Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...

The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes Pauline Johnson was Canada’s first performance artist. In ...

Harold Innis, an important early 20th-century Canadian intellectual, famously claimed that Canada “emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.” This assertion rested on Innis’s remarkable ...

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, ...

How ‘maas ol, the spirit bear, connects us to the last glacial maximum of the Pacific Northwest ...

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing a selection of my favourite stats and feats from my new book Canadian Geographic Biggest and Best of Canada: 1000 Facts & Figures. If you enjoy trivia, ...

Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves shows us how an ancient world could have been more complex and more populated than we imagined Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves says that, based on her ...

The failure to recognize distinct species and subspecies of caribou is hampering efforts to conserve them. So, I revised their taxonomy.

Most international borders adhere to some sort of logic. They follow coastlines or rivers, watersheds or natural barriers. They make sense. Not so the 49th parallel. The border from the Lake of the ...

When Amanda Savoie shows people photos and videos from her dives in the Arctic Ocean off Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, they are invariably astonished by what they’re seeing. “The water in Cambridge Bay is ...

The massive ichthyosaur fossil is now housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. (Photo courtesy Royal Tyrrell Museum) On a summer day in 1989, paleontologist Don Brinkman sat waiting for ...