BC Rivers Presentation

Here's a presentation that might interest you. Laurel Archer, a friend of Undercurrents, is doing a free presentation about the fabulous rivers of Northern BC! Below is the press release she sent me.

On November 5, 2009 the Calgary Public Library is hosting a multi-media slideshow by Laurel Archer, paddler, guide and author. She will be presenting on canoeing northern BC's wild rivers. The presentation is from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in Meeting Room #1, Lower Level, Central Library, 616 Macleod Trail SE.

Laurel Archer has been a canoe guide and instructor for over twenty years, starting her career in 1988 in northern Saskatchewan. She currently lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island teaching lake and whitewater canoeing and sea, surf and whitewater kayaking for the Canadian Outdoor Leadership Training Program at Strathcona Park Lodge, as well as guiding commercial canoe and kayak trips. Archer also spends part of the year writing. Northern Saskatchewan Canoe Trips: A Guide to 15 Wilderness Rivers was her first published book. Volume one of Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips was released in 2008 and volume two of the series will be available in 2010. She is a patron of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society's Boreal Forest Program and is a member of the International Explorers Club. In her spare time, Archer canoe races competitively, paddling in events and on waterways all over the globe. She has been known to hike, but prefers to use gravity in her favour whenever possible. She learned that from living on the prairie. The North taught her what it means to be free.

Archer's presentation is a one-hour, multi-media event based on slides from fifteen river routes described in the two-volume guidebook series Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips, published by Rocky Mountain Books. She will speak about the natural and human history of northern BC's major watersheds lying north of the 55th parallel and showcase through her photography the amazing variety of environments one encounters paddling through the Cassiar, Skeena, Omineca, Coast and northern Rocky mountains and across associated plateaus and plains. She will answer questions and sell and sign books following the presentation.

For more information contact Laurel Archer via www.laurelarcher.com.