Canadian Geographic articles from November 1995

Canadian Geographic archives from November 1995

Winds of change. (history of technological innovations in communication of weather forecasts)(Weather-Wise)
November 1, 1995... AS RAIN BEGAN to fall on August 25, 1873, residents of the outports and farms on Cape Breton Island secured their doors and shutters against a rising wind. . Few people on this rugged island expected anything more than a late-summer gale. But...

Creation of the e-nation. (role of telegraph in development of cyberspace)(includes related articles)(Special Report: Electric Nation)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1995... "What hath God wrought!" -- Samuel Morse quoting Scriptures in the first message sent through his invention, the telegraph, in Washington, May 24, 1844 THERE IS OFTEN THAT WHIFF OF THE DIVINE -- that sense of the occult -- when...

Phone remedies. (isolated Canadian villages win access to medical expertise via Telemedicine Centre)(Special Report: Electric Nation)
November 1, 1995... WHEN MAX HOUSE was just out of medical school and setting up his general practice in Baie Verte, Nfld., in 1952, there was no road to the isolated fishing village on the north coast and the communications links were more of a game trail than an...

Electronic confidants. (growing importance of electronic mail)(Special Report: Electric Nation)
November 1, 1995... LIKE MOST THINGS about the Internet, e-mail has become common currency to a small elite but remains a curiosity to most other people. Yet if my own recent experiences with it are any measure, more of us will be e-mailing soon, and it will...

Northern exposure: traversing Baffin Island's icy reaches.
November 1, 1995... THE POLAR BEARS appeared at the end of an exhausting day in late September. Since sunrise, Bob Saunders and I had been plunging through knee-deep snow, searching for a route out of Jackman Sound. We had even resorted to the sea, wading through...

Zada's Hannukah legacy.
November 1, 1995... ONE WINTER WHEN I WAS A CHILD we travelled from Ottawa to Toronto to be with my father's parents for Hanukkah. As we drove slowly through the wintry twilight, the snow crunched and squeaked beneath the tires of our old snout-nosed Dodge. When...

The Skin of Culture: Investigating the New Electronic Reality.
November 1, 1995... by Derrick de Kerckhove edited by Christopher Dewdney Somerville House, 226 pp., $19.95 softcover IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that the processes and technologies of communication have long been a Canadian preoccupation. After all, the list of...

Outage: A Journey into Electric City.
November 1, 1995... by B. W. Powe, Random House of Canada, 324 pp., $19.95 softcover IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that the processes and technologies of communication have long been a Canadian preoccupation. After all, the list of communication innovations celebrated as...

Inside Talk Radio: America's Voice or Just Hot Air?
November 1, 1995... Talk RADIO used to be cheap and trashy entertainment, a place for lonely hearts and whiners to converge, sympathize and gripe Talk radio today is a significant political force, where disenchanted citizens demand accountability from their...

The Voice of Generations: A History of Communications in Newfoundland.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... by Frank Galgay, Michael McCarthy and Jack OKeefe, Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing Limited, 4228 pp., $29.95 hardcover THE ROMANCE OF communications in Newfoundland lies in the island's proximity to the Old World. Not that it is...

In the Beginning ... Signal Hill. (computer software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... Idon Corporation, $24.95 3.5-inch diskettes for Windows or Macintosh FOR 12-YEAR-OLDS everywhere nervously working on history projects, access to a concise computer chronicle of North American civilization would be like having the ultimate...