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2022-23 Travel Guide to Canada

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31 Experience the rugged north with P.O. Box 190 Moose Factory, ON P0L 1W0 705-658-4619 ext, 279 • moosecree.com • Offering Camping • Snowshoeing • James Bay boat tours • Island tours • Traditional cooking with the Cree Lennox Island, take home more than memories: make a traditional Mi'kmaq hand drum, create a birchbark art piece with porcupine quills or craft some beaded flowers (www.lennoxisland.com). New Brunswick invites guests to partici- pate in Indigenous festivals and learn more about the province's First Nations by partying along the powwow trail all summer. Discover traditional artefacts and practices at Metepenagiag Heritage Park, which houses a prehistoric Mi'kmaq village with displays of archeological findings that provide glimpses into ancient times. The Augustine Mound, a cemetery dating back beyond 600 BC, adds to the mystery and history (www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca). Across the bay in Nova Scotia, Elders share stories about creation at the Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage Centre (www.wagmatcook.com). And in Membertou, just outside of Sydney, the Mi'kmaq Medicine Walk is an educational stroll through the medicinal practices used by their ancestors. It includes a dream catcher workshop and the breaking of traditional luskinikn bread (www.member toutcc.com). Less than two hours from Halifax, connect further with the Mi'kmaq by joining a guided cultural program at Kejimkujik National Park. This starts with viewing some of the 500 petroglyphs they created centuries ago. Then witness the ancient craft of birchbark canoe-building in person with Todd Labrador and a Parks Canada Interpreter at work (www.parkscanada.gc.ca/ kejimkujik). NORTH The Eeyou Istchee Baie-James region, 800 km (497 mi.) north of Montréal, is one of Canada's best travel adventures. Traditional Cree experiences, snowshoeing and hiking, museums, coastal tours and cultural festivals await (www.escapelikenever before.com). Increase the excitement in Puvirnituq, an Inuit community in Nunavik, in Québec's far north. Here you can enjoy a dog sledding adventure across the sea ice and get a hands- on course with an Inuk master igloo-builder, and even sleep under the northern lights in the igloo that you built (www.inuitadven tures.com). To explore Canada's Arctic waters in comfort, book passage aboard an Adventure Canada cruise ship. Photograph polar bears and the aurora borealis from the deck, go ashore at Mittimatalik for an Inuit welcome and visit the Franklin graves on Beechey Island (www.adventurecanada.com). In late June, Yukon's Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre hosts the popular annual Adäka Cultural Festival, which showcases the arts and customs of Yukon First Nations and Indigenous artists from around the world (www.adakafestival.ca). The Northwest Territories boasts some of the world's best viewing of the other-worldly aurora borealis. Watch the show from B.Dene Adventures' cosy cabin on the shores of Great Slave Lake, or at Aurora Village in Yellowknife from the comfort of a teepee. Nunavut offers unusual wildlife and Arctic experiences. Trekkers wanting to live the life can go winter camping like Inuit families, hunt exotic big game or simply put their feet up at one of the area's lovely wilderness lodges. For their valued visitors, Canada's hospitable Indigenous People have created spirited and spiritual journeys through their history and culture, carrying on the traditions of millennia. By educating guests with authentic stories and homegrown experiences, they send positive vibes to the world. And that is good medicine for the soul.

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