National Parks Day

Interested in what Canada's parks have to offer year-round? Looking to take a trip to one of the territory's many protected areas from the comfort of your own home? Check out this curated group of films that feature some of the territories breathtaking vistas and wildlife! Featured here is footage from the Forty Mile caribou herd as they cross through central Yukon and Alaska (featured in Allan Code's Memory Trap: The Herd That Wouldn't Disappear), meditative views and soundscapes of Nunavut's Baffin Island from Marten Berkman's Chasms of Silence, and interpretive, abstract images from the Joe Henry Highway (also known as the Dempster) from the film Ghosts of the Joe Henry by Dan Sokolowski. The highway begins outside of Dawson City and ends north of the Arctic Circle, at Inuvik, NWT, and crosses through the majestic Tombstone Territorial Park. Finally, we have Erin McKnight's Like A River, which chronicles a 9000 kilometre, cross-country canoe journey following the historic Alexander Mackenzie voyageur route from Lachine, Quebec to Tuktoyaktuk in order to raise awareness about mental health. Multiple Canadian parks and waterways are traversed by this all-women expedition, recorded as the first to paddle across Canada; some of the parks include Pukaskwa, Quetico, Athabasca Sand Dunes, Wood Buffalo, and Pingo.