Waaseyaa Cultural Tours
Waaseyaa Cultural Tours was created in 2018 to enhance the awareness and understanding of Algonquin Anishinaabeg history and culture throughout unceded Algonquin territory and beyond.
All tours offered by Waaseyaa Consulting are completely customized to the unique needs, abilities and interests of clients. Experiences offered include guided interpretive forest walks, storytelling, and workshops featuring tactile components such as replica stone tools and beadwork.
Waaseyaa Cultural Tours is a branch of Waaseyaa Consulting.
Who We Are
Christine Luckasavitch
Lead Guide
Christine Luckasavitch is Madaoueskarini Algonquin and mixed settler, living in her ancestral territory at the headwaters of the Madawaska River. Her work is centered around creating spaces for Indigenous peoples to share their knowledges, both in physical and digital spaces, and encouraging the re-emergence of ancestral kinship ties. She is the owner of Waaseyaa Consulting and Waaseyaa Cultural Tours, two small businesses dedicated to reviving and celebrating Indigenous ancestral knowledge and culture-based practices through educational opportunities. She is the co-owner of Algonquin Motors, a woman-led motorcycle clothing company that celebrates the land now also known as Algonquin Park. Christine is a graduate of Acadia University, and she is currently finishing her Masters Degree at Trent University, her thesis offering a critique of Algonquin Park as a wilderness space and the continued impacts on her Algonquin community. She is also working on her first book, centred around the history of Madaoueskarini Algonquins.
Dr. Mark Webber
German-Speaking Tour Guide
Dr. Mark Webber has been adventuring around the lands and waters in and around Algonquin Provincial Park for over fifty years. For the first forty years of that time, his day job was as a professor at York University in Toronto, where he directed The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. A graduate of Harvard (AB) and Yale (MPhil, PhD), he specializes in questions of intercultural (mis)understandings. For his contributions to German-Canadian relations, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit. Since retiring to Whitney, ON, just outside of Algonquin Park, he has worked as an interpretive naturalist for The Friends of Algonquin Park. His German-language book Algonquin Park, Eine sehr persönliche (Ein-)führung, is available at Algonquin Park bookstores.