Canadian Geographic articles from March 1997

Canadian Geographic archives from March 1997

Cracking the code: water from wastes.
March 1, 1997... Turning water into wine is child's play compared to what an Ontario company is about to accomplish on a hazardous waste site in Toronto. Using its patented "Destructor," ECO Logic Inc. of Rockwood, Ont., will turn 6,800 tonnes of...

Nincompoop bureaucrats bungle a bridge name. (Confederation Bridge)
March 1, 1997... What a corny, frumpish name! Confederation Bridge. Another bureaucratic bit of toponymic tedium from Ottawa. Another yawn of a Canadian name to dull the cartographical expanses of Canadian mappery, bland as some of it already is with boring place...

After the deluge. (flooding in the Saguenay region)(includes related articles on washed-up pollutants and flood facts)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1997... Water powered the Saguenay region's economy, then almost destroyed it South of the concrete dam that marks the beginning of Riviere Ha! Ha!'s journey towards Quebec's Saguenay Fiord, the boreal forest gives way to a broad swath of mud and...

Foundations for catastrophe: a prehistoric sea paved the Saguenay region with sensitive clay and set the stage for disaster.(Cover Story)
March 1, 1997... A prehistoric sea paved the Saguenay region with sensitive clay and set the stage for disaster When dawn came on July 20, the Paquet-Garceau family figured they were safe from the raging rivers whose waters were already threatening parts of La...

Places of power. (spiritual landscapes of the Inuit)(includes related articles on the Tuniit, life-threatening sites and customs in sacred places)
March 1, 1997... A student of the old ways discovers the spiritual landscapes of the Inuit It was in the late 1950s that Norman Hallendy began meeting Inuit elders who had just "come off the land" to live their final years in a settlement on Kingaite Island...

Strait across. (Confederation Bridge)(includes related articles on the 80-year-old Marine Atlantic ferry service)
March 1, 1997... Designed to last more than a century, the link between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick is a marvel of cold ocean engineering A hush falls over the dimly lit control room and wheelhouse of the heavy-lifting vessel Svanen as it lowers into...

Ferry farewell. (Marine Atlantic ferry service)
March 1, 1997... It was a scene repeated hundreds of times each summer as the blue and white ferries shuttled back and forth across Northumberland Strait: passengers lining the decks on balmy days waving to each other as they passed between Cape Tormentine, N.B.,...

Fete with fanfare. (residents of Ile aux Grues, Quebec, celebrate mi-careme)
March 1, 1997... On Quebec's Ile aux Grues, islanders carry on a medieval custom to chase off the winter blues Glittering mermaids, walking snow-men, singing cats, dancing Cleopatras, armies of Romans and gremlins roam like spectres across the snow to each...

Forests of the sea. (kelp)
March 1, 1997... EXOTIC DELICACY, FUEL SOURCE, POSSIBLE CANCER CURE - KELP IS NOT JUST FOR SEA URCHINS ANYMORE Seen from the sea floor, a bed of kelp is a living, ever moving phantasmagoria of filtered light and muted colour. Streaming off the vertical stripes...

Diary of a Wilderness Dweller.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... "August 5, 1989 It is my birthday I am forty-two years old. Most of my contemporaries have conventional careers, long-established families, grandchildren, even. But here I am, playing with my Lego set, my piggy bank almost empty, and I love...

Ancient People of the Arctic.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Preserved in frost and ice on the islands of Canada's High Arctic are reminders of a time when people colonized the most inhospitable lands on earth. When Mediterranean and Asian civilizations were beginning to coalesce around 3,000 B.C., a...

The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West.
March 1, 1997... The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West is a rather ambitious title for this chronicle of the police forces three-month march across the Canadian prairies in 1874. Closer to the truth is that the men in the scarlet Norfolk...

Encounters: Early Images of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples from the Library Collections of the Geological Survey of Canada.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Here are yet two more books of photographs of First Nations peoples in past times, one drawn from the vast collection of photos taken in the field by members of the Geological Survey of Canada, the other assembled by the Vancouver writer and...

Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations, 1860-1940.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Here are yet two more books of photographs of First Nations peoples in past times, one drawn from the vast collection of photos taken in the field by members of the Geological Survey of Canada, the other assembled by the Vancouver writer and...

Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... New Brunswick author Philip Lee swings between optimism and pessimism in this comprehensive and handsome book about the Atlantic salmon, optimism because many good people are working to save the salmon, pessimism because it may just be too late....

Alexander Graham Bell CD ROM.
March 1, 1997... Bell's invention of the telephone at the age of 29 secured his ranking among the greatest inventors of all time. But as this engaging, interactive biography shows, it eclipsed much of Bell's later work and the true scope of his genius. While...

Reaching the heights: a Canadian becomes the first person from the Americas to reach the South Pole unaided. (Bernard Voyer)
March 1, 1997... When Bernard Voyer describes his nine-week trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole, it sounds like hell on earth. "The altitude rose steadily, from sea level up to more than 2,800 metres, and some of the strongest winds on Earth...

Thin edge of the wedge. (Wedge Island)
March 1, 1997... Wedge Island is barely discernible on a road map of Nova Scotia because there are no roads leading there. Although it is not truly an island, its tether to the eastern shore is so tenuous that it remains remote and seemingly adrift. Eroded by the...