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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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Remembering Louie Kamookak, a new Explorer-in-Residence and other highlights from the 89th Annual College of Fellows Dinner
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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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Celebrating new partnerships, milestone anniversaries and a bird for Canadians on geography's biggest night
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Award recipients honoured in the first virtual Annual General Meeting and Fellows Show.
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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s 2019 College of Fellows Annual Dinner was also a celebration of the organization’s achievements over the past nine decades — and of the best in geography and exploration
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Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
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New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
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The Society has chosen to award Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister with an Honorary Fellowship for his passionate commitment to our environment
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jean Trebek and Rear-Admiral Rebecca Patterson join the organization as Honorary Fellows
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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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Travel
If real solitude is what you seek, block off four or five days and head for the Front Ranges in one of Canada’s most popular parks
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The long-awaited permanent highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. opens next month. How will it impact the communities?
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Boisterous Boston or elegant Nantucket: exploring two weekend getaway options in Massachusetts
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Travelling through Alberta’s storied mountaineering and ski-touring past and present
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Ten years after the release of her seminal book Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell again plumbs the depths of the latest research on the health of the world’s oceans — and comes up gasping
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In highly populated areas where wildlife habitat is fragmented, citizens can play an important role in protecting species
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Collaborative research is uncovering the secrets of coastal seagrass beds to help keep them healthy
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As the federal government considers the fate of proposed pipelines, a unique science experiment aims to understand the consequences of an oil spill in a freshwater lake
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Hundreds of Canada’s species at risk are plants, and most of them live where we do
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Inaugural award honours the legacy of the late Inuit historian
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Ahead of the series finale, we caught up with Louie Kamookak Medal recipient Jared Harris to discuss his role as Hari Seldon on Apple TV+’s hit new series Foundation
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Biologists wanted to know what Canadians would be willing to sacrifice in the name of conservation
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Quebec’s Béatrice Martin — better known by her stage name, Cœur de pirate — was recognized for her contributions to the Society and Canada's cultural landscape
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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has teamed up with Roots Canada to produce limited edition jackets featuring the expedition patches of notable explorers.
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The University of Toronto professor and expert on Ethiopian history is documenting the centuries-old craft of rock-hewn churches
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Originally awarded in 2020 but unheralded due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society was finally able to present the medal and fête the former PM at an event in Montreal Oct. 27
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In celebration of its 90th year, the RCGS handed out awards to a diverse and star-studded roster of honourees
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Fellows, explorers and past Challenge champions gathered at 50 Sussex to honour Alex Trebek and launch this year's Challenge
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Distinguished cosmologist and astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees, British Astronomer Royal since 1995, joins the Society in honorary position
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The Society’s headquarters at 50 Sussex Drive played host to HRH on the second day of his Platinum Jubilee tour of Canada
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Her Excellency maintains a tradition of vice regal patronage that extends back to 1929 with the Society’s founding Patron The Rt. Hon. Viscount Willingdon
Exploration
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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Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish?
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Often gory and gross, insects use disguises to improve ther odds of survival
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Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay
Kids
Grade 10 student Ben Woodward took home the nation’s top geography prize
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Janet Ruest has received the Prime Minister's Certificate of Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence
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Simon becomes the first Indigenous person to assume the role
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Research scientist Wayne Pollard shares insights on his work that earned him the 2019 Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research
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Canada Post pays tribute to Canlit icon
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National Acadian Day is celebrated in Canada each year on August 15
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History
A new book by Ken McGoogan traces the experiences of Scottish Highlanders evicted from their homes to pre-Confederation Canada
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The final instalment in our roundup of Canada’s 90 greatest explorers, these seven explorers harnessed the power of technology — or invented their own — to break new ground
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Arctic researcher receives prestigious 2020 L’Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship
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Where there’s snow, he’ll go
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Grant was the first woman historian to receive the Northern Science Award
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From pulling drinking water out of desert air to riding with eagle hunters in Mongolia, see what just a few of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s more than 1,000 Fellows have been working on lately
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The Royal Canadian Navy commodore came from humble beginnings in Joliette, Que. to command a standing NATO group
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Margaret MacMillan's new book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us, comes out this October
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Depending on whom you ask, the North’s sentinel species is either on the edge of extinction or an environmental success story. An in-depth look at the complicated, contradictory and controversial science behind the sound bites
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Here's a bit of what The Royal Canadian Geographical Society got up to in November.
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We caught up with Margaret Atwood at The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s 2015 College of Fellows Annual Dinner to talk about Canada’s geography, climate change and how to get away with murder in the Arctic.
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Ernest Côté, WW II veteran and Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, died Wednesday night. He was 101.
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Prince Philip is considered one of the first environmentalists
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For an educator who has gone above and beyond their job description to further geographic literacy
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The winner of the 2013 Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research — the culmination of a career in biology that speaks for itself
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