Canadian Geographic articles from July 2000

Canadian Geographic archives from July 2000

Arctic time traveller.(Robert McGhee)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... IN THE SUMMER Canadian of 1969, a young Canadian archeologist walked alone among the stony ruins of Kittigazuit, an ancient abandoned village at the mouth of the east channel of the Mackenzie River. Brought up on a diet of Farley Mowat and...

Geography gangbusters.(6th annual Great Canadian Geography Challenge)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Students strut their stuff at Challenge finals * I'LL TAKE geography for $3,000 please, Alex. That's the value of the scholarship 15-year-old Durgesh Saraph (BELOW, centre) of Mississauga, Ont., took home as the winner of the 6th annual...

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC.(records John and Mary Theberge and the wolves of Algonquin Provincial Park)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC is shooting wolves this summer. With camera and camping gear in tow, we'll be filming in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park, documenting the migration, social behaviour -- and discovery of a new Canadian species -- of one...

Mapping an urban oasis.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... * JEAN-PIERRE Bombardier likes to spend his summers counting mosquitoes, reptiles, foxes and herons -- all in the middle of Toronto. With the help of a grant from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Bombardier and children from an...

Winning pix.(Canadian Geographic wins at National Magazine Awards)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Canadian Geographic is tops in magazine photo-journalism. At this year's National Magazine Awards, photographer Larry Towell won gold for his stunning black-and-white images of Mexican Mennonite families in the harvest fields of southern...

All Charged up.(lightning strikes; photography collections; Banff National Park's future; scientists' obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2000... ONE MINUTE, GOLFER Mike O'Leary was scuttling for cover from an impending downpour, and the next, he was on the ground, twitching like "a human vibrator." O'Leary, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Toronto, is one of Canada's lightning...

REVERBERATIONS.(water management; Sudbury, Ontario; national parks)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2000... Water for sale MARQ DE VILLIERS correctly points out the three key issues that must be addressed by a water-management plan: pollution, demand management and exports ("Water works," CG May/June 2000). We export virtually all the...

Tainted glaciers.(water in glaciers shows traces of pollutants)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... BEER BREWERS and water bottlers alike extol the virtues of crystal-clear glacier water to sell their products. But Canadian scientists now suggest some alpine glaciers aren't quite so pure. While studying glacier-fed Bow Lake in Banff...

Park watch.(statistical trivia on Canada's national parks)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... "The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man," wrote Canadian-born poet Bliss Carman in 1904. Our national parks certainly have nature, but don't look to them for an absence of man. * Total national park visitors: 15,042,543 in 1998-99...

Bring in the clowns.(Cirque du Soleil renovates headquarters)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... IF YOU'RE WANDERING through Montr[acute{e}]al in a few years, don't be surprised if a clown pulls over to ask for directions to a good place to stay. Just point the little car in which he and his 10 friends are stuffed toward north-end...

Rooting Newton's tree.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... DESCENDANTS of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's laws of gravity are sprouting again in Canada thanks to two Ontario men. It took 10 years and two unsuccessful attempts to get a viable graft from an offspring of Newton's tree,...

All in the family.(a study of muskox)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... They've thrived in the frigid climate and barren landscape of the arctic islands for upwards of 90,000 years, and now warmer weather might threaten their very existence. A five-year study of isolated populations of muskox (Ovibos moschatus) by...

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
July 1, 2000... Primal and powerful, lightning is one of nature's gravest hazards. A new national detection system pinpoints almost every flash CHRISTINE FRAM was struck by lightning on August 6, 1997, while inside a building, which is a relatively safe...

A HIGHWAY RUNS THROUGH IT.(Banff National Park)
July 1, 2000... Underpasses, overpasses and fencing protect Banff's wildlife from the flow of heavy traffic on the Trans-Canada. Are they enough? IF YOU'VE DRIVEN through Banff National Park any time in the past three years, you will almost certainly have...

A MILLION CANADIAN NATIONAL MEMORIES OPENS ITS PHOTO ALBUM.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... FOR THOSE Who think that these are the best of times -- or the worst of times - a visit to a treasure trove of old photographs can be instructive. A case in point is Canadian National's vast photo archives which it recently donated to the...

Bees for hire.
July 1, 2000... As scientists learn how to manage pollination, armies of insect labourers are shaping how and what we farm DEEP INSIDE one of Canada's largest greenhouses -- a mega-complex of glass and aluminum sprawled across 10 hectares of British...

Starry night.(Torrance Barrens Conservation Reserve)
July 1, 2000... A BARREN PATCH OF SHIELD COUNTRY IS CANADA'S FIRST PARK FOR STAR GAZERS THE MOON is only a quarter moon, but it's bright enough to cast a few dim shadows. Now I can see I came here to see. Ahead of me in the furrowed rock is a puddle of...

Naive adventurer embarks on a perilous Viking odyssey.
July 1, 2000... A VIKING VOYAGE In Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World W. Hodding Carter Ballantine Books THIS IS A BIG YEAR for the Vikings. Renowned for their fearless seafaring, stealthy...

Quirky west-coast encounters.
July 1, 2000... SECRET COASTLINE Journeys and Discoveries Along B.C.'s Shores Andrew Scott Whitecap Books 239 pp., $18.95 softcover CANADA'S PACIFIC COASTLINE is the kind of wild, mysterious place where anything can happen. While...

Captain Cook's Canadian ties.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... TO GO UPON DISCOVERY James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779 Victor Suthren Dundurn Press JAMES COOK (1728-1779) was a reserved and enigmatic British explorer whose most enduring achievements occurred in the South Pacific,...

Into the wild blue yonder.
July 1, 2000... ON A BRISK FEBRUARY DAY in 1909, with more than 100 hopeful witnesses looking on, a horse-drawn sleigh began pulling the Silver Dart onto the ice of Baddeck Bay, N.S. Designed and piloted by J.A.D. McCurdy while working with Alexander Graham...

FROM BROKEN GROUND.(impressions of British Columbia)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... SOME HAD STILL not got used to the place. I'd heard them talking about this in my tea room, sometimes up at the Store. I suppose they'd grown accustomed to their homes -- stumps and half-cleared fields and donkey-piles of burning roots out...

In the garden of a scientist.(Bill Dore)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... WHEN BILL DORE looked out of his kitchen window in Old Ottawa South, he must have seen a world that made enviable, if tenuous, sense. He was born here. His house, built by his father, stood on the edge of what used to be a glacial lake. His...

A capital city.(Ottawa, Ontario)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... CANADA'S HIGHEST seat of government sits majestically on a limestone cliff in what was once a wild and raucous village called Bytown. Renamed Ottawa in 1855, the roughhewn little community bordering Quebec at the confluence of the Ottawa,...