Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages and Minister responsible for Manitoba, and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger visited Churchill to announce an investment of $22.1 million to build a highly innovative research facility to […]
Haida Gwaii is a rich source for stories. There are many perspectives and many different formats. In the Haida culture there is the oral tradition. The first comprehensive versions of these stories were transcribed and […]
CAMBRIDGE, ON, May 12, 2015 /CNW/ – COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX:CDV) today announced that it is making a US$500,000 investment in Anokiwave Inc., a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) designer and supplier. COM DEV is […]
Canada, with its endless coastline, has thousands of islands. Besides the physical islands with tangible, defined boundaries, there are also cultural islands with intangible, virtual boundaries. As N.J. Turner describes in Plants of Haida Gwaii, […]
OTTAWA, ON – Sudbury-born Alex Trebek, celebrity host of the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy!, has donated US$100,000 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Geographic (CG) Challenge. Since 2003, Canada’s geography whiz kids have […]
This article is a companion piece to the September 23rd article “The Changing Face of Geomatics: Learning Opportunities,” which focused more on technology. Geomatics, as a suite of technologies, is only one of the factors […]
Here in Canada, there are many geomatics acronyms that get tossed around. During the recent “Team Canada” event that the CGCRT put on, more than one participant was scratching their heads, asking questions like…what is […]
This new online, interactive atlas, http://paninuittrails.org/index.html constructed from historical records, accounts, maps, trails and place names and visualized using innovative mapping technology, provides a unique window into the spatial extent and connectedness of Inuit occupancy, […]