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Watershed moment: A multination effort to restore the Great Lakes
Fifty years after the landmark Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, what’s changed?
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Cod moratorium: How Newfoundland’s cod industry disappeared overnight
A bountiful cod industry is pictured on a 1920s map. Decades later, a moratorium would change everything.
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Contrary connections: Mapping Canada’s rural-urban internet divide
How Canada’s rural-urban internet divide determines which communities can tap into an efficient internet network
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Science & Tech
Canadian technology takes ocean mapping to new depths
Researchers and industry leaders now have quicker access to data showing the complexity of the world’s seabed. Part five of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: A six-part series.
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Mapping Canada’s climate future
The Climate Atlas of Canada shows users what trends to expect in their communities as a result of climate change
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People & Culture
A celebration of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
The first-of-its-kind educational resource aims to share the stories and cultures of Indigenous peoples with Canadians and the world
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History
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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Interactive map tells weather forecast entirely in emojis
Today's weather: smiley with a chance of umbrellas
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Mapping the future of Canada’s capital
As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, the National Capital Commission is helping to plan how Ottawa will evolve over the next half-century
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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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Toward a Métis homeland
As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own
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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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Le Manitoba célèbre son 150e anniversaire
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Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
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Meet the B.C. software developer who wants to bring back the globe
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Interactive map showcases traditional Indigenous lands across continents
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Every country’s top tourist attraction, mapped
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Map: Visualizing Canada’s fresh water
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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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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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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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Our land: Mapping Nitassinan
An Innu school board has created a map to pass on intergenerational knowledge to schoolchildren
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Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
The 400-layer map will connect communities, celebrate culture and share data to protect the Howe Sound ecosystem
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Beyond the boundary
How George Dawson’s seminal work for the British North American Boundary Commission did far more than simply mark the 49th parallel
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Interview: Mapping the displacement of 60s Scoop adoptees
Indigenous rights activist and 60s Scoop survivor Colleen Cardinal discusses her project to map the Indigenous adoptee diaspora
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Exploring Canada’s original place names with Google Earth
Google Earth Voyager story highlights place names and naming practices of Indigenous Peoples across Canada
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When geography and the law collide
A case decided this week by the Supreme Court of British Columbia was, in essence, all about geography
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Environment
How artificial intelligence could help predict major forest fires
Researchers at the University of Alberta have trained a "self-organizing map" to identify high-risk days for fires
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Mapping Canada’s biggest earthquakes
A recent earthquake in Nunavut has drawn attention to Canada's surprising seismic zones
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Mesmerizing map lets you visualize the flow of global trade
The global import market was worth $15.6 trillion in 2015. See where goods came from and where they went.
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Stunning map predicts how wildlife will move to adapt to climate change
Researchers say protecting wilderness corridors will be essential to preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change
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Satellites produce new ultra-precise topographic map of Earth
German satellites TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X spent five years orbiting Earth in close formation to create 3D global map of unprecedented accuracy
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History
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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Map shows Pokémon in your area
Playing Pokémon Go? A new interactive map makes it easy to catch 'em all
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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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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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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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