2012 Speakers & Topics

Wilderness and Canoeing Symposium
www.wcsymposium.com

Listing of confirmed presentations
& tentative program listing
(as of January 18, 2012)


Friday Evening

Cory Trepanier - “An Artist in the High Arctic”
Bill Buxton -“Chasing Roots – Northern Sask by Birch-Bark Canoe”
Noah Inukpuk – “Umiujaq, Our People & Richmond Gulf”
reception


Saturday Morning

Eric Leclair -- “Puvirnituq River Experience”
Lester Kovac & Lynette Chubb – “Pingualuit Crater & Paddlers”
Dave Brown -- “Canoe Travels – Eastern Hudson Bay Coast”
break
Kenn Harper -- “A Brief Inuktitut Primer”
Chris Mayne & Paul Chivers -- “Northern Shores – & the Near North”
Sara Seager – “Remembrance of Mike Wevrick & Wilderness Memories”
lunch


Saturday Afternoon

Phil Haigh – “Keewaydin Canoe Trip - to Richmond Gulf ”
Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman – “Beluga Whales – in Eastern Hudson Bay”
Ron Beal – “Flora and Fauna Adaptations Above the Arctic Circle”
break
Virginia Howick & Juliet Dana – “Coming of Age in the Barrenlands”
Don McMurtry -- “Following David Thompson”
Alexandre Bevington – “Trans CanEUAda – Across Canada, Four Canoes”
supper


Saturday Evening

Dorrie Brown – “Labradoria Mural – Images by Labrador Youth”
Francis Penashue – “Stories From Living on the Land”
Elizabeth Penashue -- “Mista Shipu: Spirits of the River & the Animals”
 

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