Canadian Geographic articles from November 1996

Canadian Geographic archives from November 1996

High-tech hunter hunting. (catching poachers with the latest in electronic and genetics technology)
November 1, 1996... Poachers, beware. Police in Canada's Rocky Mountain national parks are using the latest in DNA science and technology to capture hunters who stalk prey illegally. "[The technology] is getting less expensive and more effective all the time,"...

Great Manitou and the haw eaters. (colloquial terms in Manitoulin Island and Muskoka, Ontario, Canada)(Our Home and Native Tongue)
November 1, 1996... Haw eaters are Canadians born and raised on Manitoulin Island. Their word for themselves comes in three forms: run together as haweater, with a hyphen as haw-eater and primly discrete as haw eater. They like hawberries, the dark-red fruits of...

Home of the white bear. (Wapusk National Park, Northern Manitoba, Canada)(Cover Story)
November 1, 1996... Northern Manitoba's newly created Wapusk National Park preserves a tract of northern lowlands that is one of the world's largest polar bear denning areas The remarkable thing is that polar bears in Wapusk and elsewhere pass long periods...

Forgotten claims. (Yukon Territory's Han people reclaim culture, rights)(includes side bar on Klondike's chronology of events)
November 1, 1996... It's a tale that improves with the telling, one that Yukoners like Mac Swackhammer purvey with particular pleasure these days. A slight, sandy-haired man with a rich gravelly voice and wry sense of humour, Swackhammer warms to the task as he guns...

Selling golden dreams: misleading maps lured prospectors to the Klondike.
November 1, 1996... On looking at a map it seems the easiest job possible to follow the right course, but in fact it is rather more difficult than it looks...." reported James Shand in 1897 in an open letter to readers of the Edmonton Bulletin. Shand and his three...

On shaky ground? (Lake Ontario's floor fractures)(includes related articles on earthquake terminologies and on the possibilities of an earthquake)
November 1, 1996... Fractures on the floor of Lake Ontario have helped expose a seismic divide between geologists who believe an earthquake could hit Toronto... and others who don't One moment the mini-submarine is dangling from a crane off the back of the...

Newfound lives. (Newfoundlanders seek for alternative livelihood as fishery declines)
November 1, 1996... The decline of the fishery has led many Newfoundlanders to seek new paths, as photojournalist David Trattles discovered while exploring the heart of the island Carl Rumbolt has six sons, five of whom have left the province. Through the door of...

Prairie cathedrals. (Ukrainian churches in the Prairies of Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario, Canada by Fr. Philip Ruh)
November 1, 1996... Philip Ruh was a tireless missionary who adorned the western landscape with ornate Ukrainian churches Seen for the first time from a distance, from a dirt road between quarter sections, it looks like a small mountain thrust up through the...

Chilkoot Trail: Heritage Route to the Klondike.
November 1, 1996... The Klondike's enduring mystique Three new publications uncover neglected nuggets of gold rush history The Klondike Gold Rush is a seminal event in Canadian history, not so much for the wealth it produced as for the mythology it continues to...

The Forgotten Trail: One Man's Adventures on the Canadian Route to the Klondike.
November 1, 1996... The Klondike's enduring mystique Three new publications uncover neglected nuggets of gold rush history The Klondike Gold Rush is a seminal event in Canadian history, not so much for the wealth it produced as for the mythology it continues to...

Klondike Gold: An Interactive History.(Evaluation)
November 1, 1996... The Klondike's enduring mystique Three new publications uncover neglected nuggets of gold rush history The Klondike Gold Rush is a seminal event in Canadian history, not so much for the wealth it produced as for the mythology it continues to...

Landscapes of the Interior: Re-Explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1996... Lifting the veils of nature A scientist casts a poet's eye on our connection with the land It is a rare scientist who can transcend the strict bounds of his discipline, breaking free of scientific conventions to convey his passions for...

Alone in the Night: Lighthouses of Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island and the North Channel.
November 1, 1996... When the lights went out in Georgian Bay Video documentary deplores the demise of lighthouses In 1855, a stonemason named John Brown won the contract to build the first lighthouses on the shores of Lake Huron. Unfortunately for him, the next...

The bee in Grosvenor's bonnet. (a gold medal for National Geographic Society president Gilbert Grosvenor for his educational programs)
November 1, 1996... A Gold Medal for the National Geographic Society president who challenged geographical 'ignorance' Gilbert Grosvenor's interest in geographical education was spurred by a series of mid-1980s surveys that revealed a "shocking ignorance" of...

Final frame. (nature photograph)
November 1, 1996... One bite-sized bit of wood appears to be all that's keeping this red maple in Frontenac Provincial Park, near Kingston, Ont., upright. Beavers gnawed the trunk to the core - they never cut all the way through - in quest of the dam-building...