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If you book on any of our 2010 Canada and the North shipboard itineraries and pay in full by January 30, 2010 you will receive a 5% reduction on the berth cost.
With the Canadian dollar approaching parity, there is no better time to take advantage of this offer! Hurry - there are only 18 days left.
View our 2010 Canada and the North brochure online by clicking here or email your mailing address to info@adventurecanada.com to receive a paper copy.
Have you been thinking about enjoying the splendours of the Arctic? Join us for an information session on the nuts and bolts of Arctic travel. How to get there? What to expect? What to wear? Would you be interested in having an info session in your hometown? Please send your requests to info@adventurecanada.com.
Just east of scenic Lady Franklin point an extremely large site featuring wonderfully preserved fox traps, meat caches, tent rings,
hunting blinds, and caribou drive lanes was recorded by archaeologist Latonia Hartery.
The discovery of several pairs of snow goggles and other wooden artifacts possessing holes created by bow-drills, a technology diagnostic of Thule Inuit, reveals the identity of the people that used this beautiful site.
In honour of years of service to Adventure Canada and his supreme nautical skills, as well as 20 years of sailing through Arctic waters, the site has been named after AC's favourite captain, Captain Kenth Grankvist.
Although this site is the largest, several other new archaeological discoveries were made on our Arctic voyages further continuing our part in reconstructing the Arctic past and settlement patterns over the landscape.
To be a part of these exciting discoveries and to learn more about the ancient Arctic and its people joins us on Into the Northwest Passage with Latonia Hartery or Out of the Northwest Passage with Bob McGhee, or join Captain Kenth Grankvist on any of our 2010 expeditions aboard Clipper Adventurer.
In the accompanying photo, with some of Sheena's
Greenland paintings behind them, they receive the awards from Toronto lawyer Robert A. Maxwell. The medals were struck from the copper fittings of the first steamship to ply the west coast of North America. The first Beaver medal was awarded in 1963 to the father of Maxwell, who created a replica of the original paddlewheeler built in 1836 for Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Previous recipients of the honour include Winnipeg publisher Barbara Huck, Peter St. John (the Earl of Orkney), and politician Stockwell Day. Sheena has been painting scenes from sketches she did while sailing in the Northwest Passage, including these views of Greenland. Her next one-person show will be at Arts on Queen in March - stay tuned for details!
Both McGoogans will sail Into the Northwest Passage with Adventure Canada in August. For more information, please click here.
As our constant readers will know, John Houston has been busy in the editing room, finishing up his 6th film. Today he is delivering"The White Archer" to the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). For John's first attempt at drama, he chose to adapt a children's book by his father, the late James Houston.
In this Inuit legend, a youth trains to become a great archer. Will Kanguq use this new power to avenge his family, or will he put an end to the cycle of violence?
APTN Broadcast Dates are: February 9, 2010 in Inuktitut AND April 7, 2010 in English.
John has dedicated this film to the memory of Thomasie Alikatuktuk (1953 - 2009)
Thomasie's talent and his hard work and his focus helped make Pangnirtung famous for printmaking. He was a true artist, and brought this dedication to everything he did, going on to become an Inuit leader, president of Qikiqtani Inuit Association, and a good family man - so proud of his children.
John will be joining us in 2010 on both NWP Expeditions and on our Greenland Explorer. For more information, please click here.
AC Botanist turned budding poet, Carolyn Mallory has recently had her poem published!Fourth day of
fog.
We wake,
peer outside
the cabin
and resign
ourselves
to thick, gray,
opaque
fog.
Back to bed
into the downy
nest cavity.
Another hour --
it's my turn to check,
fog slides in
the door as I try to look out.
We rise.
Knit, read, write,
snooze, wait.
And wait.
The day wears
on.
Cliff's edge
remains swallowed up--
cotton batting.
No data today.
The fog lifts
beyond the
outhouse.
The valley
opens up
to the pale
gray sea.
Boots,
jacket,
gear,
gun...
The outhouse is gone.
The "Mad Dance of the Qailertetang" was a festival game in which two masked persons, a man and a woman, marry off the rest of the men and women who take part in the game.
In 2000, when I returned North to the make "Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts," Lipa invited me to his outpost camp, where he would re-enact the mad dance for my cameras, seen perhaps for the first time since the early 1900s.
The artist, Lipa Pitsiulak, learned of this ritual directly from his parents, the late Markosie and Kadlu Pitsiulak, originally of Blacklead Island, Cumberland Sound. To my knowledge, this was the first time the ritual, long since forbidden by the missionaries, had been portrayed in a sculpture, entirely in keeping with Lipa's philosophy of preserving Inuit culture, whether Christian or pre-Christian.
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John Houston, Owner
& Director, Houston North Gallery
The release of GYRE marks the 30th
independent recording for Ian Tamblyn. Produced by Scott Merritt and Ian at Cottage Studios in Guelph, Ontario, this CD features some of Canada's finest players: Gary Craig, drums, George Koller, upright bass, Chris Whiteley, trumpet and harmonica, Jeff Bird, mandolin and harmonica, Fred Guignion, guitars, with Ian and Scott playing various instruments as well. This new collection of songs was recorded and mixed between January and June of 2009. GYRE was mastered by David Cain in Ottawa.
GYRE is a break from Ian's Canadian sketch, the Four Coast project. This collection of songs features songs that travel more in the interior landscape. Though many of these songs were written around the world- Prague, Norway, Ireland, or Antarctica, the map on this CD is less marked and more imaginary, whether on "The Road to Duntroon" or "Lost in Afghanistan". Ian would like to thank Scott Merritt for his help on this project.
February 4-21, 2010
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