Canadian Geographic articles from September 2001

Canadian Geographic archives from September 2001

Northern passaqe.(John Dunn lecture, kayaking excursion)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... FOR JOHN DUNN, the backcountry of British Columbia is as welcoming as his backyard. "I try to find as wild a place as possible," the photographer and adventurer says of his expeditions. In early October, Dunn's fifth lecture series for...

Armchair travel.(Sacred Spaces)
September 1, 2001... UPWARDS OF 16 million people hit Canada's national parks each summer. So it's likely that at least some of you are just now filing away the snapshots of your park vacation. If you want to re-live the experience or explore new possibilities for...

Whales on location.(Canadian Georgraphic presents)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC PRESENTS took to the ice near Baffin Island in July to catch bowhead whales -- some of the world's longest-living creatures -- on film. In the 1990s, ancient spearheads discovered in the carcasses of whales killed near...

Studies in stone.(Norman Hallendy awarded Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2001 Gold Medal)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... NORMAN HALLENDY smiles wryly and shrugs when asked about the symbolism of an inuksuk he assembled in his garden, high on a ridge near Carp, Ont. "It simply means 'I am thankful,'" he says. He points to another and explains how Inuit would have...

Silver lining.(Canada wins second in International Geographic Olympiad, Vancouver)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CANADA'S TEAM won silver at the fifth International Geographic Olympiad, which was sponsored by the National Geographic Society and held in Vancouver in August. Team members (from left) Walter Chan, 14, of Toronto; Matthieu Beauchemin, 16,...

Trivial pursuits.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... SO YOU THIN K you're a true Canadian, eh? How much do you really know about your home and native land? Is the eagle Canada's largest bird of prey? When did the maple leaf become our official flag? What is the country's largest fruit crop? ...

Wardens in arms.(national parks law enforcement issues, Canada)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... AHANDGUN is the one piece of equipment you will not see in the photos of Jasper National Park warden Gordon Antoniuk, who is featured in our story about a backcountry patrol he made, on horseback, with writer Ed Struzik in tow. Like all...

GAUGING WIND CHILL.(recalculating wind chill index, Canada)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... WEATHER DECKED OUT in woollen mittens and socks, thermal army fatigues and boots, Mariangeles Najlis braces herself against an unseasonably chilly 10[degrees]C. A huge fan, twice her size, starts whipping up a wintery breeze, and she...

NATIVE GARDEN.(First Nations Garden at Montreal Botanical Garden)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CULTURE A GARDEN inspired by ancient Amerindian and Inuit cultures has sprouted at the arboretum of the Montreal Botanical Garden. Featuring traditional indigenous vegetation used for food, transportation, tools and medicine, such as the...

ON THE RIGHT TRACK.(Southern Right Whales population boom)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... WILDLIFE MOIRA BROWN is holding her breath as this year's bumper crop of right-whale calves makes the difficult transition to adulthood. Brown is a world-renowned Canadian right-whale researcher based at the Center for Coastal Studies in...

A DISTANT SUN.(Vega, star data)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CELESTIAL ALMANAC STARS ARE DISTANT SUNS, and thanks to observatory and satellite data, we now know all sorts of information on just about every star visible to the unaided eye, plus thousands more seen by telescope. Take Vega, for...

CANADA SPEAK.(regional speech patterns studied and compared to US)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... LINGUISTICS DO YOU LOUNGE on a couch or a chesterfield? A new University of Toronto study says you likely say "couch" in lieu of "chesterfield." Regional speech patterns have never before been mapped in Canada, but linguist Jack...

HORSE PLAY.(Parliament considers naming the Canadian national horse of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... HERITAGE CANADA is known for tasty beer, hockey, maple leaves and beavers. And if a new bill passes in the federal legislature this fall, a sturdy little horse may be added to the list of national icons. The Canadian, a horse known for...

CLICK FOR A CAUSE.(naturalist Stephen Legault's wildcanada.net informing Canadians on conservation issues)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... ACTIVISM HUGGING TREES or saving species has never been easier, thanks to Alberta naturalist Stephen Legault. For the past year. Legault and his Internet-based green coalition at wildcanada.net have been on a mission to deliver...

HOME GREEN HOME.(neighborhood planned around environmental concerns)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... HOUSING IN AN ERA when suburban development usually means row upon row of characterless boxes clad in a skin of vinyl siding and surrounded by overly manicured lawns, Mahone Bay, N.S., may prove to be an exception. The quaint seaside town...

HEALING WATERS?(excreted drugs found in Canadian water samples)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... POLLUTION YOU'VE GOT a splitting headache, so you pop a pill. Half an hour later, your headache is gone, but where is the drug? "About 50 to 70 percent of drugs pass right through you, and even what you do metabolize is eventually...

PALM BEACH, B.C.(palm trees growing in British Columbia)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... BOTANY ANCOUVER'S towering Douglas firs, cedars and hemlocks have always impressed visitors, but now there's a new botanical on the block that is transforming Lotus Land into Canada's Riviera. Palm trees are cropping up around southern...

WARTIME SOUVENIR.(construction on museum commemorating Royal Norwegian Air Force camp in Canada to begin)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... HISTORY THE DEEP WOODS of Ontario's Muskoka region are often associated with the incessant buzz of mosquitoes. But in May, the mechanical drone of Second World War fighter planes will be top of mind when a museum opens commemorating...

NATURE'S [R.sub.x].(use of deer antlers in modern medicine considered)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... MEDICINE FOR MORE THAN 2,000 years, Eastern healers have believed in the power of deer antlers to prevent and treat everything from fatigue to heart problems. George Bubenik, a physiologist at the University of Guelph, says the rich...

Pulp fiction?(Forest Products Association of Canada survey on growth of forests)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... A RECENT NATIONAL ADVERTISING campaign by the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), formerly known as the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, states "Satellite surveys confirm that across North America, forests have expanded by 20...

BACKCOUNTRY BEAT.(Jasper National Park journey, Ed Struzik narrative)(Column)
September 1, 2001... AFEW MINUTES DRIVE up the Rock Lake trunk road, warden Gordon Antoniuk tells me I have nothing to worry about. We are moments away from mounting up for a five-day patrol of the rugged, remote North Boundary Trail in the northwestern part of...

ROCK of AGES.(mountain ranges in Canada's national parks)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... From the ancient crowns of the Appalachians to the younger peaks of the Western Cordillera, our mountains are, as Lord Byron wrote, 'the palaces of nature' MOUNTAINS LEND MORE grandeur to the landscape than any other natural feature....

Mountains of CANADA.
September 1, 2001... CANADA HAS BEEN BLESSED with an abundance of mountains: new mountains in the west, old mountains in the east, mysterious and forbidding mountains in the north. At first, some were viewed as obstacles, blocking roads and railways and national...

Ferry express.("the shortest ferry crossing in the world", Maple City, Toronto, Ontario)(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... The crew of the Maple City braves the elements to deliver passengers from downtown Toronto to the island airport -- 132 times a day THE MOTOR VESSEL Maple City churns away from the dock on the Canadian mainland at 6:15 on a snowfiaked...

BY THESE HANDS.(Canadians at Work)
September 1, 2001... A Labour Day photographic tribute to life on the job IF YOU STICK STRICTLY to normal media discourse, you can easily get the idea that nobody works any more, at least not in the old sense: physical effort which produces things people eat,...

ALOFT ON LANGARA.(Queen Charlotte Islands' peregrine populations)
September 1, 2001... On a remote island at the westernmost edge of the country; a dogged naturalist is documenting the life history of a small population of the world's largest peregrine falcons WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST Wayne Nelson sits back from his oversized...

A light cruise down 'the great river'.(St. Lawrence River, Canada)
September 1, 2001... THIS PAST SUMMER, various events and an exhibition at Montreal's Pointe-a-Calliere Museum marked the "Great Peace" of 1701, which brought more than 1,300 people of 39 different native tribes to the city from all the headwaters of the Sr....

LITTLE HORSE OF IRON.
September 1, 2001... Carol Hilton A Quest for the Canadian Hors By Lawrence Scanla Random House 304 pp., $34.95 hardcover IT' S A LITTLE-known fact that Canada has a unique breed of heritage horse: the Canadian. Lawrence Scanlan chronicles the beginnings...

TUMBLEHOME.(Meditations and Lore on a Canoeist's Lift)
September 1, 2001... Meditations and Lore from a Canoeist's Lift By James Raffan HarperCollins 140 pp., $20 hardcover IN HIS MOST recent book, canoeing authority James Raffan travels waters familiar to us all: the turbulent flow of the river of life. Despite...

An unsung hero of Arctic exploration.(John Rae's )
September 1, 2001... JOHN RAE'S mid-l9th-century story is the perfect example of a phenomenon that still persists in Canada's Arctic. Travel competently and achieve your goal without untoward incident, and few will notice. Flirt with disaster or worse, and your...

Historic hamlet.(Mennonite community, Neubergthal, Manitoba)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... FROM ITS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS some 125 years ago, the community of Neubergthal, Man., has sought a balance between tradition and change. Located west of the Red River, the tree-lined hamlet was one of about 120 Mennonite street villages...

'Shave and a haircut...'.(local barber Pierre Caouette)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IN HIS BARBERSHOP in Calgary; Pierre Caouette has a framed photograph of his father, Lucien, standing outside his own shop around 1955. Caouette learned most of his barbering skills from his father, who worked in the business for 51 years and...

Brothers of the saw.(Gilbert Lane's chainsaws, Burk's Falls, Ontario)(Column)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IN THE SHIELD COUNTRY of Ontario's Almaguin High lands, forest out-hectares farmland, so a chainsaw in the J shed is as common as a microwave in the kitchen. And when I needed a new one, local word of mouth -- delivered with a wink that hinted...

STARGAZING IN SEPTEMBER.(constellations)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... * Polaris, or the North Star, which is positioned over the pole, appears in roughly the same location all year round and is the lost star in the "handle" of the Little Dipper * although it ranks only 47th in brightness because of its...