Canadian Geographic articles from March 2001

Canadian Geographic archives from March 2001

South for the holidays.(Antarctica)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... WE ALL DREAM of going south for the winter. But two Canadian Geographic readers took it to extremes, joining the 13-day Students on Ice expedition to Antarctica. Sarah Ramey and Logan Banadyga won the trip in a CG creative writing contest that...

Top of the class.(John Trites wins Geographic Literacy Award)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... To SAY THAT John Trites lives and breathes geography is no exaggeration. When he is not teaching geography at Horton High School in Wolfville, N.S., he is writing textbooks, collaborating with the provincial Department of Education on...

Canoe country.(Canada)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2001... FROM BIRCHBARK to Kevlar, the canoe has taken historic and modern explorers alike over this country's rivers, rapids and lakes. In April, James Raffan will be in Ottawa with his unique audiovisual presentation on one of our favourite icons. An...

Cruising Cape Breton culture.(dance halls, step-dancing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... WINDING ALONG highways and dirt roads from Glencoe to Brook Village, N.S. (ABOVE), Emily Addison has travelled off the beaten path to research her thesis. What the Trent University geography student found were dance halls in Cape Breton's...

RCGS grants.(Royal Canadian Geographical Society)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... RCGS grants extend our knowledge of Canada by funding more than just research and expeditions. Before recent grant recipients Martha Mortson and Carrie McGown begin the final leg of their three-summer, cross-country canoe journey, they'll share...

Treading softly in a grizzly sanctuary.(Khutzymateen Valley, British Columbia)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Rick Boychuk WHEN A GRIZZLY looks you in the eye, says Brian Payton, author of our cover story on the big bears of British Columbia's Khutzeymateen Valley, you are no longer in the realm of rational thought. "It's all intuition. Body...

SCRATCHED FROM THE LIST.(Pitt River, British Columbia not endangered)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ENVIRONMENT MAKING "THE LIST" -- whether it's a short list, a hot list, a cool list or a top-10 list -- is usually seen as an accomplishment in our culture. But sometimes being delisted is a good thing. The Pitt River, once deemed the most...

TWINKLE, TWINKLE, ALL THOSE STARS.(stars in the winter sky)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... CELESTIAL ALMANAC DOES THE CRISP WINTER air make the stars shine more brightly? Many people get that impression, but the fact is, it doesn't. Winter nights are not blessed with clearer air than other seasons; it only seems that way....

SLIP SLIDING AWAY.(landslide in Canary Islands could result in tsunami on East Coast of Canada and the United States)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... OCEANOGRAPHY AVOLCANIC ERUPTION on a tiny island 3,500 kilometers from Newfoundland might not seem like much of a threat to Canada's East Coast, but when it has the potential to send half a trillion tonnes of rock into the Atlantic Ocean...

BLAZING A NEW TRAIL.(Appalachian Trail extended from Maine into New Brunswick and Quebec)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... ADVENTURE FOR MANY HIKERS, America's Appalachian Trail ends just when it starts to get interesting - atop Maine's knife-edged Mount Katahdin. But this June, the track will grow when the 1,107-kilometre Sentier international des...

MANITOBA'S OLD SALT.(salt flats along the shore of Lake Winnipegosis)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... GEOLOGY A TRAVELLER FLYING northwest from Winnipeg might wonder about the flashes of red, green and white along the western shore of Lake Winnipegosis that cut into the boreal forest. A new theory suggests the psychedelic hues are produced...

PELICAN BRIEF.(funding of the Redberry Pelican Project declined)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... CONSERVATION WHEN THE AMERICAN white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) returns to nest in central Saskatchewan in April, there may be little action around its summer home. The Redberry Pelican Project, an interpretation and research...

NUTTY TRUST FUND.(red squirrels food hording habits)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR FEMALE RED SQUIRRELS in Alberta are good planners. A recent study found Tamiasciurus hudsonicus hordes extra food for its pups -- even before they're conceived. "For the first time, we can show that animals exhibit...

LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING.(Canada's new telephone area codes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... COMMUNICATION IN OUR OBSESSION to stay connected, new faxes, pagers and cellphones are eating up central-office codes, the first three digits in a local phone number. To provide more numbers, Canadians in several regions will be getting...

I spy with my orbiting eye.(Space Imaging Inc.'s commercial satellite)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... TRAFFIC IS LIGHT, the sky is clear, and it looks like a quiet, lazy summer day at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. This image is so clear, it might have been taken from a low-flying airplane. In fact, it was captured from 680 kilometres in...

Grizzlies in the mist.(Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary)
March 1, 2001... In the magnificent Khutzeymateen Valley on the northern coast of British Columbia, grizzly bears are Letting us into their lives, changing our perceptions of what wild means THERE ARE MOMENTS of clarity in life, instances that so completely...

Signs of the hoboes.
March 1, 2001... A grandfather revisits the years he spent dodging the ravages of the Great Depression and passes on the secret language of the homeless WHEN MY GRANDFATHER visited me at my East Vancouver home several years back, he showed me where a...

Night Spirits.(investigating the Aurora borealis)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ONE OF THE PLEASURES of a Canadian winter is the night. Stars spangle the heavens, and between their radiant points, the universe flows outward into endless black. We look up and feel ourselves falling into cosmic emptiness --blank space...

BORDER DWELLERS.(living on the border of Riding Mountain National Park)
March 1, 2001... A conversation with the neighbours of Riding Mountain National Park AN ISLAND OF WILDERNESS in a sea of agriculture is how Riding Mountain National Park is often described. So distinct is the border between its rolling forests, meadows and...

Underwater dinosaurs.(Elizabeth Nicholls ichthyosaur research)
March 1, 2001... Elizabeth Nicholls quarries the world's largest ichthyosaur, a swimming reptile that ruled the ancient oceans ARCHAEOLOGIST Keary Walde was working the remoter reaches of the Sikanni Chief River in northern British Columbia in the summer of...

Bones of contention.
March 1, 2001... ARCHAEOLOGY BONES By Elaine Dewar Random House Canada 611 pp., $39.95 hardcover DURING HER FIRST encounter with Saskatchewan archaeologist Ernie Walker, Elaine Dewar made a disturbing confession. After intensive research, Dewar,...

A sweepinq retrospective.
March 1, 2001... ART CANADIAN ART From its Beginnings to 2000 By Anne Newlands Firefly Books 355 pp., $85 hardcover I CAN ONLY ASSUME that most Canadians have coffee tables, but I would argue that we have few Canadian art books...

Mystical messages in stone.
March 1, 2001... ARCTIC INUKSUIT Silent Messengers of the Arctic By Norman Hallendy Douglas McIntyre 144 pp., $45 hardcover. WHEN I OPENED this beautiful little book, I expected to find yet another shallow coffee-table volume filled...

Cruising Canada's smallest park.(St. Lawrence Islands, Ontario)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... HAVE NATIONAL PARKS become less about preservation and more about people? Balancing ecological needs with those of paying customers is tricky enough in parks like Banff or Jasper. Imagine the challenge tourism presents in Canada's smallest...

Seaside slapshot.(beach hockey on Vancouver Island's coast)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... HE SHOOTS! He scores! When the tide's out at Chesterman Beach or Cox Bay, near Tofino, B.C., folks trade their surfboards for hockey sticks. In late winter, as playoff fever spreads across the country, so does the yen to engage in a game of...

Pilgrimage to Christorama.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... I AM STANDING in front of Christorama. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to see this quirky paragon of religious tourism. Its name alone has pulled me to the beautiful, windy Quebec North Shore, as sunny Graceland summons Elvis...