Canadian Geographic articles from September 1996

Canadian Geographic archives from September 1996

Model kayakers. (background on articles in this issue)(Editorial)
September 1, 1996... In the early spring of last year writer Sid Marty was wading through hip-deep snowdrifts in the Northwest Territories chasing lynx for Canadian Geographic. Obsessed with the cat, members of the editorial staff had financially persuaded Marty to...

Prairie: region, word, place in the heart.
September 1, 1996... To a botanist, prairie is a vastness of grasses, and of xerophytes, plants adapted to intermittent drought. To a homesteading newcomer in 1876, prairie might have meant "the first land anyone in my family ever owned." Later such a drylander might...

Yonge at heart. (Yonge St., Toronto, Canada)
September 1, 1996... By two o'clock on a tuesday afternoon, the corner where Toronto's two oldest streets meet is a seething public event. No celebrity or spectacle has drawn people here, there is nothing officially going on, just Yonge Street itself. A few blocks...

Treasured islands. (Mingan archipelago)
September 1, 1996... For the early fishing families who settled on Quebec's North Shore, the Mingan archipelago offered protection from rough seas. Today, it is the islands themselves that are being protected Just offshore, where the Canadian Shield's bedrock...

Murder, he mapped. (police detective Kim Rossmo)
September 1, 1996... Crime, like most human activities, has a geographic logic that police detective Kim Rossmo is learning how to plot It started on the night shift in Vancouver's crime-ridden Downtown Eastside. Kim Rossmo, a beat cop juggling a full-time career...

Uneasy peace. (Peace River, Alberta, Canada)
September 1, 1996... Alberta's Peace River district is the most northerly grain-growing area on the continent: as early as the 1890s, tenacious settlers were battling the fierce weather and harvesting world-renowned wheat crops there. But can the land that sustained...

Taking a stand in timber country. (Peter Von Tiesenhausen's stand against timber companies)
September 1, 1996... A homesteader's son despairs over the widespread harvesting of trees Peter von Tiesenhausen is building a white picket fence, in sections of about two metres a year. You can see it at the edge of the hayfield looking like a gate into the...

Making a case for prudent forestry.
September 1, 1996... An industry insider takes the long view of his boyhood home When Roy Bickell retired in 1991 as president of Canfor Corporation, he and wife Noreen decided to move back to Grande Prairie from Vancouver - to the astonishment of their West Coast...

Cretaceous creations. (photographs of dinosaur bones)(Illustration)
September 1, 1996... A photographer discovers modern art in ancient bones Sure, the sheer bulk of dinosaur bones is stunning. But who would have thought that going the other way, taking tiny chips of fossilized dinosaur bones and magnifying them, would yield images...

Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries.
September 1, 1996... A compelling call to arms for the ailing West Coast fishery Somewhere between the sunny summer day in 1987 when I began researching a book into the history of Nova Scotia-based National Sea Products - one of the world's largest fishing...

Fire in the Bones: Bill Mason and the Canadian Canoeing Tradition.
September 1, 1996... A graceful biography of a legend of the waterways 'When you look at the face of Canada and study the geography carefully, you come away with the feeling that God could have designed the canoe first and then set about to conceive a land in which...

New grants help graduate students tackle global issues. (Royal Canadian Geographical Society's research and grants program)
September 1, 1996... Change - from climate change to community change - is the topic of choice for four geography students who have been awarded substantial grants from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's research and grants program. Shawne Clarke, a...

Handprints of time. (farmhouse)
September 1, 1996... Our old farmhouse sits amidst a patchwork of fields and forest near Alexandria, Ont. That's in Glengarry County, which is still largely Scottish, but our house was built by an Irishman, Morris Fitzgerald. He came to Canada when he was 17, in the...