Canadian Geographic articles from May 1994

Canadian Geographic archives from May 1994

Knock-out punches from the sun. (effects of solar magnetic disturbances on earth's magnetic field and man-made devices) (Geo Watch)
May 1, 1994... Television screens turned snow for thousands of Canadians last January 20, when Telesat Canada's Anik E-1 and E-2 satellites stopped working. Five years earlier, Quebeckers suffered millions of dollars of damage when Hydro-Quebec's electrical...

Pay-per-rescue: the cost of getting lost. (debate over fees charged for rescues) (Geo Watch)
May 1, 1994... It can cost you to get rescued. Three teenagers in British Columbia found that out the hard way last winter. They became utterly lost after their quest for fresh powder snow led them into a restricted area at Kelowna's Big White Ski Resort. They...

Turbines vs. paddlers in West Quebec. (opposition to power project proposals in Pontiac region) (Geo Watch)
May 1, 1994... It was international news when Hydro-Quebec's massive James Bay II power project was opposed and stalled by a coalition of Cree Indian and environmental activists in 1991. Today, Quebec's river-damming plans in West Quebec are ringing alarm bells...

Storm warnings from the 'Fighting Prairie Weather Dogs.' (meteorologists track prairie storms)
May 1, 1994... AS A YOUNGSTER, Pat McCarthy spent many hours watching summer storms pass over his home in Gibbons, Alta., northeast of Edmonton. When threatening black skies sent most of his family indoors, McCarthy often stayed out to photograph the angry...

Paddling the Wild Stikine. (Stikine River, British Columbia)
May 1, 1994... Flanked by sheer walls of volcanic rock, Jody Schick threads his kayak through Tanzilla Narrows, a two-metre-wide bottleneck of whitewater on the Stikine River in northwestern British Columbia. From its headwaters in the Skeena Mountains, the...

Quenching Vancouver's thirst. (water supply in Vancouver, British Columbia)
May 1, 1994... Torrents of spring meltwater thunder over Seymour Dam's spillways at a reservoir in the Coast Mountains north of Vancouver. Although enough rain and snow fall in the district's three supply watersheds to provide water for almost three times the...

From the hands of the master. (Ojibwa handicraft expert Freda McDonald) (Cover Story)
May 1, 1994... Freda McDonald reaffirms her roots by teaching crafts in the Ojibwa tradition WHEN FREDA McDONALD was a child during the 1930s, her mother would occasionally get a hunger craving that could be satisfied only by the meat of a rather unlikely...

The Lagimodiere legacy: a family tree intertwined with Canadian history. (Lagimodiere family)
May 1, 1994... TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Marie Lagimodiere, the proud possessor of a newly acquired master's degree in environmental studies from the University of Waterloo, has recently decided that the time has come for her to plunge into the job market. By...

Inuit wings over Ungava. (Ungava Peninsula, Canada; Air Inuit meets transportation needs of Inuit Indians in northern Quebec)
May 1, 1994... Pilot Adamie Alaku is a local hero in the far-flung villages of Nunavik "TEMPS NORMAL... dry torque check... 80 knots... 90 now... V-one... your throttles... V-two... rotation...." Captain Adamie Alaku's calm voice blends with that of...

Sorting out Ontario's municipal make-up. (population and municipal divisions) (Place Names)
May 1, 1994... HAVE YOU EVER wondered what makes a city a city, or a town a town? On paper the definition of each seems clear enough, but many exceptions exist. As a case study, let's pick Ontario, where population is used to define cities, towns, villages and...

Before Columbus.
May 1, 1994... Trying to tell the 500 years of history of just one Indian nation since the arrival of Columbus is a daunting task. To attempt it for all the Indians of Canada is a monumental challenge. To do it for all Indians of North and South America, and to...

Canada Geograph II. (Software Review) (Evaluation)
May 1, 1994... Aside from outdated maps and textbooks, the learning materials in my junior-high geography class included plaster, plywood and paint -- ingredients for making models of landmasses -- Chile, in my case. I remember dutifully forming and painting...

The First Summer People: The Thousand Islands, 1650-1910.
May 1, 1994... When I first went bass fishing in the Thousand Islands I got lost. The experience allows me to sympathize with all those travellers who first encountered this labyrinthine maze without the benefit of charts and navigational aids. Appropriately,...

The Nature of Sea Otters: A Story of Survival.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... Like an aquatic teddy bear, the sea otter has an endearing, friendly face with curious eyes, a strawberry-shaped nose and walrus mustache. Floating belly to the breeze, its ponderous flippers and padded paws upright, it clings to a string of kelp...

The New Northwest: The Photographs of the Frank Crean Expeditions, 1908-1909.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... At the turn of the century, the amount of Crown land available for homesteaders in Western Canada was dwindling. Waves of European immigrants continued to sweep in and politicians and bureaucrats looked northward for new territory in which to...

The Urban Prairie.
May 1, 1994... Images of boundless, windswept landscapes and life on the farm have long dominated the popular perception of the Prairies, even though most of the region's population lives in towns and cities. Overshadowed by strong rural roots, the Prairies'...

The Whalewatcher's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of North America.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... The moment I saw the whale's misty, bush-shaped spray just 20 metres from the bow of our boat off the east coast of Newfoundland, my heart quickened and my eyes grew wide, searching for the source of the blow. A baleen whale feeding on capelin...

Days Gone By.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... Over the years, Calgary has demonstrated an unfortunate tendency to bulldoze its history. It has thus lost much of the physical record of a past that only goes back as far as 1875, when the North West Mounted Police arrived to erect Fort Calgary....