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Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...
During that summer, Mia chose to stay in Canada for the Chief gathering and joined world-class slackliners by the lake in the days leading up to the festival. She watched as even the most skilled ...
The western world’s growth imperative is the wrong playbook. In 1972, The Limits to Growth used early computer models to show if worldwide economic growth continued without regard for environmental ...
Maggie Hodgson was born 80 years ago in “the bush” to a Carrier mother and white father in Nadleh Whut’en First Nation in the central British Columbia Interior. Although she was raised in the ways of ...
It’s a sultry June evening in La Malbaie, a quaint town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec’s Charlevoix region. On Richelieu Street, I’m several stops into Overture des Terrasses, ...
As a teenager, I heard stories about the white bear that showed me the importance of ‘maas ol to our cultures in the Pacific Northwest. This being was our connection to our lands before the last ...
When I met Jill Heinerth, International Scuba Diving Hall of Famer, cave diver, author, scientist, broadcaster, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s first Explorer-in-Residence, I was a ...
What an exciting and IMPORTANT initiative. I was fortunate to be present for the launch of Biinaagami on the big screen at the Geographica Dinner in Ottawa. My connection to the Great Lakes goes back ...
Fungi have puzzled taxonomists for years. They seem to elegantly straddle the worlds of plants and animals. Morphologically they appear like plants yet don’t produce food through photosynthesis the ...
Scientific consensus has long held that humans have been in the Western Hemisphere for about 11,000 years, since the arrival of peoples using “Clovis technology” to make hunting tools. (Named after ...
When Duncan McCue first approached the Penelakut First Nation’s leadership about creating a podcast about the notorious Kuper Island Indian Residential School on Penelakut Island in B.C.’s Southern ...