Canadian Geographic articles from July 1994

Canadian Geographic archives from July 1994

It's not the heat ... it's the humidity!
July 1, 1994... Say the word "humidity" and most people think of steamy summer days, long sleepless nights and perspiring bodies -- almost enough to make you long for frosty January nights. They are reacting to water vapour, that invisible cargo of moisture...

Return of the ospreys. (fish hawks)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
July 1, 1994... To the joy of naturalists across the country, the magnificent osprey -- also known as the fish hawk -- is making a comeback from drastic population declines in the 1950s and '60s linked to pesticides in their diet. Aiding their recovery are...

Exploring Fundy's untamed coast. (Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick)
July 1, 1994... THE BAY OF FUNDY lies below us, flamed by legions of stately spruce and capped by a rich blue sky. The curving shoreline is a chain of crescent beaches and wave-carved headlands -- rocky jumbles and sheer faces that plunge to the sea. Nearer...

In from the cold: the Ouje-Bougoumou Crees build a model community after 60 years of mistreatment and dislocation.
July 1, 1994... SYDNEY COONISHISH and his family could barely endure the wait. "Let's go to the site," one of them would say, and at least twice a week they would all drive to Lake Opemisca to watch their house take shape. With one week to go they could barely...

Plant warfare: from thorns to toxins, plants are remarkably ingenious at self-defence.
July 1, 1994... THE DAISY, that symbol of purity and innocence, is not as gentle as it appears. Along with a pleasant fragrance and pretty petals, it also manufactures poisons that have a cruel effect upon its enemies. Plant-feeding insects learn about the dark...

Shalom, bonjour: a flourishing community of Chassidic Jews awaits the Messiah in rural Quebec. (Boisbriand, Quebec)
July 1, 1994... "L'CHAIM, L'CHAIM," -- to life. We raise our glasses brimming with homemade kosher wine and make a toast in Hebrew spiced with a heavy Yiddish accent -- to life, to success, to a good living and to the arrival of the Messiah speedily in our days....

History of Canada.
July 1, 1994... Some years ago, The Economist England's venerable news magazine, concluded its annual survey of the Canadian nation with the faint praise that we were a decent but "boring" race. A health system envied the world over, racial tensions largely...

Back Roads and Getaway Places of Canada.
July 1, 1994... When I was young, my family liked to take day-long drives in the country on summer weekends. We'd pack lunches, cram into our rusty Datsun, and head north from Toronto until we escaped the four-lane highways and our tires kicked up dust on dirt...

The Canadian Home: From Cave to Electronic Cocoon.
July 1, 1994... Much of what gets written about houses these days comes in the form of hype from the real estate industry and home-fashion magazines, or in arid pronouncements from city planners and architectural historians. That is why it is such an...

Bush Flying to Blind Flying: British Columbia's Aviation Pioneers, 1930-1940.
July 1, 1994... "Bush flying consists of hours of boredom, punctuated by sudden, brief moments of sheer terror," writes author Peter Corley-Smith. In his new book, the former helicopter pilot describes the ordeals of flying in the mountains of British Columbia,...

Legends Told in Canada.
July 1, 1994... Just prior to World War I, British poet Rupert Brooke travelled across Canada and concluded that it was "an empty land," devoid of "haunted woods, and the friendly presence of ghosts." He complained of being able to "lie awake all night and...

Touring the Giant's Rib: A Guide to the Niagara Escarpment.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... The "Giant's Rib" described in this book is the scenic Niagara Escarpment, the ridge of land stretching from the Niagara Peninsula to Manitoulin Island. Colour photographs illustrate the abundant waterfalls, animals and plant life, and historical...

Woodpeckers vs. hydro poles: a lineman responds.
July 1, 1994... I REJOICE WITH YOU that our pileated woodpecker is becoming a more cosmopolitan figure, an urbanite in fact (CG, March/April '94). The striking appearance of this bird always delights me. My wife and I have been entertained by the antics of a...

The Basque legacy on Canada's East Coast.
July 1, 1994... For more than a century, they ruled the fishery off the coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In the 16th and 17th centuries, intrepid Basque whalers and fishermen sailed every spring from their ports in the Bay of Biscay --...

Northern scholarship winner investigates the High Arctic's 'active layer.' (LeeAnn Fishback)
July 1, 1994... FROM THE TIME she was a child, growing up on a southwestern Ontario dairy farm, LeeAnn Fishback dreamed of travelling to Canada's North. That long-standing attraction was the reason she accepted a research job in the High Arctic during the summer...

Pioneering geologist explored the Yukon by pack horse. (Hugh S. Bostock) (Obituary)
July 1, 1994... Dr. Hugh S. Bostock, a geologist who served for more than 40 years with the Geological Survey of Canada and a Massey Medalist of the Society, died in Ottawa on February 1. He was 93. Bostock was noted for his pioneering field work in the Yukon,...