Canadian Geographic articles from January 1995

Canadian Geographic archives from January 1995

The unpredictable north magnetic pole.
January 1, 1995... "People are fascinated by extremes - the highest mountain, the deepest ocean trench - and the north magnetic pole is one of these extremes," says Larry Newitt, who studies the earth's magnetic field. "The fact that the pole is always moving makes...

How frostbite performs its misery.
January 1, 1995... A vicious blizzard whipping southeastern Saskatchewan last winter plunged the region into a deep-freeze. At 2 a.m. on February 23, two-year-old Karlee Kosolofski of Rouleau, Sask., wandered out the front door of her parents' bungalow and was...

The faces of Nunavik. (homeland to Canada's Inuit)
January 1, 1995... About 7,700 Inuit, roughly 30 percent of Canada's Inuit population, live along Quebec's arctic shore. Their homeland has, in the past and by others, been given various names: Ungava, Nouveau-Quebec. Today, the people who inhabit the 14 villages...

Blue bonanza. (Nova Scotia, Canada's blueberry industry) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1995... Wild blueberries from Nova Scotia's scrub lands are savoured around the world "If you're a blueberry farmer, you've got to be a next year farmer: I'll make it next year," laughs Gary Brown, popping yet another handful of ripe berries into his...

Prairie oasis. (Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada)
January 1, 1995... The Cypress Hills have sheltered people and wildlife for thousands of years To the people of southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, the Cypress Hills have long been an enticing island of forest in a sea of grass, a storied locale...

The fatal shore: the mystery of marine mammal strandings.
January 1, 1995... I well remember my mingled sense of loss and helplessness when 58 pilot whales fatally stranded at Port Maitland beach, near my childhood home of Yarmouth, N.S., in 1960. I walked among the black corpses, bloodied by their own vain thrashings and...

Poisoned seas - the cause of whale strandings?
January 1, 1995... In the spring of 1993, 24 harbour and Dall's porpoises washed ashore along a 50-kilometre stretch of Vancouver Island's south coast. The die-off, unprecedented in recent British Columbia history, is part of a growing worldwide pattern of mass...

Photo contest winners. (Canadian Geographic's 10th annual photo contest) (Illustration)
January 1, 1995... It was about 11 o'clock in the evening when John Bykerk of Winnipeg set up his camera and tripod in front of a friend's log cabin in Spruce Woods Provincial Park, east of Brandon, Man. "We went there to photograph prairie crocuses, but it was...

The Shakespearean connection. (Canadian places named after William Shakespeare and his literary works)
January 1, 1995... I was just a painted sign hanging outside an inn, but its evocative portrait - of William Shakespeare - led to the naming of a Canadian city and gave us a world-acclaimed dramatic festival. Back in 1832, one William Sargint built an inn on a...

Between Two Cultures: A Photographer Among the Inuit.
January 1, 1995... Long ago, Inuit life was hard, but it had a reassuring cultural continuum. "The past of the adults," said anthropologist Margaret Mead, was "the future of each new generation." The arrival of whites with their alien culture and alluring...

Charting a New World: Maps of Discovery.
January 1, 1995... Antique maps are not the easiest things for modern-day geography students to study. Only a few institutions in Canada can afford to collect them, and access to their collections is limited. Even the cost of good facsimiles can be well beyond the...

My First Atlas.(Children's Review)
January 1, 1995... Living on a rapidly shrinking globe, today's children soon realize that there are other people and places very different from ours. The sooner they acquire a foundation in geography, the sooner they can begin to organize the scattered information...

New partnership will enhance Society programs. (Royal Canadian Geographical Society)
January 1, 1995... Almost every year brings new program proposals or initiatives to the Society and 1994 was no exception. As RCGS President Dr. Denis A. St-Onge noted in his address to the Annual General Meeting on October 20, "The Royal Canadian Geographical...