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Mapping diversions in the Great Lakes
How mid-century diversions in the Great Lakes watershed still affect the communities on its shorelines
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Mapping water flow in the Peace-Athabasca Delta
While most of the delta lies within the federally protected Wood Buffalo National Park, activity outside the park could threaten its future
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Exploring the Hudson Bay Lowlands with Chris Brackley
Canadian Geographic’s cartographer explores the many facets of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, one of the world’s most significant wetlands
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Canadian Geographic’s best maps of 2021
Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic’s 2021 issues
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Faded ink: Map tells piece of the Beothuk story in Newfoundland
This map, “taken on the spot in the year 1768,” tells but a tiny piece of the story of Newfoundland’s bygone Beothuk
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Canadian Geographic’s best maps of 2020
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Mapping Canada’s 75 biggest islands
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Mapping COVID-19: How maps make us feel
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Mapping COVID-19 cases in Canada per capita
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What are maps really saying about COVID-19 in Canada?
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Canadian Geographic’s best maps of 2019
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The best maps Canadian Geographic published in 2017
Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic's 2017 issues and special publications
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Six new ways to map the world
In his new book, social geographer Alastair Bonnett promises 50 maps unlike any you've ever seen. Here's a look at six of our favourites.
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Toronto exhibition celebrates maps as works of art
Art of Cartography exhibit at the Toronto Public Library features visually stunning maps from the 15th through the 19th centuries
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Remembering PEI’s first modern cartographer
In 1764-65, surveyor Samuel Holland, on orders from the British Crown, created the first truly modern, accurate map of Prince Edward Island
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Samuel de Champlain’s cartographic debt
Although often unheralded in accounts of Champlain's accomplishments, Indigenous Peoples played an important role in helping the famous explorer map New France
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The maps that sparked Canada’s bicycle frenzy
Maps like the two pictured here were instrumental in opening up the countryside to urban North American bike owners
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The little-known history of Halifax’s island hoosegow
Today it’s home to a yacht club, but two centuries ago Melville Island was packed with prisoners, not boats
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and the cartography of cod
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s 18th-century map reveals how the pursuit of the humble fish helped shape the nation
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General James Murray’s massive mapping mission
A look at the cartographic gem commissioned 250 years ago by Quebec’s military governor
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Map: Visualizing Canada’s fresh water
Canada is home to one-fifth of the world's fresh water. Here's what that looks like
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The last voyage of Captain James Cook
Canada’s Pacific coast took tangible shape after a visit from one of history’s most famous navigators
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The first map of Hudson Bay
Henry Hudson’s final voyage helped open North America’s interior, but it was a journey with disastrous consequences
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