Pottery, Royalty, Northern Rivers, Etc.
15 Apr
Fair Warning: This post will span the globe from England to Ontario to the Far North. It will also mention art, outfitting, canoe museums, the British Royal Family, a friend of ours, and a woman cooking a meal in Norman Wells, Northwest Territories.
So … we read recently, HERE, that a potter named Allan Pace would be showing his canoeing-inspired works at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario beginning May 10.
The brochure for the show can be found HERE. You can see more of Pace’s work HERE. Pace is also an adventure outfitter, whose business, Canoe North Adventures, leads paddlers on trips in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
In the story about his show we also learned that Pace and Prince Andrew, Britain’s Duke of York, are old school chums. Awhile back they paddled the Coppermine River together and, last summer, paddled the Natla and Keele Rivers — where the CBC reported, HERE, that they stopped for a meal at Carolyn Wright’s home in Norman Wells, a town of 761 on the MacKenzie River.
We actually remembered that Prince Andrew was a paddler. Indeed, we’ve heard a story from his trip down the Hanbury-Thelon with then-wife Sarah Ferguson from a friend of ours who bumped into the recently-married couple on the river.
Our friend and her party had wondered about the low-flying air-traffic above them on the remote river before they came upon the royal couple and their party. They chatted with “Fergie” and sent letters home via the Prince.
Pace’s show at the CCM runs until June 1.
