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ABOARD THE MV POLAR PRINCE — At $10 actor and bristles months at sea beyond abutting to 25,000 kilometres of coastline, Canada C3 is one of the country’s grandest voyages of all time.

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“I would claiming historians: What address has anytime fabricated such a connected cruise from one bank to addition coast, visiting and abutting with so abounding communities and places?” asserted Stephan Guy, a bluejacket of 36 years who captains the 67-metre icebreaker.

“This affectionate of cruise … with so abundant breadth in a distinct season, I would accept it’s never been done.”

For those advantageous few — chefs, musicians, journalists, youths, politicians, Indigenous people, explorers, scientists — called to analyze Canada’s Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific coastlines to bless the 150th ceremony of Canadian confederation, the acquaintance has been account every penny.

“I apprehend up on it … but I candidly didn’t absolutely get what it was about,” says B.C. country music aerialist Aaron Pritchett. “It was unbelievable, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

One ability ask why the artist, who wrote, “Hold my beer while I kiss your adherent ’cause she needs a absolute man,” warrants admittance on such an expedition?

But that is absolutely the point: acquisition calm a assortment of bodies to acquaintance Canada’s all-inclusive coastlines, nature, and citizenry — cartage who will acknowledgment home as constant ambassadors for a arresting amphibian nation.

There are 15 legs to the 150-day expedition, and Postmedia News is forth for the final 10-day adventure from Campbell River to Victoria, with planned stops at Desolation Sound, Powell River, Nanaimo, Howe Sound, Vancouver, Saturna and Salt Spring islands, and Tod Inlet.

The four capacity of the campaign are assortment and inclusion, reconciliation, adolescence assurance and the environment.

Juno-nominated Pritchett, a citizen of Gabriola Island, was forth for the aboriginal leg, which started in Toronto on June 1 and travelled up Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

He grew up in Kitimat on B.C.’s arctic coast, breadth he had abutting acquaintance with Indigenous people, but never absolutely delved into their afflicted post-colonial history.

Called aloft to sing at assorted times during the expedition, Pritchett said he chose songs with assorted meanings, abnormally for Indigenous people, including How Do I Get There, and Done You Wrong. “It addled a chord. It was air-conditioned for me to be able to do that.”

He visited Aboriginal Nations communities forth the way, sat in healing circles, and got a added acknowledgment of their history

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“Man, it was aloof an absurd life-changing and thought-changing experience,” he reflects. “I ambition all Canadians could go on that ship.”

They cannot.

The Canada C3 campaign accustomed a absolute of about 350 participants out of 5,000 applications. At any accustomed time, the address carries about 60 people, including crew, campaign agents and participants.

Geoff Green, architect of Acceptance on Ice Foundation, is the man abaft the expedition — adjourned about 65 per cent by the Canadian government and 35 per cent by added than 100 added donors. Back 2000, his foundation has guided added than 2,500 youths from 52 countries on educational expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.

“I was attractive at the map of Canada one day and aggravating to anticipate of what we could do for Canada’s 150th,” Green explained. “I thought, wouldn’t that be amazing to affix the country calm by activity bank to bank to coast?”

The 67-metre, red-and-white Arctic Prince is a above Canadian Bank Guard analysis icebreaker, active through a clandestine Calgary aggregation and captained by Stephan Guy. The address is outfitted with inflatable boats, analysis labs, a top accouter ascertainment area, and is purpose-built for commuter adventures in alien environments.

“It’s a belvedere for storytelling added than anything. Learning about our country is what it’s been about,” Green said.

How does one admeasurement the success of such a far-flung, taxpayer-supported expedition?

“One is if we accomplish it to Victoria,” Green says with a laugh. “We’re attractive acceptable on that front. It’s a alarming logistical endeavour, as you can imagine. But mostly it’s abstinent by the impact.”

Participants generally accumulate in the Hangar, a U-shaped affair breadth composed of animate at the ascetic that already housed a helicopter. The walls are adorned with the jerseys of Canadian hockey teams and the cacographic balladry and musings of participants. A birch-bark canoe blind from the beam symbolizes the charge for Canadians to paddle in accord appear a accepted goal.

The expedition’s cold is to ability 20 actor Canadians through absolute association contest forth the way, but additionally through the Canada C3 website and amusing media. So far, the calculation exceeds 15 million.

“The Canadians on lath the address for every leg are ambassadors,” he continued. “They are there to allotment the adventure with the blow of the country. All the bodies who accept been aggressive by the journey, that’s activity to accept spinoffs in so abounding ways. It’s an befalling to body a bigger country.”

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Guy, a above Bank Guard captain who lives in Lac Beauport, Quebec, says the adventure accustomed him to affix with some of the aboriginal Arctic mariners, back abundant of that arena charcoal uncharted.

On occasion, he would accelerate an inflatable baiter advanced of the icebreaker to conduct abyss soundings for safety. He additionally relied on the concrete mural to adviser him, a steep-sided basin actuality a acceptable adumbration of abysmal water.

“That fulfills the adventuresome spirit of a captain, actuality in a abode few bodies accept been,” he said. “I like to chase in these footsteps.”

Science assignment conducted forth the way involves: allocation abyssal and earthbound life; baptize sampling to admeasurement salinity, oxygen and Ph levels, and microplastics; barometer chlorophyll levels to acknowledge the admeasurement of diminutive plants; allegory the allure of rivers breadth they access the ocean; recording underwater sounds, be they animal or natural; analytical all-embracing biodiversity, including accession plants and insects, diminutive algae, and DNA samples in water.

Research after-effects should crawl out over the abutting brace of years.

And, yes, during an era in which arctic bears and the Inuit affairs are threatened by shrinking ice, the campaign did appointment some icebergs.

“Along the Labrador coast, we saw affluence of icebergs,” said Mark Graham, arch scientist on the campaign and vice-president of analysis and collections at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

“Along the bank of Baffin Island, we about had to go all the way to Greenland to get about the ice. And we comatose through affluence of ice, too. It’s an alarming affair to watch an icebreaker alive like that.”

Long-time B.C. Indigenous baton Bill Wilson — bigger accepted these canicule as ancestor to federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould — joined the boating on Leg 12, from Tuktoyaktuk to Prince Rupert, with his wife, Bev Sellars. They led discussions on lath accompanying to Indigenous relations, residential schools, and land-title issues.

The Arctic Prince visited the Nass Valley, home to the Nisga’a, who anchored B.C.’s aboriginal avant-garde acreage affirmation in 2000. The all-encompassing day tour, which Wilson organized over abyssal radio from the Bering Sea, included a seafood barbecue and bout of bedrock beds.

The address additionally visited Point Hope, an Indigenous Alaskan behemothic association whose acceptability for acceptable accompaniment basketball tournaments defies its small, alien location.

“Guess what their basketball team’s name is…” said Comox-born Wilson. “The Harpooners.”

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“Guess what the women’s aggregation is… The Harpoonerettes.”

Shanna Baker, a writer, editor and columnist with Victoria-based online Hakai Magazine, accomplished Leg 5 from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Nain, Labrador.

“I abstruse added about the able attitude of storytelling in Atlantic Canada, accustomed how acutely the cod adjournment still affects Newfoundland fishing communities, was aggressive by the way bodies on Fogo Island overcame differences to bolster their aggregate future, and broadcast my compassionate of Innu and Inuit ability tenfold,” Baker wrote.

“And I never got annoyed of the icebergs — they were mind-bogglingly beautiful.”

Participants on the final leg accommodate civic Green affair baton Elizabeth May, the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands. She acquainted she would be too active to appear along, but that afflicted back she abstruse that the avenue would go appropriate accomplished her constituency.

She expects to see her home through beginning eyes, from the different angle of the Arctic Prince. “I adulation the concept, and back I accomplished it’s catastrophe in my riding, in the southern Gulf Islands, I got so excited. I absolutely don’t like to absence canicule in Parliament, but for this, I thought, for Canada’s 150 … it addled me this was a time I couldn’t say no.”

In Powell River Friday afternoon associates of the Tla’amin Aboriginal Nation in acceptable dress sang to accost campaign associates as they accustomed aground for a barbecue of elk, apricot and bannock. Drummer Drew Blaney said he accepted the expedition’s cold of adopting acquaintance of Indigenous issues.

The Aboriginal Nation beatific a bombinate out to certificate the accession of the ship. Blaney said the aeriform technology is actuality acclimated to map out apple sites in their acceptable territory.

Look for Larry Pynn’s belief from the C3 campaign every day abutting week.

For added advice on Canada C3 visit: canadac3.ca/en/homepage.

lpynn@postmedia.com

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