Sunday 
2 April 
6:30 a.m. 
to 
6:30 p.m. 
SPRING BIRDING AT PRESQU'ILE 
Leaders: Tom Hanrahan & David Britton. 
Meet: Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre, NE corner of the 
parking lot, Richmond Rd. at Assaly Rd. by Pizza Pizza 
The Club’s traditional spring outing to Presqu’ile 
Provincial Park offers an ideal opportunity to study the 
diverse assortment of water fowl that congregate in the 
surrounding waters during their northward migration. 
Transportation will be by a comfortable motor coach 
equipped with washroom. Bring a lunch. We usually stop 
for a coffee break going and on the return trip home. Dress 
appropriately for the weather. The cost is $28 which will 
cover entrance fees to Presqu’ile. (PLEASE REGISTER 
EARLY; see the introduction to Coming Events for 
information.) 
Please remember to set your clocks AHEAD before 
retiring Saturday as this is daylight savings weekend. 
Tuesday 
11 April 
7:00 p.m. 
Social & Club 
business 
OFNC MONTHLY MEETING 
THELON GAME SANCTUARY: WHERE TIME 
AND LIGHT STAND STILL 
Speaker: Max Finkelstein 
Meet: Auditorium, Canadian Museum of Nature, Metcalfe 
and McLeod Streets. 
7:30 p.m. 
Speaker 
The Thelon Game Sanctuary is one of the largest, and 
most remote protected areas in Canada, and the last 
mainland area of Canada to be explored by Europeans. 
Here is the land of the Pleistocene, or as close as one can 
get to it these days anywhere on earth. It is a land barely 
out of the Ice Age, a land unchanged by our society, where 
you can travel for weeks and not see another person. Here 
is Canada’s ‘Serengeti’—one of the world’s largest, least 
disturbed ecosystems. Here, caribou still migrate vast 
distances. Grizzly Bears and wolves roam, raptors soar, 
and Musk Ox graze undisturbed. Yet this had once been a 
peopled land and their marks bear testimony to the people 
who had called this land home. 
Max hopes to bring a taste of the magic and mystery of the 
Thelon Game Sanctuary through slides and stories. 
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