Canadian Geographic articles from January 1 2003

Canadian Geographic archives from January 1 2003

A wily survivor. (Documentaries).(coyotes)(Shapeshifter)(Television Program Review)
January 1, 2003... WHETHER DODGING ecological pressures or the viewfinder, coyotes (ABOVE) elude predators and filmmakers alike. They are exceptionally challenging animals to capture on film, says documentary field producer Tadzio Richards. "It's not simply that...

Happy trails... (Maps).(Trans Canada Trail)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A COVERED bridge spanning the Riviere Gatineau at Wakefield, Que., is one of hundreds of attractions along the Trans Canada Trail in the province. A new map produced by Canadian Geographic guides you along Quebec's 1,400 kilometres of trail,...

Billiards and geography. (Awards).(Alan O. Gibbons)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A LAN O. GIBBONS' introduction to The Royal Canadian Geographical Society began after the Second World War in the billiards room of Ottawa's Rideau Club. In one of his first tournaments there, he competed against one of the club's leading...

Reaching for the top. (Lectures).(Bernard Voyer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BERNARD VOYER has made a career of challenging his inner and physical strength. The intrepid Montreal based adventurer has skied to the North and South poles and climbed the seven summits -- the highest peak on each continent -- including Mount...

Having a field day. (Awards).(Margaret North)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... MARGARET NORTH has always been most at home teaching in a bog, attired in gumboots. "To do geography without doing fieldwork is a wasted opportunity," says the retired senior instructor emerita of geography at the University of British...

A roof, a hearth, a home. (Editor's Notebook).(igloos)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... INUIT MAY NO LONGER live in igloos, but their ingeniously constructed snow domes have become, the world over, an enduring symbol for shelter. And, in particular, shelter in Canada, the theme for this special issue. Forget superinsulated...

Reverberations.
January 1, 2003... No greedy miscreants AS A DEDICATED HUNTER and angler living in Alberta, I read the feature "Sacrificial ram" and the "Editor's notebook" (CG Nov/Dec 2002) with great interest. While I have to agree with much of what you say about...

Town of no return. (Resettlement).(Great Harbour Deep, Newfoundland)
January 1, 2003... IF NEWFOUNDLAND is viewed as a clenched fist, then the Great Northern Peninsula forms a raised finger and the town of Great Harbour Deep can be found halfway down, at the inside of the second knuckle. It looks out over White Bay toward the...

Home is where the house is. (Relocating).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DORIS ARNOLD was a big-city nurse getting small-town experience in Port Alice, B.C., on the west coast of Vancouver Island when she met Torleiv Wold. He came in from a logging operation with two smashed legs on April Fool's Day in 1948. ...

Mail-order manor. (History).(catalogue homes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PRAIRIE PIONEERS bought more than winter coats and cream separators from the Eaton's catalogue. They also bought their houses. From 1910 to 1932, the Eaton's catalogue offered a parade of homes, from the one-storey Eastacre ($517 in 1916) to...

Homeless brew. (Social Service).(Seaton House, Toronto)
January 1, 2003... SOME OF THE MEN at Seaton House, Toronto's biggest homeless shelter, make wine. They call it pony piss. It's yellow, smells bad and packs a kick. It's available at half a buck a cup; it's doled out at hour-long intervals. No, the inmates...

Calgary. (Eviction Notes).
January 1, 2003... In Calgary, 45% of the homeless are employed, with average wages of $7.40 per hour.

Fastest growing group of shelter. (Eviction Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The fastest-growing group of shelter users in Toronto is two-parent families.

One in Five tenant households. (Eviction Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Almost one in five tenant households in Canada is on the brink of homelessness, paying 50% or more of their monthly income on rent.

Quebec. (Eviction Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Forty thousand renter households faced eviction in Quebec during the year 2000.

Low-income rental units. (Eviction Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In Saskatoon in 1996, 304 government-subsidized, low-income rental units were sold to realty companies. Rents for the units have subsequently risen an average of 45%.

Children's Aid Society. (Eviction Notes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Housing concerns figured in 20% of cases of children taken into care by the Children's Aid Society of Toronto in 2001.

Condominiums. (Eviction Notes).(Calgary, Alberta)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In Calgary between 1995 and 1 1998, 3,500 rental units were converted to condominiums.

Shelter use in Barrie. (Eviction Notes).(statistics up)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Shelter use in Barrie, Ont., north of Toronto, rose 1,235% between 1994 and 1998.

Cotton not forgotten. (Tents).(white cotton duck tents)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FOR MOST PEOPLE, white cotton duck "wall" tents exist only in sepia-tone photographs of the North West Mounted Police (BELOW) or of gold seekers crossing the Chilkoot Pass to the Klondike. Yet virtually identical waterproof cloth shelters still...

Nomad home. (Archaeology).(settled Inuvialuit of Beaufort coast)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... IN THE SUMMER of 1826, Sir John Franklin of the British Navy was approaching the Mackenzie Delta area of what is now the Northwest Territories searching for a passage to the Orient, when he and his party were met by some 250 men in kayaks. ...

Cool comfort. (Technology).(igloo construction)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... FOR 25 YEARS, Sim Akpalialuk has lodged in igloos during hunting trips near Cumberland Sound on the east end of Baffin Island. "For hunters," he says, "no other shelter will compare." Though most modern igloos provide only temporary refuge,...

Wood-frame fame. (Exports).(marketing energy efficient homes)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A small team of Canadians is travelling the world preaching the benefits of such low-tech construction innovations as insulation and wood-framed walls. Not surprisingly, its gospel of warm, dry homes has been eagerly embraced by converts in...

Padding Ottawa's surplus. (Finance).(Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)(mortgage insurance profits)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... TALLY UP what Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) netted for the federal government in the form of taxes and "unappropriated surplus" in 2001, and you get a whopping $479 million. This means that while Ottawa plans to spend $680...

Matters of degrees: accurate calculations of 'heating degree days' and 'snow loads' play a critical role in keeping our homes warm and safe. (A La Carte).
January 1, 2003... THERE'S COLD, and then there's snow. We measure one with thermometers, of course, and the other by recording how many centimetres have fallen. But is that enough? Not for oil and natural gas companies or for architects and structural engineers....

Out of Davis inlet: Innu Abandon a town on the labrador coast that bred despair for a brand-new community they helped design and build. Will it be their salvation? (Shelter in Canada).
January 1, 2003... MARIE GEORGETTE MISTINAPEAU works hard to keep her graffiti-scarred home tidy. Plastic bags filled with clothing hang in an orderly row from nails along the bedroom wall, and the living room and kitchen, though sparsely furnished, are swept and...

Home at heart: do you love where you live? That's the question we asked five New Brunswick householders. Here's what they told us. (Shelter in Canada).
January 1, 2003... WHERE DO YOU LIVE? A simple enough question, but one that can evoke an outpouring of emotion, reminiscence, rationalization or, even, complaint. Everyone lives somewhere, of course, even the homeless, and everyone has attachments, one way or...

Going green in the burbs: so you want to live in a co-operative community where materials are recycled, nature respected and water and energy conserved. What'll the neighbours say? (Shelter in Canada).
January 1, 2003... ALAN CARPENTER had been a builder and developer in Vancouver for more than a decade when he decided in the early 1990s to pursue "a better way to live." The now 54-year-old native of Grande Prairie, Alta., envisaged a community in which the...

The affordable architect: the size of the average Canadian home has never been bigger even though the size of our families has never been smaller. Avi Friedman wants us to start living within our needs. (Shelter in Canada).
January 1, 2003... THE HOUSE IS, to put it diplomatically, undistinguished--stolid and devoid of the slightest decorative flair. Planted on a leafy street in the resolutely middle-class Montreal neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace, it's the sort of semi-detached...

Photo finish.(photography contest winners)
January 1, 2003... Winners of Canadian Geographic's 18th annual photo contest Sometimes the best photographic opportunities are lurking in the backyard, as grand prize winner Troy Leeson discovered. Last July, Leeson was experimenting with a digital camera in...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2003... In the Winter Adventure Travel supplement (CG Nov/Dec 2002), two Internet addresses contained errors. The correct addresses are: www.SkiTuonela.com; www.canoearctic.com

Portraits of our new parks.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... When THEY REACHED the velvety shores of Bylor Island (ABOVE), after a harrowing boat ride from Pond Inlet through Nunavur's ice-choked Eclipse Sound, photographer Wayne Sawchuk and writer Larry Pynn knew their wilderness adventures had reached...

Graceful renewal.(Winnipeg's Exchange District)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... JUST NORTH of Winnipeg's famous intersection of Portage and Main lies the historic quarter of the Exchange District. Its streets are lined with some 150 buildings dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a rare collection of...

Notes from underground. (In Habitat).(renting a basement apartment)
January 1, 2003... HOW I SCOFFED when a West Coast acquaintance assured me I would never find a decent apartment in Vancouver for under $800. How absurd this sounded to me, nestled in my palatial New Brunswick digs. Before our move out West, my partner and I had...