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Exploring 1,200 years of history in the Faroe Islands
A port call aboard the Viking Saturn offers ample opportunity to discover the history and stark beauty of these isolated North Atlantic islands
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Death rattle: a B.C. priest’s war on rattlesnakes
A look at the devastating environmental toll and the unlikely positive influence a historical conflict with rattlesnakes had on Canadian herpetology
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Wreck of Quest, famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, found in Labrador Sea
An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society found the vessel intact and upright at a depth of 390 metres
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Documentary filmmakers find 1895 steamship wreck in Lake Huron
Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick set out to make a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes. Along the way, they found the wreck of what is likely the steamship Africa, last seen on a stormy October night in 1895.
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Ham radio and the world of amateur radio operators
A dive into the fascinating evolution of radio, starting from the first received message at Signal Hill, Newfoundland
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Our home and grateful land
An interactive mapping project compiles the nation’s geographic memorials to Canada’s role in global conflicts
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A port passed by
How Port Moody, B.C., missed out on becoming one of the world’s great harbours
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The Renaissance-era map that introduced Canada to the world
In 1560, Italian map engraver Paolo Forlani became the first to include “Canada” on a printed map
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10 maps that made Canada
In A History of Canada in 10 Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land, Adam Shoalts delves into the fascinating stories behind the people and maps that helped shape a nation
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Lessons learned from the ice storm of 1998
It plunged five million people into the dark and cold — the recovery would take years
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A sneak peek at Quebec’s newest provincial park
Opening to the public in June, Parc national d’Opémican near Temiscaming, Que. preserves a unique chapter of Ottawa River history
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Seven must-see sites for cyclists on Quebec’s Véloroute Marie-Hélène Prémont
Discover the New France of Samuel de Champlain on this scenic cycling route along the St. Lawrence River
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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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The Abbot Pass hut, an iconic mountain refuge, is dismantled — due to climate change
Built by Swiss guides high on the Continental Divide, a storied refuge will be dismantled just months ahead of its 100th birthday, a casualty of our warming planet
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Charlie Angus on Cobalt, Ont. and the legacy of a mining boom
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Cobalt’s silver rush in the 1900s changed how mining was carried out in Canada and internationally — and not always for the better
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Inside the Saskatchewan grocery store that still trades furs
Robertson Trading Co. in La Ronge is a living museum to northern Saskatchewan’s storied past
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Ottawa landmark gets new life as temporary home for Senate of Canada
Inside the transformation of the old Ottawa train station into the “Red Chamber on Rideau”
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Winnipeg’s Portage and Main: At a crossroads
Winnipeg’s iconic Portage and Main intersection has been closed to pedestrians for 40 years. Is it time to reopen the “crossroads of Canada” to foot traffic?
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Back to the future: A transatlantic crossing on Queen Mary 2
Rocking and rolling across the Atlantic on a voyage steeped in history aboard Cunard’s iconic ocean liner
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La trace écrite
Un regard sur le système d’identification utilisé pour contrôler les résidents chinois, à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la loi sur l’exclusion des Chinois
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Reflecting on the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a look at the system of IDs used to track and control Chinese residents
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The hatchery crutch: How we got here
From their beginnings in the late 19th century, salmon hatcheries have gone from cure to band-aid to crutch. Now, we can’t live without manufactured fish.
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Cobalt: Reclaiming the ancient Indigenous silver mining trade
Long before an amateur prospector struck it rich near Cobalt Lake in northern Ontario, local Indigenous nations mined and traded silver. It’s time to set the record straight on the “discovery” of Canada’s immense resource wealth.
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The disaster that reshaped a city
100 years after the Halifax Explosion, the city retains traces of its pre-war life
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From the archives: Mapping the river city
A beautiful panoramic map offers a bird's-eye view of what Winnipeg, Manitoba would have looked like in 1881
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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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New commemorative park opens at Vimy Ridge
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“That never happened:” Film reveals the hidden history of Canada’s First World War internment operations
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Canadian Geographic looks back at the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
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A five-stop historical tour of Kelowna — the grizzly bear city
Beaches, peaches, silver mines and history — this B.C. city does it all with a modern, urban twist.
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Digging into Dawson
Seven must-do experiences in the Yukon’s Gold Rush town
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7 spots to explore along eastern Ontario’s Canadian Canoe Route
Connect with Canada’s past and present on this network of waterways between Peterborough, Ont. and the nation’s capital
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A tale of two bagels
Alex Hutchinson goes inside the friendly rivalry between two titans of the Montreal-style bagel to figure out the secret of the doughy snack’s allure
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Six notable moments in the Château Frontenac’s 125-year history
As Quebec's grand railway hotel turns 125, we look back at some key political and pop culture moments that happened there
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Behind the wires: A look back at Canada’s golden age of telegraphy
On the 175th anniversary of Canada’s first telegraph message, a pioneering telegrapher recalls her exciting career
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Louis Riel: Hero, heretic, nation builder
A celebration of the real Louis Riel, Métis leader and Manitoba founder, on the 150th anniversary of the Red River Resistance and the 175th of his birth
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“Burning libraries:” The race to save Canada’s coastal archaeological sites before they’re washed away
As sea level rise and the accelerating pace of coastal erosion threaten cultural heritage around the world, Canada has a lot to lose
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Welcome to 50 Sussex, Canada’s new Centre for Geography and Exploration
The new headquarters of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is transforming the way the 90-year-old organization carries out its mandate
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Watch: The Canadian island named after a satellite
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Throwback Thursday: The 1919 Stanley Cup final
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Jens Munk: An expedition ahead of its time
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Honouring “Canada’s fightingest ship”
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Eight Canadian places that could become UNESCO World Heritage Sites
A look at the fascinating sites Parks Canada has proposed for UNESCO World Heritage Site designation
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New book introduces the unsung heroes of Arctic exploration
Author Ken McGoogan says his latest book, Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage, is the “more inclusive narrative of Arctic exploration” that the 21st century demands
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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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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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Vintage railway maps from Library and Archives Canada’s collection
Early maps of the railways that shaped our country
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Q&A: Filmmaker Viveka Melki on war and the healing power of storytelling
"The point of all this is to make history intimate"
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The man who saved the Kinsol Trestle
Master carpenter Gordon Macdonald on restoring an iconic B.C. bridge, the value of heritage infrastructure, and why he's set his sights on the Antarctic
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Exploring San Antonio, Texas’ historic treasure
Past and present blend seamlessly in this colourful cultural hub, home to missions and Tex-Mex
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Watch the first-ever Inuktitut Heritage Minute
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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Allan Hawco on his new fur trade TV series ‘Frontier’
Discovery Canada's original drama portrays the struggle for wealth and power in 1700s Canada
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Canadian Geographic to conduct review of past issues
Magazine to look for evidence of racist language and attitudes in every issue published since 1930 and report on its findings
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Throwback Thursday: Vancouver then and now
A look at how the Canadian Geographical Journal covered Vancouver’s 50th birthday
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Seven iconic Canadian trees
In a nation of forests, these trees stand head and shoulders above the rest
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For the love of the leaf
How does a Canadian wind up wandering an ancient tea-trading route through the Himalayas? We talk to 'Tea Explorer' Jeff Fuchs about his documentary film and his ongoing journey to unlock the secrets of the leaf.
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Roy MacGregor on the rivers that shaped our nation
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
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Images of 20th-century Canada from the country’s most prolific photographer
George Hunter made it his lifelong mission to show Canadians their country. Now, his iconic images have been compiled into a book.
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The incredible true story of Canada’s Kon-Tiki
The Raftsmen tells the remarkable (and once nearly forgotten) story of how four French expats living in Canada became the first to cross the North Atlantic by raft
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The true story of Pauline Johnson: poet, provocateur and champion of Indigenous rights
The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes
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Interview with Adrienne Clarkson
The former governor general of Canada reflects on the challenges facing Canadian women today
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