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From our 2024–2025 Season
On 11 January, 2025
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Visiting Qausuittuq National Park in the Canadian Arctic

Marlis Butcher

Environmental Conservationist, Author, and Photographer

Burlington resident Marlis Butcher has close connections to the Niagara and Hamilton area. She is

  • a member of the Board, Royal Botanical Gardens;
  • a life-time member and 9-year former Board member of the Bruce Trail Conservancy.

Ms Butcher has received national and inter­national recognition as a wilderness explorer and photo­grapher. Among other honours and positions, she is

  • a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (FRCGS);
  • a Fellow of The Explorers Club and Membership Director of the club's Canadian chapter.

In July, 2016, Ms. Butcher visited what was then Canada`s newest (2015-) national park, Qausuittuq (pronounced cow-soo-ee-took, meaning “a place where the sun doesn’t rise”).

In 2019 she became the first person to have visited all of Canada's national parks (a total of 47 at that time). New parks have been created since then and Marlis’s quest to visit them all continues.

In 2021, hoping to inspire others to appreciate the country and visit the parks, Marlis published Park Bagger: Adventures in the Canadian National Parks (Rocky Mountain Books), in which she shares stories and photographs of her many national park visits.

Watch Marlis Butcher`s Presentation

Our speaker's presentation is followed by a few words of thanks from HAALSA President Bernadette Ryan, a question-and-answer session, and Bernadette`s closing remarks.  (1h 8m 23s)

Concerning Our Recordings

  • The video is limited to what was dis­play­ed to the audience on the large screen at the front of the lecture venue. We have no picture-in-picture video of our speaker at the podium.
  • Questions from the audience were, as usual, too faint to be heard. (We always ask our speakers to repeat the question before starting their response.)