Baffin Island: a hot spot for art
When you think of the arts, what’s the first place that leaps to mind? Places like Paris, New York, and Berlin are seen as the centre of the art world—but when it comes to creating art, remote Baffin...
View Article10 Arctic Surprises
After six months working behind the scenes as Adventure Canada’s creative director, I’ve just returned from my first trip Into the Northwest Passage, travelling from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, to...
View ArticleThe Colour of Memory
We were blessed this week at Adventure Canada HQ to receive an email from Gilles Matte, a passenger on our recent Greenland & Wild Labrador expedition. Mr. Matte lives in...
View ArticleThe Grand Seduction wins again
Veteran Newfoundland film director and producer Barbara Doran is beaming today, after Don McKellar took Best Direction in a Feature Film from the Director’s Guild of Canada for ‘The Grand Seduction‘....
View ArticleJames Raffan: Circling the Midnight Sun
Author, paddler, and inveterate traveller James Raffan sets himself a daunting task in his latest book: to make his way around the Arctic Circle, by country, culture, and community. In a time when...
View ArticleMeet Chief Mi’sel Joe
Mi’sel Joe was born in Miawpukek in 1947 to a family with strong ties to the community. Both his grandfather and uncle have held the office of hereditary Saqamaw—a high ranking spiritual leader...
View ArticleCarol Heppenstall says goodbye
There are some things in life that are harder to accomplish than others. For me, telling Adventure Canada that I was retiring was one of those. I have just passed my seventy-first Birthday and after...
View ArticleFilming Worlds Apart
An interview with filmmaker-photographer Jason Van Bruggen Jason van Bruggen is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker based in Canada. His lens has previously captured an incredible Adventure Canada...
View ArticleRemembering Louie Kamookak
Since the passing of Louie Kamookak on March 22 at age 58, I have been revisiting old photos in which he features. Here is one of the two of us that stems from August 1999. Louie made me laugh when he...
View ArticleA taste for adventure: AC partners with Slow Food
Slow food: those two word conjure images of mindful enjoyment of mindful, enjoyable nourishment. Which makes Adventure Canada’s brand of mindful, enjoyable travel the perfect partner for Slow Food in...
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