Q & A
Thomas Roy Bourdages
My Blog
- Hometown:
- Montreal, QC
- What conservation issue is closest to your heart?
- Plastic pollution and general waste management. The amount of plastic waste found on the ocean bed, in rivers and in city streets is alarming. It’s also an issue that everybody can help with on a daily basis.
- What are you hoping to learn from CCC?
- I would like to learn how my everyday life impacts the place that I’m going to visit so I can implement change back home. I would enjoy taking part in a specific project on conservation but also get information that I could share on how to have an impact in everyday life.
- Who/what inspired you to care about conservation?
- Olafur Eliasson inspired me. He is a really interesting artist who drew inspiration from nature and his homeland of Iceland.
- If you could sit down with anyone in the world and have tea or coffee, who would it be? And why?
- Keith Haring. I would like to understand more about his view on mixing art and activism.
My Experience So Far
Paddle to the Sea
Stage 1
Things start out rather “kozy” for Group 11 CCC members, whose adventure begins when they get dropped off at Kozy Hollow Lodge in North Lake, New Brunswick. North Lake is on the drainage system of the St. Croix waterway. It is part of the traditional Portage trail of the Mik'ma and it reaches the traditional lands of the Passamaquoddy First Nation. Today the St. Croix is also an international waterway, forming part of the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. It encompasses the Chiputneticook Lakes and the wilderness of Spednic Lake Provincial Park. Group 11 will practice their paddling and wilderness camp skills along the shore of Eel Lake before heading on to Passamaquoddy Bay via the lower St. Croix River. Along the way the team paddle many lakes and streams, visit islands and coves, and have opportunity to get awe-struck by the moose population, beavers, bird life and forests, all beautiful examples of Acadian forest biodiversity and Bay of Fundy nature.