
Mapping
New mangrove forest mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities
Mangroves provide a range of benefits, including protection from storms and the prevention of coastal erosion
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Mapping
Mangroves provide a range of benefits, including protection from storms and the prevention of coastal erosion
Mapping
‘Maps aren't magic,’ says University of British Columbia prof — but during disease outbreaks, they can help us sort good information from bad
Science & Tech
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.
Mapping
Indigenous rights activist and 60s Scoop survivor Colleen Cardinal discusses her project to map the Indigenous adoptee diaspora
Mapping
Phase One of Trans Canada Trail accessibility mapping project complete thanks to para athletic power
Mapping
Industrial engineer Cheryl White uses visual problem-solving and team engagement techniques in her day job. Now she’s using them to crowdsource a national mapping project.
Mapping
Canadian Geographic cartographer Chris Brackley continues his exploration of how the world is charting the COVID-19 pandemic, this time looking at how artistic choices inform our reactions to different maps
People & Culture
For an achievement by one or more individuals in the field of geography, or a significant national or international event
Mapping
Canadian Geographic's cartographer Chris Brackley shares insights into his process in charting the country's largest islands for an exclusive wall map
Environment
Decisions around where to establish new protected areas in Canada should consider wildlife and ecosystem health first
Environment
From pollution to invasive species, this map charts the extent to which people have affected one of the world’s greatest sources of freshwater
Environment
Showcasing developments and policy changes related to plastic reduction around the world
Environment
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
History
A beautiful panoramic map offers a bird's-eye view of what Winnipeg, Manitoba would have looked like in 1881
History
Combining archival photos, letters and sketches with interactive maps, the City of Guelph has created a ‘map journal’ of John McCrae's life
History
In 1755 all Acadians who wouldn't declare allegiance to Britain were ordered to leave Nova Scotia. Here's where they went.
History
Thousands of Canadians have fought and lost their lives overseas — and they haven’t been forgotten
History
Wildlife
Canada boasts three of the world’s eight bear species. This brightly-coloured map helps show where they all range.
Wildlife
Protecting the red knot on its journey across two continents depends on knowing where the shorebird stops along the way
Wildlife
Wildlife
A snapshot of the country’s drastically dwindling caribou herds
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Mapping
An Innu school board has created a map to pass on intergenerational knowledge to schoolchildren
Mapping
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
Mapping
As Canada's most famous trail celebrates its near completion, Esri Canada president Alex Miller discusses the ambitious trail map that is helping Canadians get outdoors
Mapping
Mapping
Users can learn about the Indigenous territories, languages and treaties of the cities they live in with just a few clicks
Mapping
A case decided this week by the Supreme Court of British Columbia was, in essence, all about geography
Kids
Groundbreaking new educational resource coming this summer
Mapping
An interactive mapping project compiles the nation’s geographic memorials to Canada’s role in global conflicts
People & Culture
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People & Culture
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Mapping
A new interactive map aims to show that pollution disproportionately affects communities of African Nova Scotians and aboriginals
Mapping
Two visions of the landmark proposed marine protected region
Mapping
'Tis the season for the country's winter wonderlands, jolly jurisdictions and seasonal spots.
Mapping
Looking back 150 years at a watershed moment in global communication
Mapping
Explore the protected and conservation lands that make Y2Y so impressive
Mapping
Terrapattern uses satellite imagery and pattern recognition to identify specific visual features of an area
Mapping
Information from Canada’s 2016 food safety report card shows the incidence of four illnesses
Mapping
See where 60 languages belonging to 12 language families are being used right now
Mapping
The Ottawa River is the heart of one of Canada’s most ecologically and economically important watersheds
Mapping
April 2020 marks 40 years since Terry Fox’s monumental Marathon of Hope
Mapping
Groups protecting Atlantic salmon spawning grounds on Canada’s East Coast have a new view of the problems facing the prized species
Mapping
North America was created by ice, and its legacy covers the landscape
Mapping
Mapping
Mapping
Mapping
Three maps to help you understand the geography of obesity
Mapping
Species richness in Canada’s remaining intact forests
Mapping
The staff of the Inuit Heritage Trust is racing across Canada’s North to document traditional Inuit place names before much of that knowledge passes on with the elders who hold it. Canadian Geographic sits down with lead researcher Lynn Peplinski.
Mapping
Ontario has its fair share of waterways, and therefore has its fair share of bridges. This is how the provincial government keeps track of them all.
Mapping
Canadian airports saw a total of 122.4 million passengers in 2013, according to a Statistics Canada. These maps show which airports were the busiest.
Mapping
The Pew Charitable Trusts suggests shipping corridors in the Arctic that could be classified by level of risk
Mapping
Mapping
Not all Canadian exports are good. Check out this interactive map of invasive species around the world.
Mapping
Mapping
While the United States served up enough daily calories per capita to keep it in the red, it was surprisingly Austria that topped the list with 3,769 calories.
Mapping
Mapping
Mapping
Mapping
Exploration
How an innovative sonar technology may help map parts of Canada's previously uncharted Far North
Travel
Which Canadian airline is most likely to get you to your destination on time?
Exploration
The renowned explorer embarks on an epic 4,000-kilometre solo trek
Science & Tech
Mapping
A new update allows users to view 3,100 Indigenous communities and treaty settlement lands
Kids
As the first Canadian organization to launch a story with Google Earth Voyager, Canadian Geographic, with the support of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, offers an in-depth look at the residential school system
Science & Tech
Mapping
After years of work, the Sixties Scoop Network has launched their interactive mapping platform In our own Words: Mapping the Sixties Scoop Diaspora.
Exploration
A century after the start of the thrilling expedition that strengthened claims to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, the first Canadian Arctic Expedition remains a largely unknown part of the country’s history
People & Culture
From documenting rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia to sonar-scanning B.C. waters for steam-era shipwrecks, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
Mapping
Connecting to the past through McMaster's treasure trove of historical maps from the war
Mapping
History
Looking back at Joseph Burr Tyrrell's contributions to Canada
Mapping
Mapping
Thanks to machine learning, researchers have been able to monitor and map gentrification across the nation’s capital
Wildlife
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
Wildlife
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
Wildlife
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
Wildlife
After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.
People & Culture
Canadian Paralympians and Para athletes join the mission to increase trail accessibility across Canada