Our Legacy Wild
Legacy Wild is a marketing arm of Canoe North Adventures and The Farmhouse Pottery. Our first Legacy Wild exhibition was held in the spring of 2008 at The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario. Dave Miller, Mayor of Toronto, Prince Andrew, The Duke of York and Juno Award winning musician, Sarah Harmer opened this show that ran for three weeks. About one thousand people visited this pottery and wilderness show immersing themselves in the lure of the north. Each weekend of the show featured presentations on the far north including many talks on rivers of the Northwest Territories and even a dramatic session on The Mad Trapper of Rat River! If you are interested in the seeing the information on this past show see legacywild.com.
This show included thirty large storyboards depicting the river systems that we paddle and regions that we hike in the far north. Al’s wilderness pottery was displayed in front of the panels. We integrated the panels and pottery throughout the entire museum creating an exciting story of our lifetime of canoeing and creating pottery. Lin created the artwork for the storyboards that told the stories of our north trips, the twenty foot wall that told the story of Canoe North Adventures and The Farmhouse Pottery, and a six foot display that told the story of The Duke of York’s wilderness adventures on the Coppermine, Nahanni, Thelon and Keele Rivers.
The partnership between The Farmhouse Pottery with Al’s wilderness motifs and Canoe North Adventures with its northern intrigue is a very successful. The overlap in product, clientele and vision creates a powerful vehicle for conveying our love for both wilderness pottery and outdoor adventure. We are planning to make proposals to take Legacy Wild to The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto and at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa.
Featured Adventures
- Tischu River
Our exploratory trip on the Tischu River, a tributary of the Keele River
News & Events
- Fall Newsletter November 2011
We have just posted our 2012 Expedition Program and you will see that we have offered two new winter trips including an ice-road adventure to Norman Wells! We are very excited to be offering a Coppermine River Adventure – this was my first ever arctic canoe trip when I was just 18 years old! Other [...]
- Celebrate Sahtu
On July 23rd, The Town of Norman Wells, North-Wright Airways and Canoe North Adventures will host a celebration that will showcase the wilderness of the Sahtu Region and recognize the collaboration of effort to brand the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories as a tourism destination with national and international recognition. This event will highlight the [...]
- Great Bear River Exploration
This past summer, Lin Ward, Susan Casson, Matt Casson and Karl Schiefer checked out the Great Bear River. North-Wright Airways flew them into the First Nation community of Deline on Great Bear Lake. Once canoes were loaded they only paddled a short distance out to a camp right on Great Bear Lake. Karl and Matt [...]
- The 2010 Operator of the Year Award for the Northwest Territories
The award was presented to Al and Lin by the Minister of Tourism at the Northwest Territories Tourism Gala Dinner held in Inuvik on Thursday, November 25th…
- Our Outfitting Centre
It has been a long-standing dream of Canoe North Adventures …
- The Redstone River Exploratory Expedition
The Redstone River is unique in that…
- Canol Heritage Trail Exploratory Hike, 2009
At Canoe North, we are always intrigued with the prospect of a grand adventure…
- Ice Road
The trip took eight days and the last two days …
- Exploratory Trips
In 2009, we are planning two more exploratory trips…
- New Air Services and Canoeing Base for CNA, 2009
at the North-Wright Airways float base in Norman Wells…
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