Entries by Clayton Anderson

Tonight, Tuesday - September 25 on CBC's The National @ 10:00 p.m., (10:30 p.m. NT),

The Nunatsiavut Fiord Study will be featured on television tonight. It is part of a special series on the impact of climate change on Canada's North, entitled "The Big Melt", The series will feature some images and interviews taken onboard the CCGS Amundsen when it sailed the north coast of Labrador this summer.

If you miss it, you can see it on the internet starting at around 11pm.

Thursday, Sept 27: Nature of Things at 10pm ET; Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve (Canada’s newest national park)

Tuesday, October 16 on the Outdoor Living Network (OLN)’s Survivor man: visit to the Valley’s Bight area.

We have just finished up our visit along the spectacular coast of Labrador! Watch for another chance to visit with us in 2009!

Tonight, Tuesday - September 25 on CBC's The National @ 10:00 p.m., (10:30 p.m. NT),

The Nunatsiavut Fiord Study will be featured on television tonight. It is part of a special series on the impact of climate change on Canada's North, entitled "The Big Melt", The series will feature some images and interviews taken onboard the CCGS Amundsen when it sailed the north coast of Labrador this summer.

If you miss it, you can see it on the internet starting at around 11pm.

Thursday, Sept 27: Nature of Things at 10pm ET; Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve (Canada’s newest national park)

Tuesday, October 16 on the Outdoor Living Network (OLN)'s Survivor man: visit to the Valley’s Bight area.

We have just finished up our visit along the spectacular coast of Labrador! Watch for another chance to visit with us in 2009!

Dear Adventurers,

Each year, Adventure Canada is proud to offer travel experiences that engage the intellect and imagination. Travelling, especially in the company of old and new friends, is perhaps the greatest way to explore the diverse histories, cultures and peoples of our world.

This year, Adventure Canada's 20th, we are pleased to offer a very special travel program in Canada and the North. After a few year's hiatus, Adventure Canada is returning to Iceland and Greenland, with an amazing voyage full of history and vast, untamed landscapes.

We are also eagerly anticipating our epic journey through the famed (and infamed!) Northwest Passage with one of our new partners, the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, who will help us to even better understand the magic of the Arctic while conducting some research of their own.

Our Walrus Explorer program brings in another new partner, The Walrus Foundation, as we explore the High Arctic and Baffin Island on our way to Greenland with plenty of smart talk and lively guests.

Also back again is the wildly popular Newfoundland Circumnavigation, a runaway best-seller that offers an opportunity to visit some of the most remote outports on The Rock, with big helpings of music and friendly faces along the way.

We're offering the same eclectic mix of entertainment, education and exploration, bringing our loyal travellers back year-after-year. We believe learning is more engaging and pleasurable if the mix includes some fun. Through it all, there will be music, art and good friends.

Key to all Adventure Canada does is the remarkable combination of people who make up its staff. Enthusiasm is their secret ingredient. Colourful creative people who are recognized experts in their professional fields of study head up the expedition teams. They blend good basic knowledge and organizational skills with intuition and the desire to get it right. Our lecturers, photographers and musicians will open your eyes to the world around you, and let you see these landscapes in a new light.

Happy Travels,


Matthew Swan
Adventure Canada

In 1921, Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post in Pangnirtung, and two years later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police erected a permanent office. The first government appointed teacher arrived in 1956, which in 1962 was followed by the first administrative office.

There is also some confusion with the name. Residents of Pangnirtung will say that the real name of the town is Panniqtuuq, which means "the place of many bull caribou". However, residents early in 2005 declined a proposal to officially change the name, opting to continue with the meaningless Pangnirtung due to world marketing of the name for traditional arts.

Pangnirtung is the nearest town (1 hour by boat) to Auyuittuq National Park and is well known for weaving and printmaking. Parks Canada operates a visitor centre, which is located near the park office. The community also operates a turbot fishery.

While we're here, we'll visit the Pangnirtung Co-op, meet the artists and have a chance to buy some of the prints, carvings and weavings that have made "Pang" one of the great artist centres of the North.

You can visit Pangnirtung on our Rock Odyssey Arctic Cruise, August 6 - 18, 2007.

Take a look at our Pangnirtung Satellite map and Photo Gallery here.

Snapping ice, growling glaciers and the howl of sled dogs: all sounds we will hear as we enter the Ilulissat harbour in the shadow of the nearby ice cap.

Exploring town reveals why this stop is a favourite for visitors from all over the world. Venturing a little further out of town on the tundra to the hills beyond rewards the wanderer with spectacular views of the Jacobshavn icefield. Icebergs calving from this field travel as far south as New York.

A Zodiac cruse in among the bergs is the highlight of our visit here.

You can visit Ilulissat on our Rock Odyssey Arctic Cruise, August 6 - 18, 2007 or on our Baffin Explorer Cruise, August 29 - September 9, 2007.


Take a look at our Ilulissat Satellite map and Photo Gallery here.

So the time is finally upon us, our super amazing, most fun ever art show. Join Adventure Canada's staff, family, and friends June 26th – 28th at the Gladstone Hotel to celebrate and support some of Canada's most talented artists! Great door prizes have been donated by Newfoundland and Labrador tourism, and a few lucky winners will also get Adventure Canada Gift Certificates!

Don't miss the GRAND OPENING Tuesday June 26th, All are welcome!! The show will be open to the public until Thursday June 28th and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

For any questions about the show contact artshow@adventurecanada.com

RSVP to us at RSVP@adventurecanada.com to guarantee your space at the Grand Opening: June 26, 2007 - 6 - 10pm at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

If you can't make the Grand Opening, the show will run Wednesday and Thursday as well from 12 - 7pm. See you there!

For more Art in the Arctic, join us on our Rock Odyssey Program, August 6 - 18, 2007 as we visit the famous Inuit Art communities of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) and Pangnirtung - among others!

Click here for more info on the voyage.

You can download the show calalog here.