CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION MACHINE IDENTIFICATION FRAME SERIAL NUMBER ENGINE SERIAL NUMBER IMPORTANT INFORMATION PREPARATION FOR REMOVAL AND DISASSEMBLYALL REPLACEMENT PARTS GASKETS, OIL SEALS, AND O-RINGS LOCK WASHERS/PLATES AND COTTER PINS BEARINGS AND OIL SEALS CIRCLIPS LOCTITE SPECIAL TOOLS FOR TUNE UP FOR ENGINE SERVICE FOR POWER TRAIN SERVICE FOR CARBURETION SERVICE FOR ELECTRICAL SERVICE CHAPTER 2. ENGINE SEAT AND FUEL TANK EXHAUST PIPE AND MUFFLER ENGINE ASSEMBLY CAMSHAFTS CYLINDER HEAD VALVES AND VALVE SPRINGS A.C. MAGNETO AND STARTER CLUTCH OIL PAN AND OIL PUMP CRANKCASE CHAPTER 6. COOLING SYSTEM HEAT EXCHANGER THERMOSTAT WATER PUMP CHAPTER 7. CARBURETION OR EFI CARBURETORS FUEL LEBEL ADJUSTMENT THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR FUEL PUMP CHAPTER 8. ELECTRICAL SWITCH INSPECTION SWITCH INSPECTION INSPECTING A SWITCH SHOWN IN THE MANUAL IGNITION SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TROUBLESHOOTING A.C. MAGNETO SPARK PLUG IGNITION SPARK GAP IGNITION COIL THROTTLE OVERRIDE SYSTEM (T.O.R.S.) HANDLEBAR SWITCH (RIGHT) CARBURETOR SWITCH MAIN SWITCH MAIN RELAY ELECTRICAL STARTING SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TROUBLESHOOTING MAIN SWITCH STARTER MOTOR CHARGING SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TROUBLESHOOTING BATTERY STATOR COIL LIGHTING SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TROUBLESHOOTING BULB(S) HEADLIGHT BEAM SWITCH HEADLIGHT RELAY. Related Snowmobile Searches: CARBURETOR TUNING Main jet selection chart Spark plug color - Diagnosis - Remedy Light tan or gray Carburetors are tuned properly. Dry black or fluffy deposits Mixture is too rich. Replace the main jet with the next smaller size. White or light gray Mixture is too lean. ![]() Replace main jet with a larger size. White or gray insulator with small black or grayish brown spots and electrodes having a bluish-burnt appearance Mixture is too lean. The piston is damaged or seized. Replace the piston and spark plug. Tune the carburetors again. Begin with lowspeed tuning. Melted electrodes and possibly a blistered insulator Metallic deposits on insulator Mixture is too lean. The spark plug melted. Check the piston for holes or seizure. Check the cooling system, gasoline octane rating and ignition timing. After replacing the spark plug with a colder type, tune the carburetors again. Begin with low-speed tuning. Troubleshooting Trouble Diagnosis Adjustment Hard starting Insufficient fuel Add gasoline. Excessive use of the starter or choke Return the starter lever to its seated position so that the starter valve is fully closed. Fuel passage is clogged or frozen Check and, if necessary, clean the fuel tank air vent, the fuel filter and all of the fuel passages. Claims properly. No warranty will be allowed by Arctic. If the engine serial number or VIN is removed or mutilated in any way. Gasoline and Oil. Recommended Gasoline. (Carbureted Models). The recommended gasoline to use in these snowmobiles is 87 minimum octane regular unleaded. Check and, if necessary, clean the carburetor air vents, fuel passages and the float valve. Clean the float chamber of any ice or water. Overflow Adjust the fuel level. Poor idling: Poor performance Improper idling speed adjustment Adjust the engine idle speed. Refer to “Low speed tuning”. At low speeds Damaged pilot screw Replace the pilot screw. Poor acceleration Slow response to res onse throttle. Clogged bypass hole Clean the bypass hole. Engine tends to stall. Clogged or loose pilot jet Remove the pilot jet, clean it with compressed air and then install it. Make sure that the pilot jet is fully tightened. Air leaking into the carburetor joint. Retighten the clamp screws on the carburetor joints. Defective starter valve seat Clean or replace the starter valve seat. Overflow Adjust the fuel level. Poor performance at mid-range speeds: Momentary slow response to the Clogged or loose pilot jet. Remove the pilot jet, clean it with compressed air, and then install it. Make sure that the pilot jet is fully tightened. Throttle Poor acceleration normal speeds: Lean mixture Overhaul the carburetors. Poor performance at Clogged air vent Remove the air vent hose and clean it. Excessive fuel consumption Poor acceleration Clogged or loose main jet. Make sure that the main jet is fully tightened. Overflow Check and, if necessary, clean the float and float valve. Poor performance at Starter valve is left open Return the starter lever to its seated position High speeds: Power loss Poor acceleration Clogged air vent Remove and clean the air vent. Clogged or loose main air jet Remove the main jet, clean it with compressed air, and then install it. Make sure that the main jet is fully tightened. Clogged fuel line Clean or replace the fuel line. Dirty fuel tank Clean the fuel tank. Air leaks into the fuel line Tighten or replace the fuel line joint. Low fuel pump performance Repair or replace the fuel pump. Clogged fuel filter Replace the fuel filter. Clogged intake Remove any obstructions (e.g., ice). Abnormal combustion: Lean mixture Clean and adjust the carburetors. Backfiring Dirty carburetors Clean the carburetors. Dirty or clogged fuel line Clean or replace the fuel line. Overflow: Clogged air vent Clean the air vent. Poor idling Poor performance at low, mid-range, high speeds. Clogged float valve Disassemble and clean the float valve. Do not scratch the valve seat. Excessive fuel consumption Hard starting Scratched or unevenly worn float valve or valve seat Clean or replace the float valve and valve seat. The valve seat and body must be replaced as a set Power loss Broken float Replace the float. Poor acceleration Incorrect float level Check and, if necessary, replace the following parts: Float tang Float (entire assembly) Arm pin. Born in 1960 in Arkisserniaq, a northern Greenland community, Aaju has lived up and down the west coast of her native country as a result of her father's teaching and preaching career. At eleven, Aaju left Greenland to attend school in Denmark where she learned to read German, French, English, and Latin—and to speak Danish in addition to Greenlandic. At age eighteen, she returned home to Greenland, and in 1981, moved to Iqaluit, where she has taken up residence ever since. Here, Aaju picked up English and Inuktitut, which has helped her succeed in her work as an interpreter, and she has done volunteer work with various women's and interpretation organizations. Her interests led her to the Arctic College where she took Inuit studies. She has travelled Greenland, Europe and Canada performing modern drum dance, traditional singing, and displaying sealskin fashions. Currently Aaju has a home-based sealskin garment business, translates, volunteers for the music society, collects traditional law from elders for the Department of Justice, and raises her five children—just recently, she graduated from Akitsiraq Law School and was called to the bar. These days Aaju is advocating for Inuit rights to seal and sealskin products as well as the Inuit right to be involved in issues related to Arctic waters. Aaron is wild about the Arctic. Originally from Indiana, he’s spent twenty years living in and writing about the world’s polar places. For nearly a decade he was the editor of Up Here, a Northwest Territories-based monthly that was named Canada’s finest magazine in 2010. Before that, he was an editor with Canada’s northernmost newspaper (Nunavut’s Nunatsiaq News), the world’s southernmost paper (the Antarctic Sun), Alaska’s largest Indigenous paper (the Tundra Drums), and Canada’s leading Inuktitut news program (CBC Igalaaq). Aaron now lives in Norway, where he studies Indigenous politics at the University of Bergen. Each summer he joins Adventure Canada to serve as an “un-naturalist,” sharing with our guests his enthusiasm for Northern history, politics and culture. Joining him on board is his wife, Adventure Canada marine biologist Deanna Leonard Spitzer, and their ten-year-old son, Mark, an aspiring Adventure Canada staffer. Adam Bathe is an anthropologist based the Northwest Territories. His work includes studies of the traditional land use of First Nations throughout western Canada. Since being bitten by the polar bug in 2000, when he travelled the length the Palmer Peninsula in Antarctica, he has tried to return as often as possible to the frozen ends of the world. Most recently he made the move to Iceland, where he has been working on a Master's Degree in Natural Resource Management. While the focus of his thesis is on the impacts of wildfire on the habitat of barren-ground caribou, he has branched out to working on climate change mitigation and protected area management. Alan Stein is a painter and printmaker known for his landscape paintings of Georgian Bay and Newfoundland, and his cityscapes based on travels to New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Italy, and Scotland. His art focuses primarily on pastels and charcoal on paper, as well as wood engraving illustration. Alan is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Society of Canadian Artists, the Wood Engravers Network of North America, and the Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists Guild. Alan’s work is held in many private and public collections in Canada and around the world. He is represented by Roberts Gallery in Toronto, the Masters Gallery in Calgary, and Christina Parker Gallery in St. He has printed and illustrated books by renowned Canadian authors, including Al Purdy, Douglas LePan, P.K. Page, and Michael Crummey. Alan divides his time between Georgian Bay in Ontario and Old Bonaventure in Newfoundland—always with a view of the open water. At the age of eleven, Alana travelled north for the first time, taking in the vast Arctic landscape, abundant wildlife, and welcoming northern communities. She has been back north every year since then, and each time is captivated again. Alana joined the family business after completing her Bachelors of Social Work degree in 2007. Armed with a passion for exploration and community engagement, Alana is dedicated to a sustainable Arctic tourism experience. She strives to collaborate with communities in order to make the experience for passengers and communities authentic and exciting for all. Alana strongly believes tourism celebrates the exchange of cross-cultural knowledge, as both passengers and hosts are able to learn about each other through the sharing of stories, traditions, language, dance, music and food. In the office, Alana managers the Operations and Human Resources Departments and thoroughly enjoys working alongside her family and larger team! Alana sat on the Board of Directors as the Cruise Sector Rep at Nunavut Tourism for two years, and continues to actively promote travel in her home country. When not at work, she is spends much of her time with her husband Brian and three children, Leah, Olivia, and Little Brian at their home in Port Credit. Alanna Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian journalist, playwright and author who writes about science and social trends. She is a global thinker who likes to think of herself as a detective assembling clues a bout the fate of the planet. Her book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, is an international best seller that won the prestigious U.S.-based Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism. She wrote a one-woman play based on the book that she performs internationally in conjunction with Toronto’s The Theatre Centre. In 2015, Alanna and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s John Geiger co-authored Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus, a project that stemmed from her twin loves of mystery and the Arctic. Alanna also writes magazine articles, researches television documentaries and makes radio documentaries for CBC. She occasionally writes for the New York Times science section, and is a regular contributor to CBC’s Quirks and Quarks and Canadian Geographic Magazine. Her latest book is tentatively called The Spinning Magnet, about the Earth’s magnetic field, to be published by Dutton. Her next play is tentatively called The Cure, about the cultural metaphors of cancer, and she is working on it this year as playwright in residence at The Theatre Centre. Alex is from Toronto, about as far away from any of Canada’s oceans as is physically possible. He does, however, live near a very large lake. After over twenty years of working in Toronto’s restaurant industry, he decided to try and mix his experience and love of travel into a paying job. Setting out in 2005, he did his first season in the Antarctic aboard the Lyubov Orlova as a barman/Zodiac driver. After this taste of adventure, he decided to commit himself to a full time life at sea, exploring the world’s polar regions. Now, after twelve seasons in the Antarctic and eight in the Arctic, he has sailed on fourteen different ships—Including the icebreakers Kapitan Kalebnikov, and 50 Years of Victory, in addition to Lyubov Orlova, Ocean Nova, Akademik Vavilov, Sea Adventurer, M/S Expedition and the M/V L’Austral, to name just a few. His travels have taken him to the Antarctic Peninsula more than a hundred and thirty times, the Falklands/South Georgia, and south of the Antarctic Circle. He has travelled in the Arctic more than sixty-five times, including north of the Arctic Circle, the North Pole, Franz Josef Land, the Canadian High Arctic, the fabled Northwest Passage, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Svalbard. He delights in photography, writing, and driving Zodiacs in any kind of weather. Eight days aboard Canada’s largest icebreaker measuring satellite signals cemented Allister’s love of Arctic travel. Another similar trip involved a “very cool” 1,370 kilometre drive from Whitehorse to Inuvik and then along the MacKenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk. After thirty-four years in radio-communications, Allister turned his background and experience towards Search & Rescue (SAR). Allister volunteers with Cranbrook Ground SAR and Air SAR. He is a certified civilian spotter, military spotter and navigator. As Air SAR Training Officer he teaches courses in spotting, navigation, radio-communications, radio direction-finding and GPS. In 2011 he participated in six searches looking for hunters, an elderly diabetic, an early-onset Alzheimer subject, and an abducted three-year old boy. Allister will offer navigation workshops and insight on Arctic shipping technology. Amelia’s passion for the North was sparked during her graduate studies in Archaeology at Memorial University. She spent six glorious summers enjoying the warm Nunatsiavut hospitality while excavating fantastic sites along the Labrador coast. Her doctoral research explored the effects of contact between Inuit and various European groups from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, and she continues to study relationships between Indigenous communities and European newcomers through archaeological and archival research. In 2013, Amelia accepted a job as Curator of the Hudson’s Bay Company collection, housed at the Manitoba Museum in her hometown of Winnipeg. Leaving Newfoundland and Labrador after eight years was hard, and part of her heart will always remain there. Amelia is excited to share her passion and knowledge of the rich archaeological heritage of the region and learn from other staff and passengers on board. Andrew is a master printmaker from Pangnirtung, Baffin Island in Nunavut. Originally inspired by images in the comic books he read as a child, Andrew now finds his subjects in the stories, traditions and day-to-day events of his world. His images describe the local landscape, the animals, the people as well as family activities and camp life. As a printmaker, Andrew uses relief printing, etching and lithography. He is most widely recognized for the subtle layering of colours in his stencil prints. As a designer, Andrew uses symbolic colours and imagery to communicate ideas. He is best known for his contribution to the design of the Nunavut flag, logo and coat of arms. Andrew Bresnahan is a physician and anthropologist based in Labrador, Canada. An explorer and storyteller, Andrew’s work brings him from rural and remote northern clinics to the communities and wild backcountry of the circumpolar world. Andrew was born in Nunatsiavut, the Inuit homeland on the north coast of Labrador, where he learns and works as a resident doctor. He did his anthropological fieldwork on social determinants of health in the western Arctic, and is on a medical return of service agreement with Qikitani General Hospital in Nunavut. An avid skier, climber, paddler, and outdoor educator, Andrew is at home on Canada’s north coast. Thomas has lived in the Baffin region of Nunavut his whole life, including the communities of Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Kinngait (Cape Dorset), and his hometown, Iglulik. He began performing Inuit Games and Drum Dancing during school days at the Nunavut Sivuniksavut program at small venues to fundraise for the program. Since then, he has moved on to bigger things—such as performing at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics—and stars as the host of TV show called Qanurli? For which he is also writer and editor. The comedy show airs on APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) and is completely in Inuktitut. He now lives in Iqaluit with his five- and seven-year-old daughters. Anne Lindsay has established herself as one of the most engaging and versatile instrumentalists in Canada. She has four award-winning CDs of her own and has been named Jazz Violinist of the Year (National Jazz Awards), Solo Instrumentalist and Producer of the Year (Canadian Folk Music Awards), and was the proud recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award for music in 2006. Anne has played on hundreds of recordings and is a featured performer with Jim Cuddy and The Anne Lindsay Band. In a former life she was the resident fiddler for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the stage production of The Lord of the Rings, and performed with Led Zeppelin, The Chieftains, Blue Rodeo, James Taylor, and Roger Daltrey. Her new CD, SOLOWORKS, showcases thirteen eclectic, solo compositions that circle the globe, drawing inspiration from experiences in South Africa, India, Scandinavia, and back at home in Canada. Ashalee is thrilled to be aboard, and brings to AC fifteen years of management, sales, and marketing experience to the table. She can be seen around the AC offices keeping a steady hand on the proverbial tiller, and running through Port Credit at lunch in all types of weather with her dog, Chloe. Ashalee's client portfolio consists of law firms, Fortune 500 Corporations, and Insurance companies. In her most recent role as Vice President, Client Solutions, her mandate included continuing to service her existing client portfolio, providing key strategies and solutions to clients, overall oversight of company- wide quality assurance, administration, finance, human resources, office management, budget forecasting, performance management and company projections. In addition to music and organized sport, Ashalee's biggest passion is travel. She has travelled the world, including some of her favourite countries: Morocco, Thailand, and Italy. With Adventure Canada, she's excited to broaden her horizons and explore the polar reaches of Canada and beyond. Barbara Doran, founder of Morag Loves Company, Newfoundland, has been writing, directing, and producing internationally acclaimed documentary and drama for the past thirty years and has more than thirty films to her credit. Some of these include The Grand Seduction, White Wolves: Ghosts of the Arctic, Boundaries and Newfoundland at Armageddon. Barbara has worked and filmed in over twenty-five countries from Tasmania to South Africa, from Russia to Norway. The diverse subjects of her films reflect the breadth of her interests: the sweatshops in Guatemala, women prisoners in Pakistan, AIDS workers in South Africa, serial killers on death row, artists, politicians, and social activists. Barbara was appointed as a Mentor to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation and was given an Honourary Doctor of Laws from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He awards include ARTSNL’s Artist of the Year and the Export Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Newfoundland & Labrador Organization of Women. Barbara currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council, the Directors Guild of Canada, and the International Women’s Federation. She is also the owner of Trinity Bight Vacation Homes in Port Rexton, Newfoundland. Barney Bentall first picked up a guitar in grade nine and took a few lessons from a guy named Cowboy Slim. Growing up in Calgary in the 1970s, he didn't really entertain the idea of a career in music because it didn't seem like that was an option in those days. So he attended university for a while, played in folk clubs, started a barbwire fence-building company and traveled but, as time went by it became clear that didn't fancy doing anything else near as much as music. When he turned twenty-one, he moved to Vancouver, following a girl and his dreams of rock and roll. Their first child came and they were scraping by but at least he was still playing music. In 1987 his luck changed on a trip to Toronto where he signed with CBS (now Sony Music) and they went on a great run—lots of touring, songs on the radio, and gold records. By 1997, he was looking for a change, so bought a cattle ranch but continued playing twenty to thirty acoustic shows a year. His newest album, Gift Horse, was made over the course of the last two years. Nine of the songs were recorded in Vancouver while the rest of the CD was recorded in Toronto with Blue Rodeo, at their studio The Woodshed. A versatile artist with overflowing energy and joie de vivre, Benoit Bourque has entertained the public for the last thirty years. As a musician, singer, and dancer, he has travelled on the folk circuit of North America and Europe. Since 2008, he has been a member of La Bottine Souriante, Quebec's most influential traditional music band of the last forty years. As a member of different groups, he has received different awards, including JUNO, Canadian Folk Music, Moscow International Festival, and Poland’s Gazetta. Benoit presents workshops on traditional dance, song, game, and music of Quebec. Since 2007, Benoit has also been involved in music therapy programs where he devotes several hours a week helping elderly, physically disabled, and mentally challenged people experience the same joy he does learning, playing and enjoying music. A versatile artist with overflowing energy and joie de vivre, Benoit Bourque has entertained the public for the last thirty years. As a musician, singer, and dancer, he has travelled on the folk circuit of North America and Europe. Since 2008, he has been a member of La Bottine Souriante, Quebec's most influential traditional music band of the last forty years. As a member of different groups, he has received different awards, including JUNO, Canadian Folk Music, Moscow International Festival, and Poland’s Gazetta. Benoit presents workshops on traditional dance, song, game, and music of Quebec. Since 2007, Benoit has also been involved in music therapy programs where he devotes several hours a week helping elderly, physically disabled, and mentally challenged people experience the same joy he does learning, playing and enjoying music. Bernadette grew up in Coral Harbour on Southampton Island in northern Hudson’s Bay, where the spring and summer seasons were spent on the land hunting, fishing and harvesting what the land and hunters provided. Since then she has lived in different communities in Nunavut, and has worked very closely with elders and youth on cultural program development, culture camps for Inuit youth and women and Inuktitut language preservation projects producing several albums of traditional Inuit and contemporary songs, stories and legends. She has been a cultural advisor to various museum exhibits in the USA and a cultural advisor on documentary films about Inuit and arctic history. She produced and co-directed Inuit Piqutingit-What belongs to Inuit with famed Inuk film maker Zacharias Kunuk. William is an anthropologist who has researched northern cultures and environments throughout the circumpolar region for more than forty years. His archaeological research has investigated the history of Arctic and subarctic cultures and the effects of climate change and European contacts on the native cultures of Labrador, Quebec, and Baffin Island. His recent research explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Basque contact with Inuit in the Gulf of St. Tracing circumpolar cultural connections led William to the Russian Arctic and to Mongolia, where he studied Bronze Age and other cultures. He founded and directs the Arctic Studies Center in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. In addition to books, exhibition catalogues, monographs, and journal papers, he has produced international exhibitions and popular films. Hailing from Grand Falls-Windsor, Bill spent his summer months at the cabin in Northern Arm in the Bay of Exploits. After obtaining his CA designation in Halifax and a brief stint in New Zealand, he moved to Toronto to pursue a career in the travel business specializing in Polar Cruising. Since 2010, Bill has managed Finance and Accounting and helped organize Operations for Adventure Canada. Always thrilled to be home, Bill is especially proud to be returning as host for the Newfoundland Circumnavigation in 2015. Bill grew up on the ocean. He spent his childhood of racing small boats and cruising the New England Coast with his family. Over the years, his sailing has taken him across the Atlantic Ocean via the Canary Islands, throughout the turquoise seas of the Caribbean, and up the Canadian Maritimes to the iceberg-strewn coast of northern Labrador. Aboard a research vessel in his teens, he tracked humpback whales from their southern breeding grounds off the Dominican Republic to summer feeding grounds in eastern Canada. He has visited the coast of Antarctica and the rivers of Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle. After spending much of his career in management of maritime museums and their exhibitions, Bill now devotes his time to combining his passion for sailing with research, writing, and photography of maritime history, culture, and wildlife. Bill has seen Sable change over time; his first visit was in 1987. In 2010 and 2015 he co-directed the first ever on-island archaeological surveys on Sable Island under provincial and federal permits. He also co-produced a documentary film about Sable that premiered in 2016. The research and film were conducted from on board his thirty-six-foot sloop, Tazzarin. He keeps an active schedule of lectures and film screenings binging maritime history and the marine environment to people. Billy was born on July 7, 1978, in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. In his early years he travelled eastern Canada residing and schooling in Ottawa, Yarmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia, then at the age of thirteen returned to live in Goose Bay. He now lives in North West River in Labrador and enjoys fishing and hunting on the land with his family. In 1996, he began to carve after his mom arranged for him to visit his cousin John Terriak, a known sculptor in Labrador. John gave him a piece of stone and some files with which he carved his first piece—a small Inuk Portrait. At the time he was working at a gas station and upon the sale of his second piece of Inuk Ice Fishing for $180, he decided to attempt a career as an artist. He bought more tools and with the support of his family settled into a career as an artist. From 1996 to 2007, he continued to carve selling his pieces in galleries in Labrador and New Brunswick, and participating in small exhibitions. In 2007, he was introduced to our gallery by Herb Brown as an artist with extraordinary talent who needed the opportunity to exhibit on the international stage. Since then, we have included Billy’s artworks in all our Inuit exhibitions including Mini-Masterworks II (2008), Spirit Wrestler: Shaman, Sedna and Spirits (2008), Woven in Time (2009), and Mini-Masterworks III (2009) to much acclaim. For his first major solo exhibition in 2010, Billy Gauthier: Visions from Labrador, Billy carved more than twenty sculptures over a two-year period. The sculptures vary in size but are all intimately carved with delicate detailing and inlays. The pieces are carved in a variety of materials including serpentine, anhydrite, ivory, antler and bone and reveal personal memories, as well as insights on traditional life in Labrador. He has never fallen into the pitfalls of repetition or predictability. It is obvious that he is truly excited about the creative process and each piece explores a narrative story, captures a moment in time, portrays characters he has met and envisions the darkest possibilities of the spirit world. Billy has always been fascinated with human faces and their individual expressions. Even as a child he practiced and enjoyed sketching portraits. His art has been greatly influenced by the detailing in the carvings of Kiawak Ashoona, the free flowing graphics of Kenojuak Ashevak, and the sculptural forms and perfect inlaying by fellow Labrador artist, Michael Massie. His minute carved studies in ivory, bone and stone have often been compared to Japanese netsuke and appeal to collectors who appreciate miniature work. The Spirit Wrestler Gallery has been exhibiting his sculptures for several years and watched as his artworks have found homes in the oldest and most established Inuit art collections, as well as drawing new collectors to the art form. It is early in his career and already his innovative and personal style has established him as one of the definitive Inuit artists of his generation. We look forward to watching Billy’s career develop in the future and sharing his journey with you. Billy was born in Pangnirtung in 1956, one of the first successful ceasarean section north of sixty. His employment with Parks Canada began in 2001. Since then, he was worked with Auyuittuq National Park. Akshayuk Pass in the park is named for his great grandfather, who was the first known Inuk to traverse it by dog team. Through Billy’s work with Parks Canada, he has travelled coast to coast. Billy’s career began in his early teens, interpreting for his grandfather who worked as a fish guide in the early seventies outside Pangnirtung. He has lived most of his life in Pangnirtung, though he has left previously for schooling in places like Iqaluit, Fort Smith, Inuvik, and Edmonton. He is married and a proud father to four children. Acquiring a varied skill set has never frightened Blair Packham. A singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, producer, engineer, writer, broadcaster and educator, each of Blair’s life and work experiences inform the others, and he has many stories to share. He has worked as a sound engineer and producer, and founded the New Wave band The Jitters, selling over 80,000 records and earning a Juno nomination. After the band’s breakup, Blair began composing music for film and television—and later, for online shows. In 2001, Blair released his solo debut, Everything That’s Good. Since then, he has written two follow-up records and worked on numerous projects. He founded the Humber College Songwriting Summer Workshop. Years later, the workshop relocated to Ryerson University and became SongStudio, an intense immersion in the art, craft, and business of creating words and music. Blair is currently beginning work writing and recording his third full-length CD, as well as co-hosting Rock Talk, his weekly music-oriented radio show, heard Sundays 6-7 in the Toronto area on Newstalk 1010 CFRB. Bob spent his formative years in the US mid-west and soon after graduating University with a degree in Forestry, he headed west and never looked back. For five years, he worked as Lead Wilderness Ranger on the north face of Mt. Hood, Oregon for the US Forest Service. When snow loads prevented trail work, he went south for the winter. From 1996-2000, Bob worked for the U.S. Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station. While there he helped with logistics at the South Pole Station and outlying field camps for scientists who were researching everything from the natural anti- freeze found in the fish populations to drilling ice-core samples to determine historical climate fluctuations. In 2004 Robert decided to share a bit of the experiences and knowledge he gained in his 4 seasons with the U.S. Antarctic Program by joining expedition life as a guide and interpreter within the realm of Geology and Glaciology. He’s been rolling through the Drake Passage and exploring the Antarctic Peninsula ever since, along with many seasons in Svalbard, Norway. In 2009, he attained a major goal by becoming one of the few that has been to both the north and south poles. When not in the Polar Regions, Robert now resides in the Rocky Mountains near Aspen, Colorado spending his time hiking, fishing, camping, whitewater rafting and missing bull elk with his bow and arrow. Brandon has worked in the Polar Regions as an expedition leader, educator and adventure guide for over 12 years. He has traveled extensively in the Southern Ocean participating in over 100 expeditions including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, the Antarctic Peninsula and all stops in between. Brandon has explored the Arctic extensively with expeditions to Russia’s Chukotka/Wrangel Island, the Northwest Passage, High Arctic Canada, Greenland and Northern Norway and Svalbard. Brandon has also spent over 15 seasons working the remote coast of British Columbia and SE Alaska. He is as a certified 60-ton captain/vessel engineer, a certified sea kayak guide and professional photographer and videographer. Brandon is also a passionate marine ecologist specializing in marine mammals and climate science, with a Masters of Environment and Management. For more than a decade Brandon has demonstrated his proficiency in developing the impeccable safety-standards, exceptional guest experiences and engaging education programming that have been the focus of his career – most recently, as Operations Manager for Maple Leaf Adventures, an award‐winning ecotourism company operating small-ship cruises in British Columbia and Alaska. Brian’s love for travel began at a very young age, as his parents' duties in the military brought him to a variety of destinations within Europe and North America. Living in many places allowed Brian to appreciate the beauty of different cultures and landscapes and developed a thirst for discovering new destinations. In 2010 Brian met the love of his life, Alana, and migrated north to Port Credit, Ontario. In 2012, Brian joined the Adventure Canada team in the accounting department. He has since made the move to head of the client services team, and delights in assisting passengers with their expedition plans. When he is not happily at work aboard the ship of in the office, Brian can be found spreading the spirit of music as an educator and performer. Brittany was born in California and raised on St. Joseph Island, Ontario. She spent summers in her youth road-tripping across the US with her family and beloved dog in a 1948 flexible motor coach that her dad restored. Brittany’s passion for travel and adventure led her to the University of Guelph’s Tourism Management program, and has since taken her to work in the hospitality and tourism industry in Canada’s Arctic, Wyoming, and Vancouver. She has enjoyed the opportunity to hike, camp, cycle, and do yoga in some of the most beautiful places in the world. Brittany completed her Masters of Science in Tourism Management with a focus on Arctic Tourism in 2015. She now works in the Operations department at Adventure Canada. Callum Thomson has worked as one of Adventure Canada’s archaeologists for more than thirty years in the Canadian Arctic and east coast, and from Scotland to Greenland. He drives Zodiacs, presents talks on archaeology and history, and generally pitches in with whatever needs to be done on board ship and on land. In a previous life, he ran a croft (very small farm) on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland, emigrated (some say was exiled) to Canada in 1977, and for the past forty years has worked as a field archaeologist, mostly in Canada’s north. Callum lives with his business partner and spouse, Jane Sproull Thomson, in Courtenay on Vancouver Island. To make life simpler, they recently sold their cottage in beautiful Pictou Landing, NS, and are now planning to build a more convenient cabin, 500 west of the old one, so much closer to Courtenay. Join Callum on the following adventures: •. Cam Gillies grew up enjoying the birds and Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. He is a keen birder and photographer and is excited to share his passion with others. Cam has guided several trips in the Arctic including voyages and trips to the floe edge of Baffin Island. Cam has participated in a variety of research projects; everything from catching endangered leopard frogs to snow-tracking wolverines. He completed a PhD studying the movement of forest birds in Costa Rica. He considers his travels in the north as some of his best: the beauty of the landscape, the incredible wildlife, and the wonderful people keep drawing him back! Carolyn is a field botanist, co-author of Common Plants of Nunavut, and author of Common Insects of Nunavut. Her latest publication, Painted Skies, is a picture book about a child’s first experience with northern lights. She is hard at work on more picture books for children and a novel. Carolyn is also a watercolour artist and loves to depict the North in her work. She can always be recognized on activities off of the ship, looking down at the amazing Arctic plant world only a few centimetres above the permafrost. Carolyn and her husband Mark raised their three children in Iqaluit before moving to Canada’s east coast in 2011. In pursuit of her passion – rocks, mountains and landscapes - Catherine has travelled the world. A professional geoscientist, she has worked extensively in remote areas of Canada and the Andes Mountains of South America. Head of the Geological Survey of Canada’s British Columbia and Yukon office for seven years, she has led mapping campaigns and geological research to unravel the geological history of Canada’s western region. A member of the Explorers Club, as well as a Fellow of several professional organizations, she is also the recipient of many awards. These include the C.J. Westerman Award given by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, and the Head of the Public Service Award given by the Clerk of the Privy Council. These awards recognize her outstanding contributions to geoscience, communication, and education of the public. She is the author and co-author of two books (Nature Wells Gray and Surviving the Stone Wind) as well as numerous magazine articles, media reports, and scientific papers. A sought after public speaker and field trip leader, she brings her significant geoscience expertise to help participants understand the interplay between the tectonic forces that shape the landscape, glaciers and extreme climate. Catherine is a dedicated archaeologist and avid outdoor explorer. Over the past thirteen years, she has gained extensive experience participating in archaeology projects in Canada and abroad. She completed a master’s research program specializing in archaeology at the University of Lille, in France. During this time, she worked on archaeological projects in the Balkans, Greece, and the Middle East. Upon returning to Canada, she worked for various cultural research management firms, leading archaeological assessments and undertaking heritage consulting across Ontario. She is currently living in Iqaluit, where she works in conservation of cultural resources for a federal organization. This position has provided her new and exciting opportunities to explore the Canadian Arctic while running archaeology- and heritage-related projects in Nunavut national parks. An adventurer and passionate outdoor enthusiast, Cedar believes in the importance of connections to nature in one’s daily life. The CEO of Adventure Canada—as well as an expedition planner, leader, and guide—Cedar’s work engages, entertains, and educates by connecting people to each other and the land through innovative travel experiences. By focusing on travel to Arctic and sub-Arctic environments, Cedar is actively involved in exploring new northern routes, documenting new discoveries, and monitoring existing sites of historic and cultural importance. She believes that fostering connections to people and land is critical to the longevity of conservation work, and is dedicated to cultivating meaningful relationships that strengthen our ties to nature and each other. She has grown up surrounded by the world’s foremost adventurers and explorers, and now proudly carries on the work her father started at the helm of Adventure Canada. She is a founding member of Canadian Women for Nature, a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a member of the Explorers Club, and on the board of directors for Project North. Charles is a Senior Archaeologist with Parks Canada. He has four decades of experience conducting archaeological research in Atlantic Canada, Labrador, and Ontario. For the past several years he has conducted field research on Sable Island, documenting its archaeological sites and developing a resource-management plan for the island’s archaeological heritage. He has served two terms on the International Board of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology and is currently a board member with the Nova Scotia Archaeology Society. Charles has received the Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence twice for his work, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to archaeology and public education. Charlotte Mougeot is an expert in Arctic and subarctic terrestrial environments. As a direct link to her professional life, she has become a northern naturalist and has been working in the Canadian territories for more than twenty-five years. Her very first field assignment as a student was in Kluane Park, in the Yukon. That summer job turned into a lifelong love affair with northern environments. Originally from Quebec, Charlotte moved to Whitehorse in 1986 and lived there until 2000. Since then she had lived in Alberta and in British Columbia but her love affair with the north continued through project work in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Charlotte has expertise in geology, terrain and glacial landforms with a special interest in permafrost and soils. Charlotte also has a strong interest in arctic vegetation and the various survival mechanisms that specific plants have developed to adapt to the harsh environments. Charlotte was also involved with regulatory and community consultation in the northern communities and travelled extensively both in the remote unpopulated parts of Nunavut and in many of its communities. Through her work as an environmental specialist, she has learned to link land, habitat, harvesting of food, community values and economic and educational objectives while taking into consideration the reality of remote and isolated communities. A native Brit, Chris is a self-confessed polar addict, slowly coming to terms with his enthusiasm for both the Arctic and Antarctic (by visiting them as frequently as possible). He has been a regular visitor to the polar regions since 1995 to conduct research as part of National Programmes (with Sweden and New Zealand) and to pursue his passion for wildlife photography. An avid reader of Antarctic history, Chris has journeyed to historic monuments on the Antarctic Peninsula and in the Ross Sea Region, including Scott's Discovery and Terra Nova Huts. In 2004, he successfully completed a traverse of South Georgia as part of a group of mountaineers following in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton. Chris has a degree in Biological Sciences (majoring in animal behaviour) and recently completed his post-graduate qualification at the Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research in New Zealand. A people person, Chris is lively company. He is well capable of attending to the needs of passengers, sharing his experiences, and inspiring others to make meaningful connections with the environment as they discover these regions. Formerly of 'no fixed address,' Clayton joined Adventure Canada to head up the marketing department and has since moved on to product development. After graduating the University of Western Ontario in 1998, he was an newspaper editor in Costa Rica, wrote travel guidebooks in Montreal, and edited a magazine before joining Adventure Canada. Having traveled extensively in the Arctic over the past few years, Clayton will be returning to the north once again to instigate the fun, drive Zodiacs, and carry the Adventure Canada flag. He's also been to the Galapagos twelve times! Conny has been an outdoors person all of her life growing up at the feet of the German Alps. Having spent her childhood skiing and mountaineering in local regions it was the crucial adventures across the neighbouring borders that indoctrinated her great love of travel. This deep passion led Conny abroad at the youthful age of 16 where she would complete her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business in the U.S. And Hong Kong respectively. From there, Conny has followed a successful career in Sales & Marketing within international luxury hotels, living and working in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Conny's enthusiasm and passion for Antarctica was born after embarking on her first expedition cruise, aboard our very own Hebridean Sky. Witnessing Antarctica’s breathtaking majesty and untouched beauty first-hand, as well as experiencing close encounters with Antarctica’s wildlife, changed her profoundly as a person – a change that has led her to seek a new career within this precious and humbling part of the world. With her bubbly personality, abundant energy and her infectious nature as a people-person she is looking forward to making every future passenger’s journey their “trip of a lifetime”. First published at the age of thirteen, Craig started his career when he was hired into the press realm two years later, and hasn’t looked back since. He’s always pursued the storytelling image and been published worldwide for the last thirty years in the fields of advertising, industrial and corporate imagery. With a passion for light styling and a flair for on-location and underwater opportunities, his image creations are a combination of diverse influences from the editorial world he started in, the commercial world he thrived in, and the portrait world he has always been a part of. Over the years he’s had the pleasure to be part of countless salon jury teams, and as a featured presenter to events across Canada, the US and Internationally with a long list of credentials including multiple Masters degrees, eight Photographer of the Year Awards, the Yousuf Karsh Lifetime Achievement Award, and as part of the Nikon Ambassador Team. Born in South Wales, Clive William Nicol moved to Canada at the age of seventeen and became the overwintering member of the Arctic Institute of North America Devon Island Expedition. He was then appointed a marine mammal technician with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Arctic Biological Station, and carried out over twelve Arctic research expeditions. In 1967, he became the first Game Warden of the Simien Mountain National Park, Wildlife Department, in Ethiopia for twp uears, and in 1972 started work as Senior Field Technician at the Freshwater Institute, Environment Canada, and Emergency Officer, Environmental Protection Service Canada, responding to environmental accidents. First came to Japan in 1962 to study martial arts, and returned in 1978 to further writing career. From 1986 onward, he started a project to recover natural biodiverse forests in Nagano, naming the forest “Afan Woodland” in contrast to the recovered forests in his home of South Wales. He received Japanese citizenship in 1995, and founded the C. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust—to further enhance the activity and research at the forest—in 2002. He was honoured with the Member of the British Empire Award in 2005, and received an honorary visit by Prince Charles in 2008. Daniel was born in North Vancouver, but has spent most of his life growing up in Kamloops, BC. He has always loved the outdoors, growing up with a family cabin at North Barrier Lake, and was first introduced to the Arctic in the summer of 2010. Since his first taste of expedition travel, Daniel has sailed with Adventure Canada many times. He has since completed TRU's Adventure Management Diploma and, most recently, a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies concentrating in Outdoor Adventure Education. Daniel has a passion for mountains, and can be found downhill and backcountry skiing in the winter. He is looking to get a ski guiding career underway and is now preparing for the ACMG assistant sea guide exam. Daniel can also be found trail-guiding across the different mountain ranges of British Columbia. Danny is a biologist, world traveler, and internationally published photographer with over twenty-five years of experience in environmental education. Danny studied wildlife ecology on Canada’s west coast, did postgraduate studies in Africa, and taught ecology in Asia for CIDA. He worked for many years as a naturalist for Parks Canada and has led Adventure Canada natural history and photography programs for over twenty years. Danny has been highly recognized for his work and, in 2012, was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. When not seeking adventures in exotic places, Danny is a faculty member in the Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation program at the BC Institute of Technology. David Marshak is a Canadian artist and painter known for his lush landscapes, richly detailed urban images, and meditative skyscapes. Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1970, he later attended The Ontario College of Art—where he met several members of the artist’s collective DRAWNONWARD. They spent 1992 living and painting together in Florence, Italy, and have been traveling, working, and showing together ever since. David has also had successful solo shows in St. John’s, Toronto, and Vancouver. David’s art has been added to many corporate and private collections including Scotia Capital Markets, the Molson’s, Eaton’s, and the Weston family. David’s paintings have also been purchased by Canadian musical giants Gord Downey, Sarah Harmer, Ed Robertson, Hayden, and Don Ross, as well as media personalities including Shelagh Rogers, Laurie Brown, Terry O’Reilly, and Paul Kennedy of CBC. David was recently made a member of the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He currently lives and paints in Kimberley, Ontario with his artist/photographer wife Sarah Tacoma, their three children, and a border collie named Timppa. Dave Paddon hails originally from Northwest River in central Labrador. He is descended from two generations of pioneer doctors/nurses who traveled the Labrador coast by dogteam in the winter and auxiliary ketch in the summer providing medical services and building the social infrastructure which was so badly needed at the time. Perhaps in a spirit of rebelliousness Dave chose aviation over medicine and flew fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters over the same territory in the late seventies and early eighties. He flew with Air Canada for several years and has now retired. Dave lives in St. John's with his wife Kim, he is a great storyteller and well known throughout the province for his recitations. Dave Shutler (PhD Carleton University) will be one of two people conducting seabird surveys in the Gully Marine Protected Area in July 2017. Dave is a Professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and has been there since 1998. His research focuses on reproductive ecology and stressors, and among his organisms of study are tree swallows and Leach’s storm-petrels. Dave has watched seabirds from ships of various sizes, covering waters between Boston, Argentina, Newfoundland—as well as off the coast of New Zealand. Two things fascinated Dave Freeze at a young age—people wilderness. He grew up on the edge of a vast forest and found his proper place in life as an athlete and wilderness guide. Work has found Dave more than he has found it, and that included the Swan brothers seeking him out in the mid 1980s as Adventure Canada started to become more than a dream. As an original shareholder, Dave did not manage to make the first decade mark (as office work was not a part of his magic formula). Since selling his shares, Dave’s path has included almost twenty years of guide training for Thompson Rivers University, a successful executive coaching and counseling business, and the great joy in raising a family. He has been back helping out at AC for almost a decade now, leading, training, and supporting the business in any way possible. AC has gone well beyond the original shareholders wildest dreams, and Dave and his three kids are all happy to be a part of the success, fun, and adventure. Writer, performer and emcee David Newland was named a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2015, a distinction that reflects a lifelong passion for exploring Canadian landscapes and stories. Drawing inspiration from his work and travels from coast to coast to coast, David’s most recent CD, Give It A Whirl has earned airplay on CBC, Galaxie, and folk radio nationwide. David is currently touring with The Northwest Passage in Story and Song, a musical presentation based on his continuing journeys to the High Arctic as a Zodiac driver, musician, and host. The last Scottish recruit for the Hudson’s Bay Company, David moved from Glasgow to Canadian Arctic in 1989 and made the move to Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) in North Baffin Island in 1991. For the past fifteen years, he has been involved in the adventure travel business and has since led, organized or participated in more than 260 Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Experienced and comfortable exploring the polar regions, David’s passion and enthusiasm for sharing everything to do with ice and snow with passengers helps people understand just how unique and precious our polar regions are. A member of The International Explorers Club, David travels extensively in the off-season, working on a variety of projects as well as promoting and marketing the Baffin region, Nunavut, and Arctic Canada. Join David on the following adventures: •. As a writer, David’s work has been largely based on Inuit traditional knowledge he collected over the past thirty years. He has published eight books and countless articles about the north, the land, its history, and its people. His book Sacred Hunt, about the profound relationship between Inuit and seals, is particularly recommended to our guests. He has worked with biologists and archaeologists, developed and written documentary films, served as co-curator of Inuit art exhibitions, and assisted with numerous community cultural projects across Nunavut. An adventurer in his own right, he has also led several dozen northern expeditions, travelling by canoe and by dog team for thousands of kilometres in the Arctic wilderness. David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes are internationally-acclaimed, award winning National Geographic photographers who specialize in making underwater imagery from the warm equatorial waters to the poles. David is currently working on his 70th story for the National Geographic and is considered the most prolific living photographer at the magazine. Jennifer is a zoologist/marine biologist specializing in primitive fishes and sharks. The pair have descended beneath Africa’s dark waters to photograph elephants and Nile crocodiles, explored beneath the polar ice and the shrinking world of sharks, photographed real time sinking ships and are documenting the impacts of climate change on coral reef systems around the globe. As journalists who enter the sea, David and Jennifer know very well that we are all on the front lines of a battle to save the oceans and to raise awareness of the acute state of our oceans that predominantly c over our planet. Their goal is to use photography as a universal visual language to expose the fragile beauty of the seas and to convince the unconvinced that the seas are fragile and finite. Their favourite place to be on the planet is home on the St Lawrence River. Dawn is a professor of Biology in the Faculty of Science at York University in Toronto, where she has taught since 1990. She was Director of IRIS, the university-wide Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (2006-11 and 2012-13). At IRIS, Dawn’s mission was to develop, lead and support interdisciplinary research on diverse fronts. The Globe and Mail's 2013 Canadian University Report singled her out as York University's HotShot Professor. Dawn trained as an ecologist in the field of plant-herbivore interactions, and has carried out extensive field research in grasslands and forests, from temperate to Arctic regions. She holds a B.Sc. In Biogeography and Environmental Studies and an M.Sc. In Botany from the University of Toronto. In Zoology, from Oxford University’s Edward Grey Institute in Field Ornithology, looked at sheep grazing behaviour. Dawson was born in Vancouver and raised in Kamloops BC but the great outdoors is his home. He enjoys vinyl records, stories of great adventure, and skateboarding. He has been a passionate skier since the age of three and now trains and competes in slope style, spending as much time as possible training at the ski hill. He plans to attend Thompson Rivers University’s Adventure Guide Program and avoid anything that resembles a traditional job. In an effort to spend more time outdoors, Dawson moved his bedroom into the backyard and has been residing there for the past two years. Deanna was born and raised on the shores of Great Slave Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories, where she developed her lifelong love of wild frontiers. After specializing in biology at the University of Calgary, she moved to Boston to study whales, rehabilitate injured marine life, and teach ocean conservation. She served as the director of the Center for Oceanic Research and Education, developing and delivering education-outreach programs. A true northerner at heart, Deanna returned to the Arctic in 2007; she completed graduate work in marine biology through the University of Alaska, and spent a decade as a senior biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), managing the Great Slave Lake commercial fishery and researching the bowhead whales of the Beaufort Sea. In 2016, her research took her to Norway, where she studies ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change on Arctic marine mammals. In her spare time, she can be found adventuring with her husband, Adventure Canada historian Aaron Spitzer, and her son, Mark, age ten, a wannabe Adventure Canada staffer. Dennis has been working with Adventure Canada since 2002 as a naturalist and photographer in the Arctic, Newfoundland, Antarctica, New Zealand, Galapagos, and Scotland. Dennis’s path—from his small island roots in Twillingate, Newfoundland to his current career as a photographer and eco-tour leader—has taken him through more than three decades of local and international work. Educated as a wildlife biologist, his first professional job was as the designer/manager of a nature education and wildlife rehabilitation centre. He also worked for nearly thirty years as an environmental educator in Newfoundland & Labrador, Africa, the Seychelles, and the Caribbean. Dennis is the author of nine educational and photographic books, and has tried his hand at dairy farming and even working as a polar bear guide in Churchill, Manitoba. For him, nature and photography are inseparable. Dennis immerses himself in nature through photography and seeks to inspire in the viewer a deeper connection with the natural world. His latest book, Labrador: The Big Land was published in 2016 and a sister volume, Newfoundland: An Island Apart, came out a year earlier. Dennis resides in Clarke’s Beach Newfoundland with his wife Antje Springmann and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Thule. He is very proud of his three grown children and seven grandchildren. Join Dennis on the following adventures: •. Derrick Pottle was born and raised in Rigolet, Labrador and lives a traditional Inuk lifestyle as a hunter and gatherer; he loves being out on the land. He still hunts and prepares caribou, seal, polar bear, fox, and wolf hides in the traditional Inuit way. He is a stone carver and is experienced in the challenges of long-distance travel in and around Nunatsiavut and Nunavik. While in town, Derrick teaches stone carving to students and adults, and has a company which teaches bear safety and traditional Inuit survival skills to the public. Derrick is a husband, father of two, and has three grandchildren. Don is a multidisciplinary artist of Acadian and Mi’kmaq heritage. He was born in Stephenville, Newfoundland, and currently resides in Cambridge, Ontario. Russell’s artistic practice encompasses encaustic painting, printmaking, and land art. He completed his Bachelor of Arts with a specialization in fine arts at the University of Guelph in 1995. His work is represented in public and corporate collections across Canada, including the Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the University of Toronto Law School, and the University of Guelph. Don Bowen grew up in southern Ontario, where from an early age he spent many weekends and summers at the family cottage in the Kawartha Lakes developing a keen interest in sailing, canoeing, and wildlife. He received a bachelor’s of science degree at the University of Guelph and continued at Guelph to conduct research for his M.Sc. Degree on the behavior of collared lemmings at Churchill, Manitoba. From there he travelled west to UBC where he earned a PhD at the Institute of Resource Ecology. This research took him to South Africa to study leopards and to Jasper National Park where he spent three years studying the behavioural ecology of coyotes. Don then headed east to enter the marine world of harp and hooded seals at the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center, St. John’s, Newfoundland. After five years in Newfoundland, Don arrived at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. For the past thirty years, he has led a team conducting research on the physiology, reproductive and foraging ecology, and population dynamics of grey and harbour seals on Sable Island. This research sought to understanding consequences of variation in pinniped life histories and the nature of competitive interactions between seals and commercial fisheries. He is an author of two books and over two hundred scientific articles. He is past chair of the Canadian National Marine Mammal Peer Review Committee providing science advice on the status of cetaceans and seal species. He has also chaired the Special Committee on Seals in the United Kingdom, was a member of the USA recovery team for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal and the Science Panel of the North Pacific Research Board, Alaska. He advises on the ecological impacts of fisheries, considered for Marnie Stewardship Council certification, in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, along the USA west coast, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Although he is reasonably well travelled, Sable Island remains a special place on the planet. Edna is a former long-term federal and territorial public service employee, a municipal councillor and mayor, a language bureau director, an entrepreneur and language, and cultural advocate. She is now semi-retired, and picking and choosing her activities. Edna continues to advocate for and teach her language and culture. A chance involvement in the film industry has produced a film on the annual cultural games in her region. She is also featured in a documentary on her Swedish great grandfather, Petter Norberg, who married Dora, a Gwitchin woman from the Old Crow, Yukon area and bore three children. Edna has taken on two very new and big challenges: translation of the Bible into her Inuinnaqtun dialect and the production of an Inuinnaqtun dictionary along with a team of three others. Eli was born in Okak Bay and moved to Nain as a boy. He grew up in the small community, and was educated there—and has lived in Nain ever since. He spent thirteen years with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans before leaving to train as a bear monitor with Nunatsiavut Group of Companies. Today, he works as a wilderness guide and bear monitor, helping others explore the wilds of Labrador for which he has such affection. His favourite place in the world is Okak Bay, where he keeps a small cabin out on the land. Ewan comes from a world of outdoor pursuits, adventuring and exploring, whether it be in his personal endeavors or professionally. In recent years, he has sought out the polar world as his playground and office - guiding and recreating in these incredibly extreme, yet transformative regions of the planet. As a young boy growing up in one of the “gateways to Antarctica”, the island of Tasmania, he was besotted by this far away magical land of ice. He had heard the stories, seen the photos and met those that had survived the “Big White.” And so it became that as a guide he needed to one day, somehow, get himself to the bottom of the earth. One of his favorite polar memories is standing on the bow of the vessel as a male blue whale pursued a female; porpoising in an explosion of spray and spume one after the other for close to 30 minutes, just meters from the bow of the ship. He loves to drink in nature’s beauty with like-minded souls whom can appreciate their good fortune and from whom he can continue to learn from and be inspired. With this in mind he tries to share his passion for wild places and what these places can do for us as individuals and as a society. He also loves to engross himself in the preparation of food – food rich in vitality and wholesomeness, food that can nourish and food that can be shared with friends, old and new alike. Frederic has always loved the outdoors, connecting with nature and to learn about the “how’s” and “who’s” of our world. But instead of pursuing his love for nature and culture, he decided to study International Trading. He later realized this was not his calling, and went back to school in Eco-Tourism. Ever since, he has worked as a dogsledding, canoeing, and hiking guide in Canada and Australia. Most recently, he’s been sharing his passion for geology, wildlife, and cultural history as a heritage presenter and guide for Parks Canada in Newfoundland. He loves to share his passion about cultural history, wildlife, and earth science. The most important part of his life is travelling and learning about the different cultures, food, coffee, and wine this world has to offer. Garrick craves finding ways to collaborate with strategy, sustainability, and storytelling experts to create a more livable world. He has worked to advance sustainable business in areas as diverse as consumer packaged goods, green buildings, water, cleantech, and social enterprise. Through this journey, Garrick has come to appreciate the power of storytelling as a catalyst for the kind of dialogue needed to truly shift perspectives and find solutions. Today, he dedicates his time to initiatives that connect content creators with overlooked and under-told stories that give audiences a front row seat to change at its best. Garrick holds an MBA in Business and Sustainability from the Schulich School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. His current playgrounds include filmmaking, mentoring, dance, martial arts, and connecting with the human spirit through the wonder of travel. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, he now calls Toronto home. Garry’s story begins in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan which was the first of many places he lived in Canada growing up as an air force brat. While it is an ongoing tale, the current chapter sees him in his relatively new home in Sackville, New Brunswick where he works for the Canadian Wildlife Service managing programs for migratory birds and protected areas in Atlantic Canada. A self-declared accidental ornithologist, Garry attributes his career path to a general love for the outdoors mixed with a few lucky encounters that are described in other chapters. Included is the party conversation that turned a first career path in biotechnology towards one in wildlife toxicology, the lunch conversation that altered lab work to dangling off ropes at Arctic seabird cliffs for a Master’s thesis, and the lucky phone call on Cornwallis Island led to a “real” job with the Canadian Wildlife Service. Other life-enriching chapters in his book include the year teaching science in a rural school in Malawi, the many opportunities to guide hiking and canoe trips in the north, and years spent dabbling in Ironman-distance triathlons. Garry likes taking photographs to illustrate his story and spends lots of time on his bikes thinking up subjects for chapters yet to come. Gay enjoys travelling the world with notepad and camera in hand and writing stories about her experiences— some of which have been published in a local magazine. She has been to thirty-two countries and her goal is to see fifty and all seven continents. For the last twenty-two years, Gay has been involved in recording and preserving Mississauga’s history through her involvement with various heritage organizations. As a member of the Adventure Canada Client Services team, she helps travellers make their trips truly memorable experiences. Originally from Quebec, Gen moved north ten years ago in the search of great winter conditions and fell in love with all northern seasons. She possesses a versatile array of skills in everything from being a white water canoeing and kayaking instructor to snowmobile safety instructor; from dog mushing to finishing carpentry and event coordination for the Slave River Paddlefest. She is also a trained environmental field technician. Her thirst for adventure has led her all the way to Svalbard and down the river on the Yukon River Quest, as well as many other northern rivers on canoe and raft trips. George Sirk’s refreshing perspective, enthusiasm and passion for nature are contagious. These qualities have made him an exceptional naturalist guide, photographer and film maker. A passion for creating slide, film and video documentaries has evolved to collecting ‘images’ of nature through sound recording and sketching. This led to producing documentaries for ‘Spark’ and ‘Out Front’ on CBC Radio Canada, as well as regular appearances with ‘On the Island’, CBC Victoria, and hosting his radio show ‘Nature Boy” at the University of Victoria, BC. Most recently, he produced an audio-diary of his Arctic 2016 Northwest Passage expedition with Adventure Canada. For over 45 years he has guided for an array of leading travel companies, including Lindblad Expeditions, Adventure Canada, Cruise North Expeditions, Costa Rica Expeditions and Travel Wild. After an early specialization in birding expeditions to Australia, Papua New Guinea and Central America, George has broadened his scope to the high Arctic over the past ten seasons. From camping with Tapirs in Belize to spotting Narwhals in the frigid Arctic, his interpretative work is always suffused with humour and vivid story-telling. 'George Sirk was the most unique genius that we have had the honour of being with ever! “- Adventure Canada participant ‘Out of The Northwest Passage, 2016' •. Gerry Strong is from Little Bay Islands, Notre Dame Bay, and grew up between there and Little Bay, a short distance away. In the early 1970s, while working in Stephenville Crossing, Gerry became involved in the local music scene through the influence of Stephenville physician, Dr. Kevin McCann. Kevin introduced Gerry to several traditional west coast musicians such as Emile Benoit and Ed Doucette, among others. Around the same time, local bands Red Island and Figgy Duff were experimenting with and developing new and exciting ways of playing local music. Gerry became part of the renewal of interest in the folk and traditional music of Newfoundland and Labrador. He subsequently became a founding member of the award winning group, Tickle Harbour. Gerry travelled extensively throughout Canada and the US while playing with Tickle Harbour, and through Ireland and Australia with his most recent musical ensemble, A Crowd of Bold Sharemen. He has recorded with an astonishing array of musical groups, all while holding down a job as a X-ray technologist at the Carbonear General Hospital. Graeme, author of four novels and two miscellanies, (The Bedside Book of Birds and The Bedside Book of Beasts), is currently joint Honorary President, with Margaret Atwood, of BirdLife International’s Rare Bird Club. For almost ten years (in the guise of “The Great Auk”), Graeme organized, and frequently led, birding trips to Cuba and Ecuador. A long time conservationist he has been a council member of WWF-Canada and is currently Chairman of the Pelee Island Bird Observatory. Graeme was an initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and has been president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1992. He lives with writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto. Hannah has a particular love of birdlife and marine mammals and has been sharing her passion for the natural world working aboard Expedition Ships in remote regions since 1999. She studied zoology at the University of Liverpool, England specializing in the parasites of black rhinos and mountain gorillas. She also completed two intense undergraduate marine biology courses. After graduation, Hannah changed direction and worked as a wildlife artist and mural painter for several years at Chester Zoo and in East Africa. During the year and half spent in Kenya and Uganda, projects included illustrating a guide book to Kibale Forest National Park and doing designs and posters for the East Africa Wildlife Society. On her return to the UK, she gained a Masters in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art, London. During her student years she spent her time doing practical conservation projects as a leader with British Trust for Conservation Volunteers. Hannah is now able to divide her time between doing artwork from her studio in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and working as a wildlife guide, zodiac driver and expedition leader. She visits the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia annually in the Austral summer and then heads north to cruise the shoreline of the UK, Norway and the Arctic, swapping penguin sightings for polar bears and sketching, photographing and learning about the lives of the creatures she sees along the way. Harbir is a Board Certified Emergency physician living in Austin TX. After residency training at Parkland Hospital/UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX; a large county hospital, he worked throughout multiple Emergency Departments in Texas, ranging from concierge quality facilities to busy tertiary care centers. In 2016, he (along with a few others) opened a Free Standing Emergency Department in Kyle, TX focused on providing concierge level Emergency Care. This will be Harbir’s third expedition to Antarctica and he is looking forward to spending time with you all and hearing about your travels. Aside from medicine, Harbir has a passion for exotic travel; having visited nearly every continent. He is most excited to enjoy a wonderful (and safe) adventure in Antarctica. Heather is a certified adventure guide, general naturalist and entrepreneur from Canada. She’s been expedition cruising for twelve years, has seven years of experience in business development specific to polar cruising, and five seasons of hands-on work as an expedition guide specializing in the customer service aspects of ship-board life. Heather fell in love with the polar regions in 2007 when she visited Svalbard for the first time and was overwhelmed by the sense of utter peace that only a vast and remote landscape can inspire. Not long after that, an expedition to Antarctica followed, and she has now returned over 30 times. Besides her polar work, Heather runs a digital business consultancy, is a certified life coach, and has traveled to 48 countries, including living in seven different countries on four continents outside of her passport country, Canada. She currently lives in Sweden with her husband (a polar Expedition Leader and Coast Guard), whom she met in Antarctica. Heather is passionate about ensuring that passengers enjoy an exceptional voyage. Heidi is an urban Inuk with family roots in Nunatsiavut. She is one of the founders of the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre which empowers Inuit families in Ottawa with many programs and services. Heidi was nominated as one of the National Aboriginal Role Models in 2010–2011 which has enabled her to motivate and inspire Aboriginal youth across Canada. One of the many things that Heidi enjoys is providing interactive presentations to all Inuit walks of life including throat singing, history, current events, drumming, and Inuit games. She lives with her husband and their six children. Familiar to many from his TV appearances with the likes of Martha Stewart and Anthony Bourdain, Hidekazu Tojo-san is a Canadian treasure. His namesake restaurant, Tojo's on West Broadway in Vancouver, is a must-visit destination for celebrities and discerning diners alike from around the globe. Tojo-san is famed in both his native Japan and internationally as the originator of the California Roll, the BC Roll, and Northern Lights Roll. His passion for the wild, fresh ingredients of the west coast (including smoked salmon, albacore tuna, and Alaskan black cod) is a hallmark of his unique approach to cuisine. The Wall Street Journal selected Tojo-san as one of the top ten sushi chefs in the world, and his awards and distinctions include the BC Restaurants Hall of Fame and the Vancouver Magazine Lifetime Achievement award—among many, many others. Holly’s fascination with birds began in her teens when she first discovered that they could be identified by sound. As a person with strong musical affinities, she found this particularly intriguing and she completed her graduate degree at the Memorial University of Newfoundland on songbird community ecology. Ultimately drawn to the marine environment, she has worked primarily on seabirds for the last twenty-five years, including seabird colonies including British Columbia, Alaska, Newfoundland and Labrador. Holly currently manages two seabird ecological reserves for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. When the birds leave their breeding colonies for the winter, Holly is singing the blues. Her husband and three children put up with it most of the time. Ian is a Juno Award-winning musician, playwright, producer, and adventurer. He has released thirty-nine records and written six plays. He is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and has received the Estelle Klein and Helen Verger awards for his contributions to Canadian folk music. He holds an honorary doctorate from Lakehead University, a Distinguished Alumni Award from Trent University and was voted English Songwriter of the Year in 2010 by the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Over the past year, Ian has been writer in residence at Carleton University, teaching songwriting and composition. He has recently released a celebration of the Group of Seven entitled Walking in the Footsteps, a project commissioned by the Art Gallery of Sudbury. Join Ian on the following adventures: •. After thirty-five years teaching post-secondary biology and environmental studies, Jack remains committed to conservation, education, and the hope of a sustainable future. Over the years he has consulted on ecotourism development and taught guide training internationally. Jack has guided nature tours and conducted travel study courses in in North, Central, and South America as well as in Africa and South Asia. With an extensive knowledge of plants and animals and their ecological relationships, he enjoys introducing “the big picture” in a relaxed and entertaining style. Jack has travelled throughout the Arctic since 1978 and first joined the Adventure Canada resource team in 1994. Jackie is a professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics where she holds the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environment, Society, and Policy. She is an applied scientist and conducts research on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change in oceanic and coastal regions of the Arctic. She is an expert in Arctic marine transportation, Indigenous community development, and oceans governance. She is currently working in partnership with Parks Canada and Adventure Canada to develop site guidelines for tourism vessels in Arctic Canada. Prior to joining the ranks of academia, she worked as an instructor and Program Director at Outward Bound Canada. Born in a canoe (his mother has a slightly different version), James has spent most of his life dreaming about the north and (to quote Glenn Gould) he has “read about it, written about it, and even pulled up his parka and gone there”—for a portion of every year since 1977. James trained originally as a biologist, working with seals and polar bears out of Guelph University, and finished his post-secondary education with a doctorate in cultural geography based on cross-cultural perceptions of place in the Thelon Game Sanctuary. He has travelled and worked in the north as a canoeist, naturalist, photographer, researcher, writer, teacher, and expedition leader. For nineteen years, James was a Professor of Outdoor & Experiential Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, and is currently the part-time Executive Director of The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough. Over the years he has produced a number of bestselling books, including Fire in the Bones and Emperor of the North, and written for media outlets including Canadian Geographic, National Geographic, and The Globe and Mail, as well as for CBC Radio and the Discovery Channel. His forthcoming book, Circling the Midnight Sun: Visions and Voices from a changing circumpolar world, is based on a three-year journey around the world at the Arctic Circle, was be published by HarperCollins in September, 2014. He is an active public speaker and community volunteer, a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, past chair of the Arctic Institute of North America as well as a Fellow and Past Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, service for which he was awarded the RCGS’s Camsell Medal in 2009, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Join James on the following adventures: •. Jamie was born in Iqaluit when it was still known as Frobisher Bay, but grew up in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet). He went through the general public school system at Takijualuk School and finished high school in Mittimatalik. After high school he went on to Nunavut Arctic College’s Environmental Technology program. After receiving his college dimploma he worked for Sirmilik National Park on a seasonal basis as a patrolman for several years before joining the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, where he worked for ten years out of Iqaluit. In June of 2016 he was able to start work again for Sirmilik National Park in Mittimatalik. Jane writes and lectures in cultural history, archaeology, and art history to museum, university, and avocational groups. Until recently, she was professor of Inuit and native art and culture at the University of Calgary, and is a former curator of the Glenbow, Newfoundland, and Red Deer College Museums. She is a Research Associate and was appointed a Life Member with the Arctic Institute of North America. Jane has worked as lecturer, Zodiac driver and cruise director for the past ten years. With husband Callum, she operates a consulting business in the field of environmental and heritage conservation, interpretation, and planning—and has had a key role in planning new heritage and tourism facilities throughout Canada. Join Jane on the following adventures: •. Born in Kuujjuaq and raised in Kangirsuk, Jason completed primary and secondary school in Nunavik. At eighteen, he attended John Abbott College and went on to study psychology at McGill University. During his second year there, he travelled to Hong Kong as an exchange student for a year. That year abroad sparked an interest in combining traveling and education that has not since died. Since then he has had the opportunity to study Russian in St. Petersburg, teach English in France, and trained to become a safari guide in South Africa. After much traveling he went on to complete a Masters degree in psychology at Columbia University in New York. Among his hobbies are reading about economics, making short films, and spending time outdoors. He has welcomed many visitors to the arctic in his five years experience as an expedition guide onboard expedition ships and he loves introducing the arctic to complete newcomers through presentations, informal talks, and briefings. Jason is an Inuk from the communities of Nain and Makkovik, Nunatsiavut. He was an active youth, participating and contributing in local and regional Inuit youth groups as well as language and culture preservation committees. He grew up just twenty yards from the Atlantic Ocean, and was reared in a boat, travelling the coast of Labrador extensively while hunting and assisting his father with tours and boat charters. Coming from a family of politicians, Jason went on to study political science at Memorial University. Taking a break from academia, he then went on to study carpentry and tourism. Now, living just a stone’s throw from Lake Ontario in Port Credit, Jason is a professional expedition guide, bear monitor and Expedition Leader in the summer months with Adventure Canada and Students on Ice. During the Arctic winter months, he assists in the planning of quality Arctic and sub-Arctic expeditions. Jason has been recognized as a Youth Role Model by the Nunatsiavut Government for his work in education and has been inducted as a member of the Explorer’s Club, and a fellow in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. When not working, he is a proud father to two girls. Born in Quebec, Jassin has lived for two decades an existence of adventures as a Yukoner. His love for a simple lifestyle, living the Great Canadian Dream in a log cabin on the land of the Midnight sun, mixes well with his thirst for travelling. Stout knowledgeable outdoorsman, he’s always up for an escapade around the world. When Jassin is not busy having fun, he enjoys yoga, guitar, fetching wild foods and fishing with bears. His curiosity for life leads him across an array of interests, studies and work, ranging from psychology to forestry, nursing to guiding, working in the film industry and as an aquatic technician for Fisheries and Ocean, navigating the remote rivers of British Colombia and Yukon. Jassin has now a strong interest in photography and aerial cinematography that recently brought him to the savannas of South Africa and Mozambique, filming a “Big Cat initiative project” for National Geographic and all the way up to Tuktoyaktut, documenting the Arctic Ultra 6633 race with the Japanese national television. He is now delighted to be part of the amazing team of Adventure Canada. Feeding his journey from passion for life and nature, he makes sharing and learning an endeavor. Jassin is truly looking forward to be there with you on this wild quest, sailing the picturesque Northwest Passage. Iconic author, journalist, and broadcaster Jay Ingram hosted CBC radio’s science program Quirks and Quarks and Discovery Channel Canada’s Daily Planet. Jay has written twelve books, most of which have been bestsellers. His books have been translated into twelve languages. His latest, Fatal Flaws was released in 2012. Jay is Chair of the Science Communications Program at the Banff Centre. He is co-founder of the arts, science, and engineering festival called Beakerhead, which launched in September 2013. Jay is a member of the Order of Canada. For the past thirty years, Jean has enjoyed providing cultural and natural history interpretation for expedition cruising and small-group educational travel. She has an avid interest in the tightly interwoven relationship between Newfoundland and Labrador's human population, its challenging landscapes, and its wildlife. Jean has worked with both the province's Folk Arts Society—which celebrates its unique cultural heritage—and the Friends of Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, dedicated to protecting and studying an important breeding seabird colony. In her free time she can be found exploring new roads, bays, and coves—always with camera in hand. Jean Claude Roy was born in Rochefort sur Mer, France in 1948, and knew from an early age that he would be an artist. He first came to Newfoundland at seventeen as a marine electrician aboard a French cable ship, and fell in love with the landscape of Newfoundland. Entirely self-taught, since 1971 he lived first in Newfoundland and later in France but in recent years has divided his time between his two countries. He prefers to work on location, and considers his paintings to be a form of diary: of himself and of the places he paints. In 2011, he published Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, a 480-page book that includes a painting of every community on the island of Newfoundland, the culmination of forty-five years of work, and he is now preparing a companion volume on Labrador. He and his wife designed the French Shore Tapestry which is on display in Conche, Newfoundland, and for which he received the Prix Champlain in France. His paintings are exhibited in Canada, the United States and France. Jennifer was raised in Iqaluit. She spent her childhood hunting and camping with her grandparents and graduated from Nunavuts Sivuniksavut’s (NS) second-year program in Ottawa. After NS, she was employed with CBC News North for two years as an intern reporter. She is currently employed by the Government of Nunavut with Nunavut Parks as a program officer teaching traditional survival skills to the public. Jennifer’s passion is working with Inuit youth and cultural rejuvenation. For three years, she acted as the Baffin Regional Youth council president where she developed cultural youth programming and started a summer camp called Traditional Roots. Jennifer is also an actor and has played a role in the award-winning film Throat Song (Best Short Drama and Best Indigenous Language Film at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival). Her most recent acting role was for a feature film called The Grizzlies. When Lunenburg Academy closed its doors in 2012, Jill turned the key on a thirt-year career in education, but the historian in her would not be silenced. Consulting for both NFB (2003) and White Gate Films (2013 and ongoing) inspired her to develop her distinctly Maritime non-fiction voice. In 2015, from her home in Lunenburg overlooking the mighty Atlantic, Jill crafted the successful novel, Return to Sable, chronicling her family’s time on Sable Island from 1880–1913. Her most recent work, Sable Island in Black and White (Nimbus) is a pictorial anthology of the island, narrated by compelling stories and illustrated with tintypes, glass plates, and old Brownie and Kodak photographs. Jill sits on the Board of Directors for Friends of Sable Island Society whose mandate is to both promote and protect this precious Canadian icon. A proud Maritimer from away who has come home to stay, Jill is honoured to be part of the Adventure Canada resource team. Fewer people have walked on the moon than visited some of the places reached by Jill's earthbound exploration. In recognition of her lifetime of achievements, Jill was appointed as the inaugural Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She is a motivational speaker, prolific author of numerous books on technical diving, and pioneer in the field of technical rebreather and cave diving. Jill is a veteran of over twenty years of scientific diving, filming/photography, and exploration. She has worked on projects with National Geographic, NOAA, various educational institutions, and television networks worldwide. Jillian has been navigating the icy seas of Arctic expedition travel since 2004. Jillian heads up Adventure Canada’s media relations, and has explored Canada’s Arctic extensively leading groups of travel journalists and guests alike. During her three years based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Jillian worked at Nunavut Tourism helping to develop the region’s budding tourism industry. Jillian has never been far from the ocean and all the things nautical. Her family are multi-generational commercial fishermen, hailing from the northwest of B.C. She started working on the family ships at eleven. Jillian is also a travel writer and contributes to the Globe and Mail & Frommer’s Travel Guides. Jim is an author, scientist, and educator whose interest in cold (altitudinal, latitudinal, and seasonal) has taken him to all seven continents. His specialities include climate, long-term and environmental ecology, animal tracking, and carnivores—with forty-five years studying polar and grizzly bears. Jim authored over thirty books and videos including Yellowstone Bears in the Wild, and Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild and Winter: An Ecological Handbook. He led the American East Greenland expeditions in 1975 and 1976, is a Fellow of the Explorer’s Club, and received the Antarctic Service medal. He is also a past Research Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and was Director of the Mountain Research Station, University of Colorado. Jim is a Vietnam veteran and currently president of A Naturalist’s World, an ecological education company at the north gate to Yellowstone National Park. Born just outside Pangnirtung, Nunavut and now residing in Grise Fiord, Canada’s northernmost community, Jimmy Qappik has been an integral part of economic development and cultural preservation in his home territory. As an adult educator and member of the Nunavut Economic Developers Association, Jimmy is highly involved in the development of new business initiatives including tourism startups related to the recently named new national wildlife park at Coburg Island. As a member of the Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, Jimmy conducts surveillance and sovereignty patrols of the high Arctic region near Grise Fiord. Jimmy’s cousin, Andrew Qappiq, is the celebrated Pangnirtung printmaker. Jimmy learned first hand about hunting and surviving in the Arctic from his parents and relatives, and is now a part of the Hunters and Trappers Organization, has a dog team and loves sharing his experience and culture with visitors to the North. Originally from St. John’s, Joanne grew up in Toronto and is currently living in Mississauga. She has worked as an RMT for the last eleven years there. Joanne is passionate about her work and humbled to be able to help her clients enhance their health and wellness through massage therapy. As part of her daily regime to maintain a healthy balance, Joanne enjoys cross-training as well as most sports. She has been involved with many theatre groups over the years, performing and singing since childhood. It’s safe to say that all art forms fascinate Joanne; she recently took up drawing, and is developing a passion for portraiture. A couple of Joanne’s fondest memories are being on safari in South Africa and trekking through the rainforests of Costa Rica. Since starting work with Adventure Canada, Joanne is thrilled to add hiking in Auyuittuq National Park and cruising the fjords of the Torngat Mountains of Labrador to her list. A member of the well-known Houston family, John spent the first seven years of his life in the Arctic at Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. He studied art in Paris and graduated from Yale University in 1975; that same year, he took up the position of Art Advisor to the Pangnirtung Co-operative's printmaking project. Over the next five years, while mastering Inuktitut, he brought out four print collections and wrote the story for a documentary, “Art of the Arctic Whalemen”, directed by his father James Houston. After Pangnirtung, he was off on a 20,000-mile trip across the North, casting Inuit for “Never Cry Wolf”, on which he later served as 1st Assistant Director. With the proceeds from that film, John established the Houston North Gallery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with the help of his mother, the late Alma Houston. In 1998, John co-wrote and directed his first film. This one-hour documentary about his parents and the Inuit of Cape Dorset, “Songs in Stone: an Arctic Journey Home”, was followed by John's quest for a pre-Christian Inuit deity in “Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts”. Both films have won international awards. John has just completed the Arctic trilogy with “Diet of Souls”, an intimate look at the relationship between Inuit and animals. Rowing up in national parks across the Northwest Territories started John off with a love of wild spaces and the people who live in them from an early age. Taking this passion he went into the study of Archaeology and Anthropology, and has been living and working in the Northwest Territories as a multidisciplinary consultant in the fields of environmental science, anthropology, economic development, and wilderness safety for over a decade. John has always been one to shy away from holidays to sunny beaches and, as a result, has ended up travelling or living in many places across the circumpolar world including: Svalbard, northern Scandinavia, Greenland, many communities in the Canadian Arctic, and even Yakutia in the far east of the Russian Arctic. When he’s not travelling or working John spends his time kayaking, ice fishing, hunting, or working on his linocut art at his home in Fort Smith, NT. Johnny Issaluk is from the small arctic hamlet Igluligaarjuk (also known as Chesterfield Inlet), on the coast of Hudson’s Bay in Nunavut. He grew up traditionally, out on the land, hunting, fishing and camping with his elders, as Inuit have for centuries. Traditional life was juxtaposed with contemporary education through residential secondary school and Nunavut Arctic College in tourism, guiding and environmental technology. Johnny works with various organizations that address mental health, suicide prevention and healing through counseling and traditional activities. Johnny is also developing a small consulting business, Nurraq Outfitting. One of the youth projects closest to Johnny’s heart is the internationally renowned educational program “Students on Ice”; where he has worked with youth from all over the world as an arctic ambassador and spokesman for arctic stewardship. As an athlete Johnny has been practicing, competing, performing, coaching and teaching Inuit Games for more than 20 yearss. He is one of the most successful Inuit Games athletes of his generation. Johnny is a recipient of the Diamond Jubilee Medal. Johnny was recognized for his ongoing contribution to the health and wellbeing of Nunavummiut. Johnny has four children, and lives with his wife and three dogs in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Jon fell in love with the land and people of the Arctic when, still in high school, he had the opportunity to work a few summers on Baffin Island assisting researchers in reconstructing the glacial history of the fjords. This experience inspired a career in geology. He obtained a BSc and PhD from Toronto and Calgary respectively, and worked in the field from Brazil to the Arctic. In parallel to his professional career, Jon participated in geology outreach by sharing stories of the Earth with audiences as varied as kindergarten students, science teachers, and retirees. Now retired himself, he continues this passion as a Research Associate with the Arctic Institute of North America, Acting Chair of the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation and, of course, as a member of the Adventure Canada's resource staff. Jon loves cross-country skiing, hiking, cycling, snowshoeing, running, and strumming his guitar; yes rocks can inspire song! Join Jon on an expedition and hear the rocks sing. Josh is a producer, composer and editor who has worked with Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and is now a partner with Qanukiaq Studios Inc. In addition to his work in television, Josh is also an accomplished musician with a band called The Trade-Offs. “Josh harnesses a powerful baritone which, in a recent review, was described as a “more-approachable Tom Waits'. Josh writes sincere lyrics set to music that is emotionally rich and at thirty, he already sings with an authority and confidence that harnesses the power of soul music.” He has been awarded with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond medal for his contributions to music in the North and he possesses a wealth of solo performance experience. Joshua has been heard on CBC radio and has made several television appearances on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) for The Hundred Years Cafe. Along with his music career Josh has been working with the comedy television series “Qanurli?” (What now?) which is a popular show in the northern territories. It was a passion for sea kayaking that led Julia to the Arctic, when, in 2004, she travelled 500km of Ellesmere Island coastline, working on Abandoned in the Arctic, a documentary film retracing the historic retreat of US military explorer Adolphus Greely. At that time she caught two bugs—an infatuation with the north, and a fervour for filmmaking. Drawing on her science background (BSc. In Physical Geography), seven years of environmental assessment in the Yukon, and eight years of leadership instruction with the National Outdoor Leadership School, Julia produced and co-directing Arctic Cliffhangers and Pick-Up Sticks, exploring what thirty-five years of seabird research reveals about climate change. She edited caribou research modules for Inuit and First Nation hunters, and was awarded the Gerry Cook Award for Alberta’s Most Promising Producer. Her latest award-winning film, Vanishing Point, produced with Canada’s National Film Board, reconnects communities in Northwest Greenland and Baffin Island linked by an Inuit Shaman’s journey, highlighting the challenges northern indigenous populations face in a rapidly globalized world. Vanishing Point was nominated Best Canadian Feature Documentary by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a co-founder of Meltwater Media. Kaleigh grew up in Ottawa, but spent every weekend on the road playing a wide variety of sports. She went on to do her undergrad in theatre and international development, dividing her time between Queen’s University in Kingston, and the Netherlands. This itchy-feet lifestyle turned into a passion for backpacking through Europe, Turkey, Morocco and southern Africa (so far!). She is excited to venture into a whole new part of the world with a dream job where she can combine her love for the arts with ethical tourism and loads of adventures. Kaleigh lives downtown Toronto and loves camping, reading, road trips, and craft beer. Karen has been with Parks Canada for over eight years, sharing her love of nature and cultures with people from around the world. Having studied songbirds on the west coast, manatees and dolphins in the Caribbean, and nesting waterfowl in the Northwest Territories, Karen hung up her biologist hat to go back to school to get a Masters in Environmental Studies, exploring the intersections of conservation, education, tourism, and community development. This led to an initial position with Parks Canada in the south, but she was quickly drawn back into the wilds of the Arctic. Karen believes that there is great potential for tourism to create cultural exchange between visitors and residents, as well as income sources and alternatives to resource depletion for people continue to practice traditional ways of living. She is excited to be working on this partnership with Adventure Canada to showcase Inuit culture in Parks Canada sites across the north in celebration of Canada's sesquicentennial! Kathleen Winter's first collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Published in Canada in 2010, Annabel (her first novel), was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Winter was born in the industrial northeast of England. She began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. A long-time resident of St. John's, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal with her husband and daughters. Her most recent work, a memoir entitled: Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (2014), was inspired by and partially written aboard an Adventure Canada expedition through the Northwest Passage. In September 2017, Ken McGoogan will publish Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. He is the author of four previous bestsellers about Arctic exploration: Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin’s Revenge, and Race to the Polar Sea. Ken has won the Pierre Berton Award for History, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. His other books include Celtic Lightning, 50 Canadians Who Changed the World, and How the Scots Invented Canada. Before turning mainly to books, Ken worked as a journalist for two decades (Toronto Star, Montreal Star, Calgary Herald). He has served as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission and is a fellow of the Explorers’ Club and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Ken teaches Creative Nonfiction at University of Toronto (where he won an award for teaching excellence) and in the MFA program at University of King’s College in Halifax. Ken makes a cameo appearance in Passage, a feature-length docudrama based on his book Fatal Passage. He travels with his artist wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan, whose photos appear in his books and articles. Kenneth Lister is a curator of anthropology at the Royal Ontario Museum and 2013 will be his fourth trip with Adventure Canada. His areas of research include archaeological fieldwork in northern Ontario and ethnographic research among the northern Ontario Cree and the Inuit of Baffin Island. Beginning in 2006 he travelled along the fur trade canoe routes of northern Ontario searching for landscape sites sketched by Canadian artist, Paul Kane (1810-1871), during the mid 19th century. This work culminated in the discovery and subsequent excavation of the eastern end of the French Portage in Quetico Provincial Park. Based upon his Arctic research, Kenneth curated the exhibit In the Time of the Kayak: Hunting in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (1994-1996). He curated the exhibition Tuugaaq: Ivory Sculptures from the Eastern Canadian Arctic (2002-2003) and this work is now featured in the Virtual Museum Website, Tuugaaq| Ivory| Ivoire. He has curated three exhibitions devoted to the art of Paul Kane: Wilderness to Studio: the Work of Paul Kane (1984); Wilderness to Studio: Four Views of Paul Kane (1998-99); and Paul Kane: Land Study, Studio View (2000-01). Kenneth is Curatorial Coordinator for the ROM’s Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples that opened in 2005 and his most recent exhibition and catalogue was Canada Collects: Treasures from Across the Nation (2007-2008). In 2010 he published the award-winning book, Paul Kane /the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio, that is based upon the ROM’s Paul Kane collection. Kevin Major has published 16 books, ranging from novels to non-fiction, from poetry and plays to works for young people. He has won numerous awards, including a Governor General’s Award for his first book (soon to be a film), Hold Fast. The best-selling As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador traces the story of his homeland from continental drift to modern political upheaval. His novel (and long-running stage play) No Man’s Land tells a tragic tale of the Newfoundland Regiment in WWI. His most recent novel New Under the Sun, dealing with the myriad of cultures to inhabit southern Labrador and the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, promises to be one of his most acclaimed works yet. All that and he writes a wine blog, too. Kim grew up in Mississauga and spent her childhood summers adventuring in the North Channel of Lake Huron. She spent many years guiding canoe trips into Hudson Bay, northern Ontario, and Algonquin Park. After completing a degree in kinesiology, Kim embarked on a cycling trip from Vancouver to San Diego along the Pacific Coast Highway. She then continued south to spend three months in Nicaragua, learning Spanish, hiking volcanoes, surfing, and practicing yoga. She returned to Ontario and attended school to become a Registered Massage Therapist. Kim currently works as an RMT and focuses on Active Release Techniques (ART), sports injury, and rehabilitation. Kristian Bogner is a third-generation professional photographer, and a speaker and ambassador for Nikon Canada, Broncolor, Lowepro, and Manfrotto. His work has received numerous awards including three-time Commercial Photographer of the Year for Canada with the Professional Photographers of Canada Association, and 2015 Master Photographers International's Commercial Photographer of the Year. Kristian’s abilities take him from shooting the Olympics and extreme sports to fashion, architecture, aircraft, landscapes, and expeditions across the globe. See more of his work at www.kristianbogner.com. Latonia has a PhD in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Arctic archaeology. Her exploration of this topic has taken her to the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Scandinavia. For the last twenty years she has conducted excavations at her research project on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, where she has reconstructed five thousand years of Indigenous and European history. She is the President of AARA Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to Arctic and sub-Arctic studies. Latonia is also an award-winning filmmaker, specializing in both documentaries and narrative films. Works created by her company, LJH Films, have been seen in over thirty countries. For her community efforts, field contributions, and for preserving and promoting Arctic and sub-Arctic culture, she recently received Canada’s Outstanding Young Person Award, Hospitality NL’s Cruise Vision Award, and was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. For her artistic work, she was named NL Arts Council Emerging Artist of the Year in 2015. She has worked with Adventure Canada since 2005, and currently lives in St. Laura is a professional guide and has spent her life adventuring in remote mountain and water landscapes around the globe. She spent her early years on the rugged west coast of Canada, before moving to BC’s Columbia Mountains where climbing, skiing, paddling, and sailing were inherent parts of her family life. From a young age she was fascinated with the natural world: the changing influences of weather and climate, and the interactions of the peoples within it. Laura is an educator at heart, and her key focus is on creating a better future for our planet. Alongside her international guiding career she has taught in the fields of environmental sciences, outdoor recreation, and fish and wildlife,; she has held senior leadership roles in the international adventure recreation sector, and now works as a consultant in innovation and service design. Laura is a professional member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides and the Canadian Avalanche Association, and has a Masters Degree in Leadership and Learning. Laura has been working with Adventure Canada for three years. Initially, she worked aboard the ship as the massage therapist—but quickly fell in love with the logistical side of the AC operation. Laura thrives in fast-paced environments and loves bringing people together through community and education. She is a firm believer in the work AC does, and delights in helping create experiences through a commitment to education, adventure, and play. She loves being outdoors and exploring the natural world in the company of likeminded souls. Laura is passionate about food, wilderness, socio-community development, and yoga. She lives in Guelph, where she practices yoga regularly, tends to her garden, and keeps backyard chickens. Laurie’s attachment to Canada’s North began in 1989 with a canoe trip through the central barrenlands Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. This northern exposure led to Laurie’s becoming an Arctic canoeing enthusiast and, indirectly, to switching careers from corporate lawyer in New York City to legal counsel for Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, the non-profit organization which represents the Inuit of Nunavut. Since 1994, Laurie’s work at NTI has encompassed a wide range of issues as she represents the Inuit at the international, federal, territorial and local levels. Laurie and David lived in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, from 1995 to 2002, and are now resident in Ottawa, but continue to travel regularly in the North. Leander is a Labrador Inuit hailing from the beautiful central Labrador community of North West River. He loves to spend a great deal of time in the outdoors of Labrador with family and friends He has spent many years as a community volunteer and worked in the fields resource management, economic development and as a musician with traditional Labrador recording artists, The Flummies. He spent many years as a music festival organizer of the renowned North West River Beach Festival, did a stint in International marketing of Labradorite stone found at Ten Mile Bay, Nunatsiavut. He is a manager for his own family business, and is proud to be one of the few graduates of the Labrador Institute of Northern Studies. Lena grew up in Makkovik, NL. She spent her summers during childhood fishing in Island Harbour with her father’s family, the McNeill clan, who also fished with Bob Bartlett’s family. Lena is an archaeologist, the first Labrador Inuk to obtain this title. She also held the position of Chief Archaeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government. Through her knowledge and experience working in coastal Labrador, she has strengthened her interest in her own culture, which includes preserving her Inuit language. Lena is also a descendent of the Hebron and Nutak relocations that took place is 1957-59. She shares her culture through storytelling, crafts, singing, Inuit drum dancing and throat singing. Lena still enjoys hunting and fishing when she can and is the mother to two rambunctious boys and her little sister. Known as “Survivorman”, Les Stroud has been nominated for 24 Canadian Screen Awards, winning two for best documentary writer and one for best camera. He’s the only television producer in history to write, film, produce, direct and star in an internationally broadcast TV series entirely alone. He’s a celebrated keynote speaker, award winning and best selling author, songwriter and musician, environmental activist and outdoor adventurer. His mission from day one, has been to teach wilderness skills and celebrate nature and the earth through his filmmaking and his music. Known as the “Hendrix of Harmonica” he’s been described by Jonny Lang and Alice Cooper as “One of the best harmonica players in the world'. His TV series Survivorman, is shown in over 100 countries and now his music is following the same path. In 2017 Les will release two new albums as well as launch his on channel; SMTV smtvnetwork.com •. Lisa Moore is the winner of the 2013 Canada Reads competition, for her novel February. She has edited The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Short Fiction by Women, and co-edited (along with Dede Crane) Great Expectations: 24 True Stories about Birth by Canadian Authors. She has recently adapted February for the stage. Her new novel Caught is scheduled for publication in June 2013. Open and Alligator were shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian and Caribbean Region, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. February and Open were short-listed for the Winterset Award, and February was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Lisa's work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Dutch and German. She has written for Chatelaine, Elle Magazine, The Walrus and the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post and Canadian Art. She has also written for radio and television. She has taught at the University of British Columbia’s online Master Program in Creative Writing, and several workshops in Banff and at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Lisa Rankin is a Professor of Archaeology at Memorial University, and President of the Canadian Archaeological Association. She has been involved with excavations across Canada, the US, and South America. For the last fifteen years, her work has focused on coastal Labrador—where she studies the history of the Paleoeskimo and Inuit people. She is currently part of a research team partnered with the Inuit of Nunatsiavut on a project called Tradition and Transition among the Labrador Inuit. Her role is to understand the Inuit colonization and cultural florescence along that beautiful coastline. Lizanne Henderson is a cultural historian and tourism lecturer at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow. She has been working (and singing) on expedition ships around the UK, Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway, and Svalbard since 1995. Lizanne has appeared on TV and radio discussing topics such as the British slave trade and the Scottish witch-hunts, and has published and edited several books and articles on supernatural belief systems, the witch-hunts, ballads, slavery, polar exploration, and critical animal studies. Her most recent monograph is Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 (Palgrave, 2016). Lizanne was Visiting International Scholar at the University of Melbourne in 2014, and is Editor of the journal Review of Scottish Culture. She is currently working on a multi-disciplinary project called Picturing Polar Bears, a study into the cultural history, artistic depictions, and semiotic uses of the arctic’s most iconic animal. Join Lizanne on the following adventures: •. Loretta joined Adventure Canada in 2006 and has enjoyed working in Client Services where she has an opportunity to assist and correspond with our many wonderful passengers. Adventure Canada has allowed Loretta to travel to many areas in which she has always had an interest: the Canadian Arctic—including the Northwest Passage—Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Loretta enjoys travel and takes great pleasure in helping our guests experience our vast and beautiful country as well as other amazing destinations. Loretta lives in Port Credit, where Adventure Canada is located, and is enjoys walking or biking to work every day. Louie Kamookak is an Inuit historian and educator whose research into Inuit oral history has been crucial in unlocking the secrets of the lost Franklin Expedition, including the whereabouts of Franklin's ship, the Erebus. For the past four decades, Louie has dedicated his time and energy to collecting his elders' oral history, traditional place names, the history of Inuit groups before the arrival of Europeans, and studying the journals of the explorers who came to his people's land in search of clues regarding the fate the lost expedition. This work has been his part, his contribution to solving the Franklin puzzle. Lynda was born in Nunavut, her mother’s family originates from Pangnirtung, and her father is of Scottish descent. Upon graduating from Trent University with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Native Studies and Psychology, she moved to the nation’s capital. In Ottawa, home to the largest southern Inuit community, Lynda and her husband Rob Nicholson, raise their three young children. Lynda loves her work with the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre and is very involved with her community. She volunteers her time, primarily focussing on Inuit women and children and affordable housing. She is the President of Inuit Non-Profit Housing Incorporation, and has been serving on this board for 6 years. She participated in the 2008 Governor General Leadership Conference. Lynda is a traditional throat singer and drummer, and shares her cultural knowledge through demonstrations, information sessions and workshops. She performs locally, nationally and internationally. Lynn Moorman is a Professor of Geography at Mount Royal University (Calgary, AB) in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. She conducts research on spatial thinking and teaches about landscapes, spatial analysis, and geotechnologies—including earth observation, GPS, and mapping (Digital Earth and GIS). Lynn serves as a Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the post-secondary representative for Canadian Geographic Education, and a Task Force member of the International GeoOlympiad, working to improve geoliteracy and geographic teaching and learning in Canada and internationally. Lynn’s love of geography and geomorphology has been the catalyst for her global travels and work opportunities. Her field work experience encompasses a wide range of topics and regions, from interpreting glaciated landscapes in the Arctic, to investigating erosion on the hills in northern Vietnam. She loves to explore, both on foot and through the eyes of technology, and can think of no better way of learning about these coastal environments than being out there in a Zodiac! Marc is Senior Research Scientist and Head of Regional Geology at the Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada. He has led multiple geological projects in remote parts of the world, from the Coppermine River area in the Northwest Territories (where he and colleagues discovered the oldest rocks in the world) to Banks Island, the Keewatin, northern Quebec, southern and central Baffin Island, western Greenland, Scotland, the Himalaya of Pakistan, India and Nepal, and the Tibetan Plateau in China. Marc was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in 2004 and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2010. His passion for and knowledge of Arctic geology served as inspiration for a recent short story by Margaret Atwood (“Stone Mattress”), and his innovative work led to the publication of the “Geological Map of the Arctic” in 2011, the “Tectonic Map of Arctic Canada” in 2015, and the GSC’s first-ever geological maps in Inuktitut, also in 2015. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her latest book of short stories is Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her MaddAddam trilogy—the Giller and Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013)—is currently being adapted for HBO. The Door is her latest volume of poetry (2007). Her most recent non-fiction books are Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) and In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011). Her novels include The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; and The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, The Handmaid’s Tale—coming soon as a TV series with MGM and Hulu—and The Penelopiad. Her new novel, The Heart Goes Last, was published in September 2015. Forthcoming in 2016 are Hag-Seed, a novel revisitation of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, for the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, and Angel Catbird—with a cat-bird superhero—a graphic novel with co-creator Johnnie Christmas. (Dark Horse.) Margaret lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Maria was born in Nain, but raised on the land with five brothers, four sisters and a large extended family. She never attended school while growing up but graduated as an adult through Adult Basic Education, and has since obtained two diplomas in Social Work and Heavy Equipment. Maria has worked with a number of organizations as an instructor of traditional and cultural values. She has held workshops on cleaning and preparing sealskins, sewing of traditional clothing and crafts, and the Inuktitut language. She is now employed as a polar bear monitor in the Torngat Mountains National Park and loves experiencing all of what life has to offer—especially out on the land. Mariela was born in Ushuaia before it was even part of a Province. Lucky enough to live through the process of becoming “Tierra del Fuego”, she studied and heard about the Southernmost continent with the will of, one day, getting to discover it. Raised far away from the city, out in the central valley of the South Andes range, Mariela couldn't avoid practicing all kind of winter sports. Nordic skiing, Splitboarding, Biathlon, Skijoring, Mushing and Ice skating are her passions. She has participated in Biathlon World championships and also took part in several international competitions, giving her the opportunity to travel around the world. During summers, she likes to do all kind of outdoor activities including camping in the mountains, hiking, paddling and climbing. Mariela spends winters in Ushuaia where she works in a Snowpark teaching alpine skiing and snowboarding. She also guides snowmobile excursions through the forests of Tierra del Fuego and takes groups on snowshoeing expeditions and cross country skiing adventures. When she comes back home, she likes to sing, dance and read about the first adventurers coming to the Southernmost region of the planet. This is Mariela’s fourth Antarctic Season and she’s excited to be back! She looks forward to sharing in the amazing landscapes and wildlife of Antarctica with you. Mark Mallory is a Canada Research Chair in Coastal Wetland Ecosystems at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, where he studies coastlines in the Canadian Maritimes and Arctic. However, from 1999-2011, he lived in Iqaluit, Nunavut, with his wife Carolyn and three children (Conor, Jessamyn, and Olivia), where he was a government biologist studying seabirds, particularly the effects of climate change and pollution on their biology. Most of Mark’s northern work takes him to the High Arctic, where there are few mosquitoes, little warmth, and lots of pesky polar bears. He has written over two hundred scientific papers, as well as the book Common Birds of Nunavut, and co-edited a book on climate change in Hudson Bay called A Little Less Arctic. His research led to the creation of two new national wildlife areas on eastern Baffin Island, and the uplisting of ivory gulls to Endangered status in 2009. Mark is one of three Canadian members on the international committee that forms joint management recommendations for Arctic seabirds, and in 2014 he was appointed to the Royal Society of Canada — College of New Artists, Scholars and Scientists. After receiving his doctorate in wildlife and fisheries from Texas A&M University, Mark worked as an assistant professor of biology at Angelo State University for six years. He joined the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in 1988 as Assistant Curator of Mammals and held a variety of curatorial positions over the next twenty-seven years before becoming Deputy Director of Collections and Research in 2003. In 2014, he led a team from the ROM to Newfoundland to salvage two blue whale carcasses that washed ashore. He is also a professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He dreams of building the largest and most comprehensive research collection of whales in the world. After graduating from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Arts degree in Pictorial/Documentary History, Mark Edward Harris started his professional photography career doing the stills for the Merv Griffin Show. When the show ended in 1986, he set off on a four-month trek across the Pacific and throughout Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. The images created on that trip brought attention to his travel/documentary photography. He since has visited and photographed in ninety-six countries. His editorial work has appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, LIFE, GEO, Conde Nast Traveler, The LA Times Sunday Magazine, and The London Sunday Times Travel Magazine as well as all the major photography and in-flight magazines. The award-winning photographer’s books include Faces of the Twentieth Century: Master Photographers and Their Work, The Way of the Japanese Bath, Wanderlust, North Korea, South Korea, Inside Iran, and The Travel Photo Essay: Describing a Journey Through Images. Born in southern Ontario, Marshall grazed on a rich fix of music—from the country sounds of his preacher dad who taught him to play ‘The Farmer’s Song’ on guitar, to his mum who played piano in the evenings to his four sisters and two brothers, and through his own musical discoveries from John Denver to Michael Jackson. Playing his first solo gig at age fifteen for thirty-five bucks and a plate of cheesecake, Marshall tried working in a band before eventually taking fate in to his own hands in 2008, heading down to Nashville for a master class in composing country songs. He quickly got to know the country music capital’s songwriters and music publishers. Within nine months, he had gathered a repertoire of exciting new tunes. After submitting a song to a local songwriting competition, he won the prize: opening for Emerson Drive. His appearance bagged him a deal with The Agency Group, opening for Alan Jackson in 2010, a tour in early 2011 and then a nomination to represent the New Artist Showcase at the 2011 CCMA’s. Playing in bars and clubs as a solo singer and with a touring band has given him his fair share of stories and insights—great for writing songs. But when it comes to cooking up a tune, Marshall admits that his parents’ spiritual upbringing permeates his writing, with themes of love, home, and kindness appearing throughout. Martha Flaherty belongs to one of the families that were relocated from Inukjuuaq, Nunavik to Grise Fiord, Nunavut on Ellesmere Island in the 1950s. Growing up traditionally in a family that was closely connected to the land, Martha learned to sew, prepare food, and hunt at an early age. She also attended English schools in Carcross, Yukon and Churchill, Manitoba—and eventually went on to attend Thebacha College in Forth Smith, NWT, for Nursing. Martha also attended Carleton University in Ottawa for certification in Teaching a Foreign Language and Journalism. Because of her excellent leadership, communication and interpretation skills, Martha has held many paying and honorary positions across Canada and internationally as an Indigenous women’s leader and advocate as well as a long-time professional translator-interpretor. Martha’s passion for both learning and teaching Inuktitut, and for brokering reconciliation between Inuit, Qallunaat, and First Nations peoples in particular, make her teaching entertaining as well as informative. Inspired by her great grandfather, Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, Martha co-wrote and produced her own film Martha of the North documenting her re-location experience. She also has worked with the National Film Board producing a series of Inuit culture vignettes. Earlier in her career, she was a host of her own TV show titled Tuqavut, a talk show with special guests discussing various Inuit subjects. She is also an avid craftsperson who likes to sew clothes, beadwork, drawing, and some painting. Martha is a former President of Pauktuutit, the Inuit Women’s Association of Canada as well as an Executive member of ITK. She has travelled extensively throughout her career and has met many dignitaries including Desmond Tuutu, Prince Charles, and the former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau. Martha has three children and several grandchildren and makes her home in Ottawa. Born in Halifax, Martin moved to North Vancouver at the age of nine. Growing up, Martin was very active and played many different sports, with a focus on water polo and long-distance open-water swimming. After completing a double major at the University in Victoria, Martin travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Central/South America. His passion for adventure and experiencing new things keeps him constantly exploring and learning. He has a keen eye for photography and a passion for physical fitness. Martin is part of the Business Development team in the office and is the Assistant Cruise Director aboard the Ocean Endeavour. In his spare time, Martin can be found practicing yoga or brewing beer. With an eye on the future, Matthew Swan’s parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1959 and, to their son’s good fortune, they decided to bring Matthew with them. Matthew has recognized opportunities that present themselves ever since that big move. He graduated with a degree in English from the University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland, a degree he started in Windsor, Ontario but opted for the opportunity to travel and learn simultaneously. Matthew returned to Canada and worked as a print and photojournalist in Ontario and British Columbia. He encountered the outdoor training and adventure field while undertaking an outdoor instructor’s apprenticeship program at Strathcona Park Lodge on Vancouver Island. Returning east, Matthew shifted focus and worked in the emerging white water rafting industry on the Ottawa River. Strathcona and the Ottawa were the catalysts for Adventure Canada, created in 1987 with his brother Bill and friend David Freeze. Matthew considers himself to have one of the best jobs in Canada. Researching and delivering travel programs has taken him to some of the most beautiful parts of the country, an experience he describes as having an “elemental effect” on his view of Canada. He developed many programs in the Arctic that continue to be the company’s most successful destination. Matthew and his three children, Cedar, Alana and Matthew James and grand-daughter Leah, live in a remote, wilderness part of Mississauga, but very near the airport. Mathew has worked around the world as a photographer and cinematographer in a range of areas, including advertising, news, documentaries, and motion pictures. Mathew became enamored with the world's wild places from an early age. It was this love of out-of-the way places that led him to pick up a camera and share his experiences. Those early motives morphed into a love a photography itself, and a career in telling stories with light. Things have gone full circle, with photography calling Mathew back to the mountains where he started. When he's not working on expeditions as a photography coach or shooting documentaries, Mathew works as a newspaper photographer, and in film and television. When he takes a break from cameras, he heads back to the wilderness anyway, climbing, surfing, fly fishing or mountain biking. Matthew was exposed to travel at a very young age through his father’s work as an aircraft mechanic; this instilled a desire to experience new places and cultures within him. With an educational background in travel and tourism, Matthew brings industry knowledge as well as travel experience to twenty-eight countries to the table. His favourite destination is South Africa, although he has also lived in the Yukon Territory in Canada’s north. While living in the Yukon, Matthew was exposed to native spirituality and culture, and ever since then he has strived to broaden his horizons and learn more about Canada’s many great peoples. Matthew looks forward to welcoming you on your next expedition with Adventure Canada! Matthew James is inspired by his loving family and friends to journey into the unknown parts of the world. Born and raised in southern Ontario, MJ was immediately introduced to an adventurous lifestyle by a family of avid explorers. He loves the outdoors and has been infatuated with all things wild from a young age. He first travelled to the Arctic at the age of two—an experience that ignited his love for the North. MJ travels widely to understand diverse cultures, connect with people, and nurture his love for the natural world. With over fifty Arctic expeditions under his belt, MJ is highly experienced in all aspects of expedition cruising. Whether in the role of Expedition Leader, host, or Zodiac driver, he is dedicated to sharing experiences and leading the charge. Meagan grew up near the beach on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and enjoys spending her time exploring the many wonders that the island’s lifestyle has to offer. When she is not camping, hiking, or exploring, you can usually find her practicing yoga, planning her next world adventure, or cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Most importantly, Meagan sees herself as a student of life, and believes that each encounter and experience provides an opportunity for learning. Her massage practice focuses on guiding her clients to their optimal state of healing by relaxing the mind and nourishing the body. Meagan is a Registered Massage Therapist based out of Victoria, BC. Michael was born in Buchans, a mining town in central Newfoundland. He attended Memorial University in St. John’s and two years of graduate studies at Queen’s University before dropping out to concentrate on his writing. His first book, Arguments with Gravity, appeared in 1996. Since then he has published half a dozen others, including Hard Light and Salvage, Flesh and Blood and three novels. His first novel, River Thieves, was published internationally and appeared on half a dozen award shortlists, including the Giller Prize. The Wreckage, published in 2005, was a national best-seller, short-listed for the Rogers’ Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize and long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award. His latest novel, Galore, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Canadian Authors’ Association Fiction Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award. His work has appeared in The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories and in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. After fourteen years in Kingston, Ontario he came home to Newfoundland for good in 2000. He lives in St. John’s with his wife and three children. Michelle Valberg is a Canadian Nikon Ambassador and Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence. For over twenty-eight years, Michelle has photographed people, landscapes, and wildlife all over the world with the intention of regenerating simple beauty into a deeper reflection of humanity. Valberg’s portrayals aim to draw viewers toward inner contemplation, based on the idea that building awareness and educating others through nature photography can inspire people to be better stewards of the natural world. By developing a deeper understanding of the connections between people, animals, and the environment, she believes that she can motivate others to take action in their local communities and beyond. She is an author of four books including Arctic Kaleidoscope:The People, Wildlife and Ever-Changing Landscapes and a children’s book called Ben and Nuki Discover Polar Bears. Michelle co-founded Project North, a not-for-profit organization that has delivered, to date, over $750,000 of sporting equipment to twenty-four Inuit communities in Canada’s north •. Michelle was born in Goderich, Ontario. Although she loves the feel of small-town living, her affection for travel began at a young age when she travelled to England with her Gran. She has since lived in Chatham, London, Toronto, and Vancouver—where her love for the ocean led her to expanding her horizons through employment in the cruise industry. Michelle has traveled the globe on ocean voyages ranging from seven to 114 days in length, with itineraries that included over forty countries around the world. Employed in a variety of positions on board, she comes to Adventure Canada as a certified human resources professional with a passion for operations and customer experience. Michelle is thrilled to join Adventure Canada and looks forward to balancing her passion for sailing the ocean with land life. She lives in Toronto with her partner Ronnie and their Siberian cat Mykonos. Mick is an adventurer, lawyer, and economist who helps organizations make better environmental decisions. He has consulted on marine protected area policies, critiqued oil spill response plans, audited endangered species recovery strategies, and delivered seminars on marine plastics and the effects of tidal electricity generation on marine life. Rock and ice climbing has taken him to dozens of countries around the world and he shares his passion for human-powered, sustainable recreation in wild places by serving on the Executive of Climb Nova Scotia since 2008. An all-weather cycle commuter and lover of type-two fun, Mick has circumnavigated Iceland by bicycle and enjoys paddling expeditions in both fresh and salt water. Mike is a Toronto native who grew up running through the woods of Algonquin Park and Temagami with a canoe on his head. In the past, he worked for House of Anansi Press and as a member of the editorial team at The Walrus magazine; now, as Adventure Canada’s marketing coordinator and copy writer, he is bringing together his passion for words with his reverence for the wilderness. On expeditions, Mike drives Zodiacs, maintains ships’ log, performs, provides AV support, and generally carries on. In the office, Mike handles a wide variety of marketing tasks including copywriting for ads and promotional materials, social media and brand strategy, trade show coordination, and editorial support across a wide range of platforms. If you've read AC material, you've read Mike. Mike holds undergraduate and masters degrees in literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived in Scotland for five years while studying; he has travelled extensively throughout Europe by train and on foot. An avid reader and writer, Mike also enjoys gaming and playing guitar, bass, and harmonica—and has also been told on occasion that he is an excellent cook. When not working his dream job at AC, Mike can be found running, performing with his band, listening to vinyl, and downhill skiing. He needs almost no excuse to go camping and led a fifty-day canoe trip in 2013. He is a proud dog-owner. Mike Beedell is a conservation photographer, wilderness guide and outdoor educator. He is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society & he has a Social Sciences degree from the University of Ottawa. His photographic work has been published & exhibited extensively worldwide. Mike Beedell has had major features in National Geographic, Geo, Equinox & Canadian Geographic. Mike has been involved in raising international awareness of many conservation projects in Canada. These include the expansion of Nahanni National Park, protecting the Tatshenshini river and protecting the Spirit Bear and its habitat on the British Columbia coast. He is the author of the Canadian bestseller, The Magnetic North. To see Mike’s photographic work & projects go to www.mikebeedellphoto.ca •. Polk (BA, honors) Radcliffe College, Harvard University, has lectured in more than 150 schools, universities, and public affairs organizations. She co-founded and was executive director of Wings WorldQuest, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting women at the leading edge of science, exploration, and discovery. She also founded and directed programs for the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian. She was Vice-Chair of the Conference on Affordable World Security (Newseum 2012) and is currently curator of the World Exploration Summit. Her honours include: the Capt. J-E Bernier Medal, Royal Canadian Geographic Society (2015), the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award (2011), the Alumnae of the Year, Madeira School (2011), and the Environmental Leadership Award, Unity College. She is the author of Women of Discovery, (Library Journal award Best Books of 2001 and School Library Journal, Best Books of 2002) and Egyptian Mummies (Margaret A. Edwards Award best books of 1998). Munju got her Parks Canada start in her home province of Nova Scotia, as a naturalist in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. She has since worked for Fundy, St. Lawrence Islands, Gros Morne, and Auyuittuq National Parks, interpreting everything from the sex lives of barnacles to the story of plate tectonics. She has a BSc in Biology and a Masters in Conservation. When not working with Parks Canada, Munju runs a tourism and interpretation consultancy, working with communities to create memorable visitor experiences. This has led her to projects in Albania, Costa Rica, Antigua, and Atlantic Canada—and into subjects ranging from the conservation of Siberian tigers to the art of sock-knitting in rural Newfoundland. She has a knack for finding the story in everything and is often asked by colleagues to help get a story front and centre and hone its appeal to a specific audience. She is also an award-winning writer. Munju loves boats and is at her happiest in, on, or around the ocean. She is delighted to be back in Nunavut, coordinating the new partnership between Parks Canada and Adventure Canada. Myna grew up on the land in an outpost camp outside Pangnirtung; her early life was shaped by a traditional upbringing with her family, who used qulliqs for heat, light, and cooking. Myna is currently an Inuktitut instructor at the Pirurvik Centre in Iqaluit. She has previously worked at the Nunavut Arctic College; at the Department of Culture, Language, Elders, and Youth (CLEY); and the Nunavut Department of Justice. As a filmmaker, Myna brings her traditional background to bear on production and broadcasting projects with Tajarniit Productions; she is a co-owner of the company. She holds diplomas in Inuit Studies and Social Work from Nunavut Arctic college, and her most recent film project—Qipisa, an award-winning documentary about her life growing up on the land—was given special recognition at the Festival Presence autochtone in Montreal. Myna hosts a number of television shows for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. Nate has been guiding people on trips throughout the world for the better part of the past decade. His exploration and desire to share the remote wonders of the world has brought him from the wild shores of Lake Superior in Canada to isolated islands in the Antarctic and Arctic. For the past few years he has been immersed in the polar world. He makes his annual migration between Antarctica and the Arctic, following the arctic terns around the world every year. Having done nearly 70 trips (and still counting) in the Polar Regions, he is always grateful to be discovering the last vast wildernesses left on this planet and is passionate to share the experience with you. He is enthusiastic about all sorts of wildlife, though is convinced that he has close relatives that are whales, and his third cousin happens to be in the auk family. When he’s not gallivanting near the poles, you will probably find him wandering the warmer climes of the planet (15 Celsius being plenty warm), seeking out more adventures and playing with light in photography. Neil Burgess has shared his love of the ocean as an instructor of sea kayaking, scuba diving and shipwreck archaeology for years in Newfoundland & Labrador. His interest in shipwrecks has involved him in research and underwater surveys of the wrecks of whaling ships, fishing schooners and World War II ships sunk by U-boats. The tragic stories associated with these shipwrecks are as interesting as diving on the wrecks themselves. Neil is incredibly excited to be part of the first public visit to the wreck of HMS Erebus. Neil works as a biologist studying the effects of pollution on wildlife in Atlantic Canada. His scientific work has documented impacts of pesticides on songbirds, PCBs on Arctic seabirds, and mercury on loons and eagles. His research has supported the clean-up of contaminated sites across Atlantic Canada and in the Arctic. Neil also volunteers his time as a scientific diver with the Petty Harbour Mini Aquarium in Newfoundland. Noah Richler is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Toronto and Nova Scotia. He is the author of This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, which won the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, was nominated for the 2006 Nereus Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize and chosen as a ‘Best Book’ by the Globe and Mail, the National Post and Amazon.ca, and as one of Canada’s Top Ten Books of the Decade by Macleans.ca. He is a regular contributor to the Op-Ed and cultural pages of the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post, and to The Walrus and Maclean’s. He is the winner of two gold National Magazine Awards. His latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About War was nominated for a 2012 Governor-General’s Literary Award for non-fiction and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize. Born in Bariloche, North Argentinean Patagonia, Pablo was introduced to the outdoors and tourism as a small child. He moved to Ushuaia in 1996 and shortly after made his way into Expedition Cruising as an Assistant Expedition Leader. Pablo has done over 140 trips to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, Falklands, Ross Sea and other locations around the Southern Ocean, and has worn all the different hats: Zodiac Driver, Logistics, Camp Master, Lecturer, Expedition Leader, Assistant Expedition Leader, and Kayak Operations. In 2010, Pablo organized and led the Four Desserts marathon on board the Antarctic Dream. He enjoys glacier hikes, snowshoeing, skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing and wakeboarding. After taking the last boat up on the hook, he likes to play the guitar and sing at the bar, and has many tales to tell about the explorers and history of this remote area. Paul was born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador. As a professional geologist, he has already had a diverse career in research, mineral exploration, public service and public education. He is the former Executive Director of the Johnson GEOCENTRE, a world-class geological interpretation centre focusing on the geological evolution of Newfoundland and Labrador. In his 25 years of public service, Paul served as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Mines and Deputy Minister of Environment and Conservation. Paul is constantly engaged in exploring the links between geology, landscape and culture. He is also a story writer, a story teller and advocate for traditional music and dance. His stories have been published in the Newfoundland Quarterly and The March Hare Anthology. Paul originally hails from Alberta, where he worked as a geologist for thirty-five years before retiring to Vancouver Island. The “polar bug” first infected Paul during his undergraduate days, when he was enrolled in an obscure program called Arctic studies. Geology sidelined him but successfully managed to divert him to the Arctic Islands where he did his graduate research and studies. Much of his working career was spent north of 60 on field mapping and exploration projects for the energy industry. Between his initiation into the polar regions and his retirement, Paul had the opportunity to trundle over much terrain and landscapes under the auspices of working as a field geologist. His first attempt at retirement allowed him to take a much-desired posting in the Antarctic in 2009/2010—a mere twenty-six years after his initial attempt to see the south. Current retirement has allowed the luxury of being re-infected by the polar lust and the opportunity to share this interest in the polar landscapes with the clients of Adventure Canada. Born in Worksop, England, Pete earned an honours degree in Zoology from Edinburgh University and went on to complete his doctorate in marine ornithology at Oxford University in 1986. He spent 12 years in Shetland, including a post as Assistant Warden for three years at the world famous Fair Isle Bird Observatory. His introduction to applied conservation was provided during six years working for the UK government as Nature Conservancy Council officer for Shetland. In 1990, he moved to Canada and worked until 1996 on the Great Lakes wildlife toxicology programs of the federal government’s Canadian Wildlife Service, documenting levels and impacts of toxic pollutants on wildlife at the top of aquatic foodwebs. He joined WWF-Canada, as Director of Canada’s Endangered Species Program in 1996 and then built and directed WWF’s Arctic conservation work from 2000 – 2006, focusing heavily on shifting the industrial development paradigm to one that provides adequately for conservation of intact ecosystems, and ecological and cultural diversity, while the opportunity still remains. Pete now leads WWF’s species conservation work in Canada, focusing on flagship species such as polar bear, whales, monarchs and other priority regional wildlife, in these times of unprecedented ecosystem change. Peyton Barrett has been a Fiber Artist for over 40 years with metal arts joining her repertoire in 1995 to create visual landscapes used in wall art or jewellery. Her art is often a combination of fabric, paint, metals, bone and clay. Her work has shown in several Centers for the Arts in Newfoundland and Labrador, Quilt Canada exhibit in Waterloo, Mealy Mountain Gallery, Cartwright, and in private collections internationally. One of her larger pieces was purchased for the Winter Games VIP Lodge in Whistler, BC. A graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Arts and Education and Small Business Counsel or Certification from the Canadian Institute of Small Business Counselors Inc., she spent 23 years as the Craft Consultant with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador but in 2010 retired from the Government job to devote her time to her passions; family, art and kayak guiding with Experience Labrador. Being nomadic like her Innu ancestors she roams between Labrador and Newfoundland and works from any of the three studios her husband George has created for her; Sandy Point in Newfoundland; Cartwright and the more recent addition in Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Labrador. Peter Croal is a geologist and has been working in the field of International development for over 32 years. He focuses on the relationship between environmental resources and improving the lives of the poor in developing countries. Of particular interest to Peter is how climate change is affecting developing countries, and how the knowledge of indigenous peoples can be better used and respected by business and governments to solve development challenges. His work has taken him to over 40 developing countries, which has provided him with a wide range of poverty/environment issues. Peter and his family had the wonderful opportunity of living in Namibia for 2 years to develop and manage a project that would help the poor of southern African countries. Peter started his career prospecting for uranium, zinc, silver, petroleum, peat and groundwater in Canada. Peter also spent 15 years as a wilderness canoe guide for Nature Ontario. In his spare time, Peter enjoys photography, cultural and adventure travel, organic gardening, fiddle playing and participating on boards of several not-for-profit development organizations. Peter is enthusiastic about meeting new friends on this Adventure Canada voyage and engaging in a wide range of conversations concerning the Arctic and its future. Since 1978—after emigrating from Liverpool and returning to Ottawa,where he grew up in the 1950s—Phil Jenkins has worked as a newspaper columnist, travel writer, author, and a performing songwriter across Canada. He has been a freelance columnist for the Ottawa Citizen since 1991 and writes for magazines, including National Geographic Traveller, Equinox, Wedding Bells, Canadian Geographic, Ottawa Magazine, Toronto Life. He has written books about the Canadian landscape including the non-fiction bestsellers Fields of Vision, An Acre of Time, River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence, and Beneath My Feet: The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson. He has sailed the length of the St. Lawrence in a tall ship, and from Kingston to Chicago in the same vessel the following year. Phil teaches and lectures in writing, the Canadian landscape, and Ottawa history at Carleton University. As a solo musician and member of the band Riverbend, he has produced the albums Car Tunes and Making Waves. He lives in a straw bale house in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec on the Gatineau River, where he swims or snowshoes daily, depending on the temperature. Phil sailed with Adventure Canada on the High Arctic Adventure in August of 2009, where he became a member of the Polar Club by swimming—though not very far—at 80 degrees north. Phil Fontaine is a Special Advisor of the Royal Bank of Canada. Fontaine served as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for an unprecedented three terms. He is a Member of Order of Manitoba and has received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Equitas Human Rights Education Award, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Ottawa, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and most recently was appointed to the Order of Canada. Fontaine also holds sixteen Honorary Doctorates from Canada and the United States. As a long-time Arctic marine mammal researcher, Pierre has focused on the population biology of belugas and narwhals of the Canadian Arctic, developing recommendations for the sustainable use and conservation of their populations. He is known in Nunavut as 'Pieri, angutikutaq qilalugalerei' ('the tall man who knows about belugas and narwhals'). He is the author of a Nunavut school book on Marine Mammals of Nunavut and several French language books on whales and mammals of eastern Canada and the Arctic. Pierre likes to spend a lot of time on the ships' decks or out in a boat to spot marine mammals and birds. Join him there. Pootoogook was born in Kingait (Cape Dorset) and began carving at an early age after watching his father, Lukta. He studied as a printmaker for eight years at the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op and graduated from the Arctic College Jewellery and Metalwork program. Ancient masks are among his favourite projects, because of their genuine reflections of Inuit people and culture—he enjoys using the traditional facial tattoos as motifs in his work. Pootoogook is currently studying gold smithing at the Arctic College and lives in Iqaluit with his wife and children. During childhood, Randy learned how to play various instruments and how to conduct orchestras. At Brno University he studied engineering but quickly discovered music was the only thing he was interested in. As a One Man Band, Randy worked in German, Swiss and Austrian Spa Hotels & Alpine Ski resorts. During his off time, he developed a passion for skiing and became a certified ski instructor. Since 2006 Randy has been working aboard the finest European River Cruise vessels on Rhine, Main and Danube, entertaining his passengers with a wide repertoire of Jazz, Rock & Roll, Blues, Oldies and the Best of the Top Charts. Joining the team in 2014, Randy speaks and sings in German, English and Russian and plays the Piano, Keyboard and guitar. Ree Brennin is a zoologist focusing on marine life and conservation issues.. She attended the United Nationals International School, the University of British Columbia, Queen’s University, and McMaster University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology and a Master of Science degree in Biology. Ree has studied Rattlesnakes in the Appalachians, Snowshoe Hares in the Yukon, Song Sparrows, Crows, and Black-tailed Deer in British Columbia, Humpback and Right Whales off New England, and Beluga Whales in the Arctic. She is certified as a NAUI SCUBA instructor, and if you let her, she’ll rave non-stop about the beauty and mystery of the undersea wilderness. She has taught at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Queen’s University, and the University of Ottawa. Ree also works in the policy arena at Environment Canada in Ottawa and now the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, promoting environmental sustainability and protecting wildlife and their critical habitat. Ree lives with her sweetheart John Houston in Halifax where they are having a ton of fun helping to raise Dorset, John’s son, and collaborating on film projects. Through his passion for adventure, Rick has spent the last twenty years delivering great adventure experiences while protecting and preserving the culture, history, heritage, and nature that Newfoundland and Labrador has to offer. Rick is an instructor for PADI. He has guided many guests to explore the cold water off Newfoundland through diving on shipwrecks, around icebergs, and with marine life. His company is also the only company in Canada that swims with humpback whales. He has been able to visit most of the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador while leading expeditions. He has won many awards, the most cherished of which is the Sustainable Tourism Award for Canada. Rick has been a part of many boards in the tourism industry and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Through their passion for adventure, Rick and Debbie have spent the last twenty years delivering great adventure experiences while protecting and preserving the culture, history, heritage, and nature that Newfoundland and Labrador has to offer. Rick is an instructor for PADI, and Debbie is an assistant instructor. They have guided many guests to explore the cold water off Newfoundland through diving on shipwrecks, around icebergs, and with marine life./ They are also the only company in Canada that swims with humpback whales. They have been able to visit most of the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador while leading expeditions. They have won many awards, the most cherished of which is the Sustainable Tourism Award for Canada. Rick has been a part of many boards in the tourism industry and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Rob was born in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario. In 1992, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. A diverse and prolific artist, Rob paints in a variety of mediums and styles. His style moves with ease between oil-painted landscapes and subjects such as abandoned houses and vehicles—or on to a series featuring Inuit country food in mixed media. Additionally, Rob paints the Yardbird series—realistic portrayals of the birds in his backyard with abstracted backgrounds in acrylic paint— as well as crazy wild cartoon canvases with bright, bold acrylic colours and an emphasis on black line (often featuring “Bucketfish”, a cartoon character created at art college). A founding member of the acclaimed Canadian artist collective Drawnonward, Rob Saley has drawn his inspiration from the far reaches of Canada and abroad for the last two decades. When Rob is not working somewhere onsite, he paints out of his historic log home and studio, located in the Pretty River Valley along Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment. AOCA, RCGS Fellow •. Robert is an Inuk from Iqaluit and is currently studying History and Political Science at Carleton University. Robert has lived in, quite literally, all four corners of Canada and has experienced the west coast, the prairies, the east coast, and Ottawa. Home will always be the Arctic for Robert. He strongly believes that youth should be not only participating in the dialogue but helping also helping direct this dialogue. Robert is engaged in his community in Ottawa with organizations such as the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre and he hopes to help improve the overall quality of life for Inuit and ensure that youth in the Arctic have opportunities to have their voices heard. Robert is an archaeologist and has worked and travelled in the Arctic for the past fifty years. His research has explored the first peopling of the New World Arctic, as well as the origins and development of Inuit culture. He is a fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America and the Royal Society of Canada. His books include a portrayal of the first Indigenous inhabitants of Arctic Canada, an account of the voyages of Martin Frobisher, and a general history of the Arctic regions entitled The Last Imaginary Place. Ryo’s first encounter with the polar regions was through his work as a Shore Excursions manager for a cruise company. He handled all shore excursions the world over, including land-based tours to Antarctica. Ryo’s work for the programs in Antarctica included obtaining membership with IAATO, chartering ice class vessels, and preparing the official reports for each expedition. Ryo has also worked as a guide in Antarctica and Svalbard. He has worked for numerous operators in Antarctic and the Arctic. His main roles were as a Japanese coordinator, Zodiac driver, lecture translator, and recap coordinator—as well as assisting with briefings and onshore activities. Mi'sel Joe was born in Miawpukek on June 4, 1947. He was born into a strong Mi’kmaq family, both his grandfather and uncle have held the office of hereditary Saqamaw. Mi'sel has been educated in all the Mi’kmaq ways and traditions. Morris Lewis, the first appointed Chief in Newfoundland by the Grand Chief in Mi’kmaq territory, was Mi'sel’s great, great uncle. Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe is committed to preserving the language, culture and traditions of his people. He also plays a very public role in presenting a better understanding of the Mi’kmaq people of Miawpukek to residents of this province and country. In this process he has developed a positive profile through numerous interviews in print and electronic media, and publicized speaking engagements. Mi'sel’s private life include both business activities and hobbies. He owned and operated an outfitting operation for a number of years and is now a published author of two books entitled “Muinji'j Becomes a Man” and “An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey”. He has also submitted poetry and has been published in the book “Backyards of Heavens”. Some of his hobbies are bone carving, snow shoe making, hiking and spending much time learning the Mi’kmaq Language and songs. Sarah Wong is most comfortable on the water searching for seabirds, marine mammals and sharks. Her marine research has taken her to Chile, Dominica, the Galapagos, the Sea of Cortez and the Sargasso Sea. Although, she has spent most of her time in Canadian Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic waters. She has been a seabird observer for the Canadian Wildlife Service since 2007, conducting surveys off Canada’s east coast and high Arctic. Her PhD research at Dalhousie University examined the ecology of sperm whales in the Sargasso Sea. She does occasionally step foot on land and has worked on seabird colonies off both the west and east coasts. For the past three winters Sarah has helped with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ grey seal research program on Sable Island. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Mark Mallory at Acadia University studying the marine distribution of Arctic seabirds. Since her early start studying endangered seabirds on Canada’s west coast, Sarah’s broad interests in birds and natural history have taken her all over the planet. She has adventured with gulls, ducks, and polar bears in the Arctic; rediscovered 'extinct' treefrogs in Australia; grubbed for puffins in Maine; wrangled albatrosses, penguins, and seals in the sub-Antarctic; and enjoyed the great privilege of working on the remote atolls of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Her specialty is seabirds and conservation, and she completed her doctorate studying the complex movement and ecology of the North Pacific’s magnificent albatrosses. Sarah also teaches at Dalhousie University and has been guiding expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic since 2013. More than anything, Sarah loves to share her excitement with others and she looks forward to exploring new places with new friends on each trip. Sarah Lynn Olayok Jancke is from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She describes herself as half Inuk and half German - which explains her fiery red hair. She has roots from across Inuit Nunangaat with relatives from Nunatsiavut to the Western arctic. Sarah has spent many years working to protect Inuit culture and share Inuit culture, from the grassroots level to international UN conferences. Sarah's passions include Inuit throat singing and a teaching. She has studied many styles of drum dance, from the western style of the Inuvialuit, to modern mixed styles of Nunavut Sivuniksavut, to the traditional style of the Copper Inuit. Sharing her culture has taken Sarah around the world to Peru, Cuba, Norway, Greenland and Australia. Scott Forsyth is a professional photographer specializing in Canadian landscape scenery. Devoted to exploring Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Arctic Ocean coastlines, Scott has embarked on a lifelong photographic journey to depict the vastness and beauty of the Canadian landscape. On the basis of this photographic quest, he is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a member of The Explorer’s Club. As a photographer, Scott has twice earned the distinction of Photographic Artist of the Year — Alberta, from the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC). His photographs from Adventure Canada excursions have been published on the cover of Canadian Geographic, and in Canadian Geographic’s Atlas of Canada, in addition to numerous magazines, books, and calendars. His first photography book, featuring the Canadian Coastlines, will be published in the autumn of 2019. On land, Scott works as a both a professional photographer and as a family physician in Calgary, Alberta, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is involved in a variety of professional activities; he is a Civil Aviation Medical Examiner for the Ministry of Transport, a Clinical Lecturer for the Department of Family Medicine (University of Calgary), and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Calgary West Central Primary Care Network (a healthcare corporation partnered with the provincial government to manage 150 primary care medical clinics consisting of 500 family physician members located in southwest Calgary). In January 2013, Seb joined the 'Shackleton Epic' team, which was setup at the behest of The Hon. Alexandra Shackleton, and was the first expedition in history to faithfully recreate Sir Ernest Shackleton's small boat voyage across the Southern Ocean. Over the last fifteen years, Seb has worked at the sharp end of maritime aviation with previous jobs spanning half the globe. The Royal Navy exposed him to some of the most inhospitable regions of the world including the South Pacific, the Middle East and Antarctica. In 2009, Seb landed on the shores of South Georgia for the first time and stood before the grave of his personal hero: Sir Ernest Shackleton. Seb regularly lectures on Shackleton history, British Royal Navy actions and extreme survival stories. When asked to join the team, Seb jumped at the opportunity to share his polar history knowledge with those prepared to travel to the ends of the Earth – literally! When he is not onboard ship lecturing, or climbing a mountain, he can be found in Scotland with his wife and children sailing the world’s most faithful seaworthy replica of Shackleton’s lifeboat. The boat was built with the sole purpose of keeping the great polar explorer’s legacy alive though adventure sailing excursions. Seb is an accomplished aeronautical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, former GB Chapter Chair for The Explorers Club, joint recipient of the Royal Institute of Navigation Certificate of Achievement, and a joint Royal Yachting Association and Union Internationale Motonautique powerboat world record holder. Sherman Downey’s music embraces Folk-Roots and Country while at the same time flirting with Indie Pop; allowing him a broad appeal to an ever growing audience. His highly anticipated second release The Sun in your Eyes recently brought home Newfoundland and Labrador’s 'Pop/Rock Recording' award as well as a nod from SOCAN with the province's 'SOCAN Songwriter of the Year' distinction. The album includes CBC's first Searchlight Competition winning song 'Thick as Thieves' and other gems like 'Annalee' and 'The Right Idea'; songs that have found regular rotation across Canada on Campus Radio and the CBC, as well as garnering attention internationally with airplay on stations in LA, Australia and the UK. Sherman continues to find his way into the hearts of listeners with his charming delivery of solid songs and has carved out a spot as one of the most exciting acts to add to your calendar this year. Sheryl was born and raised in Montreal and moved to Mississauga in 1994; she started with Adventure Canada in 2003. What started as a short-term office contract grew into a full-fledged position as Sheryl found an aptitude and a passion for adventure travel. As a member of the sales team, Sheryl helps Adventure Canada's guests determine which voyage is right for them, but also assists on board as a member of the expedition team when necessary. Sheryl's favourite Adventure Canada trips are Greenland & Wild Labrador and the Churchill tundra buggy expedition—she's a polar bear fanatic—as well as the Galapagos. She's a seasoned traveller and likes to get away as often as she can, but while home, enjoys working on her garden. Sheryl is also an accomplished mixed-media artist and loves to spend time in her basement tinkering with new projects. Shoshanah became a sailor when she was six years old and her parents bought a twelve-meter motor yacht. Originally from Ottawa, Canada, she moved to the east coast of Canada where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Biology. She studied harbour seal population dynamics, and compled an independent study on the shark distribution around San Salvador Island, Bahamas, while spending as much time in the water with them as possible. Her MSc dissertation focussed on the acoustic ecology of seals and the effects of aquaculture on their population distribution. She returned to Ottawa in 2001 to complete her Doctoral dissertation on the energy dynamics of Arctic seabirds. During her travels, Shoshanah co-authored a book about Antarctica with an introduction by Pierre-Yves Cousteau. She is currently studying Arctic seabird populations in Alaska and has been living in Guelph since 2012, where she is a professor of biology at the University of Guelph. She speaks English, French, and Spanish. Sophie’s background is in guiding and instructing around the world in remote outdoor locations. With her expertise in trip planning, logistics and navigation, as well as risk management and group management across a range of pursuits, she is a well-rounded outdoor professional. When an opportunity arose to guide in what is considered to be the last true wilderness, Sophie jumped at it, and five years ago she left Ushuaia on her first of now many trips to the Antarctic Peninsula. A chance to experience the ‘Great White’ up close and personal, to assist people in the harshest of environments and to help create life long memories is a dream for any kayak guide. This opportunity then led Sophie to the Arctic to become a ‘bi-polar’ guide. The day she and her partner set out on their own self supported kayak expedition on the Peninsula was one of the most exciting days of her life. As they paddled away from the ship they knew from that moment on for the next two weeks they were at the mercy of Mother Nature and they had to establish a good relationship with her! This experience connected Sophie with Antarctica in a way that she will never forget. Sophie loves being ‘in the moment’ and enjoys helping others experience and cherish their magic moments. Through her experiences as an outdoor educator she is great at helping up skill others and her infectious enthusiasm will help you absorb all that Antarctica is and has to offer. Whether it be navigation, maps or weather, kayaking and rock climbing, she is happy to share her knowledge and tell tales of endless adventures. Steph is doing her best to travel the world and respect it at the same time. She caught the travel bug at an early age, and believes strongly that exploring new places and cultures nurtures empathy and understanding. Steph has an honours degree in Wildlife Biology and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. She spent four years at WWF-Canada, writing about their wide range of conservation work. She is also a trip leader and trip expert for an active travel company, where she takes people on adventures in Oregon, California, Washington, Peru, and Ecuador. Her passions include environmental conservation and education, sharing nature with people, writing, health, and fitness. Stephen Smith has spent most of his life amongst the human and wildlife inhabitants of the remote polar regions. Originally trained as a biologist, he has three decades of experience in polar wildlife research, including four months in Antarctica studying the diving behaviour of Emperor penguins. He has led more than 50 expeditions in the High Arctic. In 2004, Stephen was Director of Operations, Production Manager and Expedition Leader on the project Abandoned in the Arctic, a film production shot on location at 82° North on Ellesmere Island. That feature documentary involved a logistically complex kayak expedition that retraced the historic retreat of American polar explorer, Adolphus Greely. In 2008, he co-directed the documentary Arctic Cliffhangers, Best Wildlife Film at the 2010 San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. A two-month ski traverse in 1992 provided Stephen’s introduction to the people and wilderness of Northwest Greenland. Drawing upon insights from a lifetime of such explorations, his 2012 feature Vanishing Point (co-directed by Julia Szucs) bears witness to the challenges facing indigenous hunting culture in today’s Arctic. As a photographer, Stephen’s images have been widely published in books and leading periodicals including Natural History, Outside and National Geographic Magazines. A native of Stirlingshire, Steven has always had a keen interest in the environment forged through wild camping and fishing trips with his parents. As soon as he could drive, Steven was off exploring the wild lands and islands of Scotland. This fascination with nature, the complexity of systems, and the ways people interact with ecosystems compelled Steven to take an undergraduate degree in Environmental Management then an MSc in Environmental Science. The research element of these degrees provided Steven with a taste for further study and he read for a PhD in sustainable rural development at Glasgow University, successfully completing in 2007. The Outer Hebrides hold a special place in his heart having spent many of his summer holidays as a young man exploring this chain of inspiring, rugged and ecologically rich islands. He has researched a diversity of topics including the population ecology of cockles in the Outer Hebrides, the impacts of non-native invasive plants on indigenous species, long distance walking routes, agritourism, ecotourism and the impacts of climate change on tourism. He has helped to develop the world’s first postgraduate degree in Applied Carbon Management at Glasgow University where he is Programme Director. He also teaches on the Environmental Stewardship undergraduate programme at the University. Steven is keen fisherman, hill walker and also enjoys canoeing. He lives in Scotland’s highest village with his partner Elaine and two children, Ruairidh and Eilidh. Susan is Canada's first-ever Juno Award-winning Inuk singer/songwriter. She has won three Junos and was the recipient of the Order of Canada in 2005. She is the founder of the Arctic Rose Project, an advisor on the Collateral Damage Project, and chaired the Arctic Children and Youth Foundation from 2007 to 2011. Susan was a member of the Arctic Inspiration Prize selection committee (2012-2013) and spent three years with the University of Alberta as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Her work is powerfully informed by the experiences and narratives of her people, which she shares with the world through her art. Born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Susan R. Eaton is a professional geologist and geophysicist with strong Maritime roots. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Susan has held senior leadership roles in Alberta’s energy sector. As a young field geologist, she prospected for lead and zinc in Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. Today, as a geologist-in-residence at the Fogo Island Inn, she leads Inn guests and islanders alike on hikes to explore the geological riches of this island located off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. Equipped with a degree in journalism, Susan is curious about the world around her. A freelance writer (and former CBC-TV news reporter in St. John’s, Newfoundland), she reports on science and technology, energy, the environment, space, geotourism and adventure travel. Susan speaks French, Spanish and German. Her French was perfected during studies in les iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Quebec, where she graduated as a 2ndLieutenant from the Combat Arms School of the Royal 22nd Regiment (the “Van Doos”). Since 2010, Susan has participated in eight polar expeditions to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Antarctica, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Iceland, Labrador, and Baffin Island. As an earth scientist and polar explorer, she contributes unique insights to the discussion of the interplay of plate tectonics, ocean currents, glaciers, climate and life. In 2015, Susan was named one of Canada’s top 100 modern-day explorers and trailblazers by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. A year later, she became a Fellow of the RCGS, which also named her one of Canada’s twenty-five greatest female explorers. Susie grew up in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T, and now lives in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. Beginning as a classroom assistant in 1981, Susie became a Certified teacher in 1990, adding a B. Ed degree in 2005 and Master’s degree in 2009. An educator for thirty one years, with a passion for Inuinnaqtun language and culture, Susie has travelled to many remote areas of the North by dogteam, snowmobile, boat and vehicle. Susie loves camping, creating crafts, crocheting and sewing. One of Susie’s personal highlights was harpooning a beluga whale in 2011. Tanya lives in Cambridge, Ontario where she has been a practicing Registered Massage Therapist for about two years. She enjoys helping people by treating aches and pains, injuries, chronic conditions, and providing relaxation. She enjoys helping people stay in tune with their bodies, so they can live each day to its fullest. Tanya loves being active and experiencing new things. She enjoys running, playing sports, snowboarding, cooking, and traveling; she has a huge heart for adventure. She enjoys exploring 'God's green earth' and experiencing nature in all of its fullness and beauty. Taya was born and raised in Nunavut. She finished high school on Vancouver Island at Lester B. Pearson United World College, and graduated in 2014. Since then, she has travelled to nine different countries before returning to school at the University of Toronto in 2015. She hopes to fulfill a double major in Archaeology and Indigenous Studies. To Taya, travel is a practical means of education—globally, environmentally, culturally—and as such is her favourite way to learn. She has never explored her home territory beyond Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet, and is delighted to have the opportunity to do so now. Described by Alex Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland, as “the country’s foremost historian”, Ted is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of several books and numerous articles. His current research interests include the Vikings, the Icelandic Sagas, Scottish emigration worldwide and polar exploration. An engaging and entertaining lecturer, he is in demand as a television and radio contributor and regularly writes for newspapers and other publications. He has been visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and a number of European countries. He has greatly enjoyed working with Adventure Canada since 1995. Join Ted on the following adventures: •. Terry Fallis is the award-winning author of four national bestselling novels, all published by McClelland & Stewart. The Best Laid Plans was the winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour in 2008, and CBC’s Canada Reads in 2011. The High Road was a Leacock Medal finalist in 2011. Up and Down was the winner of the 2013 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and was a finalist for the 2013 Leacock Medal. His fourth novel, No Relation, was released in May 2014, debuted on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list, and won the 2015 Leacock Medal. His fifth, Poles Apart, hits bookstores in October 2015. The Canadian Booksellers Association named Terry Fallis the winner of the 2013 Libris Award as Author of the Year. For more than twenty-five years, Terry has counselled corporate and government clients on various fronts including crisis communications, media relations, issues management, marketing communications, public opinion polling, public affairs, stakeholder relations, etc. He has also written speeches for CEOs, cabinet ministers, and other community leaders. A homebuilt hovercraft plays a supporting role in The Best Laid Plans. Terry has always had a thing for hovercrafts. He is a sought-after speaker, sits on a number of boards, and lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Terry is a senior engineer and hydrologist. His experience includes environmental and hydreoecological site characterization, designing and implementing large-capacity groundwater supplies for municipal and industrial systems, environmental site assessments, groundwater supply investigations, irrigation well construction and testing, and legal scientific and forensic investigations. He is currently carrying out assessment and development of industrial and irrigation water supplies, municipal drinking water supplies, and open loop geothermal applications in Nova Scotia. He has also served as a practicing field hydrogeologist with the Nova Scotia Department of the Environment, Regional manager of the Water Planning and Management Branch, Environment Canada, Adjunct Associate professor of hydrogeology at Dalhousie University, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Water Resources Studies. Terry carried out the first and only exploration program to assess the fresh water resources of Sable Island, and published his findings. A Modern indie fold trio from Newfoundland, The Once has collected a trio of Canadian Folk Music Awards, numerous ECMA awards, and was named Artist of the Year by the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council. They have earned not one, but two JUNO nominations for best Roots/Traditional album, the most recent in acknowledgement of Departures (2014). While originally known for its haunting interpretations of traditional music, The Once has at long last uncovered a sound that truly represents their inner artistry. With their folk roots still firmly in hand, Phil, Geri, and Andrew have embraced a distinctly modern sound by the inclusion of drums and percussion, electric guitars, and sweeping keyboards. Lyrically, The Once's newest collection of songs encompasses an arresting sense of loss, emphasized musically by Geraldine's bewitching delivery of beautifully haunting melodies. The first single, 'We Are Love,' offers a ray of hope amidst an otherwise provocative and emotive musical anthology. With the release of the EP, We Win Some We Lose, The Once enters a new era, with new sounds, new styles, and new ideas. One word describes a musical performance by Thomas Kovacs fun! Tom approaches his music with a great deal of seriousness and is especially proud of his vocal skills. Playing for soldiers in the Persian Gulf in 1991 for five months taught him some valuable lessons in connecting and having fun with audiences. Since then, Tom has focused on interacting with his audiences and making them a part of the show. Tom knows that people can easily listen to music in the comfort of their own home so going to see live music must offer more. And Tom does just that by providing humor, entertainment, and of course. Tom has been a writer and performer on the Canadian music scene for 20 years. During that time he has garnered three Juno Award nominations, a Canadian Radio Music Award nomination and won the Canadian Independent Rising Star Award. Tom has toured across Canada and around the world in such disparate places as China, Europe, The United States and Nicaragua. In Jan 2012 Barlow released his sophomore album 'Burning Days' (Coalition-Warner). Once again Barlow is singing songs about the social realities of our planet and our communities, infusing pop melodies with keen lyrical observations. The debut video from the album, 'Steal Like A Billionaire', was partially shot during Adventure Canada's recent Labrador-music trip and features several passengers and AC staff. For more information check out www.barlowonline.com •. Tom Gordon is a music historian, arts administrator and inveterate wanderer. An NBC (Newfoundlander by choice) he has traveled Newfoundland and Labrador’s coasts and trails since 1969 drawn back time and again by its unforgettable landscapes and even more unforgettable people. The stories of these lands and people have driven his curiosity for decades. Over the last ten years, he has worked with the Inuit musicians of the Moravian coast of Labrador, documenting their unique traditions and capturing their voices on film and audio recording. Along the way, he’s developed an expertise in Labrador Inuit culture and traditions and a recognition of its strength across negotiation with the increasingly present South. Having served as chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Gordon is conversant in the vibrant arts scene across Newfoundland and Labrador and the ways in which the province’s traditions and creative ingenuity are manifest in stories, music and visual arts. His first visit to the L’anse aux Meadows Viking site launched Gordon’s fascination with the north Atlantic world of the mediaeval Vikings. He has since visited all the key Viking sites around the north Atlantic rim from Iceland and Greenland to Labrador and Newfoundland. Gordon was director of Memorial University’s School of Music from 2000 to 2010, where he is now Professor emeritus. He also holds a Visiting Professor appointment at the University of Toronto. Most proudly, since 2010 he has been second relief organist at the Moravian Church in Nain, Labrador.These days he divides his time between St. John’s, Toronto, the Burin Peninsula, and Nunatsiavut. Born in a tiny rural Newfoundland fishing village, Tony has lived and learned the charm of outport living. Although at the insistence of his father he choose a career path other than fishing, he has kept a close eye on the fishery’s evolution. In many of his provincial, regional and local volunteer roles he has been a strong and outspoken advocate for rural Newfoundland. Since 2005 he has enjoyed the opportunity to present the music, language and culture of his province to the friends of Adventure Canada who choose to visit. Delighted with AC’s preference for visiting tiny and sometimes remote communities, he’s quite eager to help present “the essence of who we are”. Visit www.tonyoxford.ca for more info. Tyler is an award winning piano player, singer, and composer. He has played on over 50 cd’s ranging from blues and jazz, to reggae and pop. The Juno winner has been in constant demand for many Festivals, and theatre concerts nation wide. Tyler has been the main attraction every Tuesday and Saturday at the world famous Reservoir Lounge in downtown Toronto for a decade. His prowess at the piano, and crooners voice, and an absolute drive for people to have an unforgettable evening at his concert, Tyler is an absolute “Must See” performer. Tyler first ventured north with Adventure Canada in 2010 and has since been inspired by the bounty of the north and a spirit of adventure. Vivi Noahsen hails from Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city. She is passionate about working for the betterment of children and youth, and has two kids on her own, (Norah, 5, and Liiva, 1). She holds BA in arts, and is now studying to complete her Masters in Social & Cultural history at the University of Greenland. Besides her studies, Vivi is a mentor for elementary school children through a project called SAPIIK (“brave”) which encourages post-secondary education for young people. She is Chair of the Student Union (ILI ILI) for higher academic education. Vivi also works as a local guide for Greenland Cruises. Vladimir is a multitalented designer, and developer experienced in marketing and communications. He has business-oriented mindset with capabilities to quickly recognize and transfer business objectives into a successful design and audio-visual narrative across different media, print, web, interactive, and video. During his career, Vladimir had opportunities to work with numerous companies in Europe, Asia, and America, including Raffles Design Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Prior to moving to Canada, Vladimir spent six years teaching Digital Media Design in USA and China. After completing his Master's in biology at Laval University, Yvan worked as a naturalist in provincial and federal parks before beginning work as an environmental consultant. He has studied seabird populations in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and acted as scientific advisor on films documenting their behaviour. He has published over fifty scientific and popular articles on birds and sites remediation, and works regularly with Aboriginal groups throughout Northern Canada on environmental projects. Zoe began working on Sable Island in the mid-1980s when she volunteered as a field assistant for a Dalhousie University research team studying the island’s seals. By 1985, Zoe was involved full-time with Sable projects, conducting various research and monitoring programs—including studies of persistent litter in the marine environment, and shark predation on seals. Long-term projects include research on the island’s horses, beach surveys for oiled seabirds and stranded cetaceans, and biodiversity studies (mosses, lichens, fungi, and invertebrates—most recently focusing on the island’s bee population). Results of research programs have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as in newsletters and magazines. In 2004, Zoe became a Research Associate with the Nova Scotia Museum, and in 2008 she received an Honorary Doctorate from Dalhousie University. Generally, Zoe spends seven to nine months per year on the island, returning to the mainland for meetings, work with project collaborators, and to give presentations for public interest groups, schools, and youth organizations. Zoe founded the Sable Island NGO 'Friends of the Green Horse Society' which has, for more than a decade, supported research projects on Sable Island—including two studies of tropospheric ozone—and, in partnership with Saint Mary’s University, has organized and hosted a series of public meetings in Halifax.
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