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Canoe love
Canadian Canoe Museum explores the link between paddling and romance
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History
Canadian Canoe Museum explores the link between paddling and romance
Travel
The trail started with a vision to link Canada coast to coast to coast. Now fully connected, it’s charting an ambitious course for the future.
Science & Tech
Massive oilfields, huge offshore rigs, high-tech refineries, colossal dams, sprawling wind farms — how much do you really know about BIG power in Canada?
Places
It’s an ambitious plan: take the traditional Parks Canada wilderness concept and plunk it in the country’s largest city. But can Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park help balance city life with wildlife?
Travel
Inspired by age-old travelways, a new canoe route knits together the Trans Canada Trail
People & Culture
For my father and me, these journeys are both personal and political
People & Culture
Ce projet multiplateforme et ambitieux, lancé par les peuples autochtones, sera un outil d’éducation et de réconciliation.
People & Culture
Ambitious multi-platform, Indigenous-led project will be a tool for education and reconciliation
People & Culture
The director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation reflects on Indigenous progress in 2017 and looks ahead to 2067
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Wildlife
Largely unheralded until Canadian Geographic’s National Bird Project was held, the renamed Canada jay — formerly grey jay — has become in many minds the country’s national bird
Wildlife
A new report from Nature Conservancy Canada and NatureServe Canada is the first of its kind to compile over 300 species that are unique to Canada.
Wildlife
Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay
Wildlife
Does a bird need to be famous to hold the title of Canada’s National Bird? Jody Allair thinks not.
Wildlife
Conserving at-risk species is difficult when they’re constantly crossing international borders, but digital tools are making it easier than ever to track feathered globetrotters
History
Noteworthy occasions in a lifetime of service between Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth country she has visited more than any other
History
L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie
History
A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe
History
The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic
Mapping
Notable works capture the danger and drama of Arctic exploration
Mapping
Natural Resources Canada releases new Atlas of Canada
Mapping
Early maps of the railways that shaped our country
Mapping
Canadian Geographic cartographer Chris Brackley continues his exploration of charting the coronavirus pandemic
Mapping
Marine protected areas are widely considered to be an effective tool for ocean conservation. But are they living up to their full potential?
People & Culture
People & Culture
Exploration
Science & Tech
People & Culture
Exploration
People & Culture
People & Culture
The items given to Syrian refugees — warm clothing, DVDs, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — represent more than just practical considerations; they're the building blocks of a shared Canadian identity
People & Culture
Experts weighed in on Canada's national bird in debate at the Canadian Museum of Nature
People & Culture
In celebration of its 90th year, the RCGS handed out awards to a diverse and star-studded roster of honourees
Welcome to 50 Sussex, Canada’s new Centre for Geography and Exploration
0210 awesome things that happened at the 2016 RCGS Fellows Dinner
03Canada, Denmark end 50-year “Whiskey War” over Hans Island
04Five awesome things that happened at the official opening of Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration
History
Omar Mouallem, auteur de Praying to the West : How Muslims Shaped the Americas (Prière vers l’Occident : comment les musulmans ont façonné les Amériques), examine pourquoi une foi inébranlable dans le projet de multiculturalisme canadien – commune à la génération d'immigrants musulmans arrivés dans les années 1970 – n'est pas toujours partagée par ceux qui ont migré au cours des 20 dernières années, et est rarement ressentie par leurs enfants
Wildlife
An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.
People & Culture
The author of a new book, The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country, discusses the lasting impact of Canada's Centennial year
People & Culture
People & Culture
Images from an annual odyssey to reclaim tradition and territory in the Pacific Northwest
Science & Tech
A Q&A with concrete-canoe-building engineers
Environment
Indigenous conservationists are listening in to track the impacts of climate change on the boreal forest
People & Culture
We asked some of Canada’s most accomplished photographers why they dedicate their time to capturing images of nature. Here’s what they said.
Environment
35 events, 16,600 hours and 7,510 recorded species: the results are in from a series of bioblitz events held to commemorate Canada 150
Wildlife
The innovative structures are heralded for having opened migration corridors and saved countless animals from vehicle collisions
Kids
Environment
A new report by Alpine Club of Canada scientists and other experts highlights worrying trends in Canada’s mountain ecosystems
Environment
The Alpine Club of Canada covers everything from wildfires to watermelon snow in its recently published annual report on Canada's alpine environments
Environment
Environment
In his new book, Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada, Roy MacGregor examines the historical legacy and future of Canada's greatest rivers
Environment
From rain to snow, from high temperatures to low, 50 questions to test your weather wits
Environment
Glaciers play a vital role in sculpting the landscape, and their retreat can bring about drastic consequences
Environment
The former astronaut also happens to be an amazing photographer, and is using her talents to raise interest in Canada's wild spaces
Environment
Recent aquisitions in Kenauk and Lake Superior highlight the growing number of protected lands in Canada
Environment
The final boundary for Canada’s new national marine conservation area in Canada’s North shows an area twice the size of Nova Scotia
Travel
Connect with Canada's past and present on this network of waterways between Peterborough, Ont. and the nation's capital
People & Culture
The painter and graphic designer discusses his roots, his craft — and his new collection of artisan canoe paddles
Places
How conservationists and ranchers in Saskatchewan are working to slow the loss of an endangered ecosystem
History
Sites across Canada honouring the war
Wildlife
Advocacy group says action plans are urgently needed for the recovery of 26 dangerously depleted fish populations
History
Some of these gifts are undeniably odd, but they have all been chosen carefully to represent or to engage the Queen in the full panorama of the Canadian story
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
The steps being made are towards Canada’s goal of 25 per cent protection of land and ocean by 2025
History
Soldiers, descendants of Loyalists and history buffs recreate a battle to demonstrate why the War of 1812 is still important today.
History
Our beloved red-and-white maple leaf flag was raised on Feb. 15, 1965, but not before years of angry debates and a parade of competing designs were put down
History
A new book by Ken McGoogan traces the experiences of Scottish Highlanders evicted from their homes to pre-Confederation Canada
History
Photos of women spanning nine decades of Canadian Geographic Magazine
History
These images from the first half of the 20th century show Canada's oldest national park when it was still young
History
Une rétrospective des débuts de l’institution fondée il y a 350 ans, qui revendiquait autrefois une part importante du globe
History
Places
In Banff National Park, Alberta, as in protected areas across the country, managers find it difficult to balance the desire of people to experience wilderness with an imperative to conserve it
Travel
Brewed with water and natural ingredients, Corona wants to encourage Canadians to responsibly experience the country’s natural wonders
Kids
The behind-the-scenes story of how Team Canada captured the silver medal in a thrilling tiebreaker at the 2013 National Geographic World Championship
People & Culture
The set features photography of Canada’s bear species by Robert Postma and Can Geo Photographer-In-Residence Michelle Valberg
People & Culture
Formerly known as the Trans Canada Trail, the Great Trail celebrates the country's natural splendour and will be nearly 24,000 kilometres when fully connected by the end of 2017
People & Culture
Award recipients honoured in the first virtual Annual General Meeting and Fellows Show.
People & Culture
The Dutch Royal reflects on her special connection to the Canadian Tulip Festival, which celebrates her mother’s gift of tulip bulbs to Canada 75 years ago
People & Culture
The highest level within the Order of Canada recognizes national pre-eminence or achievement
Kids
Four high school geography students prepare to represent Canada in a virtual global geography competition
People & Culture
Explorer Adam Shoalts, who completed his monumental 4,000-kilometre journey on September 6, speaks to Canadian Geographic about an expedition that calls to mind the likes of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Joseph Tyrrell
People & Culture