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Continued from page 31 If you can't make it all the way to Churchill, a new exhibit at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo will bring it to you. Slated to open in late June 2014, the four-hectare Journey to Churchill takes visitors through three separate zones and a variety of flora and fauna. In the Wapusk Lowlands, leave the prairies behind and head to a boreal forest to spot moose, black bears and grey wolves. Then go north into the tundra for a look at snowy owls, arctic foxes, caribou, muskox and polar bears. From your viewpoint inside a three-metre-wide acrylic tunnel at Gateway to the Arctic, watch ringed seals and polar bears swim by; separated only by a clear wall, these two species can still see and smell each other. Also here, the domed Aurora Borealis Theatre projects dancing northern lights above a 360-degree Arctic landscape during a short film on the region's inhabitants, plants and animals. The third zone, the Churchill Coast, caps off the route with facades of the frontier-like northern community; eat lunch at the Tundra Grill while polar bears amble by the floor-to-ceiling windows. Assiniboine Park Conservancy winnipeg's wild side The Journey to Churchill exhibit will include a three-metre-wide acrylic viewing tunnel; (left) the newly released State of Grace. And if you can't make it to Winnipeg, pick up the newly released coffee table book, State of Grace: A Photographic Tribute to Canada's Polar Bears, by Saskatchewan photo grapher Jason Leo Bantle. —Sheila Hansen ℹ imagineaplace.ca Order State of Grace online at caask.ca/books. Member price: $85.50; non-member price: $95. Westworld p26-33_Life-FurLane.indd 33 >> fa l l 2 0 1 3 33 13-08-19 8:59 AM