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Join Adventure Canada and gracious hosts Bill and Paula Lishman for Purple Hill Poluza this Spring. This fun filled day will launch our summer season and include musical guests and many Adventure Canada alumni. Details coming soon.

The date has been changed to May 31, 2008

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Long-time Adventure Canada resource staffer John Houston recently received news of his appointment as Adjunct Professor [Department of Communications, Faculty of the Arts] at the University of Ottawa. Adventure Canada is a key partner in Professor Houston's 'ARCTICA - a virtual learning environment' project, along with Adventure Canada resource team members Ree Brennin, Marc St. Onge, Senator Charlie Watt and Mike Beedell (with help at the get go from Aaju Peter). Other team members include educator David Serkoak of Nunavut Sivuniksavut and Evan Potter of the University of Ottawa.

The whole idea for 'ARCTICA - a virtual learning environment' was hatched on board our 'little red ship' the Explorer, in response to a query from passenger Lesley Strutt, PhD, at the University of Ottawa, Office of the Vice Dean Research, at University of Ottawa's Faculty of Arts. After seeing John present his most recent film; 'Kiviuq,' Lesley asked John if there was anything she and the University of Ottawa could do to help with his ongoing work...

Watch for more news of this exciting, multi-year, multi-part project in future issues of our newsletter.

For more information on John Houston please visit our staff page.

Take in Passage, the new hotdoc based on the book Fatal Passage by award winning author and Adventure Canada resource team member, Ken McGoogan. Veteran documentarian John Walker takes us on an epic historical adventure that involves cannibalism, a vengeful woman and an historical cover-up by British authorities that credited the wrong man with the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Based on the lives of Dr. John Rae, explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company, and Sir John Franklin, British Royal Navy officer and leader of an ill-fated 1840s Arctic expedition. Stunningly cinematic, the film follows a trail from London to the Orkney Islands to Nunavut, elegantly slipping between past and present, drama and documentary, observational and self-reflexive cinema, to present the forces that made Franklin a hero and banished Rae to the margins of history. A cast of characters, including respected Inuit stateman Tagak Curley and the great great grandson of Charles Dickens, join the director as he unravels a historic fraud and sets the record straight.

Passage is screening in Toronto at the following locations:

Royal Cinema 608 College St. on April 20th at 21:30

ROM Theater 100 Queens Park April 23 at 16:30

For more information on passage please click here.

Ken McGoogan is joining the Adventure Canada team on our High Arctic Adventure: Sept 18-30, 2008 as featured historian.


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Adventure Canada traveller Rosemary Clewes, who fell in love with the Arctic starting on our 1994 Project Arctic Coast, still treasures memories of a full moon over Disco Bay's icebergs, Mike Beedell, preparing to fly off the top of an erratic over the river canyon at Pangnurtung. The 'family' feel she had after ten days on the Alla Tarasova (now the Clipper Adventurer) brought me back on another trip on the 'Little Red Ship' for "Explorers and Adventurers" in 2005.

As poet and a writer of non-fiction, she has just published a book entitled, Thule Explorer: Kayaking North of 77 Degrees.

She believes this book's message is an important one, written after a two week kayaking/camping trip, beginning and ending in Qaanaaq on the northwest coast of Greenland in 2002. The Arctic, as the northern frontier of Canada and beyond, is little known or understood, but is receiving considerable attention now due to global warming and rumbles about sovereignty.

The book is written in prose and poetry, encompassing history, (Canadian and Greenlandic), Inuit stories and her fleeting but significant contact with local hunters in their summer camps. The reader will join this 'outsider' in hiking and paddling in a landscape, stripped to the essentials of sky, water, rock and ice. He or she will travel with her on the cusp of her personal frontiers where she seek to understand her place in the larger order.


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Tim Rast is an archaeologist who has surveyed, excavated and published on
archaeological sites in Nunavut, Labrador, Newfoundland and Alberta. Tim is an accomplished flintknapper with 12 years experience in making and using stone tools. He handcrafts museum quality artifact reproductions and archeology-themed jewelry through his business, Elfshot. His reproductions from Northeastern and Arctic cultures are sought by museums, universities, and collectors from across North America. Tim lives in St. John's and is the current Chair of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador (2007/08).

This September Tim will help us understand the cultural and historical sites we visit on our High Arctic Adventure. His onsite and animated interpretation will help us understand the lifeways of the varying groups that have inhabited the Northern Landscape. Onboard the Akademic Ioffe Tim will share his knowledge as a flintknapper with demonstrations and by running hands on workshops!

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Shannon Fowler: Biologist, Baffin Expedition
Growing up in a small inland town in northern California, Shannon easily became fascinated by the ocean. She spent summers in San Diego with her grandfather, who was an oceanographer. Together, they watched migrating grey whales, explored tidepools, and shuffled their feet in the sand to avoid stingrays. She to studied biology at the University of California at San Diego. After graduating, Shannon wanted to explore the world outside California. She was a SCUBA instructor in Ireland, Panama, Galapagos, and the Caribbean. She taught marine ecology to teenagers in the Bahamas and Ecuador. And in between, Shannon travelled—singing songs with Berbers in the Zagora Desert, eating lemon ants in the Amazon, making a wish at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and hiking among proboscis monkeys in Borneo. Eventually, Shannon returned to the world of academia and completed a Ph.D. in Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. For her thesis research, she examined the development of diving in the threatened Australian sea lion.

Since completing her Ph.D., Shannon has worked as the Marine Mammal Biologist in Antarctica, as a science writer at National Public Radio in Washington D.C., and has taught killer whale biology to college students in the San Juan Islands. She spends the rest of her time based in London writing scientific manuscripts and nonfiction.

Shannon joins the Adventure Canada team on our Baffin Expedition Sept 2-12, 2008. When she is not out on deck helping spot and identify marine mammals or driving a zodiac we can expect to hear lectures on the adaptations of warm-blooded animals that allow them to live in Polar seas and the inside line on diving physiology & behaviour at the edge.


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Adventure Canada is pleased to announce our partnership with Sierra Designs, renowned as one of the world's leading outdoor brands; a company that is filled with authenticity, experience and passion for the outdoors. Many of Sierra Designs products are made in Canada and they are industry leaders in going green. A few key implementations made are the use of PVC-free tape on waterproof jackets and the Polartech recycled fleece is made from recycled pop and water bottles.

We are offering two quality packages to Adventure Canada clients to gear you up for your upcoming adventure. Each package includes a base layer, waterproof breathable pants and jacket as well as polartec fleece at a savings of more than 25% off retail prices. Explore this year in style and comfort with your new Adventure Canada outdoor gear.


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Canadian Inuit art has created a niche for itself in the world of collecting. Attracting knowledgeable buyers from across North America this art form has risen rapidly in value and profile. Collectors are passionate - traveling to Toronto, Canada, twice a year to congregate at Waddington's auctions of Inuit art, where in 2007 some 1500 pieces totaling over $2.7 million were sold.

Each auction sees new price levels set and Inuit art finds new homes in museums, art galleries, corporate and private collections around the world. Waddington's next auction of fine Inuit art is being held on April 14 - 15th with details and highlights available at the Waddington's Website

Our 2008 brochure will arrive at a mailbox near you within the next week. Keep a look out for it! If you would like a sneak peek, please visit our web site for details on our programming in Canada and the North. Online users will have a head start and the opportunity to book their first choice cabin selection for their 2008 dream trip.

For more information, click below on our Arctic Series:
Baffin Expedition
Walrus Expedition
High Arctic

For more information on our East Coast Series:

Wild Labrador
Newfoundland Circumnavigation


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Our inaugural voyage to New Zealand is almost here. We have two spaces left on this wildlife-rich itinerary. For any last minute travellers we have a special for you! Sign up by February 25 and receive complimentary accommodations prior to your voyage and six dozen fresh kiwis – that's seventy-two kiwis folks! What a deal!

Please contact Judy Harper for more information on our last minute special.

Email Judy or call 1-800-363-7566 ext 32.


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Adventure Canada has just completed it's first voyage to Africa, and what a journey it was! Aboard our 12-passenger Cessna Caravan, we left Jo-Berg and in the first few days we saw the "Big 5" - the rhino, leopard, lion, buffalo and elephant at our first camp, Mala Mala. The sightings would continue with everything from cheetahs, wildebeest, hyenas, hippos and baboons making an appearance.

Highlights included: a flight over Victoria Falls and the Okavango Delta in helicopters; showering outside, overlooking herds of zebra; sundowners in the Land Rovers; sitting among a herd of cape buffalo; elephants joining us for lunch... too much to list!

There will be an evolving photo library available on our site, make sure to check it out!

We're thinking "Same time next year?" Let us know if you're interested!


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Keep an eye out for the April/ May issue of The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine. The cover story, written by historian and Adventure Canada leader Ken McGoogan, is an article about sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.

Ken McGoogan is a thoughtful and well-informed historian whose passion and energy for his subject is infectious. Join Ken this year in the Arctic on Adventure Canada's High Arctic Adventure: September 18-30th, 2008. As we head north towards Kane Basin he will share with us the many interesting and, at times, obscure facts about Kane and exploration that he has picked up during his extensive research on Northern History.

February marks ten years of Judy Harper's loyal and dedicated service to Adventure Canada. Re-joining the work force after raising two (usually) wonderful children, Judy joined the AC team to assist with client services and reservations.

Over the past decade Judy has not only become a favourite with AC clients but our very own office mom, making sure that the driveway has been shoveled, we all have eaten our lunch and brushed our teeth before we go out in public. If we had beds here she probably would have tucked us in! Her enthusiasm for AC and genuine love of her clients is infectious and she leads through example in providing top care for our travellers. We congratulate Judy for putting up with all of us for as long as she has.

To celebrate her anniversary, Judy will be joined by her husband David in Tuscany this April. Judy many thanks for all of your contributions and hard work over the past ten years, we hope to see you for another ten!

Adventure Canada musician, Tom Barlow is hosting a CD release party for his indie band The Beautiful Unknown. The group has been together for three years now and Riot in the House of Ruin is their debut album. You can attend the party March 1, 2008 at:

El Mocambo
464 Spadina, Toronto

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