all Method of Payment for communities on our sailings each year. Canadians with the opportunity to discover the traditions, culture and values Card Number: Exp: $1,000 USD deposit per MASTERCARD of the Inuit, who have shaped a part of Canada’s history and continue to shape Please visit http://www.projectnorth.ca/gear-up/ to donate today! contemporary Canadian society. person to hold space Cheque Enclosed Signature: Please contact us to learn how you can support this important initiative.

Aboriginal Aairs and Aaires autochtones et Northern Development Canada Développement du Nord Canada Inuit Relations Secretariat Secrétariat des relations avec les Inuit 86 Please call to confirm availability before sending in completed registration form. contact Us 250-342-8640 or 1-800-373-5678 Release Registration Form The undersigned hereby agrees with these terms and conditions and further agrees that Adventure Canada shall have no liability or responsibility whatsoever for SELECT YOUR TRIP SELECT PREFERENCES damages to or loss of property, or injury which may be I/We understand that I/We have read, signed & I/We understand final sustained by reason of, or while engaged on, any Adven- Double ture Canada tour, whether due to (i) Adventure Canada Trip: pricing is cheque/cash agreed to the Terms & payment is due 120 days (AC), Eagle-Eye Tours (EE) ownership, maintenance, use, Single Smoker operation or control of any manner of conveyance used discounted and in Conditions. before departure. in carrying out the tour (including, without limitation, To Share Non-Smoker Zodiac embarkations involving descending Category: USD funds gangway stairs with double handrails and step- ping into the Zodiac from a small platform at water level); (ii) the use of transportation or other services of owners, operators, or public carri- Passenger 1 Passenger 2 ers for whom Adventure Canada acts only as agent; (iii) passenger’s lack of proper travel Title: First: Last: Title: First: Last: documentation (such as visas, passports, etc.); Full Name: (iv) any act, omission or event occurring dur- (as on passport) ing the time that passengers are not aboard AC/ EE carriers or conveyances; or (v) any act of war, insurrection, revolt or other civil uprising or military action occurring in the countries of origin, destination or Address: Street: Street: passage, or changes caused by sickness, weather, strike, quarantine or other causes beyond the control of AC/EE. The undersigned hereby waives any claim it may have against Adventure Canada for any such City: Prov/St: City: Prov/St: damage, loss or injury. The passenger understands and acknowledges the ticket in use by the carriers concerned (when issued) shall constitute the sole contract between the transportation companies and the Country: Postcode: Country: Postcode: purchaser of these tours and/or passage. Adventure Canada of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Ontario E-mail: Registration No. 0400 1400) acts only as agent for all services described herein. AC/EE and its sponsoring organizations do not assume any responsibility or liability whatsoever for any claims, damages, expenses or other Telephone: Home: ( ) Work: ( ) Home: ( ) Work: ( ) financial loss related to the operation of this tour. All legal questions and actions against Adventure Canada must be brought in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and by its ac- Emergency Medical & Evacuation I require emergency medical insurance I require Cancellation and Interruption insurance, please get me a quote ceptance hereof the passenger waives any right to bring an action in any other forum. The passenger hereby certifies Insurance is mandatory for this that he/she does not have a mental, physical or other condition or disability that would create a hazard for program. Date of Birth: Passenger 1 DD/MMM/YY Date of Birth: Passenger 2 DD/MMM/YY ie. 01/JAN/45 him/herself or other passengers. The passenger agrees to deliver the medical form provided by Adventure Can- ada, duly completed by the passenger’s certified physi- No, I do not require insurance, I will provide you with my policy information. cian, prior to departure. 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In consideration of the benefits to be derived from participation in the tour, the undersigned of this trip? voluntarily accepts all risk of personal injury or death and property damage or other loss arising from participation on the tour and hereby agrees that he/she and his/her VISA dependents, heirs, executors and assigns, do re- Method of Payment for Card Number: Exp: lease and hold harmless Adventure Canada and its employees, officers, directors, trustees and representa- $1,000 USD deposit per MASTERCARD tives from any and all claims, including claims of negli- gence, illness, personal injury, death or property dam- person to hold space age or loss, however caused, arising from or related to Cheque Enclosed this tour. The undersigned has read carefully this agree- Signature: ment, and will abide by the conditions set by AC/EE and in the terms and conditions hereof or elsewhere published. 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Release, Terms and Conditions Please read this important information carefully. The delivery by the passenger of the deposit together with a signed copy of this document to Adventure Canada shall constitute the passenger’s consent and agreement to all of the provisions contained herein. Please note that fuel surcharges may be levied Delays to offset rising oil prices. In the event of a delay, passengers will be responsible for all costs and expenses associated therewith, including, without limitation, any additional food, lodging or transportation costs resulting from such delay. We recommend you purchase refundable air tickets. Payment Schedule and Rates A deposit of $1,000 USD per passenger is required to reserve a position for a tour. The balance of payment for the tour must be received by Adventure Baggage Canada at least 120 days prior to the scheduled departure date. Adventure Canada will only issue pre-departure boarding documents to a passenger Baggage is solely at the passenger’s risk and expense. Baggage is limited to a maximum weight of 20 KG in most cases. Also, airline luggage allowance is once it has received full payment together with all required documents duly completed by the passenger. Tour fees quoted are based on (i) prices in typically two pieces per passenger and one piece of carry-on luggage, subject to weight restrictions, but please check with your airline for current standards. effect at the time of printing (March 2012) and as such are subject to change without notice prior to departure and (ii) group participation. Prices are Excess baggage is not permitted on charter flights. Any excess baggage charges for commercial flights are the responsibility of the passenger. cash/cheque discounted, and in US dollars. Credit Card pricing is as follows: 2012 Arctic Safari: C1 $3,744, C2 $4,831, C3 $6,079, C4 $6,599, C5 Land-Based Group Size and Trip Costs $8,159, C6 $8,991, C7 $9,303, C8 $9,719, C9 $10,135, C10 $10,967 – 2012 Epic High Arctic: C1 $4,207, C2 $5,350, C3 $6,495, C4 $7,171, 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 $8,887, C6 $9,407, C7 $9,719, C8 $10,343, C9 $10,967, C10 $11,903 – 2012 Into the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,275, C2 $8,731, C3 $9,875, 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 C4 $10,915, C5 $12,683, C6 $13,723, C7 $14,763, C8 $15,387, C9 $16,219, C10 $16,843 – 2012 Out of the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,483, 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 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 Company (HNC). Single rooms, if available, will be provided on request for an additional fee as outlined in program literature. For participants Labrador: C1 $4,155, C2 $5,299, C3 $6,443, C4 $7,067, C5 $8,835, C6 $9,355, C7 $9,667, C8 $10,291, C9 10,915, C10 $11,851 – 2012 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. Newfoundland Circumnavigation: C1 $3,739, C2 $4,571, C3 $5,195, C4 $5,715, C5 $6,651, C6 $7,275, C7 $8,211, C8 $8,835, C9 $9,251, C10 $9,667 -2013 Scotland Slowly: C1 $4,115, C2 $5,195, C3 $6,235, C4 $6,859, C5 $8,315, C6 $9,355, C7 $9,979, C8 $10,395, C9 $10,915, C10 Insurance $11,851 – 2013 Scotland to Greenland: C1 $3,115, C2 $4,155, C3 $4,779, C4 $5,715, C5 $6,963, C6 $7,795, C7 $8,315, C8 $8,835, C9 $9,251, Due to the nature of the tour in which the passenger will be participating, passengers must have in place prior to departure comprehensive insurance C10 $10,395 –2013 Heart of the Arctic: C1 $4,051, C2 $5,195, C3 $6,235, C4 $7,067, C5 $8,315, C6 $9,335, C7 $10,083, C8 $10,395, C9 coverage including without limitation medical, emergency evacuation, trip cancellation and interruption, accident and baggage insurance. Emergency $10,915, C10 $11,435 –2013 Arctic Safari: C1 $4,155, C2 $5,611, C3 $6,755, C4 $7,691, C5 $8,939, C6 $9,355, C7 $10,395, C8 $11,019, C9 medical and evacuation coverage is mandatory for trip participation and policy documentation will be required. Any losses sustained by the undersigned $11,435, C10 $12,267 – 2013 Arctic Explorer C1 $4,155, C2 $5,611, C3 $6,755, C4 $7,691, C5 $8,939, C6 $9,355, C7 $10,395, C8 $11,019, C9 passenger as a result of its failing to obtain proper insurance coverage shall be the sole responsibility of the passenger. For full coverage passengers are $11,435, C10 $12,267 – 2013 Into the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,843, C2 $9,147, C3 $10,291, C4 $11,227, C5 $13,099, C6 $14,139, C7 $15,179, recommended to obtain insurance at the time of deposit. C8 $15,803, C9 $16,635, C10 $17,259 – 2013 Out of the Northwest Passage: C1 $7,899, C2 $9,771, C3 $10,707, C4 $12,163, C5 $13,515, C6 $14,971, C7 $16,115, C8 $16,635, C9 $17,363, C10 $18,299 –2013 Greenland & Wild Labrador: C1 $4,155, C2 $5,819, C3 $6,963, C4 $7,795, Images and Privacy C5 $9,355, C6 $10,291, C7 $10,915, C8 $11,435, C9 11,955, C10 $12,475 – 2013 Newfoundland Circumnavigation: C1 $3,843, C2 $4,675, C3 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 $5,299, C4 $5,923, C5 $6,859, C6 $7,379, C7 $8,315, C8 $8,939, C9 $9,355, C10 $9,771. For wire transfers, passengers should note that the let us know in advance. We may also celebrate your birthday onboard, let us know if you would like to abstain. transferring financial institution may charge a service fee, which shall be at the passenger’s expense. Returned cheques, credit card changes and refunds Itinerary are subject to a $25 USD fee. Adventure Canada is a member in good standing of the Travel Industry Council of Ontario (“TICO”) which administers The itineraries/programs described are subject to change at the discretion of the ship’s master. These are expeditions to remote parts of the world. AC, the Ontario Travel Compensation Fund, a fund established by registered travel agents and travel wholesalers in Ontario to insure payments such as those reserves the exclusive right, in its sole discretion, to alter or omit any part of the itinerary or change any reservation, staff member, feature and/or means made to Adventure Canada in connection herewith. For more information on TICO, visit www.tico.on.ca of conveyance without notice and for any reason whatsoever including but not limited to weather conditions, availability of anchorages, force majeure,

political conditions and other factors beyond our control and without allowance or refund and with any and all extra costs resulting there from paid by Cancellations and Refunds the passengers. AC, expressly reserves the right to cancel, without prior notice to the passengers, any tour prior to departure, in which case tour fees All requests for cancellations must be received in writing. Upon Adventure Canada receiving a written notice of cancellation at least 120 days prior to the 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 scheduled date of departure, the passenger shall receive a full refund of its tour fees, less an administrative penalty of $500 per person. If a written notice 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 of cancellation is received by Adventure Canada between 91 and 120 days prior to the scheduled date of departure, the passenger shall receive a to cancel the reservation of, or remove from the tour, any passenger at any time. 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. For these Additional Documentation and other reasons mentioned below, passengers are strongly advised to obtain trip cancellation insurance. No refunds shall be made to passengers who Adventure Canada is a sub-charterer of the Clipper Adventure. Adventure Canada’s registration servers as the Passage Contract Ticket, which is the do not participate in any part of, or otherwise do not complete, the tour for any reason whatsoever. standard passenger contract and liability waiver of the vessels mentioned herein. Passengers are encouraged to read this document upon receipt. In accepting this Passage Contract Ticket, passengers agree to be bound by its terms and conditions.