Travel
Wild adventures in Labrador
An epic tour of the remote western Torngats appeals to adventure-seeking geography geeks, with treks via foot, boat and plane to explore the area’s geological and wildlife riches
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People & Culture
Inuit-led project tells the story of Inuit connections with caribou
After a total hunting ban was issued on caribou in 2013, Inuit across Labrador are sharing their experience and thoughts about caribou-related change
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People & Culture
Training Lunar Explorers in Labrador
Episode 42
As NASA and the world’s space agencies prepare to return to the moon, geologist Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinski helps train potential lunar explorers in remote northern Labrador on what they could find there
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Mapping
Our land: Mapping Nitassinan
An Innu school board has created a map to pass on intergenerational knowledge to schoolchildren
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Exploration
Adam Shoalts shares a spooky story of the Canadian wilderness
Episode 23
Gather ’round and listen as explorer and bestselling author Adam Shoalts spins a spine-tingling tale of tracking a legendary creature in Labrador’s Mealy Mountains
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Science & Tech
Why a Labrador crater is the perfect training ground for future moon explorers
Future missions to the moon will focus heavily on geology. Fortunately, Canada offers astronauts the perfect place to hone their skills.
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Exploration
Shoalts: What lurks beyond the flicker of the firelight?
An explorer unravels the story of an early 20th century haunting in the isolated foothills of Labrador’s Mealy Mountains
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Travel
Across the tickle: A return to Battle Harbour
For generations, Battle Harbour was considered the unofficial capital of Labrador, a centre of fishing through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, it has reinvented itself as a remote island getaway known for its rugged beauty
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Travel
Battle Harbour through photos
For generations, Battle Harbour was considered the unofficial capital of Labrador, a centre of fishing through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, it has reinvented itself as a remote island getaway known for its rugged beauty
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People & Culture
Remembering Selma Barkham, who revealed the history of Basque whaling in Canada
The historian and geographer filled in “a great gap” in Canadian history, from the time of Cartier to the arrival of Champlain
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History
The man who challenged the Hudson’s Bay Company
The amazing story of Renatus Tuglavina, remembered in northern Labrador as a folk hero
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Travel
Gear Review: Justin Barbour puts a MEC life jacket to the ultimate test
The adventurer behind the Man and Dog expedition puts a life jacket through its paces in the Labrador and northern Quebec wilderness
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History
When death came to Labrador
An excerpt from We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919
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Exploration
Canoeing the untouched wilderness of the Labrador Peninsula
Justin Barbour and his dog, Saku, will travel 1,700 kilometres from the North West River in Labrador across remote northern Quebec to the shores of Hudson Bay
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Can Geo Education unveils new Giant Floor Map of Newfoundland and Labrador
Crowdfunded by Fellows of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the new teaching tool is the first provincial map of its kind
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Places
Photos: Exploring the Torngat Mountains, a place of spirits
Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence Michelle Valberg offers a glimpse at her journey to Torngat Mountains National Park in Labrador
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Environment
Inside Catherine McKenna’s tour of Nunatsiavut
The Environment and Climate Change minister visited Labrador’s Inuit region from August 2 – 5 to explore all-Indigenous National Park management and the impacts of climate change in the area.