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Oh, Canada! Our neighbor to the north offers families a wide range of vacation opportunities. You’ll find history, culture ...
Travel to Churchill in northern Canada to see the world’s greatest concentration of polar ... bears and Arctic biodiversity. Begin in Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba ...
Polar Bears are not the only large big-ticket mammals to visit Hudson Bay during the northern summer. Every year from June ...
In 1993, Don Shelby and a crew from WCCO embarked on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba in Canada. The trip was sparked by this curiosity: How do people and polar bears live side by side in the same ...
Churchill, Manitoba is known as the polar bear capital of the world. While it's not far from the Twin Cities, it's quite the journey to get there. Erin Hassanzadeh traveled to Churchill in the ...
Canada — On a cold November morning in the subarctic Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba, Ian Van Nest sits in the warmth of his SUV and peers through binoculars at a pair of polar bears ...
Polar bears are fearsome predators, but thankfully, most of us will never have to worry about encountering them in the wild.
Every autumn, hundreds of polar bears return to Churchill, Manitoba—Canada’s northernmost seaport, a.k.a. the “polar bear capital of the world.” There, they wait for sea ice to form on ...
Ian Van Nest rolls slowly through the streets of Churchill ... a bear monitor,” Van Nest, a conservation officer for the province of Manitoba, cautions as the tourists gaze at a polar bear ...
Churchill, a small village on the western edge of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba in Canada, offers some of the best access to polar bear viewing in the world. When the sea ice along the bay melts ...