One Ocean Expeditions and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society Join Forces to make Exploring our World even Better

November 15^th, 2016, Squamish, BC, Ottawa, ON, – One Ocean Expeditions (OOE), the proudly Canadian world leader in polar exploration, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), are embarking on a new journey together — as exclusive education, environmental science, and expedition partners in Canada’s north.  This historic partnership, the first of its kind, will expand both organizations’ capacity to promote education, scientific research, and social and economic development in Canada’s Arctic.

“We are exploring new territory together,” said John Geiger, CEO of the RCGS and Canadian Geographic Enterprises. “With its emphasis on education, expeditions, research and public talks, the partnership greatly strengthens the ability of the RCGS to fulfill its mission to make Canada better known to Canadians and to the world.”

For One Ocean Expeditions the partnership is the next step in providing travellers with a superior travel experience. “We’ll bring a quarter century of experience in supporting these initiatives with some of the world’s most effective vessels and together with the resources of the RCGS to create a whole new portal for scientific and educational discovery.  We’ll also be collaborating on the introduction of a whole new range of innovative educational and adventure travel programs. Watch this space!” said Andrew Prossin, OOE’s Managing Director.

This innovative alliance helps equip Canadian Geographic Education’s 18,000 classroom educators with new resources, will support field research by geographers and other specialists, aid adventurous expeditions, help to celebrate Canada and its human and physical geography through Can Geo Talks, and support RCGS’s recently announced new centre for geography, located at 50 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa.

The partnership also significantly increases the number of co-branded expedition cruises that are offered by the RCGS and OOE while leveraging a deep reservoir of explorers, photographers, naturalists, scientists, geographers, geologists and historians to provide an exclusive expedition cruise experience.

The RCGS and OOE have long collaborated to deliver travel experiences born from exploration fuelled by historical and educational discovery.  OOE was one of the private sector partners the RCGS invited on the Parks Canada-led 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition assisting in the find of HMS Erebus, and helping share the geography, science and history with schoolchildren and the broad public.  Building on this success this alliance aims to give travellers an exciting experience with a deeper understanding of the places, people and wildlife they see along the way.

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Media Enquiries

Elyse Mailhot, Media Relations and PR                                             Deborah Chapman

One Ocean Expeditions                                                      The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

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One Ocean Expeditions’ international offices

Debra Taylor, Sales and Media Relations UK and Europe

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Richard Cunningham, Sales and Media Relations, Australia and New Zealand

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Email: Richard@oneoceanexpeditions.com

One Ocean Expeditions

Founded in 2007, One Ocean Expeditions is a proudly Canadian, socially and environmentally responsible expedition cruise company, offering travellers experiences in the most beautiful places on earth. One Ocean Expeditions operates voyages to Canada’s Atlantic Coast, the Arctic and the Antarctic onboard purpose-built, ice-class vessels specifically designed for scientific research and polar exploration.  One Ocean Expeditions successfully combines modern comforts and amenities with first-class safety features in all of their itineraries. One Ocean Expeditions’ steadfast commitment to education, exploration, social economic and community development, and science is enriched by the new one-of-a-kind journey with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Royal Canadian Geographical Society

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1929 that aims to make Canada better known to Canadians and the world. The Society publishes Canadian Geographic and Géographica magazines, and its educational program, Canadian Geographic Education, has more than 18,000 educator-members.