Canadian Geographic articles from November 1998

Canadian Geographic archives from November 1998

Is 'The Farfarers' simply far-fetched?(book by Farley Mowat)
November 1, 1998... Farley Mowat's theory on pre-Viking visitors to the High Arctic is the product of a fertile imagination, not science, writes a leading Canadian archeologist In his new book, The Farmers, Farley Mowat takes the reader on a fantastic journey...

Bowhead hunt, part II.(Inuit whale-hunting traditions)
November 1, 1998... For the second time in two years, a bowhead whale is killed in the eastern Arctic. Can this endangered population support such a hunt? When two dozen Inuit set sail on a bowhead hunt in Cumberland Sound in July, killing a whale was only...

Dissing the weather and the dim-witted.(Canadian folk sayings)
November 1, 1998... City friends sometimes kid me for living out in the boondocks "where God buried his socks." I just tell them, "It may not be the end of the world, but you can see it from here." Canadian folk sayings are often about location and weather, and...

Ascending Athabasca.(includes related article on mountaineer James Joseph McArthur)(mountain climbing expedition)
November 1, 1998... Following in the footsteps of two history-making gentlemen explorers, a team of mountaineers climbs to a peak overlooking a vast sea of alpine ice In the beam of my headlamp, the path is a white scar weaving between boulders leading us up...

Ancient whaler.(oldest known whale boat in North America)
November 1, 1998... The oldest known whale boat found in North America is restored, timber by timber, after four centuries in the depths off Red Bay, Labrador It was one of the world's most ambitious underwater archeological treasure hunts. Robert Grenier,...

Power struggle: plans for a $12-billion hydro project straddling the Labrador-Quebec border heal old wounds and re-open others.(includes related articles)
November 1, 1998... Rarely has this single piece of airport concrete, hemmed in by the great spruce forest of central Labrador, seen such activity. Within just 24 hours last March, 14 planeloads of government officials and press swarmed onto the tarmac outside the...

War and pieces: from bomb-shattered cathedrals of Europe, a Canadian chaplain created a stained-glass memorial.(Reverend Harold Appleyard)
November 1, 1998... To the army chaplain hiding in the rubble of the bombed church, the bright red fragment from a stained-glass window looked like the blood spilled on the battlefield that morning. It was 1944 and the late Maj. Rev. Harold Appleyard's Royal...

A Voice Great Within Us.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1998... By Charles Lillard with Terry Glavin New Star Books 120 pp., $16 Chinook is a language, or jargon, that developed on the northwest coast of North America in the early 1800s to ease communication between whites and native people as well as...

Wolf Country: Eleven Years Tracking the Algonquin Wolves.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1998... By John B. Theberge with Mary T. Theberge McClelland &: Stewart 306 pp., $34.99 hardcover You would think that by now, the mythology about wolves as vicious, indiscriminate killers would have been laid to rest: Writers as diverse as Farley...

Seals in the Wild.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1998... By Fred Bruemmer Key Porter Books 238 pp., $45 hardcover Thirty million years ago, some land carnivores slipped into the water, turned their feet into flippers and themselves into seals. A bear-like animal in the North Pacific became the...

Presidential tour de force: Denis St-Onge steps down as president, but has no intention of leaving the RCGS behind.(Royal Canadian Geographic Society)
November 1, 1998... Denis St-Onge's voice changes whenever he says "geeographica." The word rolls off his tongue like Romeo uttering the name Juliet. Without question, the French-language version of Canadian Geographic, launched last year to enthusiastic...

Tracking the homeless and more: RCGS supports studies of the destitute in Toronto, the impact of an ecotourism training centre, and black spruce evolution.
November 1, 1998... With an irrepressible smile and excitement in her voice, Priya Kissoon recalls the day she and her mother moved from a cheap, crowded and dirty apartment block into their very own home. The house was modest, but to Priya and her mother it was a...

Ghosts of the Main.(Parc du Portugal in Montreal, Quebec)
November 1, 1998... Park is a pretty grandiose name for this swatch of Montreal's garment district. Its only natural attributes, besides a resident squadron of pigeons and some haphazardly planted rose bushes, are a dozen ice-storm maimed maples, erect among their...