Best of 2019

THIS IS ONE OF the highlights of my year. Pulling together the content of this Best of Canadian Geographic special issue — our third volume — is an absolute pleasure. After all, I get to hang out with my awesome team for a couple of hours and peruse the previous year’s amazing stories, photography and maps to pick our favourites.

And you don’t just have to take our word on it. Three of the 10 features in our 2018 Best of edition garnered National Magazine Award nominations: Alanna Mitchell’s “For the love of pronghorns,” Julian Brave Noisecat’s “Indigenous Guardians of the Nuxalk” and Jennifer Fast’s “Stampede Nations” photography, which explored the Calgary Stampede’s Indigenous history.

Not surprisingly, you’ll find more work from Mitchell in this year’s issue, too (“The curious, extraordinary life of Anne Innis Dagg,” page 36, and “‘There’s no coming back from this’,” page 70). And you’ll get to relive, or discover, sure-fire awards fodder from our past 12 months, such as Omar Moullam’s “Flat Earth 101” (page 86), fantastic under-ice photography from Geoff Coombs (“‘It’s kind of what I imagine outer space to be like,’” page 92), and incredible maps by our cartographer Chris Brackley, such as “Vanishing point” (page 26), which charts Canada’s dwindling caribou herds.

It’s such a great collection of our best work, I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed assembling it. (Please do! It’ll mean we get to keep doing it. And it’s an annual highlight I don’t want to miss.)

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