2018 Wilderness & Canoeing Symposium Speaker List

The speaker list and schedule for the 33rd annual Wilderness & Canoeing Symposium has been released. The event takes place February 23rd and 24th, 2018 at Monarch Park Collegiate in Toronto, Ontario and online registration is already open.

The speaker list includes...

• Michael Peake - ON - “We Were Not Pioneers Ourselves...”
• Kristen Ungungai-Kowman - ON - "Connected by Canoe"
• Frank Wolf – BC "Boreal to the Barren Grounds - "An 1800 km Wilderness Odyssey"
• Francois Leger-Savard & Ariel Desjardins - QC - The Humility to Go with the Flow"
• Dana Price & Maggi-Lee Kerr - ON - "53 days in the Canadian subarctic"
• Jon Berger - PA “Albany River Retrospective 1961 to 2017”
• Justina Ray - ON - "Wolverines and Wilderness: separating myth from reality"
• Luigi Marmanillo - Peru - "A fight to protect the main source of the Amazon"
• Marilyne Marchand – QC - "Hudson to Ungava solo"
• Kate Weekes - ON Wilderness Music Concert [Ferguson Hall]
• Jamie Bartle - QC - Getting down to Brass Tacks with Headwater Canoes"
• Scott MacGregor - ON - "Good day, Bad day"
• Kenn Harper - ON - Writing the Arctic" Two stories. Whose stories?"
• Bob Henderson - ON - A tale of Two Rivers: The Wind/Peel Rivers from gentle starter whitewater trip near misadventure"
• Adam Shoalts - ON - “Alone Across Canada's Arctic"
• Eric McNair-Landry & Katherine Green - NT “Qajaqtuqtuq – The burliest double date in history”
• Frank Metcalf - BC - "How the Thelon trip of '73 helped change my life: a personal odyssey"
• Robert Perkins - MD - "Hawk rapid"