Canadian Geographic articles from November 2000

Canadian Geographic archives from November 2000

Sleuthing for Franklin's crew.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 1, 2000... WITH a missing captain and crew, lead poisoning and cannibalism, the 1845 expedition of Sir John Franklin is one of the most riveting tales in the history of Arctic exploration. For long-time Society volunteer and Franklin-phile George Hobson,...

In the grey zone.(whales' foraging patterns)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... IN THE COASTAL waters of British Columbia, grey whales like to go where it's, well, grey. Just ask Ian Scott, who, with the help of a Society grant, has studied the cetaceans' foraging patterns off Clayoquor Sound. "It is a grey and foggy...

Kids keep it green.(Canadian Council for Geographic Education program)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... WATCH FOR KIDS scoping out local green spaces during Geography Awareness Week 2000, beginning November 12. This year's theme is "Here Today, Here Tomorrow -- A Geographic Focus on Conservation." Packages going to the 3,000 teachers across the...

Sliding across the world.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... * WE MAY BE FOCUSED ON CANADA, but the RCGS still manages to do a little globe-trotting. Taking a cue from our goal of making Canada better known to Canadians and to the world, the Society has developed a slide photo set available for use in...

Winifred Wadasinghe-Wijay.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... AFTER 27 YEARS of working above and beyond the call of duty, including taking the Society's accounting and payroll department from the dark days of adding machines to more modern methods of number crunching, CG accountant Winifred...

What do our parks mean to you?(Canada's national parks)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... OUR MEMBERS are passionate about national parks. When online editor Elizabeth Shuts asked what these protected areas mean to you, she was overwhelmed by the response. So far, hundreds have logged on to www.canadiangeographic.ca, including the...

Eavesdropping at the top of the world.(Canadian Forces Station Alert)(Illustration)
November 1, 2000... THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY into Alert, which lies at the tip of our topmost Arctic island, Ellesmere, and is the world's most northern permanently inhabited settlement. You can't get there by sea, although it overlooks the great icy sweep of the...

REVERBERATIONS.
November 1, 2000... Flight of family FOR A YOUNG COUNTRY, we have an amazing flying heritage, filled with legendary figures and exploits. Thanks for giving readers another chapter ("Canadians in flight," CG Sept/Oct 2000). I was fascinated to read your...

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN.(Scott Niedermayer )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... IN ITS 107-year history, the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup has been stolen, kicked into a canal and used as a flowerpot. In August, the trophy reached a new height -- literally. Two months after his team captured the NHL championship...

Bird beauty is skin deep.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 1, 2000... IT IS NOT only fine feathers that make fine birds," Aesop wrote some 2,500 years ago. indeed, new research shows the colour of seldom-seen skin around the eyes and bill may be the true mark of a "fine bird" and could also be a sign of...

HELPING HAND.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2000... ALMOST 20 YEARS after the Canadarm was first flown on a shuttle mission, the country's second-generation robotic arm is getting set to head into orbit to help build the International Space Station. Its debut will also mark a first for Canadian...

GLOBAL WARMING'S CANARY.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2000... HOMO SAPIENS isn't the only species anxious about global warming. High temperatures might also be stressing out Arctic char. A joint team of Canadian and Austrian researchers looked at how landlocked populations of Salvelinus alpinus in the...

Tree power.(carbon dioxide emissions absorption)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... SCIENTISTS THEORIZE that longer growing seasons high annual temperatures brought on by global warming could increase the carbon dioxide absorbed by trees. But when University of British Columbia meteorologist Andrew Black and his team measured...

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.(steps for reducing emissions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... IN NOVEMBER, global decision makers will gather in The Hague, Netherlands, in an effort to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. Canada has not yet ratified the protocol but says it will chop its 1990-level emissions by 6 percent....

DON'T CUT THE MUSTARD.(protection for Fernald's braya and Long's braya)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... AS THE TINY white blooms go to seed, two rare plants recede into the colours of the barrens of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, the only place they grow. The challenge is making sure they don't vanish forever. Fernald's braya (Braya...

Park watch.(comparison of Canada and United States national parks)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Canadians are forever comparing themselves to Americans. So when it comes to national parks, how does our home and native land stack up against the land of the free? Number of national parks Canada: 39; U.S.: 53 Land mass occupied...

BURIED TREASURE.(Vancouver Metropolitan Theatre Cooperative Society)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2000... AN OLD THEATRE near the Fraser River bought in 1966 by a Vancouver drama society holds memories of knee-slapping vaudeville acts and the raucous crowds they drew. But beneath the building is another cherished history, an ancient archeological...

POSTAL PUZZLES.(unusual mail deliveries)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... THE MAIL must go through, and in most cases, it does, even when letter carriers have to apply the sleuthing skills of Sherlock Holmes to figure out where to rake it. In addition to the thousands of letters Canada Post receives every December...

Newfoundland requiem.(First World War battle at Beaumont Hamel and its effect on Newfoundland)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The First World War battle at Beaumont Hamel left an entire island in mourning ON JULY 1, 1916, two young Newfoundland brothers, Roy and Stewart Ferguson, were killed on a battlefield in France. They were among six neighbours from...

The Trickster in Toronto.(coyote population in Toronto and other cities rising; becoming problem)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Once at home only on the Prairies, the coyote has moved downtown A CLUSTER OF PEOPLE stands at the edge of a cottonwood grove, their faces raised to the evening sky. Eyes tight shut, lips pursed, they yip and howl like wild things, then...

The ascetic in a canoe.(essay by Pierre Elliott Trudeau on canoeing)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2000... In a 1944 essay, Pierre Elliott Trudeau described his passion for paddling in the Canadian wilderness. In honour of his passing, we present his now-classic essay on nature and friendship I WOULD NOT KNOW how to instill a taste for adventure...

TOO MANY MOOSE.(moose populations in Newfoundland creating environmental problems)
November 1, 2000... IN NEWFOUNDLAND, THE MOOSE IS A CULTURAL SYMBOL, AN ECOLOGICAL THREAT AND EVERY DRIVER'S NIGHTMARE. IS IT TOO HEALTHY FOR ITS OWN GOOD? DEEP IN TERRA NOVA NATIONAL PARK, partway up Newfoundland's Atlantic Coast, rotting skeletons of balsam...

ON ALERT.(Canadian Forces Station Alert surveillance activities)
November 1, 2000... AT THE TOP OF ELLESMERE ISLAND, CANADA'S MILITARY LISTENS IN ON THE NEIGHBOURS AND PERFECTS THE ART OF 'HEARING' SEA TRAFFIC CLEAR SKIES, NO WIND. The working conditions are perfect. It might be -35[degrees]C, but that is an advantage when...

The coming of winter.(Andre Gallant photographs transition to winter around Saint John, New Brunswick)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A photographer captures a change of season WITH THE COMING OF WINTER, we recognize the pattern of our lives and know that only here, in the North, is the cycle of our aging -- that of every man and woman -- played out in the seasonal drama...

KEMANO CLOSING.(Alcan decides to close plant at Kemano, British Columbia)
November 1, 2000... THE PEOPLE OF A CLOSE-KNIT B.C. COMPANY TOWN STRUGGLE WITH THE PAIN OF A PARADISE LOST IT IS MID-MORNING in the depths of the powerhouse buried within a mountain of granite, and Marlene Nielsen, an Alcan engineering clerk, is recalling how...

THE BAY CONNECTION.(Hudson's Bay Company employees brought Metis children back to the Orkney Islands)
November 1, 2000... BELLA WOOD NEVER TOLD her daughters. And secrets aren't easy to keep on Scotland's & Orkney Islands, where geography itself undermines human conspiracies. In this virtually treeless terrain with green, low-rolling hills, not even grazing sheep...

Horror on the Barrens.
November 1, 2000... WALKING ON THE LAND By Farley Mowat Key Porter Books 208 pp., $29.95 hardcover ONCE THEY LIVED on the land, and the land sustained them. They were the Ihalmiut, the "People from Beyond," nomadic inland Inuit from the Barren...

Soaring with dinosaurs.
November 1, 2000... THE BONE MUSEUM Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds By Wayne Grady Viking/Penguin Books THE ANCIENT APHORISM "What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh" lies at the heart of Wayne Grady's wonderful new...

Tracing the trails of the voyageurs.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... EXPLORING THE FUR TRADE ROUTES OF NORTH AMERICA By Barbara Huck Heartland 256 pp., $24.95 softcover THE DRIVING FORCE behind much of the early exploration of North America was the fur trade. Initially, it was limited to...

A poetic portfolio of the North.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... SEASONS OF THE ARCTIC Photography by Paul Nicklen Text by Hugh Brody Greystone Books 102 pp., $45 hardcover PHOTOGRAPHING the Arctic and its animals is an immensely difficult labour of love. The region's sheer vastness is...

Who are we becoming?(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 2000... "HE'S A KING UPON A THRONE who has acres of his own," mused folk poet and one-time farmer Alexander McLachlan in the mid-1800s. These words rang true for millions of Canadian immigrants, like Scotsman McLachlan, who saw opportunity in a young...

Green winters on the Salish Sea.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... ON SALTSPRING ISLAND, snow falls mostly in front of the word berry -- snowberry, the lacy-stemmed bush festooned with the only globules of white in our forests. We have less than one word for snow -- slush. It is an occasional word that drips...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2000... In "Microbes on the march" (CG Sept/Oct 2000), the official scientific name of the blacklegged tick should read Ixodes scapularis. Also, populations of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi have been discovered in every province except...