A young man called Angulalik Pedersen, from the western Nunavut Community of Kugluktuk, won a scholarship to attend high school at Upper Canada College in Toronto. A dream that emerged in the south was to one day take a few of his classmates to his home town. James...
After more than thirty years of work and travel in the Arctic, James started heading to Antarctica in with Students on Ice in 2007. This is the story of his venture into the magic and majesty of his first encounter with Austral ice, during a time of great change. ...
Following his first trip north as a labourer for ESSO in the summer of 1977, building metal buildings in Inuvik, James has spent part of every year somewhere in the Arctic. His recent circumnavigation of the world at the Arctic Circle has added to that experience and...
In 2010, James embarked on a project to travel around the world at the Arctic Circle to put a human face on climate change. Nearly three years of travel, living and travelling with people in Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska and Canada, has produced a...
Originally prepared in response to an invitation to speak at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in England's Lake District, this presentation presents three of James's best stories from a lifetime of work and adventure in Canada's north. The first is about an...
Originally prepared for a lecture in the International Polar Year Polar Perspectives Series for at forum for youth from across the Canadian Arctic that was held at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, this is a presentation is a story about climate change as...
A presentation growing out of James's Circling the Midnight Sun documentary and book project dedicated to putting a human face on climate change. Images and stories of people throughout the circumpolar world are are set against the backdrop of causes of and responses...
Developed for a special all-school Earth Day programs at various Ontario high schools, this presentation is essentially a climate change primer wrapped around a series of stories about Arctic adventures. Photographs of ice, large mammals and Arctic scenes are mixed...