Canadian Geographic articles from January 1996

Canadian Geographic archives from January 1996

Getting snow's drift. (how snowflakes form and why no two are alike)
January 1, 1996... How snowflakes form and why no two are quite alike In snowbound northern climes, winter evokes many images: blinding flurries slanting across dimly lit roads, mounds of white piled atop cars, pillows of snow obscuring sidewalks. Wilson...

Ancestral trail. (Old Canada Road)
January 1, 1996... HIDDEN IN THE MAINE WOODS IS A LONG-LOST ROAD TO QUEBEC THAT ONCE CARRIED COMMERCE NORTH AND HOPE SOUTH Lured by a land grant, 42-year-old Elisha Hilton built a roadhouse in the Maine woods in 1831, six kilometres south of the Quebec border. He...

Cracking the crust. (Canadian research on the Earth's crust)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... A massive oceanic plate, thrusting under the western edge of North America for the past 150 million years, now may be locked against the continental plate. When it shifts, a major earthquake off Vancouver Island could result, according to...

Fiddler on the move. (famous Cape Breton Island musicians)
January 1, 1996... A good indication of the importance of music in Cape Breton culture is the number of famous musicians who are from there. John Allan Cameron, Rita MacNeil, the Rankin Family, the Barra MacNeils, and a slew of fiddlers including young hotshots...

Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature.
January 1, 1996... The elusive meaning of 'north' Its abstract beauty defies the literal What do we mean by "north?" I think Dorothy Livesay said it too simply in 1972: "North is from wherever you are looking." In a time of national confusion, both cultural...

Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak: One Woman's Journey Through the Northwest Passage.
January 1, 1996... The elusive meaning of 'north' Its abstract beauty defies the literal What do we mean by "north?" I think Dorothy Livesay said it too simply in 1972: "North is from wherever you are looking." In a time of national confusion, both cultural...

Places Far from Ellesmere.
January 1, 1996... The elusive meaning of 'north' Its abstract beauty defies the literal What do we mean by "north?" I think Dorothy Livesay said it too simply in 1972: "North is from wherever you are looking." In a time of national confusion, both cultural...

Canada: A Portrait.
January 1, 1996... Disenchantment peeks through upbeat StatsCan report Numbers offer clues to the cause of Canada's sour mood The arcane science of statistics arouses deep suspicions. Data are easily manipulated by people with an axe to grind. Nonetheless,...

Fishing with My Old Guy.
January 1, 1996... Catcher in the wry Paul Quarrington's whimsical fish story has no pretensions Some fine writing has been inspired by those sports whose mind-numbing tedium is broken only by occasions of dullness. Angling, curling, golf and baseball come to...

Last of the Curlews.
January 1, 1996... Reissued novel offers lyrical account of a dying breed Parable about extinction was ahead of its time This brief, eloquent novel first published 40 years ago reappears at a dark time for the wildlife of our planet. Its immediate subject is...

Names from Spain lie all across the plain.
January 1, 1996... Woven into Canada's toponymic fabric are more than 200 names of Spanish origin, half of them located on the West Coast thanks to 18th-century explorers. The others originated in various ways: bestowed by pioneers who lived in or visited American...