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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society was founded in 1929 by a group of eminent Canadians, including Marius Barbeau, an ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology, the Hon. A.E. Arsenault, Premier of Prince Edward Island and justice of the province's supreme court, Lawrence J. Burpee, Secretary for Canada of the International Joint Commission, John ...
The magazine also distributed free educational resource material to schools across the country that discussed the Alberta Oil Sands. While Canadian Geographic maintained that the material was independent of influence, it was later revealed that some of the content came from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, an industrial lobby group.
The Centre for Geography and Exploration, located at 50 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, is headquarters to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and home to Canadian Geographic magazine, as well as Can Geo Education and special project departments. The Canada and the World Pavilion was a small museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Exhibits were ...
Rosemary Thompson is Vice President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, which publishes Canadian Geographic, the country’s #1 magazine online and in print with 4.3M readers each month. CanGeo Education has built a network of 28,000 educators that work with its free learning materials in the classroom.
Géographica is the French-language magazine of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), published under the Society's French name, the Société géographique royale du Canada (SGRC). Introduced in 1997, Géographica is not a stand-alone publication, but is published as an irregular supplement to La Presse . [ 1 ]
Michelle Valberg CM is a Canadian nature and wildlife photographer who has documented Canada's landscapes and wildlife, especially the Arctic. In 2022, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions in photography and philanthropy, particularly in raising awareness of Canada's North.
Canadian Geographic Education (Can Geo Education), formerly The Canadian Council for Geographic Education, is a joint initiative of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society of Ottawa, Ontario, and the National Geographic Society of Washington, D.C.; the initiative was established in 1993.
The Society is the publisher of Canadian Geographic magazine and its French-language counterpart Géographica. In 1935 Camsell was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George by King George V. [4] In 1945 the Royal Geographical Society of London awarded him their Founder's Medal for his contributions to geology. [5]