Canadian Geographic articles from November 1994

Canadian Geographic archives from November 1994

Bundle up, Canada, a wild winter is on the way - maybe.
November 1, 1994... WHEN FARMER Ed Burt of Gore Bay, Ont., on Manitoulin Island, spotted a wasps' nest on the cross-arm of a hydro pole in the summer of 1992, he was worried. Burt is a homegrown weather prophet who believes nature's creatures can foretell weather...

Home for the huskies. (northern Quebec) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1994... Mushing through lands their ancestors knew, a team of Eskimo huskies from Antarctica pulls northward along the shore of Hudson Bay. After a decades-long absence from northern Quebec, the breed may be revived there by the dogs' new owners,...

Two Santas for Christmas. (short story)
November 1, 1994... An eventful, and confusing, Noel remembered through the eyes of a four-year-old LIFE WAS VERY COMPLICATED for a four-year-old growing up in the 1940s in Quebec's Beauce region. God was everywhere but I could never see Him. Not even in His...

Root of success. (ginseng crops in British Columbia)(includes related article)
November 1, 1994... Regarded as a cure-all in Asia, ginseng has become one of British Columbia's most lucrative crops ABOUT 300 DAYS A YEAR, the sun beats down on the narrow benches that flank the Thompson and Fraser rivers as they wind through the southern...

A deep geological puzzle. (Ouimet Canyon in Ontario)
November 1, 1994... Exactly how Ontario's spectacular Ouimet Canyon was formed remains an intriguing mystery LIKE ALL GOOD LITERATURE, the story of Ouimet Canyon on the north shore of lake Superior is a gathering of dramatic forces, some so powerful they have...

Where was Hochelaga? Debate simmers over the location and fate of the Indian village Cartier visited in 1535. (Jacques Cartier; Montreal, Canada)
November 1, 1994... Debate simmers over the location and fate of the Indian village Cartier visited in 1535 THE TRAFFIC RUSHES down Sherbrooke Street, speeding past the high-rise apartments, office towers, churches and chic hotels of downtown Montreal. Its noise...

The night the sea smashed Lord's Cove: scientists still study the Grand banks earthquake and tsunami of 1929; will it happen again? (Newfoundland)
November 1, 1994... To a visitor today, Lord's Cove, Nfld., presents as placid a rural face as can be imagined. Frame houses speckle the hillside with pastel clapboard, and Atlantic waves wash the cove's pebble beach. No visitor could guess at the violence that...

Comic relief: the witty world of cartoon maps.
November 1, 1994... EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS typically get as much hate mail as letters of commendation. While some cartoonists have been honoured with international awards, others have been taken to court, thrown in jail, or had their homes fire-bombed. But for most,...

Honoring four queens, Elizabeths all. (places and structures in Canada named after queens)
November 1, 1994... ROYAL APPELLATIONS are liberally sprinkled throughout Canada -- a mountain here, a lake there, and cities, towns and villages everywhere. Indeed no fewer than four Queen Elizabeths have been honoured in Canada's toponymy. The present Queen of...

Winter.
November 1, 1994... Winter is here and, if it isn't already, it soon will bring the deep-freeze to all parts of Canada save for that benign stretch of southern British Columbia known as Lotus Land. And Winter is here too, the most recent of a seemingly endless...

Geopedia: The Multimedia Geography CD-ROM.
November 1, 1994... As part of its centenary celebrations, the National Geographic Society hired the Gallup organization to survey people in the United States, Canada and eight other countries on their knowledge of geography. The results were appalling....

Our Living Heritage: The Glory of the Nipigon.
November 1, 1994... One of the essential problems of grasping the story of Canada is its great extent and diversity. Perhaps that is why local histories are so welcome. They communicate the essence of individual communities and, in so doing, add detailed vignettes...

Shield Country: Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet.
November 1, 1994... That there are not more popular books written about the Canadian Shield may be a result of writers retiring from a subject almost as big as Canada itself. Cheerfully oblivious to this, Yellowknife environmental consultant Jamie Bastedo has...

The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories: Three Hundred Years of Blackfoot History.
November 1, 1994... There have always been two realities in Canada, the aboriginal reality and the newcomers'. For the most part, these realities, these ways of understanding the world, have existed as parallel universes. In the past, whenever they converged it was...

Ghosts of the Bay: The Forgotten History of Georgian Bay.
November 1, 1994... We are resisting in our family, but it seems that video-cassette recorders are becoming a staple of summer cottage life, as surely as the old black-and-white television sets made their way north in the '60s. If so, a fair number of the estimated...

Local Colour: Writers Discovering Canada.
November 1, 1994... It is an old debate among readers of travel writing whether it is more interesting to read about places you have never seen, or to read what other people say about places you already know. Thus one advantage for those who read Local Colour, a...

A History of Canadian Architecture, 2 vols.
November 1, 1994... Not only has Harold Kalman produced the definitive work on Canadian architecture, he has also presented us with a richly textured and nuanced exploration of Canadian history, geography and society. It follows that he has a very broad definition...

Gold at Fortymile Creek: Early Days in the Yukon.
November 1, 1994... Michael Gates' timing could not be better. Less than two years before the 100th anniversary of the Klondike gold strike of August 1896, Gates has published a book that attempts to set the record straight about events leading up to Canada's...