Musician Tamara Lindeman was the artist in residence aboard the MV Polar Prince during the recent Students On Ice expedition. (Students On Ice/Facebook) A musician says sailing on an expedition along Labrador's northern coast — and then beyond — was the fruition of a longtime dream. For three weeks, the MV Polar Prince hosted the Students On Ice's recent Nunatsiavut to Nunavut expedition, facilitated by the Innu Nation.
The trip — which began in July in Nain and continued on to Iqaluit — brought students from across Canada as well as Indigenous elders, educators and scientists. Tamara Lindeman, a Canadian singer-songwriter who performs as the Weather Station, was on board as the artist in residence. She said the trip was eye-opening and helped her accomplish a longtime dream she'd had ever since she read about the establishment of Torngat Mountains National Park in 2008.
"I literally put it on my mental bucket list. I was very, very determined that some day I'd get there," Lindeman recently told CBC News. "I never dreamed it would be this way — which is by far the coolest way to see this landscape.
So I'm really overjoyed." One memorable sight was when the vessel was halfway up the tip of Torngat Mountains National Park, she said. "The mountains up here are massive.
They're really old. They're sort of rising right up out of the ocean. It's wild.
" Lindeman said one morning they had to wait on board the Polar Prince for two polar bears to leave the area before they co.