About "RCGS"
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration, and one of the largest non-profit educational organizations in the nation.
John Geiger (pictured in Canada’s central Arctic in 2014, during the successful Parks Canada-led Victoria Strait Expedition to locate British explorer John Franklin’s lost ships), has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Calgary. (Photo: Nick Walker/RCGS)
Ned Bell is the executive chef at Ocean Wise, a conservation program focused on making sustainable seafood more accessible. (Photo: Meighan Makarchuk)
Nikon Canada and the RCGS join forces as Official Photography Partners. (Photo: Michelle Valberg)
John Geiger, CEO of the RCGS, presents Princess Anne with an RCGS Fellows neck badge in St. James's Palace today in London. The badge denotes the Princess Royal's status as an Honorary Fellow of the RCGS. (Photo: royal.uk)
Left to right: Wade Davis, Alex Trebek, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Royal Canadian Geographical Society CEO John Geiger unveil a plaque commemorating the official opening of Canada‘s Centre for Geography and Exploration on May 13, 2019. (Photo: Ben Powless/Canadian Geographic)
Alex Trebek addresses the audience at the official opening of 50 Sussex, Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration, in Ottawa on May 13. (Photo: Andrew Lessard/Canadian Geographic)
Dr. Roberta Bondar, seen here with camera on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic, has been invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honour in the nation. (Photo courtesy Roberta Bondar)
Ken McGoogan’s new book encompasses both the eviction of Scots from their homelands and their efforts to settle in pre-Confederation Canada. “Summer View in the environs of the Company Fort Douglas on the Red River,” by artist Peter Rindisbacher, depicts the early years of the Manitoba settlement, but cannot evoke the extreme hardship and conflict that defined the experience. (Left: HarperCollins; right: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-250-37)
Phil Lind was the “abominable no man” to Canadian business legend Ted Rogers, but together they built a multi-billion-dollar telecommunications empire — a story Lind recounts in his 2018 memoir. (Photos courtesy Rogers Communications)
A stretch of the upper Wind River, at the northern reach of the Mackenzie Mountains. David McGuffin, Graham McGuffin and Terry Camsell paddled this route during their voyage through the Peel River watershed. (Photo: David McGuffin)
