Canadian Geographic articles from July 1997

Canadian Geographic archives from July 1997

Confidential report calls Atlantic cod endangered.
July 1, 1997... Word that the federal government would partially re-open the cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador in May reached Dr. Kim Bell the same way it reached most Canadians - through newspaper reports. But Bell, a specialist in fish ecology, has...

Cabot fever. (John Cabot's discoveries, places named after him and words derived from his name)
July 1, 1997... The sea fog of history, with a damp guffaw at human fact-mongering, has shrouded in conjecture the birth and death of explorer John Cabot. He was probably born near Naples around 1455 as Giovanni Caboto and may have perished at sea off the coast...

Cabot, cod and the colonists. (John Cabot's discoveries and the influence of cod fishery on the lives of English colonists in Newfoundland)
July 1, 1997... When John Cabot crossed the Atlantic 500 years ago he was seeking a route to the Orient. But the merchants who were paying for his voyage were after something less exotic - cod. That conflicted journey shaped the history of Newfoundland Bill...

Fanciful coastlines. (ancient maps and conceptions about Newfoundland)
July 1, 1997... From almost the first moment that Europeans roamed Newfoundland and returned home to tell the tale, men began rhapsodizing about the island's natural wonders. In the great halls of Greenland, medieval Vikings regaled audiences with stirring tales...

The devil's riding horse. (praying mantis)
July 1, 1997... The praying mantis has frightened and fascinated us for centuries. Now these insectivorous predators are helping with backyard biocontrol Like a creature summoned from a nightmarish fantasy (LEFT), a European mantis (Mantis religiosa) calmly...

Red River dance. (the flooding of the Red River in Manitoba, Canada)(includes related article)
July 1, 1997... Manitobans on the flood plain live by the rhythms of the river It had been an unusually long winter with heavy snow that had fallen on land still saturated from autumn's torrential rains, and fallen, and fallen until even the bison fled to more...

Where fishes walked: fossils on the Gaspe shore preserve the era when sea creatures turned terrestrial.
July 1, 1997... Marius Arsenault is travelling back 370 million years. A couple of minutes ago, he was walking along the beach at Le parc de Miguasha, braced against a wicked spring wind on the south shore of Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, firmly rooted in the 20th...

Life on parade. (photographs of parades in Toronto, Canada)
July 1, 1997... Distant drumming carried on a gust of wind hints at a break in the city's daily routine. Beckoned by the sound, photographer Tobi Asmoucha followed her instincts and discovered these images along Toronto's streets If, as happens from time to...

Mercator's World: The Magazine of Maps, Atlases, Globes, and Charts.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... At times it seems the world can be divided into two groups: map lovers and map loathers. Lovers pore blissfully, intensively and endlessly over any and all cartographic minutiae, while loathers absent-mindedly wipe fried chicken off their fingers...

Canada: National Atlas of Canada Reference Map Series
July 1, 1997... Whenever I visualize a map of Canada I see it as a prominent pinkish-red mass at the top of the world. No doubt my mental image has been conditioned by the maps that hung in my public school. These maps were drawn using the Mercator projection...

Once Upon a Tomb: Stories from Canadian Graveyards.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... Cemeteries may seem a morbid starting point for surveying Canadian history. But for Calgary-based writer Nancy Millar, what is left behind in death often tells much about what was important in life. Millar, who examined prairie gravesites in her...

Coming home. (Goodridge family's roots in Renews, Newfoundland)
July 1, 1997... On the Southern shore of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula rests the tiny outport of Renews, a cluster of brightly painted houses contemplating the narrow strip of water that for 300 years has provided safe harbour for the seafaring owners of those...