Awards

Many people work beyond the expectations of their professions toward heightening geographic literacy. This award is to recognize and honour their contributions.

The 2012 Geographic Literacy Award winner is James Boxall.

The Stuart Semple Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating student of geography in Atlantic Canada to pursue a B.Ed. degree, with a view to him or her becoming a geography teacher at a school in the region.

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has designated funds for the purpose of making grants in support of research on geographical topics and in support of projects that further the mandate of the Society ‘to make Canada better known to Canadians and to the world’. Proposals must identify the topic to be addressed, the methods to be used and the nature of the finished product.