Wednesday, November 16, 6 pm with Bénédicte Ramade, Guest Curator of the exhibition
Adrien Missika. Documentation photograph of Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2011 Take a behind-the-scenes tour of The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video
Wednesday, November 16, 6 pm with Bénédicte Ramade, Guest Curator of the exhibition
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Baby Blanding's turtles, a threatened species, released in Rouge National Urban Park
Parks Canada shared photos of the baby turtles before they were released into the park. The age of guessing is passed away': an exhibition to mark the David Thompson Bicentennial10/6/2016 "In later life, David Thompson habitually signed himself ‘Astronomer and Surveyor Under the 6th and 7th Articles of the Treaty of Ghent.’ It is telling that Thompson identified more closely with this role, which he held from 1817 to 1827, than with the work on which his fame rests today: his fur trade career with the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, lasting from 1784 to 1812. In one respect, Thompson’s use of the title was self-interested, as it emphasizes work performed on behalf of his country (service meaningful to the political and commercial figures with which he corresponded, and whose patronage he often sought), and elides the ambiguous legacy of his departure from the HBC, and the demise of the NWC, in which he had been a partner. But the term also reflects Thompson’s conception of himself as one who engaged in the scientific pursuits of observing the heavens, measuring the land, and using the data he obtained to create maps."
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/exhibitions/thompson/ A variety of natural landscapes is found in the Park, from the rolling hills of the glacial Oak Ridges Moraine north of Toronto, to the vast wetlands and sandy beach where the Rouge River empties into Lake Ontario. The Park thus provides a vital reservoir of biodiversity in the Petticoat Creek, Duffins Creek and Rouge River watersheds in the Toronto area of the Ontario Greenbelt. Rouge Park includes many of the best examples of forests, meadows, ponds and wetlands in the highly populated area near Canada's largest city. We undertake a wide array of restoration projects to improve the quality of the Park's habitats for future generations.
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