Canadian Geographic articles from January 1997

Canadian Geographic archives from January 1997

You there! Don't spit on the whippletree. (Canadian folk saying contest)(Our Home and Native Tongue)
January 1, 1997... It's so flat in Saskatchewan you can watch your dog run away from home for a week." That entry from Dick Swarbrick of Sylvan Lake, Alta., wins our contest, now closed, for best Canadian folk sayings sent in by Canadian Geographic readers. A copy...

Homeless on the range: grizzlies struggle for elbow room and survival in Banff National Park.(includes related article on individual bear)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1997... Nobody knew how Four Toes lost his missing digit, but he had left his mark all over the mountain passes and valleys of the Stony Creek district in Banff National Park. The 300-kilogram grizzly was a corrupted bear, addicted to human food. As his...

Bringing birth home. (Inuits reclaim their birth rites)
January 1, 1997... For years, Inuit women in northern Quebec have been flown south to have babies. Now they are reclaiming childbirth with an innovative midwifery program Just after 10 o'clock on a bitter April night, Akinisie Qumaluk pulls up to the...

Mushroom madness. (mushroom harvesting in British Columbia's Nass Valley)
January 1, 1997... Every fall, thousands of harvesters descend on B.C.'s Nass River valley hoping to strike it rich Through the swirling mists that cling to the mountain ramparts of the Nass River valley, cars, pick-up trucks, motor-bikes and motor homes bounce...

Courting Saskatchewan.
January 1, 1997... "There is no there there," Gertrude Stein famously complained about the wasteland that was then and is now Oakland, Calif. The same might be said of Ottawa, Saskatoon and the Ontario village of Camden East, the subjects of this trio of recently...

Heading Home: On Starting a New Life in a Country Place.
January 1, 1997... "There is no there there," Gertrude Stein famously complained about the wasteland that was then and is now Oakland, Calif. The same might be said of Ottawa, Saskatoon and the Ontario village of Camden East, the subjects of this trio of recently...

An Acre of Time.
January 1, 1997... "There is no there there," Gertrude Stein famously complained about the wasteland that was then and is now Oakland, Calif. The same might be said of Ottawa, Saskatoon and the Ontario village of Camden East, the subjects of this trio of recently...

British Columbia: A Natural History.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1997... Canadians tend to define British Columbia by its mountains, row upon row of them, all steeped in ice and snow and marching in neat unison toward the northern horizon: the Coast range, the Cascades, the Monashees, the Selkirks, the Purcells and,...

City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and '50s.
January 1, 1997... A few years ago, the City of Montreal invested in an advertising campaign to sell itself - not to tourists or foreign investors but to its own residents. The slogan - "Montreal... Call It Proud" - was meant to cheer up everyone who had decided,...

I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People.
January 1, 1997... It is a sad reality indeed that, despite the efforts of historians, politicians and native leaders, the majority of Canadians retain a narrow and distorted view of native people. Ask the average person about this country before Europeans arrived,...

Windswept seduction. (Calgary's Nose Hill Park)
January 1, 1997... The glass-sheeted skyscrapers of downtown Calgary resemble nothing so much as eerie but elegant gravestones collected in the elbow akimbo between the Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks. Impossibly postmodern, ironically...