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Canadian Geographic Adventures

Embark on a transformative journey with Canadian Geographic and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, as they bring the stories from the pages of Canadian Geographic magazine to life through exclusive, Ambassador-led experiences in the Canadian Geographic Travel Collection. Every adventure booked supports vital Canadian Geographic and RCGS programs, helping to preserve and celebrate Canada’s rich natural and cultural heritage. Travel with purpose—and make every journey truly rewarding.

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Canadian Geographic Exclusive Offers and Benefits

  • Exclusive virtual pre-expedition meet-and-greet with your expedition ambassador and leadership team

  • Complimentary Canadian Geographic Magazine and Canadian Geographic ball cap

  • A portion of the fees from every Canadian Geographic Adventure booked is donated to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to further its important programming

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Read below to meet the RCGS Travel Ambassadors or book your Adventure...

Upcoming CanGeo 2025 Departures:

 

Upcoming CanGeo 2026 Departures:

  • ​October 4-8, 2026 travel with RCGS Ambassadors photographers and travel journalist Kim Gray and David Gray

  • October 11-15, 2026 travel with RCGS Ambassador, ex-astronaut Dave Williams

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MEET YOUR 2025 RCGS TRAVEL AMBASSADORS

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Aliya Jasmine

RCGS Travel Ambassador

May 18-22, 2025

Aliya Jasmine

RCGS Ambassador and Photographer 

 

Aliya Jasmine is an award-winning television host, producer, and environmental journalist (M.A.) You can currently watch her on various platforms for NBC News in Los Angeles. She is also the co-founder of the environmentally focused media production and climate research lab, Earth Tones.

She was previously anchor of MTV News in Canada, for over a decade, where she interviewed celebs including Tom Cruise, and Adele — and has worked for or had stories appear on NBC, MTV and the Discovery Channel. Among the many shows she helped develop at MTV Canada, MTV IMPACT was a show for millennials about social and environmental issues that sent her on assignment around the world, and set the path for her career: from South Sudan after a civil war, to the heart of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest to see first-hand the potential impacts of a proposed oil pipeline. She returned to the rainforest multiple times for various productions, and became one of the World Wildlife Fund’s “Canadians for the Great Bear.”

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Carol Patterson

RCGS Travel Ambassador

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June 1-5, 2025

Carol Patterson

RCGS Ambassador Writer and Photographer 

 

Carol Patterson is a travel writer and photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, the Daily Beast, USA Today, and the Calgary Herald, among others. A former tourism product development consultant, Carol has spoken at conferences and workshops in North America, Bhutan, Borneo, Botswana, China, Iceland, Norway, Scotland and the Faroe Islands, and written nine books, including The Business of Ecotourism.  

Carol was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in the geography department, teaching classes in adventure travel and sustainability. She was named a Global Calgary Woman of Vision in 2008. She has also won several awards for her writing and photography from the Travel Media Association of Canada. 

Carol has long ties with the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo. She used her private pilot’s license in 1985 to create the Calgary Zoo’s Flying Zoo program, her first step in leaving behind a job as a professional accountant to become an everyday explorer. She is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees and was also a board member for Watchable Wildlife Inc., a U.S. non-profit established in the 1990s to promote wildlife viewing tourism in North America. 

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Charlene Bearhead

RCGS Travel Ambassador

October 5-9, 2025

Charlene Bearhead

Vice President — Learning and Reconciliation at Canadian Geographic, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

 

Charlene Bearhead is a mother, grandmother, educator, Indigenous education advocate and author with over 30 years of regional, national and international experience. Charlene is the Vice President — Learning and Reconciliation at Canadian Geographic, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Previously, Charlene served as education days coordinator for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, education coordinator for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, education advisor for the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada, a member of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Indigenous Education working group, and the first education lead for both the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba and the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia. Charlene is the co-author of the children’s book series Siha Tooskin Knows.

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Daisy Gilardini

RCGS Travel Ambassador

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October 12-16, 2025

Daisy Gilardini

RCGS Ambassador and Photographer 

 

Daisy Gilardini is a conservation photographer who specializes in the polar regions, with a particular emphasis on Antarctic wildlife and North American bears.

 

​She is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and the SeaLegacy Collective, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, a Greenpeace Antarctic Ambassador and a Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence.

 

Daisy’s images have been published internationally in leading magazines such as National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Canadian Geographic, Nature’s Best and Outdoor Photography, among many others.

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David McEown

RCGS Travel Ambassador

October 12-16, 2025

David McEown

RCGS Ambassador and Painter 

 

Canadian artist David McEown has used the medium of watercolour for the past 30 years to explore and reflect many of this Earth’s wilderness areas. His paintings from Antarctica to the North Pole are represented in collections worldwide.

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David is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. The Society awarded him its prestigious A. J.  Casson Medal in 2005, and again in 2018.

David is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society as well, and is a member of the Explorers Club, a world renowned multidisciplinary professional society based in New York.

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A sought-after teacher, David has hosted multimedia presentations conducted workshops for various art societies and museums around the world, with a mind to share his reverence for nature and passion for the creative art of painting.

MEET YOUR 2026 RCGS TRAVEL AMBASSADORS

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Kim Gray

RCGS Travel Ambassador

October 4-8, 2026

Kim Gray

RCGS Ambassador, Travel Journalist and Photographer

After graduating with a Master of Journalism degree from Carleton University, Kim Gray spent two decades working as a traditional journalist in newspapers, television and radio throughout Canada. On July 1, 2011, she turned to travel publishing — co-founding the nationally celebrated travel blog Toque & Canoe, a quality digital magazine that explores travel culture in Canada and beyond.

For the past dozen years, Kim has been championing transformative travel experiences from coast to coast to coast on CBC radio and in front of an always growing audience at Toque & Canoe, which currently has 35K followers on all of its channels combined.

Her efforts “to make Canada better known to Canadians and the world” led to her RCGS Fellow nomination in 2016. She often amplifies RCGS and Canadian Geographic content on her social media channels.

Trips that continue to inspire her? Observing, with Indigenous wildlife guides, a rare spirit bear fishing for salmon on B.C.’s remote west coast. Kayaking with beluga whales in the mouth of Manitoba’s Churchill River (and maybe swimming with them, too!) Travelling on a small expedition cruise ship with the RCGS to Nunavut, where she would volunteer on board as a Fellow and fall in love with the Arctic Archipelago’s jewel-like icebergs.

In 2017, Kim helped develop the inaugural guidebook to Indigenous tourism in Canada with the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada. She’s been covering the growth of this travel sector closely and she encourages all Canadians, as an act of reconciliation, to learn more about this effort and the incredible experiences to be had.

Kim is married to David Gray and they have two wonderful children, Emma and Jackson.

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Dave Williams

RCGS Travel Ambassador

October 11-15, 2026

Dave Williams

RCGS Ambassador, ex-Astronaut and Photographer

Dr. Dave Williams is an astronaut, aquanaut, pilot, emergency physician, scientist, CEO and Fellow of the RCGS. He has flown to space twice, logging over thirteen million kilometres in space and over seventeen hours of spacewalks. He holds the Canadian spacewalking record and was the first Canadian to have lived and worked in space and on the world’s only undersea research habitat. He is the recipient of seven honorary degrees, the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. He has written eight books including his best-selling memoire Defying Limits, Lessons from the Edge of the Universe, and the ever-popular book Why Am I Taller, What Happens to an Astronaut’s Body in Space released last year. His most recent book Space on Earth, How Thinking Like an Astronaut Can Help Save the Planet was released in the spring 2023.

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