Canadian Geographic articles from September 2000

Canadian Geographic archives from September 2000

Bringing Nunavut south.(Glaciers)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... ON THE EASTERN coast of Baffin Island, glaciers, fiords, mountains and ocean waters collide to form some of the country's most dramatic landscapes. You'd think that once you'd seen it a dozen times, some of its beauty might fade. But not for...

Mapping the passage of time.(collection of Canadian Geographic maps at the Canadian Museum of Civilization)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... "JOURNEY over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger and thirst." Don Quixote At the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Que., maps also...

Driving on sunshine.(Erin Smith promotes alternative energy)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 1, 2000... TRAVELLING across Canada, doing repairs late into the night and driving a $1.2 million race car -- for Erin Smith, it's pretty much the perfect way to spend the summer. Smith is a member of the Queen's University solar vehicle team, which,...

CANADIAN snapshots.(Canadian Geographic website)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... EXPLORING THE NOOKS and crannies of Canada is just a click away. At Canadian Snapshots on our website -- www.canadiangeographic.ca -- we zoom in on the familiar and little-known parts of the country that lie along the Trans Canada Trail. From...

Teaching teachers.(Canadian Council for Geographic Education)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... IT'S FALL -- time to hit the books and head back to the classroom. But students might take comfort knowing their geography teachers spent some of their summer vacation in school. For the past seven years, the Society's Canadian Council for...

Flight appeal.
September 1, 2000... NEXT TIME Air Canada squeezes you into a tight row of seats with no knee or elbow room, count your blessings. There was a time, not so long ago, when air travellers were handed chewing gum, wads of cotton batten and a cup. The gum helped...

REVERBERATIONS.
September 1, 2000... Electrifying experience YOUR ARTICLE may have saved my life! I was riding my mountain bike along a country road early one evening when the skies began to darken. I started thinking about the lightning article I had read in Canadian...

Ducking the crossing.(Confederation Bridge, New Brunswick)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... THE CONFEDERATION Bridge has eased car travel between Prince Edward Island and Canada's mainland. But sea ducks flying the Northumberland Strait during migration can't seem to cross that bridge when they come to it. "They come down along...

Friends who clay together, stay together.("Clay Amies" - Canadian group of artists)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... QUEBEC IS SWIRLED with blues and metallics for its abundant water and mineral resources; puffins, Newfoundland's provincial bird, are placed on the East Coast; and British Columbia is swathed in rainforest green. This whimsical map is the...

Park watch.(national park wardens)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Gone are the days when national park wardens were rough-and-ready mountain men who spent most of their time roaming around on horseback. Wardens still protect the parks from visitors and protect visitors from the parks. But 10 years of...

Surf's up online.(Surfers rely on Web for wave information.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... WHEN NORTH PACIFIC storms begin their annual assault on Vancouver Island in October, Victoria surfers won't hit the beach until they first surf the web. The web has become a tool of the trade for the surfing set, helping them predict when...

Take my land ... please!(Holden, Alberta issues land grants to attract new residents.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... IT'S HARD to get anything for free these days, but in Holden, Alta., 90 kilometres east of Edmonton, they can't even give land away. While not quite the settlers were given 160-acre jackpot of the Dominion Lands Act of 1872, when a...

What is North?(Geographers define regions of Canada.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Two geographers define Canada's true North WE ALL KNOW that Canada has a North, but where exactly is it? Until now, no one has really sketched out where Canada's South ends and the North begins. To solve this cartographic brainteaser,...

A bird in the hand.(Canadian Migration Monitoring Network studies bird life cycles.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Tracking the songbirds of the boreal forest TO JUDGE FROM the pictures in the field guide, the blackpoll warbler is drab, a small brownish bird streaked with white and black that is distinguished during the breeding season by the male's...

Canadians in flight.(aviation)
September 1, 2000... WE ALL REMEMBER the first time we flew, whether it was on a Vickers Viscount, holding on for dear life, or aboard a sleek modern airliner, holding on for dear life. Whether it excites or petrifies us, flying is often a must in a country...

Shot in the dark.(photography of animal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A photographer 'traps' elusive wild creatures on film TWENTY KILOGRAMS of camera equipment and other gear weigh down my backpack as I struggle along the game trail over fallen logs and up small rises. Sweat forms on my nose despite the...

Microbes on the march.(infectious diseases)
September 1, 2000... In the changing geography of infectious disease, newly emerging viruses and bacteria are forging a deadly superhighway straight to your front door COME SUMMER, the Lake of the Woods area in Ontario's far west exerts a special kind of...

FADING AT THE CORNERS.(corner stores)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Corner stores once sold convenience and delivered a sense of neighbourhood ONCE, THEY WERE ubiquitous in Canadian neighborhoods: small single-storey establishments named for nearby streets or for proprietors whose names could be given as...

Newcomer takes a brazen romp through Ia belle province.
September 1, 2000... EARLY IN TEE FIRST CHAPTER of Sacre Blues, Taras Grescoe alludes to the 1995 Quebec referendum and then promises, in what can only be described as a moment of cockeyed optimism, not to bring it up again. Well, not much, he quickly adds. Seems...

Scientific lingo burdens butterfly guide.
September 1, 2000... MOST OF WHAT I KNOW about butterflies, I learned in kindergarten. How they suck nectar from flowers by uncoiling a long, tubular "tongue." How caterpillars are transformed in stages into miracles of colour and flight. How their shimmering...

Birchbark chronicle offers rare insight.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NOTHING IS AS CANADIAN as the birchbark canoe. And since Canada was founded on the fur trade, it is fitting that some early traders wrote their journals on pieces of bark originally intended to repair the vessels which brought them to the...

Following the trail of a master.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... ART HISTORIAN Lisa Christensen has a refreshing take on criticism. She calls it the "boots-on" approach. Convinced that we can best understand paintings by seeking out their settings, Christensen urges readers of her latest hiking guide to...

Moose mayhem.(Newfoundland - largest population of moose)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... WHAT DO YOU get when you import four of North America's biggest ungulates to an island where they've never existed, where they have ample food but no natural predators? Within a century, you get the continent's largest population of moose --...

NO GREAT MISCHIEF.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... IF WE WERE THERE in the windy days of fall, and if the wind were off the sea, we would run down to the Calum Ruadh's Point and engage in contests to see who could remain standing in the wind's force the longest. If we faced the sea, the wind...

Late shift at harvest time.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... IT IS NOT EASY to escape the witchery of harvest, even for a retired grandmother. Our two combines are now out in a 140-acre field of pedigree wheat. If they work late, I'll be doing the trucking. (I won't sleep anyway. Not until I hear the...