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Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia Javier Frutos/Canadian Geographic
GRANTS
Society, MEC launch new Exploration Film Grant
RCGS FELLOWS
Canlit icon and RCGS Fellow Margaret Atwood honoured with a stamp
EVENTS
Society, Norwegian embassy team up for talks on the Arctic and ocean management
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PARTNERSHIPS
Indigenous Leadership Initiative and RCGS to produce series about Indigenous Guardians
Celebrate fellows
Watch the 2021 Fellows Show here!
Medals on wooden table
RCGS AWARDS
Announcing the 2021 Society medalists
Emily Choy stands in front of an Arctic landscape in a yellow lifejacket alongside yellow kayaks
Arctic scientist Emily Choy is the newest RCGS Explorer-in-Residence
Meet the explorers Through expeditions, geographic appreciation and knowledge expand

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society supports an Expeditions Program to encourage and support geographic expeditions taking place largely within Canada, by Canadians. Extending our current knowledge of Canada’s geography through exploration and scientific expeditions, the Society has a long history of funding both major and modest expeditions across the country.

Emily Choy stands in front of an Arctic landscape in a yellow lifejacket alongside yellow kayaks
Explorer-in-Residence Emily Choy
Women's Expedition Mount Lucania, Yukon

Canadians Pascale Marceau and Eva Capozzola are the first all-women team to reach the summit of Mount Lucania, Canada’s third tallest peak.

The team made it to the summit on April 26, 2021, at 3:34 p.m. PDT after beginning their attempt less than two weeks prior.

Mount Lucania, Yukon
Flag Expedition Mount Logan Ice Expedition Mount Logan, Yukon
Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth
Explorer-in-Residence Mylène Paquette
George Kourounis stands in front of lava
Explorer-in-Residence George Kourounis
Major Grant Into the Newfoundland Wilderness Bay du Nord Wilderness Reserve
A man buckles his backpack across his chest in the desert
Explorer-in-Residence Ray Zahab
Côte-Nord: Maze to the Aguanish

A 620-kilometre canoe expedition through the expansive wilderness of Côte-Nord, Quebec. The route is designed to traverse the headwaters of the Romaine River, a river seeing significant change as part of Quebec’s major energy project Plan Nord, followed by the descent of the Aguanish River, one of the region’s most remote and inaccessible waterways.

Côte-Nord, Quebec
A man holds a flag in a arctic field
Westaway Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts
Major Grant Ski, climb, kayak Baffin Island