Take a journey with Jean and Bob Hilscher, an Award-winning Canadian film producer, along the Oxtongue Waterway near Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canada. It was here, beginning in 1912, that landscape artists Tom Thomson, along with future Group of Seven members Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley and A.J. Casson, began an artistic movement to paint the Canadian Wilderness. Over the course of three years, Jean and Bob canoed and filmed many of the actual locations where these artists once sketched and painted. Joan Murray, Canada's leading art scholar when it comes to Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, brings history alive as she relates the challenges that Thomson and the other artists faced out in the bush. But as we soon learn in "Painting the Wilderness of the Oxtongue", the wilderness where these artists once hiked, canoed, fished, froze and got soaked to the hide in is still out there, and despite the hardships that they faced, Tom Thomson a
Did you know that monarch butterflies can travel up to 50–100 miles a day? Multiply that number by about two months, and you’ve calculated the distance it takes monarchs to migrate to Mexico. Millions of monarchs partake in the massive migration from the regions of the US and Canada to arrive in Mexico to hibernate.
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This is a migrating Monarch butterfly feeding on a wildflower at an urban park in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Photo by: Gabriel Perez
Gabriel Perez
According to the US Forest Service, monarch butterflies are the only known of its species to make a two-way migration. Contrary to other butterflies, monarch populations migrate to Mexico to escape the winter season in the northern climates. NPR explains that cold, damp weather is considered fatal for monarchs, while hotter, drier summers alter their habitats in the north. 2020, however, saw a 26% decline from the year prior in migration patterns identified in a report from the World Wildlife Fu