Willmore Wilderness Foundation ... a registered charitable foundation 2016 Annual Newsletter Photo by Susan Feddema-Leonard - July 2015 Ali Klassen & Payton Hallock on the top of Mt. Stearn Willmore Wilderness Foundation Page 2 Page 3 Annual Edition - 2016 Jw Mountain Metis otipemisiwak - freemen President’s Report by Bazil Leonard Buy DVDs On LinePeople & Peaks People & Peaks Ancestors Calling Ancestors CallingLong Road Home Long Road Home Centennial Commemoration of Jasper’s Mountain Métis In 1806 Métis guide Jacco Findlay was the first to blaze a packtrail over Howse Pass and the Continental Divide. He made a map for Canadian explorer David Thompson, who followed one year later. Jacco left the North West Company and became one of the first “Freemen” or “Otipemisiwak” in the Athabasca Valley. Long Road Home: 45:13 min - $20.00 In 1907 the Canadian Government passed an Order in Council for the creation of the Ancestors Calling I thought that I would share a campsites, dangerous river fords, and “Jasper Forest Park”—enforcing the evacuation of the Métis in the Athabasca Valley. By 1909 guns were seized causing the community to surrender its homeland--including Jacco’s descendants. Six Métis families made their exodus after inhabiting the area for a century. Ancestors Calling This documentary, In 1804, the North West Company brought voyageurs, proprietors, evicted families, as well as Jacco’s progeny. Stories are shared through the voices of family recap of 2015, which was a year of historic areas on the west side of the members as they revealLong their Road struggle Home to preserve traditions and culture as Mountain Métis. interpreters, and clerks into the Rocky Mountain District near the present town focuses on a 14-day return trip by the descendants of the of Jasper, Alberta. A new culture, traditions and way of life was born. The 1872 Jasper House: PA-009129 indigenous Shuswap and Beaver Indians intermingled with the new French, Wildie: 44:14 min - $20.00 Registered Trade Name Willmore Wilderness Foundation many changes and surprises. Grande Smoky River. Scottish and Iroquois immigrants. The Mountain Métis, a horseback culture People & Peaks Productions copyright © Willmore Wilderness Foundation WillmoreWilderness.com | PeopleandPeaks.com emerged from this unique blend of people. Ancestors Calling shares the rich PeopleCollaborative Production & with thePeaks Mountain Productions culture through music and stories of award-winning musician Laura Vinson, a Cache is facing changing times descendant of an early voyageur of the Canadian Fur Trade: Louis Loyer. www.MountainMetis.com Rosie Award Nominee in 2013 by Alberta Film & Television Métis Centre • 44:27 minutres. The photographs and film People & Peaks Productions Long Road Home Mountain Mustang with the temporary closure of the Facebook.com/WillmoreWilderness footage that were taken during Facebook.com/PeopleandPeaks Mountain Mustang 1872 Jasper House: PA-009149 Grande Cache Coal Mine. No one MountainVimeo.com/PeopleandPeaks Mustang Women of Willmore Wilderness: 44:50 min - $20.00Twitter.com/WillmoreTweets is certain for how long the shut the trail restoration initiatives will Rosie Award Nominee in 2014 by Alberta Film & Mountain Television Mustang Mountain Mustang shares the story of Master Horseman Larry Nelles teach- down will last—so our community be used for transmedia content ing true horsemanship through feeling: sensitivity, kindness, patience, and a soft manner. Nelles has a mystical way of communicating with these four-leggeds. creation. Transmedia storytelling Trailmen seek advice from this amazing trainer and bring their free-spirited colts is in a state of uncertainty. The good to turn them into faithful friends. Ancestors Calling: 44:28 min - $20.00 Larry trains three young horsemen between the ages of 11, 13 and 15, who (also known as transmedia narrative start Mountain Mustangs that were raised in the Alberta Rockies. Larry shares his news is that the Foundation will thoughts about the synchronicity of working with the same family that his father or multiplatform storytelling, cross- had worked with, when he was a Jasper Park Warden in the early 1900s. The boys continue our operations. We have are the descendants from the Canadian Fur Trade, whose forefathers arrived in the Rocky Mountain district in the early 1800s. media seriality, etc.) is the technique Mountain Mustang: 44:03 min - $20.00 43:54 minutes several partnerships, and will carry on • Facebook.com/WillmoreWilderness PeopleFacebook.com/PeopleandPeaks & Peaks of telling a single story or story Vimeo.com/PeopleandPeaks operating as usual. 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You can read about The Willmore DVD TRAPSHEET Our staff and contractors SIZE: 10.75” x 7.2” this year’s trail clearing initiative by going to Page 10 of this Newsletter. continued to conduct historical Wilderness Foundation research on Willmore Wilderness The Youth Mentoring is a program Park. The information that we find welcomes the return Inside This Edition that facilitates elders and old time is woven in the movies, websites, of the Fish & Wildlife outfitters to provide hands-on- social media, annual newsletter, book February 2016 President’s Report 3 Outfitting Marilyn Munroe 16 training to youth. The trail clearing publications, and tourism promotion. Horseback Patrols. Willmore Wilderness Foundation by Janet & Bud Brewster staff continued recording an inventory North West Company, Hudson’s Bay in Willmore Wilderness Park, Company and scrip records have been Mike Ewald and Shane Annual Newsletter Moccasin Telegraph 6 2014 Finances 18 & 19 while completing trail assessments accessed, along with church and other © Willmore Wilderness Foundation through physical inspection. They archival records. Ramstead were on no portion of this newsletter may be re- did this in order to determine the Willmore’s Wild Camera 8 Norman Willmore 20 patrol this past hunting printed without written permission. priority needed for restoration and Our crew is keeping up to the times, and 2015 saw ongoing Registered Charitable Organization