Churchill


Inspired by


SCAN THIS PAGE TO SEE BELUGAS AND POLAR BEARS IN ACTION. SEE PAGE 7 FOR INSTRUCTIONS.


Journey to Churchill Answering the call of the North By Dorothy Dobbie


The unmistakable Lazy Bear Lodge.


from a France that was still in shock from the senseless attack in Nice. Ten there’s the cou- ple from Oregon and the pair from England. A German girl with a broken foot, earned riding horseback at Riding Mountain, is here with her mother. Tere is a holiday feel in the air.


T


he airport waiting room is packed with excited people all going to Churchill, Man., the only deep-sea port on the prairies. I meet someone who has just arrived


How to get there Seven flights per week on Calm Air


Flight duration 1 hr., 45 mins.


Tey are all on a charter organized by Wally Daudrich’s Lazy Bear Lodge. Tere is lots of talk about polar bears and whales. A few of the travellers have


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been to Churchill before, as have I. Tis does nothing to dim their excitement, nor mine. “It’s a different world,” pro- claims Louise, an employee and friend of Wally’s who is going up with her whole family. I over- hear her tell a passenger later, “I have been there many times, but I always look forward to it.” I know what she means. Tere is something about the place that holds you and draws you back. Tis is my fifth trip and I am even more


excited than on my first. Of course I am interest- ed in the bears and belugas, but there is so much more: the fascinating plant life — from lichens and mosses to miniature birch trees — the flowers, the his-


tory and the open, outward-looking people. The Hub


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