ADVENTURE
Journey to Sirmilik
Two travellers brave winds, shifting ice floes and roiling Arctic seas for a glimpse of Canada’s newest national park
By Larry Pynn with photography by Wayne Sawchuk

CONSERVATION
Six giant steps to creating a park
Making new parks was once as simple as a cabinet minister picking a spot on the map. Ministers don’t do that anymore.So why are critics saying the new system is just as flawed?
By Sylvia Barrett

CULTURE
Vintage images of Canada
Peter Winkworth spent a lifetime purchasing paintings of Canada from Britain’s landed gentry. His fabled collection, now owned by the National Archives of Canada, reveals a new vision of our past.
By Charlotte Gray

HISTORY
Land grab
The federal government offered the Metis homesteads in return for giving up their claims to the Prairies. How did all those homesteads end up in the hands of wealthy land speculators?
By Linda Goyette

The Inside Story
News from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Editor’s notebook
Parkland, justice and peace

Reverberations
Home fragrant home, Many helping hands, Left out of the layout, Randy neighbour, Cat-eating coyotes, More folk wisdom

Discovery
Deadly diatoms, Road radar, Mercury mirror,Tanglenet techniques, Legend of the lost flotilla, Reluctant hero, Saturn shines, Speaking Inuktitut, Cryogenic croakers

À la carte
Alberta’s killer landslide

Mosaic
River jam

In habitat
Dawson breakup by Johnny Caribou