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About Us

• About The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
• History of the RCGS
• The Society’s magazine
• First Issue of Canadian Geographic, 1930
• The Society’s magazine
• First issue of Canadian Geographic 1930
• First issue: In the Heart of Asia
• First issue: With the Arctic Patrol
• First issue: Inaugural meeting
• Turning points over the past 70 years
• 75th Anniversary: In tune with the times
• Celebrating 75 - Sixty Years of Discovery
• 75th Anniversary: Celebrating 75
• “An exciting moment in our history”
• CG in Zero G
• Pin on a Mission
• Geographical societies join forces
• A new editor for a new era
• 80th Anniversary: Arctic retrospective
• 80th Anniversary: Northern exposure
• 80th Anniversary: Camsell’s cure for loneliness
• 80th Anniversary: Stamp art
• Decades of Discovery: 1930s (PDF file format)
• Decades of Discovery: 1940s (PDF file format)
• Decades of Discovery: 1950s (PDF file format)
• Decades of Discovery: 1960s and 1970s (PDF file format)
• Decades of Discovery: 1980s (PDF file format)
• Decades of Discovery: 1990s and 2000s (PDF file format)
• 2009 National Magazine Awards
• Climate talks
• New president
• New executive director
• Laurels for Canadian Geographic
• War of 1812 giant floor map
• Governors
  • About Our President: John Geiger
  • About Our President: Gisèle Jacob
• Fellows
  • College of Fellows
  • Annual Fellows Dinner
  • Fellows Dinner 2011
  • Fellows Dinner 2010
  • Fellows Dinner 2009
  • Fellows Dinner 2008
  • Fellows Dinner 2007
  • College of Fellows Nomination
• Support Us
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• Annual report

Programs

• Programs of the RCGS
• Education Programs
  • RCGS Giant floor maps
• Research Grants Program
  • Research Grants
  • Research Grant recipients
  • 2011 - Emily Gray, Sara Laplante and Kerri Moreau-Sawyer
  • 2011 - Katriina O'Kane
  • 2011 - Kira Hoffman
  • 2011 - Sarah Quann
  • 2011 - Selena Raven Cordeau
  • 2010 - Graham Gilbert
  • 2010 - Sarah Panofsky
  • 2010 - Myriam Hotte
  • 2010 - Kyle Rempel
  • 2010 - Tyler Veness
  • 2008 - Brittany Shuwera
  • 2008 - Nicole d’Entremont
  • 2008 - John Pollack & Doug Davidge
  • 2008 - Nicholas Arkell, Heather Cray, Allison Cassidy and Michael Angelopoulos
  • 2007 - Rachel Herron
  • 2007 - Danica Hogan
  • 2007 - Hannah MacDonald
  • 2007 - Felicia Pickard et al.
  • 2006 - Heather Penner
  • 2006 - Carolyn Reardon
  • 2006 - Véronique Tremblay
  • 2005 - Sarah Bogart
  • 2005 - Alysia Garmulewicz
  • 2005 - Ben Phillips
  • 2005 - Christine Robichaud
  • 2004 - Lanna Campbell
  • 2004 - Findlay MacDermid
  • 2003 - Ronald Gaudet
  • 2002 - Hubert Pelletier-Gilbert
  • 2002 - Jennifer Hiscott
  • 2002 - Grace Hung
  • 2001 - Karen Brelsford
  • 2001 - Dan Strickland
  • 2000 - Emily Addison
  • 2000 - Jean-Pierre Bombardier
  • James Maxwell Studentship in Human Geography
  • Recipients of the Maxwell Studentship in Human Geography
  • 2010 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Laura Senese
  • 2008 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Thomas Cummins-Russell
  • 2007 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Alana Ramsay
  • 2006 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Cory Dobson
  • 2005 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Martha Stiegman
  • 2003 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Véronique Bussières
  • 2002 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Shirley Chiu
  • 2000 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Geoff Rempel
  • 1999 Maxwell Studentship Recipient - Kerry Lake
  • James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography (PhD)
  • RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography (Masters)
  • Studentship in Northern Geography Recipients
  • 2011 RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography - Adrienne White
  • 2010 RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography - Jocelyn Joe-Strack
  • 2006 RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography - Suzanne Jarvis
  • 2006 James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography - Jessica Tomkins
  • 2005 RCGS Studentship in Northern Geography - Jamie Reschny
  • 2005 James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography - Rebecca Turpin
  • 2003 James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography - David Hardie
  • 2002 James W. Bourque Studentship in Northern Geography - Joan Bunbury
• Expeditions Program
  • Recent Expeditions
    • 2013 Expeditions
    • Qajaqtuqtut Expedition
    • New Land Expedition
    • Raspberry Rising
    • Again River Waterfall Expedition
    • 2012 Expeditions
    • Klondike gold rush photographic canoe trip down the Yukon River
    • Arctic Jubilee expedition 2012
    • A passage through ice
    • Agguanittuq journey
    • Trans-Nunavik expedition
    • Coppermine River expedition 2012
    • Mount Saskatchewan Climb 2012
    • 2011 Expeditions
    • Expedition of the Year: Cross Canada Canoe Odyssey
    • Waterworld: The First Exploration of Nameless Waterways in the Hudson Bay Lowlands
    • 2010 Expeditions
    • Expedition of the Year: Climate Change and Permafrost
    • Ellesmere Light
    • Vachon River Expedition
    • 2009 Expeditions
    • British Columbia’s Fairweather Mountain
    • 2008 Expeditions
    • Desperate Ventures
    • Mount Logan Expedition
    • 1000HourDay Expedition
    • 2007 Expeditions
    • Rediscovering Lakeland
    • Musicycle Tour 2007
    • Finding Farley 2007
    • 2006 Expeditions
    • Mt. Vancouver Survey Expedition 2006
    • Summits of Canada Expedition 2006
    • 2005 Expeditions
    • Axel Heiberg Haute Ski Traverse 2005
    • Rivière Denys 2005 Expedition
    • Paddling the Big Sky Expedition: Mountains to Arctic 2005
    • 2004 Expeditions
    • Simon Says Explore: A Child’s Arctic
    • Alberta Centennial Mountain Expedition
    • The Dubawnt River Art Expedition
    • Haida Gwaii Learning Expedition 2004
    • Alone across Labrador 2004
    • 2003 Expeditions
    • 2002 Expeditions
    • 2001 Expeditions
    • Expédition Baie d’Hudson 2001
    • 2001 Arctic Land Expedition
    • Retracing Albert Peter Low’s journeys
    • 2000 Expeditions
    • Back River Expedition
    • 1999 Expeditions
    • Kayak Nunavut 1999
    • Centennial Expedition
    • 1998 Expeditions
    • The Unity Peak Expedition 1998
    • 1997 Expeditions
  • How to Apply
• Speaker Series
• Presentations
  • Speaker Series 2013
  • “Exploring the Earth's Extremes” with storm chaser and global adventurer George Kourounis
  • Speaker Series 2012
  • Dr. Philip Currie's ground-breaking new theory Dino Gangs: Packs of tyrannosaurs more cunning and more terrifying than you ever imagined! (More about Philip Currie)
  • Speaker Series 2011
  • “Searching for Arctic Eden” Explore Canada’s High Arctic with adventurer Jerry Kobalenko (More about Jerry Kobalenko)
  • Speaker Series 2010
  • “Why Ancient Wisdom Matters” Exploration and discovery with anthropologist Wade Davis (More about Wade Davis)
  • Speaker Series 2009
  • “The Ends of the Earth” Looking through the lens of photographer Paul Nicklen (More about Paul Nicklen)
  • Speaker Series 2008
  • “Meeting Nanuk” In person with Ian Stirling
  • “A Walk in Space” with Canadian Astronaut Steve MacLean
  • Speaker Series 2007
  • “Wild about Weather” An evening with David Phillips
  • “Meeting Nanuk” In person with Ian Stirling
  • Speaker Series 2006
  • “The Iceman Returns to Labrador” by Jerry Kobalenko
  • “Father Goose: The WILD life of Bill Lishman”
  • Speaker Series 2005
  • “Nahanni Forever”
  • “Being Caribou” with Karsten Heuer - in person
  • “Dreams and Journeys: An Environmental Odyssey” By Mike Beedell and Ian Tamblyn
  • Speaker Series 2004
  • “Extreme Adventures on Ellesmere Island” by Jerry Kobalenko
  • “Come Rendezvous with the Wild”
  • “Grizzly Seasons” by Charlies Russell
  • Speaker Series 2003
  • “Step by Step to the Summit” by Bernard Voyer, O.C., C.Q.
  • “On Top of the World” by Bernard Voyer, O.C., C.Q.
  • Speaker Series 2002
  • “A Year On Ice” by Graeme Magor
  • “A Walk in the Wild” by Charlie Russell
  • “Space for Species” by Marc Garneau
  • Speaker Series 2001
  • “Journey North” by John Dunn
  • Speaker Series 2000
  • Speaker Series 1977-1999

Awards

• Awards
• 3M Environmental Innovation Award
  • Nomination Process
  • About the Award
  • Jury Panel
  • 2011 Recipient - Michel Séguin
  • 2010 Recipient - Frank van Biesen
  • 2009 Recipient - Sidney Ribaux
  • Award presentation
  • About The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
  • About 3M Canada
  • About Canadian Geographic Enterprises
  • Media
• The Massey Medal
  • How to Nominate
  • Winners
    • 2011 Recipient - David Livingstone
    • 2010 Recipient - Raymond Price
    • 2009 Recipient - Michael Church
    • 2008 Recipient - Bruce Mitchell
    • 2007 Recipient - Eddy Carmack
    • 2006 Recipient - Serge Courville
    • 2005 Recipient - Dr. Tim Oke
    • 2004 Recipient - Dr. Larry Stuart Bourne
    • 2003 Recipient - Dr. Richard Colebrook Harris
    • 2002 Recipient - Dr. John Oliver Wheeler
    • 2001 Recipient - Dr. Lawrence McCann
    • 1999 Recipient - Dr. Alexander T. Davidson
    • 1980 Recipient - Maurice Haycock
    • 1963 Recipient - Graham Westbrook Rowley
    • Award Recipients since its inception in 1959
• The Gold Medal
  • How to Nominate
  • Winners
    • 2012 Recipient - Philip Currie
    • 2011 Recipients - Sir Christopher Ondaatje, NASA Astronaut Jerry Linenger, Parks Canada, the Dehcho First Nations and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
    • 2010 Recipients - Alex Trebek and Canadian International Polar Year National Committee
    • 2009 Recipient - Wade Davis
    • 2007 Recipient - The Nature of Québec/Le Québec au naturel
    • 2006 Recipient - The Atlas of Canada
    • 2004 Recipient - Jean Lemire and Edryd Shaw
    • 2003 Recipient - Roger F. Tomlinson
    • 2002 Recipient - Gordon Slade
    • 2001 Recipient - Norman Hallendy
    • 2000 Recipient - Bernard Voyer
    • Award Recipients since its inception in 1972
• The Camsell Medal
  • How to Nominate
  • Winners
    • 2012 Recipient - Jean Fournier
    • 2011 Recipients - Gisèle Jacob and Arthur E. Collin
    • 2010 Recipients - Pierre Bergeron and Helen Kerfoot
    • 2009 Recipients - James Raffan and Ted Johnson
    • 2008 Recipients - Kenneth Boland and Carman Joynt
    • 2007 Recipients - Stuart Semple and Brian Osborne
    • 2006 Recipients - Karen Lochhead and Michael Schmidt
    • 2005 Recipients - James Maxwell and Denis St-Onge
    • 2004 Recipients - Dr. Samuel Arseneault and Alexander T. Davidson
    • 2003 Recipients - Blair Seaborn and David Kirkwood
    • 2002 Recipient - Alan O. Gibbons
    • 2001 Recipient - Dickson Mansfield
    • 2000 Recipient - Winifred Wadasinghe-Wijay
    • Award Recipients since its inception in 1992
• The Ondaatje Medal
  • How to Nominate
• Geographic Literacy Award
  • How to Nominate
  • Nomination form
  • Winners
    • 2012 Recipient - James Boxall
    • 2011 Recipient - Al Friesen
    • 2010 Recipient - Stuart Semple
    • 2009 Recipient - Eric Kramers
    • 2008 Recipient - Linda Gollick
    • 2007 Recipient - Robert Twerdoclib
    • 2006 Recipient - Paul VanZant
    • 2005 Recipient - Dick Mansfield
    • 2004 Recipient - Dale Gregory
    • 2003 Recipient - Lew French
    • 2002 Recipient - Margaret North
    • 2001 Recipient - Phyllis Arnold
    • 2000 Recipient - John Trites
    • Award Recipients since its inception in 2000
• Innovation in Geography Teaching Award
  • How to Nominate
  • Nomination form
• The Martin Bergmann Medal for Excellence in Arctic Leadership and Science
  • How to Nominate
  • Endowment and Adjudication of the Martin Bergmann Medal
  • Winners
    • 2012 Recipient - Martin Bergmann
    • Award Recipients since its inception in 2012
• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal Ceremony

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