Canadian Geographic articles from September 1997

Canadian Geographic archives from September 1997

Elevators in free fall. (grain elevators)(Editorial)
September 1, 1997... Andrew, Whitford and Willingdon, three tiny prairie villages, once sat all in a row roughly nine kilometres apart along the Canadian Pacific Railway line in eastern Alberta. Today, the town in the middle, Whitford, no longer exists. At one time...

Chronicle of a forest fire. (northern Ontario)
September 1, 1997... There was almost no rain from May 20 to June 12 in the broad swath. of boreal forest surrounding Timmins in Northern Ontario. By June 7, the 15,652-square-kilometre Timmins Fire Management Area was tinder dry. That afternoon, an electrical storm...

Coal mine dispute generates heat.
September 1, 1997... An open-pit coal mine outside Jasper National Park is closer to reality with the acceptance of Cardinal River Coals' proposal by a federal-provincial review panel. Such decisions usually signal the closing stages of debate, but this panel report...

Leafing through maple lore.
September 1, 1997... The maple smoke of autumn bonfires is incense to Canadians. Bestowing aroma for the nose, chroma for the eye, sweetness for the spring tongue, the sugar maple prompts this sharing of a favourite myth and an original etymology of the word maple....

Twilight of a prairie icon. (country elevators)(Cover Story)
September 1, 1997... Country elevators once handled entire western harvests. Today, they are fading from the horizon No one knows who designed the odd-looking structure that the W.W. Ogilvie Milling Company erected beside the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks at...

Tanking a killer coolant. (chlorofluorocarbons)
September 1, 1997... Every air conditioner once used CFCs. Today, 10 years after the signing of the Montreal Protocol, the wonder chemical's use has been restricted and its price has tripled Every week, the mangled remains of 30 to 40 cars and trucks enter the...

Toronto's war on termites. (includes related article on a new way of exterminating termites)
September 1, 1997... Entomologist Tim Myles leads a crusade against an insidious pest that is gnawing at the heart of Canada's largest city Tim Myles walks through the Morton Site like a parade colonel on inspection day. The small housing development in the east...

Dangerous liaisons. (managing polar bears)
September 1, 1997... The killing of purebred dogs unleashes a bitter debate about how best to manage polar bears For almost a decade, photographs of breeder Brian Ladoon's purebred Eskimo dogs cavorting with the world's largest land carnivore near Churchill, Man.,...

The brine of life. (Saskatchewan's salt lakes)
September 1, 1997... Saskatchewan's salt lakes sustain a curious fishery, feed flocks of shorebirds, and soothe all sorts of human ailments Dave Gleim is the Captain Highliner of the Saskatchewan shrimp boat fleet. He is manager of Artemia Canada Ltd., a shrimp...

The beacon of Burlington. (Ontario)('weather router' Herb Hilgenberg)
September 1, 1997... A landlocked weather expert guides sailors through the unpredictable Atlantic Schooner Arcadia. Schooner Arcadia. This is Southbound II Coastal. Do you copy? Herb Hilgenberg hunches over a transmitter in the basement rec room that is...

The undying spirit of the Wolseley Elm.
September 1, 1997... The inner-city neighbourhood of Wolseley nestles against the doorsill of downtown Winnipeg. It seems suspended in time as lawn sprinklers swish, a veranda door slaps shut, neighbours gather on a boulevard carrying mugs of coffee, the morning...