WILDLIFE
Million-dollar ram
Why Alberta is auctioning its trophy bighorns
By Sid Marty

CULTURE
Old wives’ tales
Nova Scotia women share family wisdom passed on down the generations
Photography by Nance Ackerman

PLACE
Storm appeal
Foul-weather season is luring a new breed of visitor to the tempest-tossed outer coast of Vancouver Island
By Charles Montgomery with photography by Patrice Halley

SCIENCE
First footsteps on land
Are a set of footprints preserved in 500-million-old sandstone the earliest record of animal life on land?
By Wayne Grady with photography by David Barbour

EXCERPT
Shadowing the mapmakers
Artist Landon Mackenzie reimagines the landscapes travelled by Canada’s earliest cartographers
By Alan Morantz

The inside story
News from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Editor’s notebook
Fish and games

Contributors
Meet our writers and photographers

Reverberations
Rat Portage revisted, Delta black and blue, Rising not warming

Discovery
Widening the seaway, Canada’s oldest city wins a prize, Toronto’s butterfly sanctuary, Haida tattoos

À la carte
Mapping B.C. shipwrecks

Reviews
City under seige, Canoe tribute, Losing sight of the Yukon Quest

On the horizon
House, hearth, home

Mosaic
Kaszub heartland

In habitat
Toronto’s Polish haven by Joe Fiorito
By Joe Fiorito