Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Host David McGuffin talks to Canada’s greatest explorers about their adventures and what inspires their spirit of discovery.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 113
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 2: Early explorers
Host David McGuffin and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts reveal some of the compelling figures of the early fur trade in Canada: Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and the great Dene leader Matonabb…
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 1: Waskaganish
The Hudson’s Bay Company turns 350 years old on May 2 and Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast is marking this moment by taking a four-part journey to look into the outsize impact this former fur t…
Explore: A Canadian Geographic Podcast - Season 2, Episode 1: David Saint-Jacques
Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast - Episode 10: The Best of Season 1
Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast - Episode 9: Charlotte Gray
Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast - Episode 8: Alanna Mitchell
Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast - Episode 7: James Raffan
Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast - Episode 6: George Kourounis
Episode 5: Johnny Issaluk - Arctic Athlete and Actor
Arctic athlete and actor Johnny Issaluk discusses growing up in the Arctic, his relationship with polar bears, taking part in the Arctic games and his role in films and TV shows including Indian Hors…
Episode 4: Adam Shoalts - Arctic Canoe Adventures
Adam Shoalts is a young man in his 30s, but in many ways he’s a throwback to a much earlier era of exploration.
His one-man adventures across the Canadian Arctic and the Hudson Bay lowlands call to mi…
Episode 3: Roberta Bondar - Canada's First Woman in Space
Dr. Roberta Bondar remembers the moment she became the first Canadian female astronaut to go to space on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1992.
“It certainly wasn’t a very comfortable ride,” she r…
Episode 2: Jill Heinerth - World's Leading Underwater Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth is the world’s leading underwater cave diver, and her quest to understand what lies beneath the surface of our planet has taken her to some incredible places.
“I have cave-dived beneath …
Episode 1: Extreme Adventuring with Ray Zahab
Ray Zahab has run across some of the world’s hottest deserts, including the Sahara, Gobi, Namib and Atacama. He led a Guinness World Record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole, as well as expedit…