2025 Mike Wevrick Lecture and Wine and Cheese Social

Our speaker is the well-traveled wilderness guide Al Pace, owner and operator of Canoe North Adventures.

The Changing Arctic – 48 years of Climate Change Observations from the Stern-Seat of my Canoe.

Al Pace is one of Canada’s most seasoned River-Guides having led more than one-hundred canoe-trips exploring thirty remote northern rivers. Since Al’s first trip as an 18 year-old schoolboy on the Coppermine River in 1977, Al has personally observed dramatic changes to the landscape; moose headed north, muskoxen moving south, invasive species filling-in the arctic’s open-spaces, epic flood events that thrash the landscape and wildfires that devastate remote communities and ways of life.  

Lin Ward left a management consulting career at age 40 and became a River-Guide. Al Pace is a renowned Studio-Potter and born into a canoe-tripping family. Together, they founded Canoe North Adventures, one of Canada’s premier northern outfitting operators who specialize in guiding trips deep in the Mackenzie Mountains, from the fabled Nahanni to the south, to the Natla, Keele and Mountain Rivers further north. And beyond the boreal forest, to the far north, the Horton, Anderson and Coppermine. Al and Lin have inspired countless Canadians to step well outside their comfort zone and experience these incredible rivers.