Canadian Geographic articles from November 2002

Canadian Geographic archives from November 2002

Seeking a Low profile. (Expeditions).(Albert Peter Low)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... NEAR THE END of a five-week canoe expedition to retrace some of Albert Peter Low's journeys, James Stone can barely contain his admiration for the geologist who mapped large tracts of Labrador and northern Quebec from 1884 to 1895. "He was one...

Class acts. (Education).(geography studies)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... AUTUMN means back to the classroom for the Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE) and the Society, both of which are sponsoring activities to put the "gee!" back in geography. The CCGE has put together a teaching kit brimming with...

Arctic awakening. (Tours).(Students on Ice expedition)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... FROM PLUNGING into Arctic waters in their bathing suits to being awestruck by the deafening sound of seabirds lining the cliffs of Coburg Island, experiencing the Arctic for the first time was an eye-opener for the two winners of Canadian...

Climate clues. (Research Grants).(ostracods)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... THE WATERY lake-bottom graves of I generations of hard-shelled, kidney-shaped organisms called ostracods provide a natural archive of climate change in southwestern Yukon. University of Ottawa master's student Joan Bunbury is trying to...

Fish and games. (Editor's Notebook).(Alberta's wildlife policies)(Editorial)
November 1, 2002... THE TENSION BETWEEN HUNTERS AND ANGLERS and the fish and game officers who manage our wild life populations is, at the best of times, as taut as piano wire. Nowhere is it more so than in sunny Alberta. Say you've been fishing the same lake...

Reverberations.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2002... Rat Portage on the Stanley Cup HAVING SUMMERED at Lake of the Woods in my youth, I was interested in your story on Carl Linde ("Poetic poses," CG Sept/Oct 2002), particularly in your explanation of the name change from Rat Portage to...

The dredge report. (Transportation).(United States Army Corps of Engineers plans for St. Lawrence Seaway, Great Lakes)
November 1, 2002... THE SAME GARGANTUAN U.S. agency that drained the Florida Everglades and redirected the lower Mississippi River has now taken aim at the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. The United States Army Corps of Engineers, which is at once a...

Praising Saint John. (Culture).(Saint John awarded Prince of Wales Prize)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... WITH ITS COLOSSAL oil refinery and pulp and paper mill, Saint John, N.B., looks like many industrial towns. Yet to historians and preservationists, Saint John is something else: an architectural treasure trove and one of Canada's most important...

Butterflyway. (Habitat).(Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... BUTTERFLIES on their southern migration this fall had a new resting stop in an unlikely spot: the Toronto lakeshore. In September, the city opened the Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat (HBBH) to create much-needed space for these sensitive...

Killer in the corn. (Agriculture).(atrazine)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... SCIENTISTS HAVE LONG known that atrazine -- one of North America's most commonly used agricultural herbicides -- persists in both surface water and drinking water. Yet Sylvia Ruby, a toxicologist at Concordia University in Montreal, felt the...

Depleting the Ozone station. (Weather).(Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory mothballed)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... THE ARCTIC Stratospheric Ozone Observatory (ASTRO) near Eureka, Nunavut, lies beneath the polar vortex, a cold air mass that offers unique opportunities for observing the processes of ozone depletion. Yet the Meteorological Service of Canada...

Plant torture. (Research).(phytoalexin research)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... PERSECUTING HIS PLANTS is producing exciting results for a chemistry and biochemistry researcher at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. By mistreating samples of echinacea, wormwood and plantain plants, among others, Kevin Smith is...

Starry sisters. (Astronomy).(Pleiades)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... SOMETIME about 100 million years ago, in a region of the sky we now call the constellation Taurus, a vast cloud of cosmic dust and gas contracted and gave birth to a swarm of about 500 stars. Today that group of distant suns has special status...

Absolut star gazing.(meteors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... November/December Night Sky * meteors are space debris -- rock, metal ore and dust, primarily from comets - that vaporizes, causing a momentary flare as it falls through Earth's atmosphere * 200 tonnes fall to Earth every day, most no...

Trout breakout. (Invasive Species).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... FOR 20 YEARS, anglers on the rivers of western Newfoundland have been seeing increasing numbers of Pacific-native rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Their flatter bodies and deformed fins identified them as escaped aquaculture fish, but they...

Meet the people's choice award winners. (Canadian Environment Awards 2002: A Celebration of Community Achievement).
November 1, 2002... The River Lobby at the Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, was the scene of a gala awards dinner on September 24 to recognize the nominees for the inaugural Canadian Environment Awards. The evening, which was hosted by television...

Pacific wrecks: windblown, rocky and jammed with marine traffic, the waters off Vancouver Island are laden with navigational perils. (A La Carte).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... IT WAS COLD AND FOGGY at 15 minutes to midnight on Jan. 22, 1906, when the SS Valencia crashed into the jagged shoals south of Cape Beale on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The 1,450-tonne iron ship, bound for Victoria from San Francisco...

Sacrificial RAM: Alberta's trophy hunt auctions, have raised millions to support wildlife research the province no longer funds. (Wild Life).
November 1, 2002... EVERY FALL, Alberta's little band of national park wardens and provincial conservation officers joins forces in a cat-and-mouse game with a dedicated band of bighorn sheep hunters. The wardens and officers try to up-hold the law, while the...

Keepers of the culture: from home remedies to reading the weather, Nova Scotian women pass on family wisdom. (Culture).
November 1, 2002... TILLIE JOHNSTON never goes anywhere without a small growth from a white, or "cat," spruce tree pinned inside her clothes. The elderly resident of Victoria Beach, N.S., believes the botanical charm prevents rheumatism, arthritis and leg cramps....

Storm appeal: the wild, tempestuous waters off Vancouver Island attract a counterculture foul-weather funatics. (Place).
November 1, 2002... THE Kella-Lee TOOK ITS FIRST HIT AROUND MIDNIGHT. A wave to starboard heaved the trawler on its port side, nearly tossing crewman Beachum Englemark right out of his bunk. It was the 27-year-old's first time on a halibut boat, and this one was...

Eight small steps: a fossil trackway near Kingston, Ont., may be the earliest evidence of animal life on land. (Science).
November 1, 2002... "GEOLOGISTS," says Bob Dalrymple, "have to be good at thinking in four dimensions at once." Wearing the plaid, short-sleeved shirt, khaki trousers and stout shoes that mark him as a geologist, Dalrymple is standing at the base of a...

A city under siege.(Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs)(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... HISTORY SAILORS, SLACKERS AND BLIND PIGS Halifax at War By Stephen Kimber Doubleday Canada 342 pp., $34.95 hardcover. IN THE SPRING of 1945, with Allied victory on the horizon, the people of Halifax began to...

Another paddle through canoe history.(The Canoe)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... HISTORY THE CANOE A Living Tradition Edited by John Jennings Firefly Books 271 pp., $59.95 hardcover WHAT! Another book about canoes? With all the printers' ink expended on them lately, can there be a gunwale or thwart in the...

Race story leaves reader in the dark. .(Racing the White Silence)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... ADVENTURE RACING THE WHITE SILENCE On the Trail of the Yukon Quest By Adam Killick Penguin Books 275 pp., $35 hardcover EVERY FEBRUARY, a couple dozen or so teams of a dozen or so huskies and one lone driver traverse...

The whys and wherefores of Y2Y. .(Walking the Big Wild)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... CONSERVATION WALKING THE BIG WILD From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear Trail By Karsten Heuer McGlelland & Stewart 184 pp., $39.99 hardcover ANYONE with a passing of North American geography will understand...

Sentinels of the St. Lawrence. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... SENTINELS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE Along Quebec's lighthouse trail By Patrice Halley Les Editions de l'Homme 256 Pp., $44.95 hardcover LIGHTEOUSES belong to our historical and cultural heritage and deserve to be celebrated,"...

Under the Ice. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... UNDER THE ICE By Kathy Conlan Kids Can Press 56 pp., $18.95 hardcover MANY KIDS dream of being a marine biologist, imagining the thrills of swimming with dolphins and snorkeling on tropical coral reefs. Kathy Conlan puts...

House, home, hearth. (On the Horizon).
November 1, 2002... Shelter in Canada EVERY TERRESTRIAL creature needs a nest or a den, a retreat that feels familiar, secure, comfortable. Home, however humble, is the axis around which our lives resolve themselves, "the personal space we carve out of the...

Kaszub heartland. (Mosaic).(Renfrew County, Ontario)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... EVERY MAY, Kaszubs from Renfrew County, Ont., gather in the hamlet of Wilno to kick up their heels and celebrate their roots. Most are descended from 76 pioneering souls who, in 1858, fled religious and political oppression in the Kaszuby...

Refuge on Roncesvalles Avenues. (In Habitat).(Polish community in Toronto)
November 1, 2002... I LIVE NEAR THE BAKERIES and the butcher shops in the west end of Toronto, in the Polish part of town. I'm one of the lucky ones -- I'm here by choice. Many of my neighbours -- the older Poles in particular -- had no choice. They were driven...