Culture
Canadian Geographic
Treasured Island
New Brunswick’s Ministers Island is being restored to its former glory
2 min |
July/August 2019
Canadian Geographic
Andrea McCrady
Canada’s dominion carillonneur on keeping the bells ringing during Parliament’s renovations
3 min |
July/August 2019
Canadian Geographic
10,000 Square Kilometres Of Remote Mountain Wilderness. Routine White-out Conditions. Avalanche-prone Slopes. More Than 200 Runs. And Just Five Guides.
Heli-skiing the Skeena Tenure
8 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Canada's First Cold War
How Canadians went from fighting Germans in Europe to battling Bolsheviks in Russia after the First World War
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Sima Sharifi
The Arctic Inspiration Prize co-founder on celebrating Northern Canada’s achievements and creativity
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Candy Palmater
The comedian reminisces about her hometown in New Brunswick’s North Shore region
1 min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
State Of The Marijuana Nation
FOR A TINY but revealing snapshot of Canada’s year-old legal marijuana industry, one would do well to travel to the village of Celista on the north shore of Shuswap Lake, just north of the Trans-Canada Highway in south central British Columbia. Like much of rural B.C., the Shuswap is a spirited dreamscape of towering evergreens, mountains under snow as late as June and alpine pastures strewn with lupins and wild rose. This epic tract of the planet is spotted not just with million-dollar homes and successful livestock operations, but with tumbledown homesteads littered with wrecked refrigerators and battered half-tons. The land supports rustic survivalists and self-taught artists and ecologists, many of them pot smokers who can roll a reefer with one hand and who store their paraphernalia not in a cigar box but in a 30-litre picnic cooler, with compartments for bud shears, a weigh scale and half a dozen versions of the vaporizer and bong.
10+ min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
The Holy Grail Of New World Archeology
How a dedicated West Coast team unearthed the oldest archeological sites in Canada.
7 min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
How To Explore Like A Girl
As her new book, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, comes out, world-renowned Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth reflects on what led her to a path of adventurous discovery.
5 min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
The Ultimate Canadian Geography Quiz Photo Edition
From northerly towns to southerly fiords, from satellite snaps to soaring skylines, 25 questions to test your photographic memory
4 min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
‘An Almost Unknown Country'
How artist Paul Kane chronicled Indigenous people and landscapes during an epic journey across Canada
2 min |
September-October 2019
Canadian Geographic
Water Worlds
Canadas marine protected areas offer new hope for marine life and coastal communities.
6 min |
November/December 2018
Canadian Geographic
Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal And Nicholas De Pencier
The renowned artists discuss The Anthropocene Project, which looks athumanimpact on the Earths geology.
3 min |
November/December 2018
Canadian Geographic
A Hot Future
The interactive Climate Atlas of Canada allows people to see the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
1 min |
November/December 2018
Canadian Geographic
Coeur De Pirate
Béatrice Martin, the Québécoise singer-songwriter known by her stage name, reminisces about her favourite Montreal hideaway
1 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Louie Kamookak
LOUIE KAMOOKAK, the Inuit oral historian and Honorary Vice-President of The Royal Canadian Geo graphical Society who changed the course of searches for the long-lost Sir John Franklin expedition, died on March 23, 2018. “We have lost a great friend,” says John Geiger, CEO of the RCGS. “Louie was a lovely man, the last great Franklin searcher and a teacher of incredible wisdom not only for the Inuit but for us all.” The following tribute was written by journalist and author Alanna Mitchell, who travelled on King William Island with Kamookak during one of his final expeditions.
2 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
George Kourounis
The famed adventurer and new Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer-in-Residence on his exploits
3 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Capital Building
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the surveying of Charlottetown, when the Maritime capital’s foundations were de ned
2 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Pen Project
How conservationists on both sides of the border are teaming up to save a tiny, vanishing mountain caribou herd
2 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Wildfire Legacies
STUDIES OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES’ FIRE-SCARRED WATERSHEDS ARE REVEALING A SURPRISING RESILIENCE
2 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
For The Love Of Pronghorns
The story of a biologist’s lifelong study of an endangered species — and its future
10+ min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
500 Days-In The Wild
I’M CURRENTLY trying to hike, paddle, mountain bike and snowshoe The Great Trail while filming a documentary and writing a book (both to be titled 500 Days in the Wild) about my adventures.
1 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Arctic-On The Edge
EARLY 20 YEARS AGO, I led a diving team to make the first cave dives inside the largest piece of ice ever seen on our planet.
1 min |
May/June 2018
Canadian Geographic
Golden Highway
How Alberta birders-turned-citizen scientists discovered a golden eagle migration route through the Rockies
2 min |