Exploration

First images of Quest wreck reveal Shackleton’s last ship draped with abandoned fishing nets, bursting with life

An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has found that the wreck of the storied polar exploration ship is an oasis for marine life in the Labrador Sea

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People & Culture

Our Country: Anne Murray on making music and memories in northern Nova Scotia

The legendary Canadian singer shares her favourite place in Canada and why it was the perfect location for making childhood memories

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People & Culture

The watchers: On patrol with the Canadian Rangers

With more eyes on the Arctic, the Canadian Rangers embark on their longest patrol in recent history — a path forward for Canada’s defence and its deepening relationship with the North

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Travel

Back to the Beast: cycling the “Giant of Provence”

He never planned to return to Mont Ventoux, one of the Tour de France’s most notorious climbs. But merde happens.

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Travel

Inside Canada’s most unusual ghost town

For decades, the remote former mining town of Kitsault has sat abandoned in northern B.C., yet someone continues to spend millions maintaining its empty streets and pristine buildings

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Heroic Age Expedition

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Updates from the 2026 Heroic Age Expedition

Follow along as an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society surveys the wrecks of Quest and Terra Nova in the Labrador Sea

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Exploration

RCGS-led expedition to survey two historic shipwrecks: Quest and Terra Nova

An international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is heading to the North Atlantic to examine iconic ships of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

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Exploration

Finding Quest

Inside the expedition that found famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed last ship

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Exploration

How the Quest was found

Episode 86

World-renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns and lead researcher for the RCGS Shackleton-Quest Expedition Antoine Normandin take us behind the scenes of the search for Quest

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History

150 years of soccer in Toronto

Toronto welcomes the FIFA World Cup to Canada, after a century and a half of the beautiful game

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Science & Tech

Scientists measured Toronto’s winter air pollution. Some of their findings were surprising

A massive study of winter air pollution conducted by more than 100 scientists is shedding light on our exposure to everything from microplastics to metals

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Wildlife

Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together

Amid oil and gas threats to the ancient calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and startling population declines, people on both sides of the border are coming together to protect them

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Environment

It was a family ranch for generations. Now, it’s protected as native prairie grassland

An Albertan with deep roots in the Prairies donated 507 hectares of native prairie grassland along the Oldman River to be conserved under the federal government’s Ecological Gifts Program, which offers significant tax benefits for landowners willing to donate ecologically sensitive land

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Calling all wildlife photographers

Enter the 2026 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition!

Canadian Geographic’s highly-anticipated Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition is back and we’re looking for your BEST shots!

Whether it’s wings in flight, life beneath the surface, wildlife on the land, or the world of flora and fungi, we want to see what you’ve got.

The Competition ends at 11:59 p.m. ET July 3, 2026.

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Environment

Scientists discovered the same fungus 40 years and an ocean apart. A mycologist explains how

For mycologist Greg Thorn, the two chance discoveries reveal how little we know about fungi

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Places

Troubling signs of climate change are showing up on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island

Despite its isolation, tiny Sable Island is a microcosm of the broader environmental forces reshaping our world

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Science & Tech

Fearfully great lizards: A brief history of how we know what we know about dinosaurs

Technology is radically changing our understanding of how dinosaurs looked and behaved, revealing a far more dynamic prehistoric world than we ever imagined

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People & Culture

“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks

Deepsea canyons along the Southern Newfoundland Slope shelter ancient cold-water corals and rich marine biodiversity. Scientists are racing to uncover and protect this fragile ecosystem before it’s lost.

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Science & Tech

Hard core: How scientists drilled a record ice core in the Canadian High Arctic

An ice core from the Canadian Arctic’s Axel Heiberg Island, the deepest drilled in the Americas, is a record of ancient sea ice past

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Discovery Language

People & Culture

Pitewey and cookies: a Mi’kmaw auntie’s fight to revitalize her language

Katrina Clair is teaching Mi’kmaw to ensure kids like her children always have access to the language

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People & Culture

Inuktuusuunguvit? (Do you speak Inuktut?)

Ottawa is home to a booming Inuit community reclaiming their language and culture

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People & Culture

Unspoken: The Cree code talkers of the prairies

nêhiyawak soldiers bent their language to help secure the Allied victory in the Second World War, but their service is often forgotten

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People & Culture

The birth of a language speaker

In the first part of Canadian Geographic’s Discovery Language series, one Kanyen’kehá:ka family shares what it takes to raise a language speaker

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Our places, our voices

Our Country - Notre Pays

For nearly 15 years, Canadian Geographic has been asking notable Canadians to share their favourite place in Canada. From lakeside family retreats to urban hideaways, the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains to the endless horizon of the Arctic tundra, the rocky shores of Newfoundland to the windswept beaches of western Vancouver Island, their answers highlight the geographic diversity of Canada and the love that unites us. These are our places. This is our country,

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Recent Podcast Episodes

People & Culture

The Guess Who’s Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman on Canadian music, travel and the prairies

Episode 130

In this special Canada Day episode, Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman revisit the people, places and experiences that inspired The Guess Who’s legendary music

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People & Culture

Sing Louder, Paddle Harder: Exploring Canada’s Arctic rivers with Ted Johnson

Episode 129

For more than 20 years, Ted Johnson and his companions paddled some of the wildest and least-travelled rivers in Canada, sharing adventures, close calls and unforgettable moments on the land

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Exploration

Retracing a historic fur trade route across Quebec with Bruno Forest

Episode 128

For 97 days, this team of six paddled 1,200 kilometres in hand-built canoes from Tadoussac to Waskaganish, Que. while tracing a historic fur trade route

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People & Culture

At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight

Episode 127

The conservation scientist and seabird researcher shares her insights on studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica and what it’s like to live in one of Earth’s most remote research stations

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Shipwrecks

Exploration

Finding Quest

Inside the expedition that found famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed last ship

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Travel

Chasing storms and shipwrecks on the Oregon Coast

Offering something for everyone, this 584-kilometre wind-swept shoreline is packed with historical sites, isolated beaches, quiet seaside towns and more