The Canadian Geographer articles from December 2001

The Canadian Geographer archives from December 2001

The compactness of federal electoral districts in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s: an exploratory analysis.
December 22, 2001... Introduction The decennial redrawing of federal electoral boundaries in Canada is a contentious and challenging exercise involving the delicate balancing of often contradictory representational goals. Primary among these have been...

Die Auswanderung: religion, culture, and migration among Old Colony Mennonites.
December 22, 2001... Introduction Mennonites are a distinctive ethno-religious group who have repeatedly employed migration as a survival strategy. As a group, they have been persecuted for their religious beliefs and have sought out locations where their...

Contexts of interpretation: assessing immigrant reception in Richmond, Canada.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction Since the mid-1980s, two of the most noteworthy developments in the social geography of metropolitan Vancouver have been the rapid increase in the number of ethnic-Chinese residents and the emergence of new patterns of...

The big box, the flagship, and beyond: impacts and trends in the Greater Toronto Area.
December 22, 2001... We can get an idea of what the future will look like by going south of the border (Unidentified Canadian retailer, as quoted in Klokis 1987). These [new] retail power formations, often nameless, have mushroomed all across...

Canadian foreign direct investment in the United States by type: mergers and acquisitions, greenfield, real estate, joint ventures and investment increases.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction While the foreign direct investment (FDI) literature is rich with both theory and empirical study, it has been recognized that additional research concerning FDI by type would be desirable. This would allow for consideration...

Structural adjustment programs and housing affordability in Accra, Ghana.(Statistical Data Included)
December 22, 2001... Introduction Since April 1983, the government of Ghana has been implementing Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) following a long period of economic decline that manifested itself in low or negative GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth,...

Native `land claims', Russian style.
December 22, 2001... Introduction Native claims in Canada, in the words of Peter Usher in the 1982 volume of this journal, are a "chief means of reordering the relationship between native northerners and the rest of Canadian society; a chance to put an end to...

Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest Economy.
December 22, 2001... by Roger Hayter, UBC Press, Vancouver and Toronto, 2000, xviii + 430 pp. Cloth $85.00 (ISBN 0-7748-0775-X); paper $29.95 (ISBN 0-7748-0776-8) Flexible Crossroads is an important contribution to the economic geography literature and is...

On Floating Ice. Two years on an Antarctic Ice-Shelf South of 75 [degrees] S.
December 22, 2001... By Joe MacDowall, with a Foreword by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Pentland Press, 1999, 314 pp. 20.00 [pounds sterling] (ISBN 1-85821-720-2) From Robinson Crusoe to pioneer histories, accounts of people looking after themselves in...

Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island.
December 22, 2001... by Daniel W. Clayton, UBC Press, Vancouver, 2000, xxii + 330 pp. cloth $85.00 (ISBN 0-7748-0741-5); paper $29.95 (ISBN 0-7748-0742-3) Dan Clayton's concern is how representations of a series of encounters of Europeans with the territory and...

Human and Global Security: An Exploration of Terms.
December 22, 2001... by Peter Stoett, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000, xi + 168 pp. cloth $45.00 (ISBN 0-8020-4746-7); paper $18.95 (ISBN 0-8020-8304-8) Concordia Univeristy's Peter Stoett has collated an original assortment of terms into a...

Le Quebec en Changement: Entre l'Exclusion et l'Esperance.
December 22, 2001... red. par Pierre Bruneau, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2000, x + 225 pp. paper $35.00 (ISBN 2-7605-1058-1) Ce collectif est le deuxieme ouvrage a paraitre dans la collection Geographie contemporaine commencee en 1999. Il...

Les Espaces Degrades: Contraintes et Conquetes.
December 22, 2001... red. par Gilles Senecal et Diane Saint-Laurent, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2000, xx + 272 pp. $39.00 cloth (ISBN 2-7605-1071-9) Cet ouvrage collectif est le troisieme a paraitre dans la collection `Geographie...