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Featured Fellow: Johanna Wagstaffe
The author and meteorologist discusses the need to understand how the world works and how climate change reporting has evolved throughout her career
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Featured Fellow: John England
The 2022 Massey medallist has dedicated his career to documenting environmental change in the Arctic
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Featured Fellow: Stephen Hui
The Vancouver author and photographer discusses writing, hiking and some of his most memorable experiences on the trails
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Featured Fellow: Chantelle Richmond
The Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health and the Environment speaks about her work as a health geographer, restoring relationships with the land, Indigenous methodologies and more
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Featured Fellow: Michael Gervers
The University of Toronto professor and expert on Ethiopian history is documenting the centuries-old craft of rock-hewn churches
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Featured Fellow: Gavin Fitch
Gavin Fitch, 53, is a Calgary-based lawyer and one of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s two vice-presidents. He talks about being a longtime fan of Canadian…
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Featured Fellow: Élisabeth Nadeau
For her entire adult life, Élisabeth Nadeau has been working to serve Canadians, and not just in the context of her position as an RCGS Fellow and vice-president. It started…
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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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Featured Fellow: Ernest Côté
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces, including 14,000 Canadians, stormed Normandy’s Juno Beach to liberate Europe. For British, American and Canadian forces, Operation Overlord was…
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Featured Fellow: Peter Suedfeld
Most people’s idea of a great summer vacation doesn’t include being holed up in an abandoned research station in Nunavut while analyzing — and being analyzed by — half a…
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Featured Fellow: Alexandra Shackleton
A live donkey is better than a dead lion,” Ernest Shackleton, the renowned British explorer, once said. He was referring to his 1907 to 1909 Nimrod expedition, and…
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Featured Fellow: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
If trees could speak, what would they say? Diana Beresford-Kroeger, an ecologist, botanist, author and Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, says there is a…
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Featured Fellow: Karsten Heuer
In the wee hours of a late-fall morning 30 years ago, Karsten Heuer and his father were hiking through a dark, wet campground, tackle boxes in hand, heading for their favourite…
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Featured Fellow: Shelagh Grant
Shelagh Grant’s love for the Canadian outdoors started at the tender age of three, when she began hiking and canoeing with her father. Her fascination with the Canadian…
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