Canadian Geographic articles from January 2001

Canadian Geographic archives from January 2001

An explorer at his peak.(Bernard Voyer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ON A SNOWY DAY in February 1996, a few weeks after he had skied a perilous 1,500 kilometres to the South Pole with his partner Thierry Petry, Bernard Voyer wondered whether he could take on another expedition. "I feel that I've reached the...

Canada's Mars on Earth.(Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Nunavut)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC west on a mission to Mars this summer -- or at least the closest thing on Earth to Mars. Our crew was our on Devon Island's Haughton Crater -- formed 23 million years ago when a 20-kilometre-wide meteor slammed into the...

Vancouver's little Mexico.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... THINK VANCOUVER and new Canadians, and you probably picture Asian-Pacific connections. But as University of British Columbia geography graduate student Geoff Rempel is discovering, the city is also home to a small but rapidly growing Mexican...

The fabric of a nation.(quilts depict Canadian landscape)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BRIDGET O'FLAHERTY has Canada all sewn up. The Perth, Ont., artist has created a series of 13 quilts representing landscapes from each province and territory. Displayed at the Society's annual Fellows dinner in October, the quilts are a...

Shapes of the land.(landform web site)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS, the Canadian landscape has twisted, turned and morphed into various forms, from jagged mountain peaks to sea cliffs and sand dunes. These land formations have influenced our travels and exploration, the distribution of...

Worlds within.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WHEN I WAS A BOY, one of my aunts stopped by our house every so often with a jar of fresh cream and two dozen eggs. She and her family farmed on the outskirts of my hometown, St. Paul, Alta. Our community was a cultural blend and, at times, a...

Reverberations.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... Farewell to Kemano THE CLOSING of Kemano (CG Nov/Dec 2000) is of special significance to me, somewhat akin to erasing a personal achievement. In June 1957, I was assigned as construction manager of the first stage of the permanent...

CATALOGUING LIFE.(Global Biodiversity Information Facility catalogs world's species)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BIODIVERSITY DELICATE BUTTERFLIES are carefully pinned behind glass in museums and research institutes across Canada and around the world. But until now, a scientist studying a particular butterfly species would have no way of comparing...

FOR SALE: ONE ISLAND.
January 1, 2001... PRESERVATION FOR CENTURIES, tiny Isle Haute, off the Nova Scotia shore in the Bay of Fundy, has hosted aboriginals, picnickers and scientists alike. Its cornucopia of flora, fauna and stunning geological features is now on the auction...

THE MAN WHO BEAT WINTER.(Arthur Sicard, inventor of snow blower)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... INNOVATION SEVENTY-FIVE WINTERS ago, Arthur Sicard, an orphaned farmhand working near Montreal, engineered one of Canada's most prized contraptions: the snow blower. He'd spent years loading milk cans onto a horse-drawn sleigh for the...

CELESTIAL MOTHERLODE.(meteorite remnants recovered)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ASTRONOMY WHEN A METEORITE flashed through the northern British Columbia sky a year ago (Geo Watch, CG Mar/Apr 2000), wilderness tour operator Jim Brook knew enough about the terrain to know where to look for celestial remains -- unlike...

DISSECTING CANADA'S COAT OF ARMS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... HERITAGE THEY'RE a throwback to the Middle Ages, when pictorial symbols were used to communicate to a largely illiterate public, but heraldic arms are still used by most countries to describe themselves, in a nutshell. Though we're a more...

SINKING EVERY PUTT.(Hollinger Golf Course)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... GEOLOGY THE MOST CHALLENGING hazard at the Hollinger Golf Course may be what lies beneath its sand traps and water holes. The course is the latest property to start sinking into the maze of gold-mining tunnels running under Timmins, Ont....

TALKING MY LANGUAGE.(Dene Soun'line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CULTURE OJIBWA, Cree and Inuktitut are the only three of some 70 native languages in Canada today that are expected to survive the next 50 years. But if the Dene of the Cold Lake First Nation, northeast of Edmonton, have their way, their...

CANADA'S ABORIGINAL TONGUES.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Approximate percentage of aboriginals who can speak an aboriginal language: 33 Percentage of aboriginals between ages Sand 14 who can speak an aboriginal language: 22 Percentage of aboriginals over age 55 who can speak an aboriginal...

GRIME BE GONE.(air pollution study)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... POLLUTION JUST HOW DIRTY are your windows? A recent University of Toronto study analyzed the grime wiped off the outside of urban and rural windows and discovered a "cocktail" of toxic chemicals trapped in the filth. Environmental...

Watching the wild.(environmental protection)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... What kind of nature lovers are we becoming? CANADIANS ARE GETTING SOFT. Not so very long ago we were a nation of rugged frontier folk who earned our living in daily battle against the forces of nature: the blackflies, the sun, the snow....

'So, where are you from?'.(Canadian multiculturism)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Today, that delicately worded question starts as many conversations as 'Cold out, eh?' Being born outside of Canada and living in our most diverse city often invites a friendly discussion of origins Five-year-old Hamza Selod was just...

Visible majorities.(political analysis)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Changes to the immigration act 30 years ago opened Canada's doors to people of every colour, faith and language. Without much fuss, we've become the most spectacularly diverse country in the world "SOMETIMES THE MYTH creates the reality,"...

Toronto A global village.(multiculturalism)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... TORONTO IS ARGUABLY the most multicultural city in the world. Every year, more than 70,000 new immigrants and refugees call the city home. In 1999 alone, they came from well over 100 countries. New Yorkers like to brag about their welcoming...

Seeking Mecca in Inuvik.(muslim immigrants)
January 1, 2001... What direction should a good Muslim face for sundown prayers in the land of the midnight sun? WAY UP NORTH, where July's midnight sky is painted pink and gold, the first local resident a lonesome traveller meets is a brown man from the...

How we lived 1900.
January 1, 2001... Canada's century of change PEEK BACK AT THE DAILY LIVES PEEK BACK AT THE DAILY LIVES of Canadians at the turn of the 20th century, and you'll find a young nation wrestling with the transition from a rural culture of farming, logging and...

CITY OF gardens.(community gardens)
January 1, 2001... In vacant lots across Montreal, a United Nations of gardeners is growing together LATE EVERY SUNNY AFTERNOON in summer, David Bailey can be found puttering amid his tomatoes and onions in a community garden plot near Montreal's Lachine...

photo finish.(Canadian Geographic's 16th annual photo contest )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Winners of Canadian Geographic's 16th annual photo contest TO SAY THREE OF THE WINNERS in Canadian Geographic's 16th annual photo contest are early risers is an understatement. So intent were they on capturing their favourite landscapes in...

Voices of history come alive.
January 1, 2001... CANADA A PEOPLE'S HISTORY Volume 1 By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon McClelland & Stewart 306 pp., $60 hardcover THE COMPANION BOOK to the sprawling CBC-TV production Canada. A People's History opens with a charming --...

Lament for the lost prairie.
January 1, 2001... RIVER IN A DRY LAND A Prairie Passage By Trevor Herriot Stoddart 356 pp., $34.95 hardcover FOR YEARS, Trevor Herriot has been dreaming the same recurring dream. He is a small boy encircled by grass, "a shifting curtain of...

Probing the Pacific's black box.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... THE LAST GREAT SEA A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean By Terry Glavin Greystone Books NOTHING AFFECTS LIFE in British Columbia more acutely than does the Pacific Ocean. Currents sweep like...

Grizzlies in the mist.(Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, British Columbia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BRITISH COLUMBIA'S Khutzeymateen Inlet (pronounced KOOT-suh-mah-teen) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean that ends in marshes filled with rich green sedge. More than three metres of rain falls on this part of the coast each year, nourishing a dark...

Mugging it up in Newfoundland.(tea drinking)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... STANDING IN HER MOTHER'S KITCHEN, with a little more than an hour before she walks down the red carpeted aisle, 25-year-old Tracy Rose (ABOVE) from Brigus, Nfld., rakes rime for a calming cup of tea. She's not alone in her love of the...

Paradise, a poet and promised land.(George Elliott Clarke)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... POSTCARD IMAGES of Nova Scotia accent either the P granite slag-heap coastline of Peggy's Cove or Cape Breton's cliff-hugging Cabot Trail. But when I was a "coloured" kid growing up in Halifax's rough-andt-umble North End (all pavement and...