About Can Geo
Support Canadian Geographic this Giving Tuesday!
In memory of Gilles Gagnier
Matt LeMay is Canadian Geographic's inaugural Filmmaker-in-Residence
Announcing the winners of our Annual Photography 2020 competition
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Ocean Supercluster
Vents and chimneys on an underwater volcano
Canadian technology takes ocean mapping to new depths
A data revolution is helping to keep workers safe from storms at sea
World Oceans Day: Building a more sustainable ocean future — one worker at a time
Small-scale energy projects aim to help northern communities
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Canada 150
Clyde River, Nunavut
Video of the Week: A visual celebration of Canada
Photos: A voyage through the Northwest Passage
Video of the Week: Thompson, Man., howls its way into the record books
Manitoba farmer creates intricate Canada 150 corn maze
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Charting Change
Insights on artificial intelligence in the developing world
Reducing e-waste recycling risks in Ghana
Combating gender-based violence in Colombia
The math behind China’s fight against HIV
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Commemorate Canada
75 years after Viola Desmond’s stand against segregation, former theatre honours her legacy
A century ago today, the Bluenose made history
50 years of multiculturalism: We do it well ... except when we don’t
50 years of multiculturalism: It’s as Canadian as maple syrup
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Community
A woman dressed in fishing gear and a blue-green coat holds a fishing rod over her shoulders in a river
Colour the Trails: Taking up space with Demiesha Dennis
Renaming places: how Canada is reexamining the map
Reflecting on Canada Day
Reclaiming Indigenous matriarchy with Sandy Ward
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COVID-19
A plastic pandemic: The results of COVID-19 PPE pollution
The ants go marching one by one: Social distancing in the animal kingdom
How Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera
Sewage surveillance: How scientists track and identify diseases like COVID-19 before they spread
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Education
Geography teachers of the month: RCGS award recipients
Featured Teacher: David Joiner
Featured Teacher: Ewan Geddes
Team Canada nabs four medals at 2021 International Geography Olympiad
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Energy
Book cover of "The Day the World Stops Shopping" alongside author J.B. MacKinnon
Excerpt: The Day the World Stops Shopping
Energy efforts making headlines across Canada
Storms and wildfires can cut electricity, but microgrids help communities take control
Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
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Environment & Nature
A small eastern hemlock tree surrounded by taller trees
Planting local: In major shift, Toronto requires some developers to source native plants from local seeds
Modelling threats to caribou in Ontario’s Ring of Fire
Global geography community calls for action on climate and biodiversity crises
How earthquake scientists solved the mystery of the last “Big One” in the Pacific Northwest
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Events & Exhibits
Foggy lake black and white
Picture this! #ShotOnNikon Photo Contest winners
Can Geo Talks: Virtual Series 2020
Can Geo Talks: Spring 2020
Can Geo Talks: Fall 2019
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Exploration
Two people portage canoes over a large rock
Expedition completes longest human-powered north-south crossing of Canada
Remembering Jon Lindbergh, a pioneering aquanaut
One year on, adventurer Bert terHart on his monumental world circumnavigation and future plans
Going deep for discovery: ocean exploration reaches new lows
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Explore Podcast
Emily Choy on climate change in the Arctic
A journey through Africadia with George Elliott Clarke
Harvey Locke on COP26 and why “nature needs half”
What we learn from birds with Patrick Nadeau
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Gear Reviews
An Arctic explorer’s favourite pants
Five reasons we are excited for the new Apple Watch Series 5
Why your next vacation will probably be #ShotoniPhone
Gear Review: Justin Barbour puts a MEC life jacket to the ultimate test
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History
Soft sunrise colours over Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is actually a marvel of engineering
Going to Klondyke: The 19th-century game that brought the gold rush into American homes
Gateway to Canada: A look back at Pier 21
Behind the sails
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Snowy owl
Animal Facts: Canada Lynx
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Map archive
1768 map showing River Exploits flowing into Lieutenant's Lake, showing Beothuk mamateeks, deer fences and scarecrows.
Faded ink: Map tells piece of the Beothuk story in Newfoundland
Dam break
Chronicling “an almost unknown country”
The map that guided Canada’s D-Day clash
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Mapping
Map of North American glaciation
The shape of ice: Mapping North America’s glaciers
Mapping project aims to make Canada’s trails more accessible
First Peoples' Map of B.C.: New interactive map celebrates Indigenous cultures and language
Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
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National & Provincial Parks
A crowd of tourist swarm on a lakeside beach in Banff National Park
Smother Nature: The struggle to protect Banff National Park
Thaidene Nëné: Land of the ancestors
The Mingan Archipelago: A land shaped by time
National parks beginning to reopen across the country
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Ocean Bridge
Exploring Nova Scotia through experiential learning
Q&A: Ottawa’s Clare Stone on her journey to becoming an ocean conservation leader
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Connor Garrod
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Kayoung Heo
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People & Culture
Bison uncover ancient petroglyphs at Saskatchewan’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Talking Apple TV+’s new series Foundation with RCGS medalist Jared Harris
Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind
The funniest places: Why Canadian comedy is obsessed with geography
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RCGS
Four things to know about Arctic policy and sustainable ocean management in Canada and Norway
Beloved author and RCGS Fellow Margaret Atwood honoured with a stamp
Indigenous Leadership Initiative and RCGS to produce series about Indigenous Guardians
Watch the 2021 RCGS Fellows Show!
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Science & Technology
Man sneezes and expels droplets into air
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the transmission of flu?
Why a Labrador crater is the perfect training ground for future moon explorers
Inside your smartphone: analyzing the rare-earth elements
Canadian rover set to land on moon within five years
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The Franklin Expedition
1845 Franklin expedition member identified using DNA
Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
The imagined letters of Lady Jane Franklin
“The Terror” recap: Episode 8
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The North
What does sustainable architecture look like in the Arctic?
Excerpt from Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
Q&A: How isolation in the remote High Arctic can have valuable lessons for our changing world
5 Polar Continental Shelf Program projects unlocking the mysteries of Canada’s North
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The Polar Blog
PEARL, North, Arctic, wildfire, spectrometer
Tracking wildfire impacts at the top of the world
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station comes online
The groundbreaking program that helped make Canada an Arctic science heavyweight
Unearthing clues to the mystery of the great Pleistocene extinction in Yukon
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The Terror
He's bruised and battered, but is Captain Francis Crozier (played by Jared Harris) beyond all hope in the tenth and final episode of The Terror? (Photo: Aidan Monaghan/AMC)
“The Terror” recap: Episode 10 – Season Finale
Five questions about “The Terror”
“The Terror” recap: Episode 9
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Travel & Places
Corona Canada’s epic “Officer of Natural Wonder” road trip champions the nation’s natural beauty
Our Country: Director Sergio Navarretta’s favourite place in Canada
Six years, 470 hours of film, 100 journals, 24,000 kilometres: Tracing the Trans Canada Trail
Canadian Tourism Week underway!
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Wildlife
Canadian photojournalist shortlisted for international award for powerful shot of kangaroo and joey
Calling all walrus detectives: new project seeks citizen scientists to count walrus from space
Animal crossing: Reconnecting North America’s most important wildlife corridor
Sinking or swimming? The challenges of polar bear research in a changing Arctic
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