| HISTORY |
Doug and Helen Webber started both a family and business together. Webber’s Lodges, Churchill Wild’s mother company, was born some 30 years ago. The three Webber girls contributed to the business from the moment they could and were regularly seen expediting, hauling building supplies, cooking, cleaning, conducting guest mail outs, fueling aircraft, and much (much) more. |
| PRESENT |
Churchill Wild was created by the Webber’s daughter Jeanne and her husband Mike Reimer. They have operated both Webber’s Lodges and Churchill Wild alongside Doug and Helen for the last 15 years. The Webber team expanded again some years ago when another of Doug and Helen's daughters, Toni, and her husband Nelson Morberg became involved in the business development and operations for Churchill Wild. This freed Doug and Helen to withdraw from the full-time lodge life and four partners, two primary guides, and some administrative team members remain! They are as follows: |
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DENNIS FAST
Guide Extraordinaire
Dennis has been a naturalist guide and professional photographer
for Churchill Wild for ten years. His ecological knowledge
of the Churchill area is extensive as a result and he appreciates
the wild beauty of this land like few others. Join him for
nature hikes where you will identify a wide variety of arctic
vegetation and wildlife. His frequent and thorough photography
workshops will help you to maximize this once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. Dennis has it all and is certainly a guide extraordinaire. |
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IAN THORLEIFSON
Guide Extraordinaire
Ian began working in Churchill in 1980. Since then, he has
maintained close contact with the community and its polar
bears through his work as a biologist, tour leader, and facilitator
for the Manitoba Wildlife Branch, Parks Canada, and Churchill
Wild. His big friendly smile and his comprehensive knowledge
of the arctic and its inhabitants (human and otherwise) have
made Ian a star amongst guests and fellow guides alike. |
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JEANNE REIMER
Chef Extraordinaire
Jeanne is both a Director of Operations with Churchill Wild
and an incredible chef. Her cooking skills are legendary,
and an invitation to her table is never turned down. Together
with her husband Mike, a transplanted prairie dog, they have
built what was and still is the first eco lodge on the Hudson
Bay. Seal River Heritage Lodge (one of Churchill Wild’s
three wilderness lodges) has become a Mecca for wildlife enthusiasts
from all parts of the globe who are eager to view polar bears,
swim with whales, and hike the tundra all while being wined
and dined in 5-Star arctic fashion. |
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MIKE REIMER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
The Ultimate Outdoorsman
Like his wife, Mike's role in Churchill Wild is twofold; he
is both a Director of Operations and the Ultimate Outdoorsman
His love for all things created led him north after high school
to realize his dream of becoming a wilderness guide &
outfitter; and realize it he did. Mike is an invaluable asset
in the bush. He has paddled, hiked, boated, flown over, dog
sledded, snowmobiled, and explored over a hundred thousand
square miles of the sub arctic land he loves. Mike is a jack-of-all-trades
and master of all. The leadership and management that Mike
and Jeanne have provided at the lodges has undoubtedly created
the repeat business Churchill Wild is famous for. |
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TONI MORBERG, Director of Business
Development
The Strategist
Toni oversees all aspects of Churchill Wild. Her premium management
skills and inherent business savvy have moved the already
well-established company her parents created, into international
stardom, attracting hundreds of outdoors people to Northern
Manitoba each year. |
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NELSON MORBERG, Director of Operations
The Aviator
Nelson is Churchill Wild’s “airplane savant”
as well as an avid outdoorsman. At 12, Nelson was fueling
aircraft for his father’s pilot at Calm Air and at 17,
was a licensed pilot himself. He’s been flying ever
since, and as our lodges are accessible only by air, the joke
goes that if you’re ever looking for Nelson, just look
up. |
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