Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds, 1980
National Gallery of Canada
(1976)
Moose 1990´s
Copper ThunderBird: Canadian Aboriginal Artist
His full name was Jean-Baptiste Norman Henry Morrisseau and was known as the Picasso of the North.
The Niagara FaLLs (Canada-USA)
The HorseShoe Falls are one of the most voluminous waterfalls in the world! It´s 790 m wide (2.600 feet).
FrenchMan Samuel Champlain described it in his journals, during his exploration of Canada in 1604.
Before the American Nick Wallenda´s crossing of the Niagara Falls in 2012, FrencMan Charles Blondin did it in various ways in 1859.
The only woman to cross the Niagara Falls gorge, was the italian tightrope walker Maria Spelterini who crossed it three times in 1876.
Doug Wright: Canadian Cartoonist
In 2005 a prize for excellence in Canadian cartooning was created in his honor:
The Doug Wright Awards
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: The Inuit
This is the flag of Nunavut composed of the traditional stone monument that marks sacred sites and guides travelers and the North Star. It was created in 1999.
The Inuit or "people" live mostly in the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic.
Native women in gala dress.
Geraldine Moodie photographs (1904-1905 Hudson Bay expedition
Aheamuit, Tribe of Arloo, Arviat, 1937
Donald Benjamin Marsh (1903-1973)
Inuit is a plural noun, its singular is Inuk.
Hudson's Bay Company Ships with Inuit off the Upper Savage Islands,
Hudson Strait, 1819
Here is the Coat of Arms with the caribou or reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), an igloo and an iceberg, dwarf fireweed (Chamerion latifolium), Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum) and Arctic heather (Cassiope tetragona).
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