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Finding home in Norway
A journey through three Relais & Châteaux properties brings one writer closer to her ancestry
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History
The San Juan sails again
The first floating of the recreated 16th-century Basque whaling ship brings a little-known chapter of Spanish and Canadian history full circle
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Travel
Unexpected art, wonder and history in Aruba
Once dismissed as the “useless island” by Spanish explorers, Aruba has quickly become one of the Caribbean’s most rewarding destinations
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The good life: a walk in the park in Congo
The dense forests and peatlands of the Congo Basin are home to diverse life where tourism contributes to conservation
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Heroic Age Expedition
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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Exploration
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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Celebrating Shark Week
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Inside photographer Thomas Peschak’s world of conservation storytelling
The globally-renowned photographer discusses leaving behind the familiar world of ocean storytelling to document the Amazon’s fragile freshwater ecosystems as part of the Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition
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Wildlife
Shark tales: Canada’s great whites
As white sharks make their presence known off the coast of Atlantic Canada, researchers and locals want to know: should people be worried?
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Environment
Death on the ocean floor: a great white shark mystery
Encountering the carcass of one of the ocean’s top predators and how studying its remains can help researchers save the living
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Wildlife
Dead or alive: A dive into the landing ban on endangered shortfin mako sharks
Under Canadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental capture — but is it enough?
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Mapping
COVID-19 vaccine might require compounds from shark liver
Squalene, a compound found in shark liver oil, is a common ingredient used in vaccines to boost the body’s immune response
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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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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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Encore — Newfoundland, Cod Collapse and saving the North Atlantic right whale with Jenn Thornhill Verma
Episode 132
The award-winning journalist and RCGS Fellow joins Explore for a conversation about ocean conservation, fisheries and the future of marine life
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Exploration
HMCS Canada: The forgotten ship that built a navy with Joseph Frey
Episode 131
Naval historian Joseph Frey reveals how a modern expedition helped rewrite the story of one of Canada’s most significant warships
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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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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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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
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Travel
Diving Kingston’s shipwrecks: The hidden histories of Lake Ontario
Taking a closer look at Kingston’s museums below the surface
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History
The hunt for the Franklin Expedition shipwrecks
Parks Canada’s Ryan Harris searches for wreckage
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Food & Drink
People & Culture
A little Lebanon: From man’eesh to knafeh, a community sustained by food
Edmonton’s north side has sustained both appetite and tradition for more than half a century
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People & Culture
Film food: World-class cuisine meets cinematic excellence in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
How a tiny town in the Annapolis Valley became host to the largest film food festival in the world
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Travel
Canada’s non-alcoholic revolution
Robin Esrock investigates the growing trend of alcohol-free wine, beer and spirits
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People & Culture
An appetite for life: A Greek immigrant’s journey of hearty food and hospitality
The story of Peter Kontolemos’ decision to open a steak restaurant in Mackenzie, B.C., as told by his daughter
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Cooking with crickets: A sustainable food option packed with protein
Plus 10 of our favourite ways to eat crickets
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