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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Coming soon: The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Groundbreaking new educational resource coming this summer
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Exploring Alberta’s eight Métis settlements
These eight communities are the only recognized Métis land base in Canada
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History
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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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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Interactive map showcases traditional Indigenous lands across continents
Users can learn about the Indigenous territories, languages and treaties of the cities they live in with just a few clicks
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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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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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History
Le Manitoba célèbre son 150e anniversaire
Un aperçu de la formation de la province « timbre-poste », présenté par une carte de 1871
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Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
A look at the inception of the original postage-stamp province through an 1871 map
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Mapping
Meet the B.C. software developer who wants to bring back the globe
Inside the campaign to make the Earth spherical again
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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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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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Vintage railway maps from Library and Archives Canada’s collection
Early maps of the railways that shaped our country
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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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Mapping Canada’s climate future
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The disaster that reshaped a city
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Interactive map tells weather forecast entirely in emojis
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Mapping the future of Canada’s capital
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Mapping Canada’s biggest earthquakes
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Mesmerizing map lets you visualize the flow of global trade
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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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Every country’s top tourist attraction, mapped
Niagara Falls is Canada's can't-miss attraction, according to TripAdvisor U.K. users
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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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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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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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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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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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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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