Jay Morrison with the support of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) will spend the summer canoeing across Canada from the Alantic to Arctic Ocean. The journey is set to start on April 9th from Les Escoumins, Quebec and hoepfully end in Inuvik, NT on September 28th before the arctic winter. Jay will head up the St Lawrence River past Quebec City and Montreal, taking the voyageur route on the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers to Lake Nippissing, down the French to Georgian Bay and on to Lake Superior.
The expedition will take the Canadian route up the Kaministiquia River to Quetico and the Rainy River to Lake of the Woods, the Winnipeg River and on to Lake Winnipeg. Heading up the meandering Saskatchewan River to Cumberland House, the route then turns north up the Sturgeon-Weir River and over the Frog Portage into the Churchill River.
After ascending the Churchill system to La Loche, the twenty kilometer Methye portage into the Arctic watershed begins a much faster descent on the Clearwater, Athabasca, Slave and Mackenzie Rivers in a race against the October freeze-up of the Mackenzie Delta and the Beaufort Sea.
Jay will be paddling a unique wood and expoxy canoe that he built himself and is decorated by artist Dot Bonnenfant with images of creatures symbolic of both Aboriginal culture and of the Canadian landscape. This canoe weighs only 35 pounds, is 16.5 feet in length and only 28 inches wide, built for both speed and seaworthiness.
Jay hopes to introduce a wilderness that a lot of people have never seen, through the internet and media reports. "One of my goals is to debunk the myth that the vast Canadian wilderness is an inexhaustible supply of natural resources. Human history is filled with examples of the destruction of valuable resources for short term gain which, once gone, can never be replaced." The Canadian boreal forest is the world's largest remaining source of fresh water, a gigantic air filter, and home to caribou, bears, wolves and billions of North America's birds. Jay is combining his personal quest for extreme challenge with his deep commitment to conserving our country's irreplaceable natural heritage.
You can follow Jay's journey on his blog here. You can pledge your support for CPAWS' conservation programs on Jay's behalf, kilometer per kilometer and help Jay to raise $10 per kilometer.
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