Canadian Geographic articles from May 1995

Canadian Geographic archives from May 1995

A killing season in the Rockies. (gray wolf hunting)
May 1, 1995... Twice since the turn of the century wolves have been cleared from the front ranges and interior valleys of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta between Banff and the U.S. border. In the early 1900s they were hunted, trapped and poisoned out of the area...

At the heart of the holey mountain. (Alcan Aluminum Ltd.'s tunnel within Mount DuBose)
May 1, 1995... Donald Timlick's footsteps echo through the heart of Mount DuBose when he inspects the cathedral-sized chamber that has been blasted out of the granite for the Kemano Completion Project. The resident superintendent for Alcan Aluminium Ltd. at the...

The uptown wounded. (Fatal Light Awareness Project in Toronto, Canada)
May 1, 1995... Armed with paper bags, hypodermics and, occasionally, even an umbrella, Michael Mesure and his friends stalk the canyonlands of downtown Toronto in the silent hours before daylight, every spring and fall. Their nocturnal sweeps through the city...

Long-distance pollution soils our Arctic. (Arctic Region)
May 1, 1995... Crystal-clear air, pure and sparkling, used to be an arctic hallmark. Travellers in the 19th century reported almost unbelievable visibility, spotting mountain peaks 200 kilometres away, poking over the horizon. Today, you'd be lucky to see 30...

It came from outer space. (meteorites)(includes related articles)
May 1, 1995... Meteorites have bombarded our planet for billions of years - sometimes with disastrous consequences A few minutes before sunset on June 14, 1994, Vital Lemay was feeding his foxes at his farm near St-Robert, Que., 80 kilometres northeast of...

On the range again. (wood bison herds in Interlake, Manitoba)
May 1, 1995... A small herd of wood bison in Manitoba's Interlake offers new hope for North America's largest land mammal From the air, the fens and forests of Manitoba's northwestern Interlake are an endless tapestry, an intricate composition of gold and...

Biter's banquet. (mosquitos and flies)
May 1, 1995... There's a divine reason for welt season: biting flies need your blood to serve nature's purpose The poets would have us believe that the quintessential summer fantasy of a Canadian is a romance to the call of the loon on a moonlit lake. But...

Stamp it with geography: much of our postage has a little piece of Canada on it.(Illustration)
May 1, 1995... A savage prehistoric marine lizard... the torrential Fraser River... an astronaut floating above the earth... these are hardly the images most Canadians expect to find on postage stamps. But the world of Canadian philately is no longer...

'Cheap, nasty' navy: Canada's wartime fleet of corvettes battled U-boats and the pounding North Atlantic.
May 1, 1995... The 18th century Frigate U.S.S. Constitution, ponderous with cannon in Boston Harbour, is the image of historic naval potency. Similarly, in Portsmouth, HMS Victory resonates with imperial puissance, rich in the lore of Nelson's victory-in-death...

Canada by computer: a new digitally created poster-map is a showcase of Canadian firsts and geographic superlatives.
May 1, 1995... It should be displayed in every geography classroom." - "It's an imaginative use of satellite imagery." - "It's a bunch of fun facts in a neat package." It is the just-published, computer-made poster-map, Canada - A Land of Superlatives, a...

Ecological treasure on Lake Erie under assault.
May 1, 1995... Twelve busy Marinas ring the small, shallow bay that lies between the curved base of Long Point and the Lake Erie shoreline. They are home to nearly 8,000 pleasure boats. In warm months, these boats crowd the water, disturbing fish and waterfowl...

Gatineau Park: An Intimate Portrait.
May 1, 1995... Nature's splendour in the capital's backyard Sometimes it takes the fresh eyes of a newcomer to make you appreciate where you live. A recent visitor to Ottawa from Germany was astounded and delighted to discover that the national capital has a...

At Sea With The Scientifics: The Challenger Letters of Joseph Matkin.
May 1, 1995... An uninspiring chronicle of a landmark expedition The voyage of the HMS Challenger as one of the longest, most productive oceanographic expeditions in history, and is considered second only m Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle for its...

ZipZapMap! Canada. (computer game)(Evaluation)
May 1, 1995... Computer game lacks creative zip Not long ago began teaching my nine-year-old son the names of the provinces and their capital cities, and the major physical features of the country. I told him stories or evoked images m fix the names in his...

The Nature of Coyotes: Voice of the Wilderness.
May 1, 1995... There is probably no other wild animal in North America as persecuted as the coyote. From the time the first Europeans set foot on the continent to the present day, we have carried on a relentless campaign to exterminate Canis latrans - the...

Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways.
May 1, 1995... The glory days of rail Train buffs filled with nostalgia for the days when railways dominated Canadian transportation will love Train Country. Co-written by railway historian Donald MacKay and former CNR employee Lorne Perry, the book traces...

A hot time renaming the old town.
May 1, 1995... What's in a name? A great deal, it seems, when municipalities face amalgamation. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but the twin Ontario cities of Fort William and Port Arthur weren't buying that back in 1968 when the province...