About Can Geo
A black-and-white photo of a film maker looks through the lens of his camera
Matt LeMay is Canadian Geographic's inaugural Filmmaker-in-Residence
Announcing the winners of our Annual Photography 2020 competition
Introducing the 'What is home' re:Location photo competition winners
Top CanGeo stories of 2020
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Ocean Supercluster
Tidal energy infrastructure
Small-scale energy projects aim to help northern communities
Encouraging tech innovations to safeguard ocean health
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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
War on the water: Charting Canada’s critical role in the passage of ships during the Second World War
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter
Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven
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Community
In a Snap: May/June 2021
Running into yourself with Filsan Abdiaman
Our Country: Catherine McKenzie
Paddling like a girl with Tori Baird
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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
Students sitting on Can Geo Education's Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada Giant Floor Map.
There’s no map to teaching in a pandemic
Featured Teacher: Bobbie-Jo Leclair
Featured Teacher: Court Rustemeyer
Featured Teacher: Scott Alexander
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Energy
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
Canadian teams win big at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas
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Environment & Nature
Mont Royal Park Montreal
Urban parks unite! Parks in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto set to join forces
Outdoor School: Contemporary Environmental Art
Ice, ice baby
Remembering ‘Wild Goose’ Jack Miner
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Events & Exhibits
Can Geo Talks: Virtual Series 2020
Can Geo Talks: Spring 2020
Can Geo Talks: Fall 2019
Can Geo Talks presents: Jill Heinerth
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Exploration
Making space cheaper and more accessible to everyone
Contraindications: Love, risk, community and adventure
Excerpt from This One Wild Life: A mother-daughter wilderness memoir
Under the icefield and inside the mountain
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Explore Podcast
Explore presents Wade Davis on the Magdelena River
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(3): Treasures of the fur trade
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(2): Blankets and moccasins
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(1): The Royal Charter
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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
A Black and white photo of a sign that says "welcome home to Canada" on a brick building
Gateway to Canada: A look back at Pier 21
Behind the sails
Picturing the mountains
Discovery history: Race to the top
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Pronghorn
Animal Facts: Canada Lynx
Animal Facts: Beaver
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Map archive
Dam break
Chronicling “an almost unknown country”
The map that guided Canada’s D-Day clash
Confederation conflict
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Mapping
Mapping Nitassinan
A changing land
64% of global agricultural land at risk of pesticide pollution
Saving hope: One at-risk ocean hotspot at a time
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National & Provincial Parks
Great Slave Lake
Thaidene Nëné: Land of the ancestors
The Mingan Archipelago: A land shaped by time
National parks beginning to reopen across the country
Four things to know about Thaidene Nëné, Canada’s newest national park reserve
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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
Trans Canada Trail and AccessNow unite: New partnership creates greater accessibility
Amet*: Understanding the Beothuk
Remembering His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Dr. Ingrid Waldron on environmental racism
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RCGS
Trudeau and the Trebeks
Trudeau, Trebek and a Rear-Admiral: the Royal Canadian Geographical Society bolsters its Fellowship with three incredible leaders
First all-women team makes successful summit of Mount Lucania
Honorary Fellowship: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Featured Fellow: Emily Choy
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Science & Technology
CEO of CarbonCure stands in front of concrete mixer truck and valve box
Canadian company wins multi-million dollar prize for carbon-dioxide-injected concrete
Space mining is not science fiction, and Canada could figure prominently
Dark vessels and how to find them
6 weird ways to combat climate change
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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
A photo of the author side by side with the cover of his book
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
Researchers find microplastics in nearly every sample taken in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
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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
Excerpt from The Way Of The Gardener
Exclusive Q&A with Long Way Up's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
The 49th parallel: Our defining line
When it comes to volcano tourism, is the reward worth the risk?
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Wildlife
‘Dancing’ fish could be key to ridding salmon farms of parasites
Why some songbirds make migratory pit-stops to replace worn and ragged feathers
Excerpt: On Time and Water
Excerpt: The Bedside Book of Birds
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