The song of a male red-winged blackbird takes on a visible form as it stakes out its territory on a cold spring morning. (Photo: Stanley Bysshe) Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of ...

Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish? At the turn of the 19th century, many people thought Canada’s ...

The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces In some ways, there aren’t many streets like Toronto’s ...

*It means “awake” in Beothuk, the language and people who once called present-day Newfoundland home for about 2,000 years. One young woman, believed to be the last living Beothuk, left a collection of ...

The discovery of the 150-year-old Ts’msyen and Coast Salish garden sites — and their still-booming biodiversity — could provide fresh inspiration for both land management and food security solutions ...

Trying to curb climate change is a complex and global effort. How has Canada fared in the crusade? In the June issue of Canadian Geographic, we focused on climate change, and looked back at Canada’s ...

Maps have long played a critical role in video games, whether as the main user interface, a reference guide, or both. As games become more sophisticated, so too does the cartography that underpins ...

As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own Historian Arthur J. Ray wrote* that many of Canada’s Indigenous people ...

Niigaan Sinclair, author and associate professor in the University of Manitoba's department of native studies, on why the gray jay is important to the Anishinaabe people. Gwiingwiishi has lived with ...

Built by Swiss guides high on the Continental Divide, a storied refuge will be dismantled just months ahead of its 100th birthday, a casualty of our warming planet “The rains descended, and the floods ...

Unlike some other species of deer, both female and male caribou grow antlers. (Photo: Jean-Simon Bégin/Can Geo Photo Club) Caribou have scent glands at the base of their ankles. When they sense danger ...

Canadian psychologist Peter Suedfeld is studying stress in the world's harshest environment Antarctica has the world’s coldest temperatures, worst weather and most isolated living conditions. That can ...