Itinerary - Manitoba Historic Fur Trading Tour
Canada
Birds Bears & Belugas
Fire and Ice
The Great Ice Bear
HBC Historic Fur Trade
High Arctic Adventure
Into Northwest Passage
Out of Northwest Passage
Heart of the Arctic
The Atlantic Arts Float
 

 
   
Day 1

At 7:45 am after meeting at the Winnipeg Perimeter Airlines Charter Terminal you depart for Norway House. Breakfast is served on board. Upon arrival in Norway House, at about 9:00 am, you are met by your tour host and taken on a community tour including the historic HBC buildings and gravesite plus the new facilities of the town. A highlight will be a ride on a York boat.   At noon you are provided with a delicious historic lunch and meet with some interesting local residents. Following the lunch and reception you bid farewell to Norway House and return to the airport where you depart for Churchill. Upon arrival you are transferred to your Churchill hotel. Once settled you will have time to shop or visit some of Churchill on your own. At 5:30 pm you are treated to a wonderful dinner. You may wish to try the specialty, Arctic Char. After your meal you visit the Parks Canada exhibit theatre in the Churchill train station for a historical presentation on the life of Samuel Hearne.

  Overnight  - Churchill
   
Day 2 At 7:00 am you have breakfast at the hotel. At 8:30 am you transfer to the Churchill port and board a Zodiac for crossing the Churchill River to Sloop Cove and Prince of Wales Fort. Sloop Cove is the natural harbour that sheltered British ships from storms and ice. The Fort tour will be led by Parks Canada experts and they will tell you the story of this impressive stonework; called the pyramid of the north. On your return have your camera ready as the mouth of the river is home to hundreds of Beluga whales at this time of year and you may get a glimpse of some. In the late morning you receive a box lunch then depart via Gillam for remote York Factory. Renowned as the most significant HBC historic site in North America, York Factory was considered the gateway between Europe and all of western and northern Canada for the HBC. On the Gillam stopover you tour a local Manitoba Hydro electric dam. At about 8:00 pm your charter departs Gillam arriving at the Winnipeg Perimeter Charter terminal at 10:50 pm. You receive dinner on board.
   

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