Canadian Geographic articles from July 1995

Canadian Geographic archives from July 1995

1-800 Moncton.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1995... Need to courier a package, reserve a room, or talk to the bank? Chances are you'll be calling Moncton A rusting railroad line runs out of Moncton's historic CN repair shops, underneath a chain-link fence, and across Hub Lane only to vanish in...

Startling hoodoos and diminutive miracles.
July 1, 1995... On a warm June afternoon in 1976, my husband, Peter, and I drove to a water hole where a hundred head of our cattle had gathered. We stopped the truck and walked down to the water's edge where, growing by itself, astonishingly, in a wide expanse...

Promised land.
July 1, 1995... The final stop on the Underground Railroad was Canada, the final reward - freedom In his book The Freedom-Seekers, Daniel Hill describes how on August 10, 1823, an escaped slave floating on a wooden crate in Lake Ontario was picked up by a...

Treasures of an Arctic artist. (explorer George Back)
July 1, 1995... Priceless records of our heritage, the 175-year-old sketchbooks of explorer George Back have been returned to Canada George Back's sketches are national treasures, remarkable both historically and artistically. As a young midshipman on the...

Timeless Shore: Canada's West Coast Trail.
July 1, 1995... Unlike passengers on a float plane or offshore cruiser, only those who have seen the West Coast Trail on foot can share the intimate perspective portrayed in Timeless Shore: rainbows in the mist over Tsusiat Falls; the rusting remains of ships...

Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy.
July 1, 1995... Challenging our faith in maps Despite what we might have been taught in public school, maps are not exact replicas of the earth's surface. Mapping all the features of a landscape is impossible, so the information shown on any map must be...

Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards.
July 1, 1995... Graveyard tales bring the past to life Nancy Millar says in the introduction to her book that wandering in graveyards is "not a particularly normal thing to do," and many folks consider it a "truly weird" activity. I hope not, for I am one who...

Great Northern Forest.
July 1, 1995... Threatened forest deserves more than pretty pictures Styled after the superb nature cinematography of Dan Gibson and Bill Mason, Alberta filmmaker Albert Karvonen's latest video, Great Northern Forest, takes viewers inside bear dens and beaver...

A Ghost in the Water.
July 1, 1995... Giant sturgeon a dying species Author Terry Glavin is barely a page into this fish story before he has readers with him in a boat on the Fraser River, baited line out for a giant bottom-feeder with a mouth "that looks like the severed stub of...

How plants recover from the crush of glaciers.
July 1, 1995... By studying land that was crushed under Ellesmere Island's Twin Glacier, Glenda Jones hopes to learn how arctic plants colonize and evolve into mature, or "climax," communities after major environmental disturbances. Jones, a 24-year-old...

Sir Guy Carleton: names recall a revered governor.
July 1, 1995... Ask yourself this: What individual do you think has had the greatest influence in shaping Canada, its federation of provinces and territories, and its unique blend of languages, traditions and laws? Many people come to mind, but my choice above...