Wilderness Artist F


Renderings by hand from the heart by Ken Buck


Few people have had the influence that Bill Mason has had in shaping the Canadian identity.


His films,produced at the National Film Board of Canada,have been mainstays in Canadian schools for the last forty years. Educators used his films—Paddle to the Sea, Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes,Wolf Pack, Death of a Legend, Path of the Paddle, Face of the Earth,and many others—to introduce two generations of students to Canada’s wilderness and the concept of environmental stewardship. Bill’s vision of the wilderness as benign,beautiful and precious effectively offered an alternative to the predominant cultural perception of wilderness as something to be feared,to be conquered and to be exploited.


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Wilderness Artist Mason


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