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
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Exclusive virtual pre-expedition meet-and-greet with your expedition ambassador and leadership team
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Complimentary Canadian Geographic Magazine and Canadian Geographic ball cap
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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 Departures:
May 18-22, 2025 travel with RCGS Ambassador Aliya Jasmine
June 1-5, 2025 travel RCGS Ambassador Carol Patterson
October 5-9, 2025 travel with RCGS Ambassador Charlene Bearhead
​October 12-16, 2025 travel with RCGS Ambassadors Daisy Gilardini and David McEown​
MEET YOUR 2025 RCGS TRAVEL AMBASSADORS
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.”
Carol Patterson
RCGS Travel Ambassador
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.
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.
Daisy Gilardini
RCGS Travel Ambassador
Octobers 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.
David McEown
RCGS Travel Ambassador
Octobers 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.