2025 Mike Wevrick Lecture and Wine and Cheese Social
When: 7-10 PM, Saturday Evening, November 1, 2025
Where: Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club, 1391 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto
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Our speaker will be Al Pace of Canoe North Adventures
The Changing Arctic – 48 years of Climate Change Observations from the Stern-Seat of my Canoe.
Al Pace is one of Canada’s most seasoned River-Guides having led more than one-hundred canoe-trips exploring thirty remote northern rivers. Since Al’s first trip as an 18 year-old schoolboy on the Coppermine River in 1977, Al has personally observed dramatic changes to the landscape; moose headed north, muskoxen moving south, invasive species filling-in the arctic’s open-spaces, epic flood events that thrash the landscape and wildfires that devastate remote communities and ways of life.
Lin Ward left a management consulting career at age 40 and became a River-Guide. Al Pace is a renowned Studio-Potter and born into a canoe-tripping family. Together, they founded Canoe North Adventures, one of Canada’s premier northern outfitting operators who specialize in guiding trips deep in the Mackenzie Mountains, from the fabled Nahanni to the south, to the Natla, Keele and Mountain Rivers further north. And beyond the boreal forest, to the far north, the Horton, Anderson and Coppermine. Al and Lin have inspired countless Canadians to step well outside their comfort zone and experience these incredible rivers.
Members register and purchase tickets here.
The facility is limited to 140 people due to fire regulations.
Not a member contact Gary at membership@wildernesscanoe.ca and arrange some tickets to be waiting at the door under your name.
A YouTube LIVE stream will be made available for all our members out of town. No fee. You do not have to register for online viewing, just go to Wilderness Canoe Association YouTube channel around 7:30 pm.