Canadian Geographic articles from May 2001

Canadian Geographic archives from May 2001

Back down the river.
May 1, 2001... MAPS DON'T always tell the truth. That's what George Drought learned as he canoed Nunavut's isolated Back River last summer. After navigating the challenging Malley Rapids, he discovered that they were wrongly placed on not one but two...

Going to the park.(videos of Jasper and Prince Edward Island national parks)
May 1, 2001... THINK NATIONAL PARKS are just for visiting? In addition to our ongoing coverage of the parks in the magazine, we now give you a new way to take in the scenery. Videos of Jasper and Prince Edward Island parks are now available through our store...

A photographer's journey.
May 1, 2001... IN OUR January 1952 issue, the passage below by longtime photographic contributor Richard Harrington accompanied a series of photos from the six journeys he made to the Arctic, beginning in 1948. Those images, first published in the magazine...

Taking up the Challenge.(Robin Bates and Cameron Barr win geography trivia)
May 1, 2001... THE QUESTIONS keep on coming, and they just keep on answering them. Robin Bates (left) and Cameron Barr were the third- and first-place finishers in the Society's first Great Canadian Geography Challenge in 1995 and third-place winners at that...

World-class energy gobblers.(Canada)
May 1, 2001... OUR SORRY, whining excuse to a world community anxious about climate change runs something like this: Canada's a big, cold country. We heat our homes eight months a year or more, and we tend to cross by car -- often the only means of...

Reverberations.
May 1, 2001... Bearing it "BLESSED ARE THOSE who have not seen, and yet believe." I was reminded of this old biblical passage when I read "Grizzlies in the mist" (CG Mar/Apr 2001). The article made it possible for those of us who will not see grizzly...

CORRECTION.
May 1, 2001... Ichthyosaurs were incorrectly referred to as dinosaurs in headlines in the Mar/Apr 2001 issue.

E-CAR HITS THE ROAD.(Dauphine Electric, produced by Feel Good Cars Inc.)
May 1, 2001... MOVE OVER Beetle and PT Cruiser, there's a trendy new retro car in town -- and this one doesn't run on gas. The Dauphine Electric, produced by Toronto-based Feel Good Cars Inc., combines the recycled body of the circa 1960s automobile with...

GREAT BEAR TRUCE.
May 1, 2001... A PLAN TO PROTECT the essential habitat of the Kermode bear (RIGHT), a rare type of black bear whose white colour is caused by a recessive gene, has earned support from an uncommon alliance of loggers, environmentalists and aboriginal groups....

A VISIT FROM MARS.
May 1, 2001... HUMANS HAVE MADE much of Mars. From deep prehistory, its ruddy hue reminded our ancestors of bloodshed. In Greek and Roman myth, the planet was named after gods of war, and when telescopes became powerful enough to distinguish surficial details...

EARTHLY EKG.(seismograph in British Columbia notes Seattle earthquake)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... WHEN THE PACIFIC Northwest was rattled by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on February 28, the reverberations were as much of a surprise to seismologists as they were to the millions who felt them. Seismographs detect the most minute movements, but...

COUNTING CANADIANS.(Canadian census)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... MAY 15 marks national census day, when every Canadian stands up to be counted. It's been 335 years since Jean Talon first collected age, sex, marital status and occupation statistics to help plan the colony of New France, and 1 9 censuses...

NO HOMES ON THE RANGE.(environmental ranching)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... FRANCIS and Bonnie Gardner lean against their pickup truck, gazing west to the snow-covered peak of Mount Sentinel, the namesake of their picturesque southern Alberta ranch. This patch of prairie along the eastern slopes of the Rockies is a...

SNOWY CLEANSER.(snow research in the Arctic)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... FRENCH PHILOSOPHER Voltaire's blithe dismissal of Canada as merely "a few acres of snow" still rankles more than 200 years after he jotted down the casual condemnation. Now, a discovery that snow chemistry actually helps clean the air may...

PROBING THE GULLY.(submarine canyon on Canada's east coast)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... THE GULLY IS THE LARGEST submarine canyon on Canada's east coast. In area, it's about as big as a mid-sized city and descends more than two kilometres into the ocean floor. Despite its superlative stature, its remote location near Sable Island...

CONCRETE SOLUTIONS.(production of concrete, pollution problem)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... OF ALL THE MATERIALS consumed in the world, we use more concrete than anything else but water. Its production accounts indirectly for 7 percent of all carbon-dioxide emissions. New research not only is tackling that pollution problem but may...

CARIBOU SHUFFLE.(effect of oil production on the caribou)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Drilling for oil in caribou calving grounds on Alaska's Arctic coast seems imminent. Can the herd, already in decline, survive the intrusion? EVERY APRIL, a pulse of life surges through the spruce forests of the north-central Yukon and the...

BOOM.(Suncor Energy Inc.)
May 1, 2001... Alberta's rapidly expanding oil mines may be the largest and messiest industrial projects Canadian history IT'S MIDNIGHT on the bank of the Athabasca River as Trish Darling manoeuvres her Haulpak through the dark moonscape of Suncor Energy...

POWER SWITCH.(solar energy usage)
May 1, 2001... The move toward solar and wind hasn't exactly been revolutionary; but it is gathering momentum WHEN TOM TOUZEL looks up on clear nights, he can some times spot a seemingly new star in the firmament - the International Space Station. And he...

Who has mapped the wind?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... COAL, OIL AND GAS may be dirty, subject to volatile pricing and in questionable supply, but there's no shortage of wind energy in Canada. As this map demonstrates, many parts of the country have the ideal breezes and gusts to keep wind turbines...

THE LAST GREAT SEA.
May 1, 2001... A Voyage through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean By Terry Glavin, Greystone Books 244 pp., $34.95 hardcover TN THIS INCISIVE book, West Coast author Terry Glavin shows that even after centuries of...

VOICES FOR THE WATERSHED.
May 1, 2001... Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage Basin Edited by Gregor Gilpin Beck and Bruce Litteljohn McGill-Queen's University Press 299 pp., $39.95 hardcover THE GREAT LAKES and the St. Lawrence River...

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE EARTH.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Edited by Paul L Hancock and Brian J. Skinner Oxford University Press 1,174 pp., $96 hardcover AT FIRST GLANCE, this hefty volume may seem a panacea for insomniacs, but it will appeal to anyone who has an interest in our planet....

NATURE WRITING RIVER IN A DRY LAND.
May 1, 2001... A Prairie Passage By Trevor Herriot, Stoddart 356 pp., $34.95 hardcover THIS LUMINOUS expression of the author's love for Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle River valley caught the attention of the literary community when it was nominated...

BEAR.
May 1, 2001... A Celebration of Power and Beauty By Daniel J. Cox and Rebecca L. Grambo, Sierra Club Books 176 pp., $75 hardcover MOST WILDLIFE books explore the natural history of a species through scientific fact. But in Bear,...

Words of hope for the land.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... NORTHERN WILD is a meditation on all the things Canadians say they value most about their country: the earth, air and water and the creatures that live in and around it. From blackflies and mosquitoes to moons and snow, forests and grasslands,...

Fisherman's account misses the boat.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... THERE ARE THREE potential books within this easy-to-read volume. Unfortunately, none is fully developed. For starters, there is the documentary saga of what fishermen call a "broker," a failed fishing trip from which they return as poor as...

River renewal.(Saint-Maurice River)
May 1, 2001... FOR 150 YEARS, the Saint-Maurice River has been the workhorse of Quebec's waterways, harnessed by industry for electricity, aluminum smelting and pulp-and-paper production. Until recently, it has been off limits to recreational users, choked by...

Cleansing rituals.(sauna)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... IN MOST FINNISH HOMES, the sauna is as essential as a kitchen and is an integral part of life. Until a few generations ago, it was where babies were born, illnesses cured and the dead prepared for burial. Today, the sauna is used mainly for...

Song of a black spruce.
May 1, 2001... SOUTH OF THE RIVER BEND, 20 minutes along a trail fringed with pink hardhack flowers and gangly stalks of sweet gale, a black spruce I call the World Tree stands against a spring sky. Here, within earshot of the encroaching highways of suburban...