Speaker Series: Adam Shoalts

Name: Speaker Series: Adam Shoalts
Start: 2025-11-22T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 2077 Ashburnham Drive, Peterborough, ON, Canada, Ontario K9L 1P8

Schedule

Sat, 22 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2077 Ashburnham Drive, Peterborough, ON, Canada, Ontario K9L 1P8 | Peterborough, ON

National bestselling author and professional adventurer Adam Shoalts will join us to discuss his well-known expeditions in Canada’s wilderness, including his newest book, Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell. It is the story of a legendary lost explorer who disappeared more than a century ago and Shoalts’s quest to retrace his route to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.
🕕 A one hour talk will be followed by a Q&A, and book sales.
Doors open at 6:00 PM | Event starts at 7:00 PM
This event is part of The Canadian Canoe Museum’s Speaker Series.
DETAILS
🚪 Doors open at 6:00 PM for a social hour.
🍺 A selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase.
🏛️ Event takes place in the Gathering Room on the second floor.
🎟 All tickets are General Seating.
🚗 Parking is free. Accessible parking is available in front of the Museum. General parking is available at the Eastgate Memorial Park across the road.
🪪 Members save 10%!
ABOUT ADAM SHOALTS
Adam Shoalts is a professional adventurer and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects, but Shoalts is best known for his long solo wilderness journeys, including crossing alone nearly 4,000 km of Canada’s Arctic. Named one of the “greatest living explorers” by CBC and declared “Canada’s Indiana Jones” by the Toronto Star, Shoalts’s latest quest was retracing the route of a lost explorer, the subject of his new bestselling book Vanished Beyond the Map. His other books include Where the Falcon Flies, The Whisper on the Night Wind, A History of Canada in 10 Maps, and Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic, all of them national bestsellers. He has a PhD from McMaster University in history, and in his free time, enjoys long walks in the woods.