Northwest Passage

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With Scenic adding a second 'discovery yacht' in May 2020, the company is expanding itineraries. New are a 21-day Northwest Passage exploration, a 13-day adventure through Russia's White Sea and, in late 2019, two opportunities to visit North America's Eastern Seaboard, from New York City or Halifax ...

Our boat, Adventure Canada's Ocean Endeavour—a Soviet-era ferry comfortably retrofitted for 198 passengers—was chugging north toward Sisimiut and the Northwest Passage. This journey was supposed to be my kind of story: bleak and beautiful; full of polar bears, beluga whales, glaciers, Inuit villages, ...

Get tickets for Northwest Passages Book Club events. UPDATED: Sat., March 17, 2018, 3:08 p.m.. Novelist J.A. Jance will be the guest at a gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club, sponsored by The Spokesman-Review, on April 18. From staff reports. Twitter · Facebook · Email · Reddit · SMS. Tickets are available ...

If he was able to confirm this interior Northwest Passage, and develop a new trade route to China, Mackenzie would be a mercantilist hero and rich beyond his dreams. Mackenzie's expedition was the first recorded descent of the massive river that now bears his name. In order to write a new book on ...

For more information: Northwest Passages is online: http://www.spokesman.com/book-club/ ... The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages Book Club and Community Forum has a fresh lineup for spring, including outgoing state poet laureate Tod Marshall and best-selling authors J.A. Jance and Jess ...

In the summer of 1789, a young fur trader named Alexander Mackenzie led an expedition in search of a Northwest Passage. He and his voyageurs and Chipewyan guides were attempting, 14 years before Lewis and Clark, to cross North America, paddling birch bark canoes down a river they hoped would ...

FAIRBANKS — For Arctic history enthusiasts, there's never been a more exciting time. The recent findings of the two lost vessels of the Franklin Expedition, last seen sailing from Greenland in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage, made global news. Meanwhile, historians have been producing an ...

On day two of our voyage 'Out of the Northwest Passage', we sailed into a mid-afternoon blizzard. Marc-Andre Bernier, manager of underwater archaeology for Parks Canada, was halfway through a presentation on The Search and Discovery of Sir John Franklin's Lost Ships. Suddenly, on the 137-metre ...

The USCG Cutter Maple awaits the arrival of the Canadian Ice Breaker Terry Fox in Queen Maud Gulf. The Maple's executive officer, Lt. Lisa Hatland, told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce that navigating through ice created the “most tense two days” of the 49-day trip. (Photo by Lisa Hatland/United States ...

I was getting ready for a trip to the Northwest Passage last August. I had received lots of information to ready myself for this trip. Wondering how much of the suggested clothing would be necessary I decided better than safe than sorry and went off to a local outerwear company and made sure I would be ...

As Canada's Northwest Passage and its nearby resources are eyed with increasing interest by countries such as China, Inuit say they must be included in any discussions about its future use and management. “Inuit voices are critical to defining the future of the Northwest Passage,” says the Nilliajut 2 report ...

WEBSTER–– Northwest Passage has a cozy and moderately sized art gallery. It houses photography from places all over the county and even some from National Parks, like Yosemite. They are in the process of expanding their gallery to create an entire corridor of the work of the at-risk youth who provide ...

Melting sea ice makes it possible for many more ships to cross Northwest Passage without help of an icebreaker. Daniel Lak ... They're bound for the Bering Strait and distant Nome, Alaska, where they'll celebrate a successful transit of the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Artfully blending historical fiction and the horror tale, Simmons uses Capt. Sir John Franklin's actual lost expeditions of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, a doomed 1840s attempt to chart the Northwest Passage. Director Edward Berger's superb cast includes Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Ciaran Hinds and ...

On April 11, Marshall joins The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages Book Club to talk about his experiences as poet laureate and how he's managed to build a successful career as a professional poet. In an interview ahead of his book club visit, Marshall shared his thoughts about living and writing ...

The first attempt to find such a way past the Americas to the North — a “Northwest passage” — was commissioned by the English king Henry VII, in 1497. It was not easy. For over four centuries men searched and men died, time after time, until finally in 1903-1906, Roald Amundsen (best known in Britain for ...

Besides having a new permanent home with Northwest Passage, there's another reason to celebrate. If all goes as planned, NWP will expand the existing In a New Light gallery to include a larger exhibit area, studios, an arts classroom as well as event and meeting space. Completion is anticipated in fall of ...