Canadian Geographic articles from January 2002

Canadian Geographic archives from January 2002

Testing the waters. (Expeditions).(La Guillaume-Delisle, Quebec)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... JONATHAN TESSIER and Sophie Cassis were taking a break from kayaking on la Guillaume-Del isle in northern Quebec when they witnessed a circus-like performance that took them by surprise. "We were on the beach when a seal came near," says...

Spreading the word. (Awards).(G)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... DICKSON KSON MANSFIELD has spent thousands of volunteer hours over the past decade spreading the gospel of geography across Canada. The lifelong educator, now teaching at the faculty of education at Queen's University; received this year's...

Southern exposure. (Exploration).(Royal Canadian Geographical Society sponsors Antarctica exploration exhibition)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SINCE ITS INCEPTION 73 years ago, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has sponsored many geographic and scientific expeditions to Canada's North. This winter, it is supporting some virtual exploration a little farther south. From...

Serving it up. (Looking Back).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... WE ARE BIG on food here at Canadian Geographic. In fact, leaf through back issues of the magazine and you'll find it is one of our favourite topics. With the ups and downs in the agriculture and fisheries industries and cutting-edge Canadian...

Teaching by the book. (Education).(Phyllis Arnold wins 2001 Geographic Literacy Award)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... PHYLLIS ARNOLD has never had much use for traditional school books. As a teacher in the early 1960s, she grew frustrated with those filled with references to presidents and kings but with little Canadian content. In 1967, as a graduate student...

Up, up and away. (Television).
January 1, 2002... A SIDE FROM THE wind whipped weather, the mechanical breakdowns and an utterly exhausted crew, the film shoot ran rather smoothly. "Polar Safari," the newest CG Presents documentary, scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel Canada in...

Defined by our appetites. (Editor's Notebook).(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... IS THERE A ROOT, berry, bird or beast that someone, at some time, hasn't attempted to boil, bake or fry for dinner in this country? Hunger is a recurring theme in our collective past. From the Plains hunters who went hungry when the buffalo...

Malak Karsh: Beauty seeker 1915-2001.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2002... MALAK KARSH loved the Canadian landscape. He turned his lens to nature at its most glorious: blazing autumn forests, raging rivers, sun-bathed peaks. The renowned photographer died at the age of 86 on November 8, 2001. Photography was...

Reverberations.
January 1, 2002... Picture-perfect THE PHOTO ESSAY on the Saskatchewan Cree ("Woodland crossroads," CG Nov/Dec 2001) defies words. The person who made these images must be truly a rare human being: the point of view is so intimate, it is invisible the care...

Just deserts. (Crops).(Osoyoos Indian Band's Inkameep Vineyards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Chavich, Cinda IN AN ARID PLACE that once supported little more than sagebrush and rattlesnakes, the Osoyoos Indian Band has made a desert bloom. In 1870, the band was granted 13,000 hectares of marginal agricultural land in Canada's...

Mapping a midday meal. (A la carte).(food sources)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... CANADIANS LOVE TO EAT OUT. We dine in restaurants an average of 4.7 times a week and spend $39 billion annually to let others cook and do the dishes for us. From the down-home food at Ches's Fish and Chips in St. John's to the swanky Sooke...

Passover with Uncle Solly. (Family Feasts).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AT THE TRADITIONAL Passover Seder, the preamble to dinner can be stomach-grumblingly long, though most Jews learn at a young age to keep a lid on their impatience. Not my Uncle Solly. He believed our inspiring story of bondage, liberation and...

Kings for a day. (Family Feasts).(Alaskan king crab)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... I WAS PERHAPS FIVE when I stood rooted in front of a large fish tank at Woodward's food floor in Vancouver, mesmerized by its sole occupant. An enormous crab moved slowly, its long legs lending an exaggerated grace. The Alaska king crab was on...

Memories of dolma. (Family Feasts).(refugee from Iraq reflects on comfort of native dishes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... WE WERE KURDISH refugees from Iraq, preparing to fly from Turkey to an unknown city in Canada the next day. "It would be nice to cook dolma [grape leaves stuffed with rice] in Canada," I told my husband. "Let's take some groceries with us. I'm...

Dinner talk. (Family Feasts).(Mennonites dishes discussed)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MY HUSBAND AND I are both Mennonites, and sometimes during Christmas or Thanksgiving, we all get together, his family and mine. His family is from a place in southeastern Manitoba we call Yanzeid, and my family is from Ditzeid. That means his...

Manna from the North. (Family Feasts).(remembrance of eating a native Inuvit dish)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MUKTUK made me cry. That is my first memory of "feasting" in the North. The place was Inuvik, N.W.T., where I was born. The year must have been 1978 or 1979, because I was three or four years old, a little half-Dogrib girl growing up on...

Helping hands: An urbanite pitches in to experience life on an organic farm.(Willing Workers on Organic Farms )(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... DESPITE THE COOL, fresh spring weather, every heave-ho of my pitchfork raises a sweaty scent from the soil as another sleepy leek is thrust rudely into the morning sun. Plucking the bulb from its bed, I shake off the earth and peel away the...

Feeding ourselves: As Canada evolves, so do our appetites.
January 1, 2002... FOOD IS A SOURCE OF NOURISHMENT, comfort, pleasure and indulgence. But what we eat is also a telling reflection of our history. Canada's first peoples survived, and thrived, by ingeniously exploiting the bounties of the land. Then the quest for...

Kippers to caviar: Herring, lobster and scallops caught off a tiny island in the Bay of Fundy -- and salmon farmed on its shoreline are savored around the world.(Deer Island, New Brunswick)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
January 1, 2002... WHEN DALE MITCHELL sets out in his small boat to battle the currents of the Bay of Fundy on the second Tuesday of November, he is following a tradition that dates back at least four generations in his own family -- and seven generations on his...

Harvest of Goodwill: How Canadian farmers are 'banking' crops to provide food aid abroad.(work of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... AN ICY WIND makes the cornstalks dance in their golden frocks as Father Bob MacDonald blesses the harvest and thanks the group of farmers standing in a driveway outside Lancaster, in the rural tableland of Ontario's southeast corner. Then one...

Raising Bread: Hard, red wheat kernels harvested from a plant that thrives in rich prairie soils are prized by bakers the world over.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... PAUL STANGL slopes out the front door of his house. It's 33[degrees]C in the shade, and the heat knocks you back on your heels. It seems not to bother Stangl. He's wearing a long-sleeved plaid shirt, and you get the impression that this is his...

Finish: Winners of Canadian Geographic's 17th annual photo contest.(Debbie McLaren; Tatiana Spysznyk; Philip Sun)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CREATING A WINNING photograph is sometimes a matter of timing, with a dash of luck for good measure. For Denise Pouliot of Levis, Que., capturing the grand prize winner was a "fortunate coincidence." She set out to photograph a pair of Labrador...

They are the Walrus. (On the Horizon).(photographer Paul Nicklen)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... EVERY SUMMER since 1995, with one exception, photographer Paul Nicklen has travelled from his home in Whitehorse to the ice-encrusted shores of Foxe Basin, a vast, shallow body of water separating Baffin Island from the Melville Peninsula of...

Say cheese! (Mosaic).(organic cheeses in high demand, Quebec)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... THROUGHOUT QUEBEC, some 40 artisanal cheese-makers can barely keep up with the demand for their homegrown specialties. More and more people are developing a taste for fine organic and unpasteurized cheeses, says Suzanne Dufresne, who operates a...

Bakeapple delight. (In Habitat).(Newfoundland berry Rubus chamaemorus)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... NOT MANY TRADITIONAL Newfoundland foods have held their ground in the face of progress. Seal-flipper pie or pickled cod cheeks go down poorly today even when well sauced with inflated nostalgia. Foreign objects, such as sun-dried tomatoes or...

A little hair with your Eclair? (Food Safety).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... " I DON'T THINK I'd make a very good after-dinner speaker," says Bruce Bowen, a food biologist with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Ottawa. While Bowen says Canada's food supply is generally safe and sound, he's seen some pretty...

Cheap Chills. (Storage).(root cellars in Newfoundland)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... HOW DID PEOPLE keep milk from spoiling before refrigeration? Just ask the folks in Elliston, Nfld., which claims to be the root-cellar capital of the world. One hundred and thirty-five root cellars have been dug into the ground or along...

Apple pies for the big apple. (Offerings).(Canadian woman organizes baking and donation of apple pies to rescue workers in days following September 11 terrorist attacks on United States)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CHERYL BOYLE of Brackley Beach, P.E.I., was eating a piece of homemade apple pie while watching the aftermath of the September 11 attacks when she decided to do her part for the rescue workers combing through the rubble of the World Trade...

Government-issue diet. (Health).(Canadian food guide)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... FOR 60 YEARS, the federal government has been playing the role of concerned parent, telling Canadians what to eat. Canada's Food Guide -- the document which advises us that our diet should contain more bread than carrots, more carrots than...

Edible science. (Packaging).(egineering students develop edible packaging)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... BIODEGRADABLE packaging isn't new, but three enterprising engineering students hope that making it edible will cause a feeding frenzy in the food industry. Eugene Mohareb (RIGHT), Marc-Antoine Joly and Phuong Nguyen of the University of...

A taste of home.(online service ships Canadian brand foods to nationals living abroad)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... AFTER BEING OUT of the country for an extended period of time, have you ever had a hankering for an Aero chocolate bar, some Humpty Dumpty Chips or a fresh-brewed cup of Nabob coffee? Canadians living or travelling abroad who can't live without...

Annual food tab.(food consumption in Canada)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... THINK YOU EAT a lot over the holidays? Just consider what Statistics Canada says the average Canadian consumed last year: * 1,270 bananas' worth of fruit * 426 cups of coffee * 189 bottles of beer * 12 bottles of wine *...