Canadian Geographic articles from September 1994

Canadian Geographic archives from September 1994

Against the flow: saving the bull trout.
September 1, 1994... Many rivers in Alberta once thronged with bull trout, loathed by many fishermen because they preyed on prized species like rainbow and brown trout. Nicknamed for its flat, bull-like head and jaws, the fish feeds voraciously, snapping at any...

Speaking of the forecast.... (weather forecast)
September 1, 1994... What does it mean exactly, when the weather forecast says there will be "intermittent rain" or "variable cloudiness"? Deciphering the forecast isn't always easy because many terms and phrases used to describe the weather are at times ambiguous....

Wanuskewin. (Wanuskewin Heritage Park)
September 1, 1994... A Saskatchewan heritage park is an archeological treasure and a source of native cultural and spiritual revival THE SOUTH Saskatchewan River resembles a wide ribbon of opaque glass, greenish brown in colour, as it snakes through the city of...

Golden dreams. (gold miner Edgar Horne)
September 1, 1994... Nova Scotia's only full-time gold miner, Edgar Horne pursues a family quest A WAY BACK in the woods in Renfrew, N.S., 67-year-old Edgar Horne makes a living doing something most of us can only dream about. Often single-handedly, Horne mines...

Gaspe: shallow soil, deep roots. (Gaspe Peninsula)(includes related article)
September 1, 1994... For more than 400 years, the rays of dawn have found evidence of European settlement at Perce, Que., where Jacques Cartier went ashore in 1534. Today, tourists come to see the famous Perce Rock, and lobster fishers like Wenda Element (INSET)...

The mythic white pine is in trouble.
September 1, 1994... TO GET TO Greenwood Lake, and to the 17th-century forest you travel about 100 kilometres west from Thunder Bay on Highway 11 and turn south on District Road 802. The latter, a once-vital logging route, has been allowed to deteriorate into a...

The real story of how Toronto got its name. (Toronto, Ontario)
September 1, 1994... IT IS NOT unusual for names to spread from place to place, and Toronto is no exception. The name reached its present location -- and spelling -- after journeys both linguistic and geographical in nature. Linguistically, it originated as the...

The End of Evolution: On Mass Extinctions and the Preservation of Biodiversity.
September 1, 1994... Evolution and extinction. These are the yin and yang, the plus and minus in the four-billion-year history of life on earth. Among the dozen or so recent books about these inseparable twins of life, two stand out: Gould's exquisite The Book of...

The National Parks of Canada.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... "In Wildness is the preservation of the World," wrote Henry David Thoreau, the sage of Walden Pond, more than a century ago. But his voice was not heeded, could perhaps not be heeded. Rapid economic expansion (in which most of us play a role,...

Canadisk: The All-Canadian Bilingual Historical CD-ROM. (Software Review)(Eval uation)
September 1, 1994... A decade ago, historian and educator Alastair Sweeny began compiling a Canadian chronology on his computer while doing research for Peter C. Newman's history of the Hudson's Bay Company. From that sprouted the idea of selling an electronic...

Houses and Homes: Housing for Canadians.
September 1, 1994... From the soaring glass, steel and concrete towers of condominium land to the sprawling extents of suburbia; from the troubled experiments of public housing to the alleys, underpasses and shelters inhabited by the homeless -- this is the Canada...

Mount Logan Map, Research and Reference Folio.
September 1, 1994... As regular readers of Canadian Geographic know, in 1992 a team of climbers scaled Canada's highest peak -- Mount Logan -- to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and the 125th anniversary of Canada. With...

The West: The History of a Region in Confederation.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... "If it's all the same to history, it need not repeat itself any more," wrote the wisecracking editor of the defunct Calgary Eye Opener, Bob Edwards, at the turn of the century. University of Regina sociologist John Conway feels much the same...

The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... If you have ever leafed through an old photo album of people you do not know, then you are already familiar with some of the fascination and frustration that comes from perusing the pages of The Face Pullers. The book is, in effect, a family...

From Red Clay and Salt Water: Prince Edward Island and its People.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... When landscape photographer John Sylvester set foot on Prince Edward Island for the first time in June 1982, he was "spellbound" by the island's magnificent colours: "a countryside of green fields and blue coves rimmed by a red shoreline glowing...

Chief Engineer: Life of a Nation Builder - Sandford Fleming.
September 1, 1994... No government project in our country's history is better known or more important to the nation itself than the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the 1870s and 1880s. The ribbon of steel from Ontario to the coast of British...

1994 Massey Medalist: the many hats of Henri Dorion. (Canadian geographer; The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Massey Medal)
September 1, 1994... THERE ARE, you might forgiven for thinking, several Henri Dorions. There is the geographer and legal expert who served as chairman of a Quebec commission on the province's boundaries. There is the classical musician who includes, among his...