Canadian Geographic articles from July 1999

Canadian Geographic archives from July 1999

Birch for breakfast.(birch syrup)
July 1, 1999... Some call them pancakes, others call them crepes. Some call it drop, others call it syrup. But no matter where you eat in this country - east or west - the flavour oozing across that breakfast plate is most likely maple. This may soon...

Bebunking the skunk.
July 1, 1999... Where I come from in Saskatchewan, people shoot skunks on sight. It is, as someone reminded me the other day, "a farmer thing to do." So I wasn't surprised when my new country neighbour steamed up to announce that "we" had a skunk problem. The...

Summer on the Arctic's ragged edge.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1999... TWO ADVENTURERS EXPLORE THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ICE AND OCEAN ON THE MARGIN OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST UNINHABITED ISLAND John Dunn and I stare from behind a rocky outcrop as the polar bear ambles away, dives headlong into an opening in the ice,...

The balloon that wouldn't fall to earth.(Environmental Canada's wayward MANTRA meteorological balloon)
July 1, 1999... Launching a balloon to study the ozone layer didn't make the news. Losing it did Cameras and crews from seven competing television channels. Reporters from 10 rival newspapers. For a hockey star it might sound like just another dressing...

Riders on the storm.(tiny shorebirds)
July 1, 1999... By surfing powerful tailwinds, tiny shorebirds keep to a tight migration schedule In October 1492, Christopher Columbus was lost and his crew turning mutinous when a flock of birds landed on his ship's rigging. After a brief rest, the...

Forever Shannon.(includes related article on English spoken on the village and on Dazibo cafe)(village in Quebec)
July 1, 1999... A VILLAGE HOLDS FAST TO ITS IRISH ROOTS IN THE HEART OF FRENCH QUEBEC In the sacristy of St. Joseph's Chapel in Shannon, Que., Father Georges Marceau prepares for Sunday mass. "In 1978, there was a vacancy in the parish," he says. A...

In the name of science.(National Research Council of Canada)
July 1, 1999... Enter the world according to the media - which is to say, the world most of us now inhabit - and you don't often get to see images of research scientists at work. The boffins are not a prominent feature of prime time, not compared to doctors,...

Geographer brings common-sense approach to conservation.(Al Davidson, winner of the 1999 Massey Medal)
July 1, 1999... Al Davidson awarded the 1999 Massey Medal Al Davidson is methodical. Drinking green tea at his kitchen table in Nepean, Ont., the 73-year-old geographer works his way, job by job, down his resume. The exercise is like running several...