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Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...
She was surprised at how comfortable she felt on the line, so she just kept walking. Slowly and cautiously. After each step, she waited until the line beneath her feet quieted down completely.
The 2023 summer of smoke, during the world’s hottest year on record before 2024, saw more than 200 communities evacuated across Canada, 19 in the Northwest Territories.In one study on evacuations here ...
I have watched the coverage of Tour riders fighting their way up to the Col for many years. But the most memorable Tourmalet climb for me came in 2010, when Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck was battling ...
When Mary Schäffer Warren travelled through the Maligne River valley, 115 years before our crew, she was looking for an elusive lake she’d heard referred to in Îethka (Stoney) Nakoda as Chaba Imne ...
Research and exploration of the icy Arctic waters is possible because of the existence of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, which opened in Cambridge Bay in 2019.
Forgive an early digression, but with few having heard of geoparks, readers are owed an explanation.While most are likely familiar with world heritage sites and world biosphere reserves — traditional ...
What is a river? That is a question to which filmmaker, author and Métis Elder Marjorie Beaucage has given a lot of thought. Now 77, Beaucage grew up in southeastern Manitoba, raised by the land, but ...
A few facts to start. Vancouver is one of the country’s most diverse cities, with English not being the first language of half the population.Most of its residents are what the government of Canada ...
Dendrobaena octaedra is a the most common non-native earthworm species we are finding in Canada’s boreal forest. (Photo: Stephen Paterson) Earthworms have long been recognized as some of the most ...
Regardless of the setting of Robert Bateman’s paintings, from the cold birch woods of Ontario, to the hot plains of Kenya to the adobe walls of New Mexico, they evoke an impression of elegy. The ...