AC News

Our new brochure has been released and is in the mail right now, hopefully en route to you! If we don't have you mailing address and you'd like to receive the new 2012 International Brochure, please do send us an email or give us a call, we'd be happy to get one in the mail to you!   Inside you'll find our new offerings, including our New Zealand voyage aboard the Oceanic Discoverer, and a new instalment of our Celtic Quest, our Circumnavigation of Ireland aboard the Clipper Adventurer.    Can't wait? You can get a look at the brochure right now by clicking here!

Adventurers on Greenland & Wild Labrador got a first hand look at Adventure Canada's Arctic Clean-Up Mission along the Torngat Mountains National Park in Northern Labrador. This project, in partnership with Parks Canada, involved identifying over 80 sites within the Torngat Mountains National Park that contained garbage, including hundreds of old fuel drums. Due to the materials found on these sites, extensive testing was conducted for possible contamination and removing the contamination and garbage from the park.   The coast of Labrador is a favourite destination among the Adventure Canada staff, and Adventure Canada jumped at the opportunity to help clean up the park. On September 23, Adventure Canada removed over 150 fuel drums onto the Clipper Adventurer, bringing them south so that they could be responsibly disposed of. The clean-up mission will continue next year. In total over 40,000 lbs of garbage and fuel drums was removed from the park and surrounding Nunatsiavut through a partnership with Cruise North in 2010 and Adventure Canada in 2011.   Missed out this year? We're booking our 2012 Greenland and Wild Labrador program now. Click here for more info!

AC Canada staff member Tom Barlow (know in the industry as "Barlow") has just released his new album "Burning Days".  The first single 'Steal Like A Billionaire' is a satiric look at the global financial crisis and features a music video shot, in part, on the Clipper Adventurer during the recent AC trip to Greenland and Labrador.  The video features several of the trip's staff and passengers.  To have a listen to  the album or to purchase it click on this link.   You can check out the video on YouTube by clicking here.

Houston North Gallery's second virtual exhibition presents a selection of 30 recent sculptures from Nunavut inspired by the magnificence of the polar bear.  Do come in and have a look around!  Also visit (or revisit) our first virtual exhibition, "The Spirit World," which will continue through October.   Please click here to visit the Realm of the Polar Bear Exhibition.     Please click here for The Spirit World Exhibition.

Ian Tamblyn is busy working on the CD from Out the NWP and the Greenland and Wild Labrador Voyages.  In total there will be 17 songs -  includes all requests by signed up passengers. For those still wishing to purchase this "gem" email Ian here and include your mailing address and a cd will come to you.  For those who have already ordered, it should be in the mail next week!

Adventure Canada travellers are now familiar with the fact that climate change is taking place at a rapid pace in Canadian Arctic waters.  For the past decade, and particularly this year, summer ice cover has been at an all time low in Parry Channel, the northern route of the famed Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic archipelago.     Up till now, the Beaufort Sea bowhead whale population was thought to be separated by heavy Central Arctic summer ice from the other North American bowhead whale population, which summers around Baffin Island.  Well, the heavy summer ice cover no longer exists and last summer Greenland and Alaskan biologists, using satellite-linked tracking devices, watched in amazement the tracks of two whales, one from the Beaufort Sea, the other from Baffin Island waters, track into Viscount Melville Sound and share that passage for a period of ten days.     Add to that this summer's observation of narwhals near Cambridge Bay, a rare occurrence for a species normally summering at least 400 kilometres east of that community.  Both events are unusual and they raise a broader question: are these exceptional or are entire populations of Arctic whales changing their distribution in response to receding summer ice. Continued research is required to establish that.   Experience the Arctic fr yourself next summer, there is still plenty of selection on ourEpic High Arctic program. Click here for more info!

Haida Gwaii is an amazing area with over 100 islands, beautiful forested creek walks, rugged exposed headlands, and protected passageways between towering mountains. Theories suggest that parts of Haida Gwaii escaped the last ice age, forming a glacier refuge for certain forms of plant and animal life. How else to explain the presence of plant species found nowhere else in the world, and noticeably different sub-species of bird, fish and mammal? The Queen Charlottes provide a remarkable evolutionary showcase - thus, their description as the "Canadian Galapagos". Guided by Haida Watchmen, we will journey through history as we visit ancient Haida Villages lining the BC Coast. Small ship travel through this unforgettable landscape allows us to voyage to places not reachable by land. We wind our way through the archipelago to enjoy all this beauty...All aboard!

 

July 15-24, 2011 aboard the 14-passenger sailboat, the Island Roamer. 

 

For more information, please click here or email Judy, judy.harper@adventurecanada.com

The Avalon Peninsula has been rated by National Geographic Traveler magazine as the world's number one coastal destination. Come experience it first hand with photographer and naturalist Dennis Minty and his partner Antje Springmann. On this small group tour, they will take you to the heart of the most easterly corner of North America, still largely undiscovered by the vast majority of travellers. It is a tour for photographers of all levels, their companions and the artistically-minded. Book soon, their Gros Morne National Park and western Newfoundland tour is already sold out!

 

July 17-23, 2011

 

For more information,  please click here or email Judy, judy.harper@adventurecanada.com

You can also join Dennis in the Arctic this year on our Greenland & Wild Labrador Expedition.  Check out his tribute to Polar Bears by clicking below.

Polar Bear Tribute

Ian is currently touring Canada's West Coast; upon his return Ian will continue to work on Part 3 of the Four Coast Project - The Arctic: Walking  the Bones of the Past.

Ian has also just published his first songbook, Voice in the Wilderness. It features fifty songs and chord charts, open tunings and online links to his songs. The collection is published by North Track Records, and is available through www.tamblyn.com or North Track Records, Box 68 Station B, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6C3 .

Ian  will also be a guest at the Kingston Writer's Festival, in Kingston Ontario on April 10th.

Join Ian aboard the Clipper Adventurer this Summer on our Atlantic Arts Float.  For more information, please click here or email Sheryl Saint at sheryl@adventurecanada.com

Simeonie Amagoalik of Resolute, NU passed away on March 2 at the age of 77 after losing his battle with cancer.

Many of you would remember Simeonie during our stop at Resolute where he would invite us into his house and share his carvings.

One of Simeonie's last and one of his biggest works is the monument commemorating the High Arctic relocatees - a life-sized granite carving of a man which was unveiled in September 2010.

 

For Immediate Release:

February 16, 2011

A New Chapter in Arctic Polar Cruising

Adventure Canada takes majority stake in a new partnership with Cruise North Expeditions

Cruise North Expeditions, a subsidiary of the Inuit-owned Makivik Corporation, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Adventure Canada that will continue to offer polar cruises with the cultural content and Inuit staffing that has become a trademark of Cruise North Expeditions.

In 2011, Cruise North Expeditions departures will be merged with Adventure Canada’s Clipper Adventurer schedule, including dedicated CNE programming. The Clipper Adventurer, a sister ship of Lyubov Orlova has benefited from extensive renovation and offers an ideal blend of safety, comfort and functionality that makes it a leader in the field. Cruise North passengers will enjoy enhanced comfort and programming through the new joint venture.

Beginning in 2012, Adventure Canada and Cruise North Expeditions will each continue their traditional offerings of dedicated sailings with Inuit staff, itineraries and programs specially designed to bring benefit and opportunity to the people who call the Arctic home.

About Cruise North Expeditions

Cruise North Expeditions was founded in 2005 by the Makivik Corporation of Quebec, a highly successful investment corporation born of the first modern-day Aboriginal land claim settlement agreement in Canada (the JBNQA of 1975). Makivik also owns the well-respected First Air and Air Inuit.  Cruise North Expeditions earned a place on Conde Nast Traveller’s prestigious “Green List” for their environmental efforts and commitment to helping preserve Inuit culture through tourism. For more information on Cruise North Expeditions please visit http://www.cruisenorthexpeditions.com or call 1-866-263-3220?

About Makivik Corporation

Makivik Corporation is an Inuit organization mandated to protect the rights, interests and financial compensation provided by the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the first comprehensive Inuit land claim in Canada, and the more recent offshore Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement that came into effect in 2008. Makivik actively promote the preservation of the Inuit culture of Nunavik communities.

For more information on Makivik Corporation please visit http://www.makivik.org

About Adventure Canada

Adventure Canada is an award-winning tour operator based in Mississauga, Ontario that has been providing comfortable and educational voyages to the Arctic, and the world, since 1988. With a special blend of academics, thoughtfully planned itineraries, high quality lecturers and programming and old fashioned fun, Adventure Canada’s innovative style has been recognized by fellow leaders in the travel industry with recent awards from the Travel Industry Association of Canada Business of the Year Award, Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador’s Cruise Vision Award and the National Geographic Top 100 Tour Company Award. For more information on Adventure Canada please visit http://www.adventurecanada.com or call 1-800-363-7566.

Media & Marketing contacts:

Clayton Anderson                             Rebecca Burgum

clayton@adventurecanada.com          rebecca@adventurecanada.com

clayton@cruisenorthexpeditions.com  rebecca@cruisenorthexpeditions.com
Phone: 905-271-4000 x21                 Phone: 905-271-4000 x28

An update for family members and friends of travellers on the Newfoundland Circumnavigation aboard the Ocean Nova. All is well in the wake of Hurricane Igor - it canceled out stop in Red Bay, but the ship arrived safe and sound in the Gros Morne National Park area this morning and the Adventurers are enjoying the park today.

September 1, 2010

Guests aboard the grounded M/V Clipper Adventurer all arrived safely back in Edmonton. Shortly after 14:00 on the 30th of August, passengers and staff entered the Edmonton Airport and were brought to the Adventure Canada comfort centre located at the Executive Royal Inn near the Edmonton Airport. Guests lunched and were assisted with travel arrangements home.

Unfortunately, the remainder of the 2010 Clipper Adventurer season is cancelled. We looked forward to sailing aboard her again next year.

• The Captain and crew of Clipper Adventurer
• The Canadian Coast Guard
• The wonderful community of Kugluktuk
• The charter team at Canadian North Airlines
• The fabulous team at the Edmonton International Airport
• Enterprise Car Rentals
• Jason Pollmeier and the staff at the Executive Royal Inn at Edmonton Airport

We would also like to thank all of our travellers for your incredible compassion, understanding and patience throughout this unexpected adventure.

August 28th , 2010, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

At approximately 1910 local time (GMT-7) on August 27th, 2010

MV Clipper Adventurer, en-route from Port Epworth to Kugluktuk NU, was grounded on an uncharted rock at 67 58 N 112 40 W. At the time the seas were calm, sunny conditions and good visibility with no wind or swell.

Efforts of the vessel's crew to dislodge the vessel during high tide on August 28th were unsuccessful.

The vessel now rests with a slight list. Conditions are stabilized. All passengers and crew are safe and unharmed. Weather remains favourable as passengers continue to enjoy onboard programming and hospitality.

Canadian authorities have been notified and the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Amundsen is en-route set to arrive 0900 August 29th to assist with disembarking passengers.

Flight arrangements have been made to ensure passengers return to Edmonton for the evening of August 29th.

For inquiries please contact the Adventure Canada office 905 271 4000.

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