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Can Geo Films documentary Returning Home to premiere at Canadian film festivals
Returning Home is the first feature-length documentary from director Sean Stiller and Canadian Geographic Films
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People & Culture
Returning Home is the first feature-length documentary from director Sean Stiller and Canadian Geographic Films
People & Culture
Director Bill Morrison discusses Dawson City: Frozen in Time and the bizarre story of the Dawson City film collection
People & Culture
The new program affirms CanGeo's commitment to visual storytelling, supporting big ideas on the big screen
History
Happy National Canadian Film Day! Here's some fun facts about Canadians in cinema
History
Between 1914 and 1920, some 5,000 ethnic Ukrainians were imprisoned in Canadian internment camps. A new documentary tells their stories.
History
History
Omar Mouallem, author of Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, looks at why an unshakeable faith in Canada’s multiculturalism project — common amongst the generation of Muslim immigrants who arrived in the ’70s — is not always shared by those who have migrated in the last 20 years, and is rarely felt by their children
History
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou reflects on a digital storytelling project that saw 28 graduate students from across Canada answer the question: Who am I?
Travel
Filmmaker Dianne Whelan has become the first person to complete the Trans Canada Trail in its entirety. Here, she shares insights from her epic cross-country journey.
Travel
Canada has just as much geographic diversity as a galaxy far, far away.
Travel
Travel
As Quebec's grand railway hotel turns 125, we look back at some key political and pop culture moments that happened there
Travel
Wildlife
There’s something about foxes
Wildlife
Wildlife
A new documentary portrays the remarkable species as a symbol of a “precariously broken” ocean ecosystem
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Wildlife
“In these dark, ancient forests, lives a creature of legend.” Thus begins a new wildlife documentary about the elusive Kermode bear.
Environment
The animated short film called Last Fish, First Boat recounts the 1992 cod moratorium
People & Culture
Anishinaabe/Cree filmmaker Kevin Settee centres four short docs around the ingenuity and resilience of communities surrounding Lake Winnipeg
Environment
In an excerpt from his new book, A Life of Extremes: The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker, filmmaker Max Quinn offers unique insight to some of the most beautiful and extreme places on earth
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We caught up with Indigenous filmmaker Sarain Fox to talk Giiwewizh — a series of 16 short films directed and shot in isolation on iPhone 12
Environment
A conversation with filmmakers on how they captured this unique ecosystem, on screen.
Environment
Four of the eight films nominated for Best Picture were shot north of the 49th parallel
Environment
Mark Angelo, founder of BC Rivers Day and World Rivers Day, shares insights on his love of rivers, his forthcoming film and what can be done to protect the planet’s waterways
Environment
World-renowned tree expert and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger's film crosses continents and disciplines to show how trees sustain all life on Earth
Environment
Jean-Michel Cousteau releases his new feature documentary about aquatic life, Wonders of the Sea 3D, in February
People & Culture
"The point of all this is to make history intimate"
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Award-winning documentary will have its Canadian TV premiere on CBC this weekend
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Hobnails and Hemp Rope documents the Bugaboo Spire Centennial Climb, a 2016 RCGS flag expedition paying homage to Austrian-Canadian mountaineer Conrad Kain
Travel
The Inuk filmmaker recalls his memorable first visit to the archipelago of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Wildlife
In new CBC comedy series Crawford, the ubiquitous backyard bandits get something of an image overhaul
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Fly away home, Father Goose
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The renowned Arctic landscape painter and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society lost his battle with cancer on Nov. 5, 2021
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Canadian painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier explores the sublime and rapidly changing Canadian Arctic
Wildlife
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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During Truth and Reconciliation Commission events, personal items were placed in a carved bentwood box to symbolize the journey toward reconciliation. How far have we come?
People & Culture
A father-son photography team from B.C. set out to document Canada's landscapes, wildlife, people and traditions
Environment
The ban is one of several significant and long-awaited changes to the federal Fisheries Act that passed Tuesday, including new provisions to rebuild depleted fish stocks
Science & Tech
History
A century after Conrad Kain's historic ascent of Bugaboo Spire, an expedition aims to recreate his 1916 climb.
Travel
Explore Canada’s car culture, tour one of the country’s last great estates and catch a rainbow trout
Travel
5 examples of Cuban music, films and other cultural hallmarks
Travel
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, stars of Apple TV+’s new series Long Way Up, on electric travel, sustainability and where they’re headed after the pandemic
Travel
An insider's guide to the parts of Britain you know — and some you don't
Travel
Inspired by age-old travelways, a new canoe route knits together the Trans Canada Trail
People & Culture
Project aims to create a film archive of Canadians' views about themselves and their country throughout the sesquicentennial
Exploration
From coast to coast to coast and into the ocean as well, eight grants expand our understanding of Canada
Wildlife
Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish?
Wildlife
Wildlife
Our feathered friends are increasingly calling our urban centres home. Why crows in particular are nesting among us.
Wildlife
Artists aim to connect with beluga whales through music
Science & Tech
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An exclusive Q&A with British explorer, comedian and actor Michael Palin
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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
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Here, Dan Clark discusses their trip and reveals his film about the adventure: 'Together to the Tundra.'
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The renowned landscape photographer on his latest project, Water.
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Waldron spoke with Canadian Geographic about representation for women and racialized communities
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People & Culture
From putting the “Canada” back in an iconic species’ name to studying a massive iceberg-calving Antarctic iceshelf, see what just a few of the RCGS’s Fellows have been working on in 2018
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The first interview in our Colour the Trails series
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The latest Heritage Minute from Historica Canada profiles Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak and is the first to be produced in three different languages
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The acclaimed director goes to extremes to explore the ocean’s depths — and to share what he finds with the world
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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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From a solo ski and mountain-climbing expedition to the South Pole to a project that mapped portions of Devon Island’s coasts for the first time, see what just a few of the RCGS’s Fellows have been working on in late 2018
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From Arctic Air to the Littlest Hobo, here are the shows that unintentionally taught us about Canada
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World-renowned maze master Adrian Fisher has designed more than 600 full-size puzzles across 30 countries – including the world’s first corn maze. Canadian Geographic’s Sabrina Doyle got in touch with Fisher to find out makes a good maze.
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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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People & Culture
A new book remembers famed the Onondaga distance runner and explores how Canada uses sport to police Indigenous bodies and identities
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The Impact Series platform is streaming WATSON, directed by Lesley Chilcott, which documents the exploits of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder, Paul Watson
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Environment
Meet Roger Wallis, Canadian mountaineer extraordinaire
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New festival to increase awareness about climate change in the north while simultaneously raising money to help local food insecurity.
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Trépanier was presented with the medal at the launch of his new book Into the Arctic: Painting Canada’s Changing North
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Based on the film documentary of the same name, The Third Dive looks to expose the circumstances around Rob Stewart's untimely death.
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The filmmaker aims to open eyes to threatened environments — and inspire action for change
Environment
You don't have to leave Canada to experience the geographic diversity of the Seven Kingdoms
People & Culture
People & Culture
Whether diving in Antarctic waters, making scientific breakthroughs or summiting Everest, these remarkable women are making their mark on Canada and the world.
Environment
How do owls fly so silently?
Science & Tech
A sound artist listens for quiet in Grasslands National Park
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Harvesting the talent in Toronto, Halifax, Montréal and Vancouver
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