Canadian Geographic articles from March 1998

Canadian Geographic archives from March 1998

Guts and grit in Manitoba words.
March 1, 1998... Two weeks before the Red River crested there last spring I was in Winnipeg, watching one of the most devastating floods in Manitoba history advance toward the city. My hosts had friends with a farm near Emerson on the Manitoba-United States...

Struck powerless. (January's ice storm)
March 1, 1998... January's ice storm robbed millions of heat, light and the conceit that natural disasters don't happen here It was a spectacle of nature's prerogative, an unprecedented combination of meteorological forces acting to levy an extraordinary...

Forest fallout. (ice storms in Canada)
March 1, 1998... Few trees escaped injury during the storm. Those with heavy crowns suffered the most damage as ice increased the weight on each limb by an estimated 30 to 50 times. Birches and cedars doubled over and brittle poplars split and snapped. In...

Steel life line. (Manitoba railway)
March 1, 1998... It's 'All aboard' for new American owners on northern Manitoba's embattled railway A grain train has derailed north of Thompson, Man., on this July morning in 1997. The bad news travels back down the line to the station at The Pas. There,...

Sand banks. (Sandbaks Provincial Park)
March 1, 1998... Legacy of a massive ice sheet, the world's largest freshwater sand barrier casts a spell of serene beauty Sandbanks Provincial Park resembles a tropical beach, 1,200 hectares of sand stretching nearly 20 kilometres along southwestern Prince...

Boom and bust. (lemmings' life cycle)
March 1, 1998... We know lemmings don't commit mass suicide. But why do the world's most northern rodents proliferate one year and die off the next? It is June and ice still owns the Northwest Passage where it snakes between Victoria Island and the Kent...

An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... This is the history you wish you had read in school. Veteran magazine writer Harry Bruce brings his superb talents and his passion for the province to bear on Nova Scotia's tumultuous history, its quirky characters and their colourful stories....

Blame it on the Weather.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... After a season of prairie winter wildfires and catastrophic eastern ice storms, a book about strange Canadian weather may seem redundant. But there is a certain comfort in reading of extremes that have come and gone and which most of us avoided....

Concise Gazeteer of Canada.
March 1, 1998... Librarians and media people are among those who will make room on their bookshelves for this new list of official Canadian place names, published by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names in its centennial year. Previously, the...

Biotechnology Unzipped: Promises and Realities.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Promises and Realities Eric Grace has produced a well-written, even-handed review of a technology that has in turn inspired hope, fear and confusion in the general public over the past few decades. Grace, who has a doctorate in zoology,...

Stolen from our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... The Canadian practice of taking aboriginal children away from their parents may have begun as long ago as the time of Samuel de Champlain, the 17th-century governor of New France. Champlain routinely attempted to coerce the Hurons and other...

The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... In 1967, architect Moshe Safdie unveiled a radical housing complex at Expo in Montreal. Habitat was, and is, a jumble of blocks stacked like Lego; in fact, the plastic locking bricks inspired Safdie's high-density housing project. He designed...