Blogs by our Resource Educators
Posted on 26. May, 2011 by michelle in Blog
While we want to whet your appetite for the upcoming expeditions, we don’t want to spoil all the fun by giving away too many secrets of the amazing lectures we have planned for you while on board. However, to keep you up to date on the current issues facing Canada’s Arctic we thought we would [...]
David Gray’s New Exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization Now Open!
Posted on 27. Apr, 2011 by michelle in Blog
David Gray, resource educator on our Westward voyage, has produced a new Arctic exhibition that just opened last week at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, Ontario. We invite you to check it out as it runs until April 2012 or you can visit “virtually” at the exhibit’s online website: Northern People, Northern Knowledge. [...]
Operation NANOOK: Military Training in the Arctic
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by admin in Blog
(Photo: Sgt Jason Hanson (L) and Pte Peter Kalabic, both from the 48th Highlanders of Canada march during a sovereignty patrol in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, during Operation Nanook 10 on 11 Aug 2010.Photo credit: Sergeant Marco Comisso, Army News.© 2010 DND-MDN Canada) By now you must have heard about Operation NANOOK. It seems like it is [...]
Franklin’s Rescuer’s Ship is Found 150 years later!
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by admin in Blog
Well that was quick! I just told you about the team from Parks Canada who were on their way to try and find the ship of Robert McClure, the man who was sent to find and rescue Sir John Franklin. Franklin and his two vessels had been missing for three years when McClure and his [...]
