Canadian Geographic articles from September 1998

Canadian Geographic archives from September 1998

Mossy lingo from P.E.I. (terminologies related to Irish moss in Prince Edward Island)
September 1, 1998... If you've ever picked monkey fur out of seaweed to earn a little moss money up around Tignish in Prince Edward Island, then you've no need to eyeball another word of this. But if you haven't, read on, because this info is as pertinent as a moss...

Subterranean harvest. (worm-picking industry in Canada)
September 1, 1998... 'Underground economy' takes on a new meaning in Ontario where a multi-million dollar worm-picking industry thrives largely outside the taxman's reach Cut in the middle of wriggly field in the teeth of a late-spring gale, three Poles, seven...

Pool of memories. (birthplace of the industrial revolution in Canada)
September 1, 1998... In an old public bath, visitors are immersed in the history of a Montreal neighbourhood that was one of the birthplaces of Canada's industrial revolution The Montreal neighbourhood known as Centre-Sud begins at Saint-Denis Street, stretching...

Grave thoughts: cemeteries are ecosystems of peace, places to take respite from the hurry and wash of life.
September 1, 1998... The geography of a cemetery is as complex as the geography of a country, a map coloured by culture, history, nationality and religion. Cemeteries are unique landscapes, products of human imagination and yet signs that death remains beyond...

Mapping home: communities discover that the language of cartography speaks louder than words.
September 1, 1998... An open invitation to map a "cherished place" for an art exhibition on the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia launched Briony Penn on an unusual cartographic journey. For the artist and geographer living on Salt Spring Island, the project...

Farley's version. (excerpt from Farley Mowat's book 'The Farfarers' regarding people who arrived in Canada before 1000 AD)
September 1, 1998... Mysterious longhouses in the Arctic. Ancient stone beacons in Newfoundland. Are they evidence of a people who arrived here before A.D. 1000? Farley Mowat advances a controversial new theory about the first visitors to North America in his new...

Audubon's Wilderness Palette.
September 1, 1998... The Birds of Canada By David M. Lank Key Porter Books 192 pp., $55.00 hardcover In the summer of 1833, American naturalist and painter John James Audubon set sail from Maine to explore first-hand the richness of Canada's wildlife. The 23...

Arctic Journal.
September 1, 1998... By Bern Will Brown Novalis 226 pp., $23.95 hardcover Bern Will Brown, who arrived in the Canadian north in 1948, rarely indulges in self-pity. However, in the preface to this gripping account of the first seven years of his life-long service as...

Into the eye of the storm: Ed and Jerrine Verkaik chase the weather for a living.
September 1, 1998... "How's the weather?" For Ed and Jerrine Verkaik that question is not the stuff of idle conversation. Where others might feel a raindrop or a passing breeze, the Ontario couple has fashioned a life of near mystical devotion to the weather....

Voice of the Arctic: Ambassador Mary Simon awarded RCGS Gold Medal. (Royal Canadian Geographical Society)
September 1, 1998... One of Mary May Simon's most vivid childhood memories is of her maternal grandmother, Jeannie, fiddling with the short-wave radio her family brought along as it moved from camp to camp in northern Quebec. Her grandmother sometimes dialed in the...

The quiet of the backstretch. (track for horse racing)
September 1, 1998... Pinette Raceway is hidden in a small patch of woods not far from our big frame house. You get there by turning down a clay road just past Mike's Lobster Pound on the TransCanada Highway, about 40 kilometres east of Charlottetown. There's a...