Giant map helps Royal Oak School shed light on watershed – ThoroldToday.ca
December 01, 2025
The independent community school is hosting the Canadian Geographic’s massive Biinaagami Floor Map for two weeks, exposing the 65 students to concepts of preservation, Indigenous knowledge and reciprocity
Julia Murray can hardly contain her excitement as she enters Royal Oak Community School’s largest room to show off a giant map of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed.
Royal Oak’s head of school tells The Local she had been on Canadian Geographic’s waiting list for three years before finally getting a chance to borrow the unique 11 by 8 metre teaching tool.
