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Bill Steer

Bill Steer

Back Roads Bill Steer is the founder and remains the GM of the Canadian Ecology Centre. He teaches part-time at Nipissing University (Schulich School of Education) and Canadore College. His features can be found across Village Media's Northern Ontario sites

Email
wilstonsteer@gmail.com

Recent Work by Bill

BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part two. Slow for undulations

BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part two. Slow for undulations

This week, we travel with Bill on the longest seasonal winter road, learning about the life and times of people he finds there
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BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part one

BACK ROADS BILL: Road trip, part one

Part one this week of an epic Canadian road trip like no other to the Great White North with a look at the rise of Canadianism
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BACK ROADS BILL: Different views of who’s howl

BACK ROADS BILL: Different views of who’s howl

Bill says this winter there seems to be a good many wolves out on the back roads, and through a Wolf ID 101 explains the current state of who thinks what
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BACK ROADS BILL: White Otter Castle

BACK ROADS BILL: White Otter Castle

This week Bill takes us on a back roads’ winter tour of a northern Ontario log cabin like no other
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BACK ROADS BILL: Snowshoeing, heritage activity in a modern context

BACK ROADS BILL: Snowshoeing, heritage activity in a modern context

This week, Bill invites us to go snowshoeing with a primer on a truly winter heritage activity
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BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train - Part two

BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train - Part two

This week in part two of two stories Bill does a repeat on the Budd car – a train ride through a winter wonderland and more for many different reasons
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BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train, part 1

BACK ROADS BILL: Take the winter train, part 1

This week, in part one, of two installments, Bill does a repeat on the Budd car – a train ride through a winter wonderland and more
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BACK ROADS BILL: Winter ice roads

BACK ROADS BILL: Winter ice roads

This week Bill is out and about on the north’s ice roads
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BACK ROADS BILL: Winter with dogs

BACK ROADS BILL: Winter with dogs

This week Bill shows us there are lots of things to do with your dog on the back roads in winter
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BACK ROADS BILL: shares significance of 'People of the Watershed'

BACK ROADS BILL: shares significance of 'People of the Watershed'

This week, Bill tells us about John Macfie, a settler who travelled the Hudsons Bay watershed in the 50s and 60s capturing images of life in isolated northern Indigenous communities - and about a travelling exhibit of his photos curated by Paul Seesequasis
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