Todd and I were in Nain, Labrador last week getting ready to head out into the wilds of Nunatsiavut and Nunavik. I’d conducted a bunch of interviews already to get a perspective of the landcsape from the Labrador Inuit and others who've lived on the land and the coast here for generations.
On the two-day ferry ride up, I interviewed Captain Robert Gillard of the MV Northern Ranger, a Canadian ice-breaking ferry, who's plied the coastal waters of Newfoundland for 54 years. Since he began his ...
People often ask me how I choose my journeys. Quite simple really— I look at blank spots on the map of Canada and/or the world that I've never visited and then figure out a way to do an interesting and aesthetic self-propelled line through the landscape. Nunatsiavut and Nunavik are unknown to me, and having read books like Dillon Wallace's Lure of the Labrador Wild, it was an easy draw. Travelling through new wilderness landscapes makes every paddle stroke and corner fresh and new — it's personal ...
Things are steadily coming together for our 1,400-kilometre Trans-Nunavik Expedition — got my maps — and my paddles and canoe are being shipped in the next couple of weeks by sponsors to a contact I have in Goose Bay, NL. Gear is piled around the den in my North Vancouver condo home ready to be packed up for Labrador. Since I do some sort of extended journey every summer I seem to begin repacking just about the time I've put away all the bric-a-brac from the previous season.
