Minister Cannon delivers opening remarks at a reception for Canada's Arctic Council Advisory Committee at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. |
It is believed that the last ice age forced some llama ancestors to move into South America while some migrated north across Beringia to Asia. |
In the afternoon, city-tour and visit of the Beringia Museum and the SS-Klondike. |
It is possible that a small founder population had entered Beringia before that time. |
Brown bears migrated to eastern Beringia from Asia probably in the early Wisconsinan Glaciation. |
The lower sea levels exposed an enormous land bridge across the Bering Sea, known as Beringia. |