2002-12-22 04:00:00 PDT Churchill, Manitoba-- On a frosty autumn day in 1894, the story goes, the gentlemen of Churchill, Manitoba, were just getting down to business at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall ...

CHURCHILL, Manitoba, Canada — The first of the day’s pale light has risen just enough for us to see breath coming in frosty puffs as we make our way to the van outside the Lazy Bear Lodge in Churchill ...

Wake up with polar bears outside your window on an unusual tour that includes spending two nights at Tundra Buggy Lodge at Polar Bear Point in Canada’s Churchill Wildlife Management Area. The ...

Sometime in the night our bunkhouse shuddered. Then something roared. I looked out the barred window, which separated the inky night into disjunctive frames. Earlier, eight bears had been milling ...

GETTING THERE: To reach polar bear country, you must first fly to Winnipeg and then take the train or fly the 710 miles north to Churchill. Air Canada, United and Northwest are among the airlines that ...

The tundra looked snowy and sparse, dotted with small ponds, as I looked out the airplane window while landing in Churchill, Manitoba. Were my husband, Lowell, and I crazy? What adventure had we ...

Every year from late fall to winter tourists from Great Britain, Germany, Japan, along with 1000's of Americans, make the journey to northern Manitoba, one of Canada’s most northern regions, for their ...

The Great Canadian Travel Co.’s six-day “Churchill Beluga Whale Tour” takes travelers to observe migrating belugas at the mouth of Canada‘s far-north Churchill River. Other highlights include a ...

It’s 46 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit I think, but when the air is that cold you don’t split hairs over Celsius or Fahrenheit. I’ve stored a glass of red wine on the tundra, under my camera and ...

Polar bears are the only mammal known to actively hunt humans. Still, every year Canada’s most feared, and revered, residents attract thousands of tourists from around the world. Not only do these ...