Canadian Geographic articles from July 2002

Canadian Geographic archives from July 2002

Honours galore! (Awards).(Canadian Geographic named Magazine of the Year)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IN A SPRING SWEEP of prestigious awards, Canadian Geographic was named Magazine of the Year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation and Best Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors. "This magazine is an example...

Mountain mapper. (Massey Medal).(geologist John Wheeler awarded 2002 Massey Medal for achievement in Canadian geography)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... JOHN WHEELER'S passion for mapping and the mountains runs deep in his blood. Not only did his father participate in the first topographical survey of Mount Everest in 1921, but his grandfather, a founder and first president of the Alpine Club...

Geo-champs. (Geography Challenge).(Great Canadian Geography Challenge winners)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IT'S NICE to know where you are in the world, to have a sense of proportion," says 14-year-old Jacob Cosman (RIGHT, centre), the winner of the eighth annual Great Canadian Geography Challenge. Cosman clinched first place and a $3,000...

Get inspired. (Environment).
July 1, 2002... UNFORTUNATELY, it's too late to cast your vote for this year, but check out our website -- www.canadiangeographic.ca -- for ways you can get involved in next year's Canadian Environment Awards (CEA). Whether you want to nominate an...

Guest people. (Research).(university student Shirley Chiu awarded Royal Canadian Geographical Society scholarship for research into Hakka community)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ASK SHIRLEY CHIU about her heritage, and you may get more than one answer. She might tell you that she is a Canadian of Chinese descent who was born in Calcutta, India. Or she might say that she is Hakka-Chinese, a response often met with...

Discovery, loss, and the faith of editors. (Editor's Notebook).
July 1, 2002... SNOOZING FITFULLY on his back deck one lazy summer afternoon in the Gatineau Hills north of Ottawa, a friend says he awoke to the view of an eagle circling high overhead. "It looked as if it was sizing me up for a meal," he says, still...

Reverberations.
July 1, 2002... Coral kudos KUDOS TO SANFORD ATWOOD for his persistence in proving his theory that "coral may well be crucial to the ecology of the East Coast fisheries" ("Coral champions," CG May/June 2002). How many of us would have the patience to...

Ecosystem on the edge. (Recreation).(adverse effects of rock climbing on Niagara escarpment studied)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... THE NIAGARA Escarpment's fragile ecosystem is taking a beating, and the booming interest in rock climbing may be at the root of the problem. "It's not just the trees, it's the entire community of plants," says University of Guelph...

Standing on guard. (Exhibits).(wood carver Peter von Tiesenhausen)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ARTIST Peter von Tiesenhausen has revolutionized the definition of the travelling art exhibit. His larger-than-life wooden carvings have logged some 30,000 kilometres and have been displayed around the country. "At the outset, I had no...

Earth tones. (Art).(Montreal artist Paulette Tourangeau creates pigments from rocks and soils of Quebe)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AFTER ALMOST 30 years of painstaking experiments, Montreal-based artist Paulette Tourangeau has created a palette of more than 10,000 colours from the rocks and soils of her province. "I see it as taking the blood of the Earth and putting...

Branding Acadians. (Culture).(promoting Acadia to tourists)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IT'S THEIR BEST chance at fame since Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" gained worldwide popularity in the mid-1800s. But do the Acadians of Atlantic Canada really want all the hype? After the success their Cajun cousins in Louisiana have had...

A sprinkling of comet dust. (Celestial Almanac).
July 1, 2002... IF THE STARS are shining over your part of Canada on August 12, you might spend some time under them looking for comet dust -- more commonly called "shooting stars." It's the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, but those streaks in the...

Toothy pollution. (Environment).
July 1, 2002... NOBODY'S KEEN on dental work -- especially Environment Canada. It's found that one of the biggest sources of mercury pollution comes from our teeth. Silver fillings, or dental amalgam, are half silver and half mercury. When dentists...

Bear prepared. (Adventure).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... SUMMER'S HERE, and outdoor enthusiasts are heading to the backcountry. While most will have bear-free experiences, ursid expert Gary Shelton says attacks in British Columbia have increased fourfold since the 1 960s. Shelton, who has written...

Disturbing a toxic past. (Waterways).(Lachine Canal)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BELOW THE MURKY depths of Montreal's Lachine Canal lies a legacy of industrialization that many hope does not resurface with the recent reopening of the waterway. "The canal was built for maritime transport," says Laurent Tremblay,...

Where the whales are. (Wildlife).(beached blue whale buried)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... THERE IS TREASURE buried beneath the sand on the western edge of Prince Edward Island. That's the view of curators at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), who are hoping to exhume, from a strip of coastline near Nail Pond, P.E.I., the bones of...

Hot rocks. (Climate Change).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... A NEW STUDY shows the earth beneath our feet is getting hotter. Measuring temperatures in more than 800 boreholes on every continent but Antarctica, geophysicists from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., and the University of...

Marking our territory. (Technology).(Arctic coast mapping)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... THE SEEMINGLY limitless ice that hems in the Arctic during the winter can create an ethereal beauty, but it also obscures the region's shoreline on satellite images used for mapping. Scientists are now testing a new tool to better delineate the...

This land is not your land. (Mining).(Ontario Mining Act)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... DON LOUCKS first learned he was merely a co-owner of his 156- hectare retirement property near Kingston, Ont., when a letter arrived in his mailbox in 1996 from a mining company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Diamond Lake Minerals informed Loucks...

Simmer in the city: heat-seeking images reveal urban hot spots. (A la Carte).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE that cities are warmer than their surroundings, as mucha s 10[degrees]C warmer, in fact. But what, if anything, can be done to reduce the pressure cooker of summer city living? Climatologists studying the problem have...

Golden skyway: eagle-eyed ornithologists in Alberta and Alaska trace the movements and appetites of a coyote-eating killer.(golden eagles)
July 1, 2002... ON A COLD OCTOBER MORNING, as a coyote reveille rouses the sun from its blanket of cloud, I stop my car at the end of our drive and look west to the Livingstone, Range, rising 1,000 metres above my home near Pincher Creek in the southwestern...

Out of the ice: who was the ancient traveller discovered in an alpine glacier?(research into existence of Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi)
July 1, 2002... FOR YEARS BEYOND MEMORY, native elders in remote communities in the southern Yukon told eerie stories about the strange netherworld of glaciers. Beneath the ice, they said, great owls slept fitfully, awakening from time to time to devour...

The 2002 Concorde LXi.(Advertising)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Designed for the discriminating driver, Concorde LXi offers a superlative blend of expressive styling and thoughtful refinement . It starts with a powerful 234-horsepower 3.5-litre V6 engine 17-inch wheels and four-wheel disc brakes with ABS....

Chefs-d'Oeuvre. (The Great Canadian Feast[TM]).(Food Network Canada holds cooking competition)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... On Friday, April 26, Food Network Canada played host to a tasting event like no other. It was the night that celebrity chefs Christine Cushing, Michael Smith and Rob Feenie broke bread together as judges in The Great Canadian Feast[TM]....

The book for cooks. (The Great Canadian Feast[TM]).
July 1, 2002... The Great Canadian Feast[TM] Cookbook offers you the finest food from this culinary event. Coming in September, the 160-page book contains more than 60 festive favourites, each accompanied by the contributor's personal story of the recipe's...

Kitchen aid. (The Great Canadian Feast[TM]).
July 1, 2002... Test-kitchen staff spent weeks tweaking and fine-tuning the finalist recipes to perfect the methods and instructions for each. Some offerings are older than Canada itself and were developed by the earliest newcomers to this land. Other recipes...

From soup to nuts. (The Great Canadian Feast[TM]).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Staff of Canadian Geographic and Food Network Canada were pressed into service as an unofficial tasting jury. They represented an eclectic band of diners -- some novice cooks and others well-seasoned chefs in their own right, vegetarians and...

Wild leeks and asparagus. (The Stories Behind the Recipes).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The first spring we lived on our property brought a carpet of trilliums and wild leeks to the maple forest. After two years, I finally mastered the techniques of digging, cleaning and cooking the delicious leeks. They are rare and wondrous...

Tourtiere. (The Stories Behind the Recipes).(traditional French-Canadian Christmas dish)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This tourtiere is an old-fashioned recipe dating back to the 1600s. My father said that the recipe came from our ancestors (Gauthier-Bourgeois), who were among the first French families to settle in Acadia in 1632. Historically, cattle were...

Bukovinian Natchynka and Smorzhee in sour cream. (The Stories Behind the Recipes).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Natchynka and Smorzhee is the ultimate comfort food. When my grandparents emigrated from their native Bukovinia to Canada and settled in Alberta, they brought this recipe with them. It is based on dairy products and yellow cornmeal readily...

Curried Chickpea Soup. (The Stories Behind the Recipes).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... This delicious soup is the beginning of a new family tradition. It is as young as my new baby daughter and has been requested over and over at dinner parties because it pleases a wide variety of palates. After the birth of my daughter Kaia, I...

High spirits: ancient artifacts recovered from melting ice patches delight archaelogists -- and spark a cultural renaissance among aboriginal youth in the Southern Yukon.
July 1, 2002... GREG HARE has toiled in Canada's vast subarctic wilderness for years searching for evidence of ancient hunters and gatherers along lakeshores and river mouths. Until 1997, his finds, like those of other archaeologists, were frustratingly scant....

The fast trackers: lost in the woods? Calm down. Nova Scotia's smart-search team is on the way.
July 1, 2002... IF YOU STEP INTO A TYPICAL Nova Scotia forest, the world swiftly becomes a very small, very spiky place. In this dense mass of trees, bony fingers of spruce meet in tangled handshakes, catching at clothing and cutting visibility to a few...

Virtual Vieux Montreal: a pair of innovative research tools help uncover the city's storied past.
July 1, 2002... SHE IS AN ENIGMA of pre-Conquest Montreal. First name: Marie-Madeleine -- predictably French. Last name: Warren -- improbably English. The two cultures are inexplicably blended in this woman, almost 60 years before Montreal capitulates to the...

Solo journeys test authors' mettle. (Adventure).(On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor)
July 1, 2002... WAY OUT WEST On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor By Michael Shaw Bond McClelland & Stewart 247 pp., $32.99 hardcover IN LITERARY TRAVEL, terrain and people are never neutral. They reach us through the perceptions of an...

Alone in the Appalachians. (Adventure).(A City Girl's Trek from Maine to the Gaspesie)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... ALONE IN THE APPALACHAINS A City Girl's Trek from Maine to the Gaspesie By Monique Dykstra Raincoast Books 176 pp., $29.95 softcover Alec Ross SOMEWHAT LESS SATISFYING from a story perspective is Alone in the...

Rooted in Meadow Lake. (Memoir).(Lake of the Prairies : A Story of Belonging)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... LAKE OF THE PRAIRIES A Story of Belonging By Warren Cariou Doubleday Canada 319 pp., $32.95 hardcover WARREN CARIOU grew up in the 1970s outside the town of Meadow Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan. It's a part of the...

Victims of blind faith. (Outdoors).(Deep Waters :Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... DEEP WATERS Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy By James Raffan HarperCollins Canada 246 PP., $34.95 hardcover ADVERSITY may build character, but too much of it can kill people. This home truth...

The Voice of the Natives: The Canadian North and Alaska. (Briefly Noted).
July 1, 2002... THE VOICE OF THE NATIVES The Canadian North and Alaska Photography by Hans-Ludwig Blohm Penumbra Press 200 pp., $65 hardcover THIS BOOK draws on three I decades of photographer Hans-Ludwig Blohm's travels and on centuries...

George Carmack: The Man of Mystery Who Set Off the Klondike Gold Rush. (Briefly Noted).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... GEORGE CARMACK The Man of Mystery Who Set Off the Klondike Gold Rush By James Albert Johnson Whitecap Books 192 pp., $18.95 softcover JAMES JOHNSON was driven to write this intimate biography of George Carmack after...

The 'new' Northwest Territories. (On the Horizon).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... WHEN WRITER Ed Struzik embarked on a 2,500-kilometre paddling trek through the heart of the Northwest Territories last spring, he discovered a land on the verge of transition. Not oniy did the geographical boundaries change with the creation of...

Coming full circle. (Mosaic).(Pottawatomi Nation meets)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BEARING EAGLE STAFFS, a group of Ogitchidaw (meaning "one who leads on honourable life") opens and annual gathering of the Pottawatomi Nation from Canada and the United States (ABOVE). The reunion holds special significance for this branch of...

Biking to paradise. (In Habitat).(solo cross-Canada biking journey)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... THERE WERE DAYS when I thought I was nuts, others when I convinced myself that what I was doing was just plain gutsy. Wherever I went, people stared at me, a lone, sunburned woman in sports top, shorts and sandals atop a gear-laden mountain...