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Featured Fellow: John England
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Limnologist John Smol to be awarded prestigious Vega Medal
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“One people, one planet, one life:” The story of a director’s chair and the Take Your Seat project
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Featured Fellow: Phil Lind
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Exploration
Meet the Canadian explorer who just completed the Seven Summits
Laval St. Germain summited Antarctica’s Mount Vinson on Dec. 31, meaning he has now climbed the highest peaks on every continent
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George Kourounis: Going to extremes
Whether outrunning a tornado, dodging lava bombs or hunkering down in a hurricane, explorer George Kourounis is most comfortable living on the edge
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Eight awesome things that happened at the 2018 RCGS Fellows Dinner
Remembering Louie Kamookak, a new Explorer-in-Residence and other highlights from the 89th Annual College of Fellows Dinner
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Places
RCGS launches 2018 Summer Exhibits series at 50 Sussex
Summer series features three exhibitions: Compass by Hilde Lambrechts, Explore by Chris Cran, and Lessons from the Arctic, an artifact display honouring Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
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Six more amazing things RCGS Fellows are up to this year
From painting a new side of the Franklin expedition to documenting shipwrecks along Ontario’s Hudson Bay Coast, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
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Featured Fellow: Meric Gertler
The University of Toronto president is a world leader in urban theory and the geography of innovation, creativity and culture in city centres
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Seven amazing things RCGS Fellows are up to this year
From documenting rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia to sonar-scanning B.C. waters for steam-era shipwrecks, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
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Remembering Bill Lishman
Fly away home, Father Goose
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Eight big moments from the 2017 RCGS Fellows Dinner and AGM
Exploration, education, new Fellows and the launch of RCGS Resolute: here are some of the highlights from the 2017 RCGS Fellows Dinner and AGM
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10 awesome things that happened at the 2016 RCGS Fellows Dinner
Celebrating new partnerships, milestone anniversaries and a bird for Canadians on geography's biggest night
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Featured Fellow: Wendy Cecil
Wendy Cecil is a Toronto-based philanthropist and the former vice-president of business development at Brascan Ltd. (now Brookfield Asset Management). She is chancellor at…
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