Canadian Geographic articles from September 1999

Canadian Geographic archives from September 1999

In the jaws of the lions.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Steller sea lions are the beach bums of the untamed world. They loll about in packs on rocky outcrops along the coasts of the North Pacific Rim, basking in the sun, looking, for all the world, self-satisfied and indolent. Rolls of fat ripple...

REVERBERATIONS.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 1999... Science friction? In the article "In the name of science" (CG July/Aug 1999), you do science and the National Research Council a disservice by holding scientific photography up to ridicule. To understand scientific endeavours one must be...

Can the eastern cougar debate be laid to rest?(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... For the last half century, a debate - fuelled by hundreds of reported sightings - has raged over whether or not Canada's eastern woods host a cougar species all its own. The answer appears to be no. Experts now believe that the vast majority of...

Air conditioning with volcanic rocks.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... A common volcanic rock called zeolite could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40 percent, a University of Moncton researcher believes. The inconspicuous white rock, found in British Columbia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick, has...

Grass guzzlers.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... A Canadian researcher has discovered that adding a common bacteria to prairie grass seeds can boost some plants' contaminant-cleaning clout by 30 to 50 percent. While completing a Ph.D. in soil science at the University of Saskatchewan,...

Mapping migrations.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Sometime this winter, waterfowl experts from across Canada will gather for their annual "wing bee." Their task will be to sort through a small mountain of duck wings obtained from a randomly selected group of hunters, and assign the wings to...

Lions of the deep.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Angry fisherman accuse Steller sea lions of pilfering their catch, while scientists struggle to explain why the mammals are in decline Six thousand Steller sea lions bask on rocky outcrops along the British Columbia coast. Long a bane of...

Wild at heart.(pioneer botanist Catharine Parr Traill)
September 1, 1999... While pioneer Catharine Parr Traill was carving a life out of the Ontario bush in the mid-1800s, she produced, with her niece's help, the first popular guide to Canadian wildflowers From childhood, Catharine Parr Traill had been fascinated...

The NORWEGIAN CONNECTION.(Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup )
September 1, 1999... A crew of adventurers will spend this winter ice-locked on a boat in the High Arctic to honour the underappreciated explorer, Otto Sverdrup Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup ought to be better known in Canada. That is the firm belief of...

Dances with dragonflies.
September 1, 1999... Paul-Michael Brunelle's singular passion netted a new species of Odonata Trudging through streams and bogs at dusk, when mosquitoes are out in full force, is not everyone's idea of a pastime. But for Paul-Michael Brunelle, a graphic...

Earth's nearest neighbours.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Vast as our solar system is, it can sometimes seem crowded with planets, comets, meteors and satellites. Not to mention trillions of asteroids, those rocky planetoids orbiting mainly in the asteroid belt beyond Mars - 100 to 600 million...

Eyes on the skies.(Spacewatch asteroid-detection team )
September 1, 1999... A macabre mission to scan the solar system and pinpoint an asteroid with Earth's name on it Dave Balam was sitting alone in his office just before midnight on December 8, 1994, when an urgent message flashed across his computer screen. The...

The food industry's quiet revolution.(Review)
September 1, 1999... A decade ago, as the first genetically engineered foods and crops were about to trickle into the marketplace, a critical ingredient missing from the public debate was time. Time - meaning ample opportunity to assess possible long-term impacts...

A high-tech window on Iroquois cultures.(The Great Peace - CD-ROM)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1999... This CD-ROM comprises 2,600 screens of text, illustrations, photographs, animation and video sequences that explain how the Five Nations - Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga, who were later joined by the Tuscarora to form the Six...

From folk art to faux art.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... The way author Phil Tilney tells it, outdoor folk art flourished until about 1990 when it was overtaken by commercial faux-folk art like frilly Bo-Peeps tending Dynel sheep, plywood fat ladies bending over and front-door straw bonnets full of...

Stargazing, Inuit-style.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Consider Orion and Taurus, legends of the night sky. They are hunter and bull, respectively. Or are they? Imagine the three stars of Orion's belt as three hunters and the Great Nebula as children carrying fur clothing. See Taurus's brightest...

A killer passion.(John Ford has spent a lifetime following the mighty orca )(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... John Ford has spent a lifetime following the mighty orca Killer whales - orcas - were to John Ford's Vancouver Island childhood what bears are to a kid who grows up in the bush: mythological, macho beasts. "I would be fishing with my dad...

RE:SOURCES.
September 1, 1999... AN INFORMATION GUIDE TO STORIES IN THIS ISSUE SEA LIONS PAGE 30 The North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium - www.marinemammal.org - is investigating the impact of fisheries on steller sea lion populations with the...

Unlikely allies.(Northwest Mounted Police 1880s superintendent James Walsh and Sitting Bull)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... During the 1870s, an ugly time in American history when Plains Indians were being forced off their ancestral lands and onto reservations, an unlikely friendship emerged between a Canadian police officer and a renowned native warrior. Northwest...

Photographers interpret scenes from Canadian literature.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... But William was heading north, away from Lake Ontario, away from historic Kingston with its historic money, its historic fort, its historic parliament that its historic city-wise legislators from Montreal and Toronto had found too historic and...

Music in the morgue.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Just inside the entrance to the old Chebucto Road School in Halifax we would always hear music. If Maureen and I followed the sound of cellos up the wide wooden staircase to the second floor, we'd find our kids Colin and Heather at its source...

Happy birthday, Halifax!(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Bird's-eye or panoramic maps, such as this one of Halifax in 1879, were once a popular means of showcasing a city's most attractive features. Many were commissioned around the turn of the century by realtors, businesses or city officials to...

Haligonian highlights.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... 1749: On June 21, Colonel Edward Cornwallis establishes Halifax (then Chebucto) as a British garrison 1749: By July 14, Halifax named the capital of Nova Scotia over Annapolis Royal 1752: First issue of The Halifax Gazette, Canada's...