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The Yukon – Canada
Feb 4th
The Yukon takes its name from Yu-kun-ah, the Loucheux word for the Yukon River, the ‘great river’ that drains most of the territory. Some five per cent of Canada’s landmass, the Yukon lies in the northwest corner of Canada. Bordered on three sides by rugged mountains and on the 4th by the Arctic Ocean, it shares many of the characteristics of its neighbours, Alaska, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. More >
Wood Buffalo National Park – Alberta
Jan 7th
outdoorsica.com
Spilling across Alberta’s northern border into the Northwest Territories, Wood Buffalo encompasses a large area of the subarctic plain. It is a huge national park, certainly the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world. The park extends 176 miles at its greatest length and averages about 100 miles in width, taking in more than 17,000 square miles—an area five times that of Yellowstone. More >
Banff National Park – Canada
Jan 7th
wildlifearchives.com
First and most famous of Lil the national parks of Canada, Banff is filled with glittering snowcapped peaks, valleys draped in evergreen forests, turquoise lakes, flowered alpine meadows, glaciers, hot springs, waterfalls, and abundant wildlife. Four mountain parks — Banff and its neighbors Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay — contain such a large and representative segment of the Canadian Rockies that they have been collectively designated a UNESCO world heritage site.
Banff topography is characterized by sweeping, U-shaped valleys that separate the parallel Front and Main Ranges of the Rockies, mountains made of sedimentary rocks that were uplifted and folded, then shaped by glaciers. Banff’s highest peaks are in the Main Range, which forms the Continental Divide. At Valley of the Ten Peaks, this soaring watershed forms a rampart about 8 miles long and more than 3,000 feet high from base to ridgeline. More >
Inuit – Peoples of the Sea
Oct 17th
The Inuit are one of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Alaska, Canada, and far-eastern Russia. They adapted over centuries to life in a polar climate by becoming almost totally reliant on the sea to supply their food and other needs.
The lack of significant vegetation meant that caribou, seal, walrus, whale meat, whale blubber and fishes were their major food sources, as well as the source of raw materials for clothing, tents and boats. Seals were hunted from ice floes or from skin-covered kayaks. Harpooning whales required several people; it was done from larger craft known as umiaks. Families lived in hide tents in summer, and hunted caribou and other land animals with bows and arrows. More >
Clayoquot Sound – British Columbia
Oct 4th
At Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, land’s end is a ragged line of forested slopes plunging into the ocean. Its 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-km) area supports the largest lowland temperate rainforest remaining on Earth. Islands, large and small dot the sound. Some have beaches piled high with storm-tossed drift logs worn smooth by water and wind, and bleached by the sun. Wispy clouds often swirl among the treetops.
Most visitors stay in or around Tofino, which has a wide selection of accommodations and facilities, including camping, beachfront resorts, B&Bs, and comfortable hotels and motels. Equipment rentals and guiding services are also available. Nearby Ucluelet at the southern end of the peninsula offers a variety of lodgings as well. More >
