One family’s connection to a 129-year -old Lake Huron shipwreck

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Filmmakers found the wreck of Africa while working on a documentary, what did this discovery mean for relatives of the lost ship's captain?

Researchers have designed a cooling station to help Atlantic salmon. Learn about how this solution may increase critically important cooling spots.

Remembering Michael de Pencier, the serial entrepreneur who transformed Canadian publishing.

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The Africa was lost in Lake Huron during a winter storm in 1895. The wreck was discovered covered in quagga mussels during the filming of "All Too Clear." (Photo: All Too Clear/Zach Melnick & Yvonne Drebert)

One family’s connection to a 129-year-old shipwreck

Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick found the wreck of the Africa while working on a documentary in Lake Huron – they didn’t realize the meaning of the discovery to relatives of the lost ship’s captain
By Julia Power

An aerial image of two passive systems a year after construction on the Killag River in Sheet Harbour, N.S. (Photo: Kathryn Smith)

Researchers design cooling stations to help Atlantic salmon

As Atlantic Canada’s rivers heat up, engineers may have devised a solution to increase critically important cold spots
By Thomas Lundy with illustrations by David Wysotski

(Photo: Kelly Szandtner)

Remembering Michael de Pencier, the serial entrepreneur who transformed Canadian publishing

De Pencier, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and former co-owner of Canadian Geographic, died Oct. 6 at the age of 89 and is remembered as a “perpetual windmill of ideas”

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