The Canadian Geographer articles from December 2002

The Canadian Geographer archives from December 2002

Handing over the rei(g)ns / changement de regne ... (Editorial).(Editorial)
December 22, 2002... When the present editors took over this role in 1999 we knew that ours would be the task and honour of taking The Canadian Geographer/Le Geographe Canadien (TCG/LGC) through into the 21st century. In so doing we brought about what we hope have...

Following America into the second industrial revolution: new rules of competition and Ontario's farm machinery industry, 1850-1930.
December 22, 2002... En depit de l'hiatus dans l'expansion du parc agricole entre 1880 et 1900, la societe canadienne Massey-Harris est devenue une grande societe multinationale competitive l'orsque des usines-succursales americaines ont fait leur arrivee en...

Global competitiveness and special events in cultural tourism: the example of the Barnes Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
December 22, 2002... Cette etude examine le role du tourisme culturel dans l'amelioration la competitivite mondiale urbaine. La recente expansion des produits culturels urbains est liee a l'amelioration de la qualite de vie, a la prosperite et au developpement...

Social status and children's behaviour: do ecological correlations reflect family-level associations?
December 22, 2002... Pendant les 60 dernieres annees, les geographes et sociologues ont approche le probleme de la maladie mentale d'une perspective ecologique, essayant d'identifier les variables qui peuvent offrir un apercu dans une (des) cause(s) potentielle(s)...

Paysages identitaires et ruralite de proximite: regards croises a Petit-Saguenay (Quebec).(rural landscape in Quebec)
December 22, 2002... In Quebec, there are a number of groups actively engaged in structuring future plans for the rural milieu. The question of identity runs throughout their reflections, and the relationship between actors and territory is seen as a specific trait...

Inscrire le pouvoir municipal dans l'espace urbain: la formation du reseau des parcs a Montreal et Toronto, 1880-1940.(establishment of urban parks in Montreal and Toronto from 1880-1940)
December 22, 2002... How was the system of urban parks, a treasured legacy of the end of the nineteenth and the first hall of the twentieth centuries, formed in Montreal and Toronto? Is it possible to discern a pattern regarding the creation of parks and leisure...

Obituary / Notice Necrologique.(Dr. Lloyd George Reeds)(Obituary)
December 22, 2002... Dr. Lloyd George Reeds was one of the founding fathers of Canadian geography. Although not the first geographer at McMaster University, he effectively created the Department of Geography there, and steered it successfully through its first...

Romanticism and Colonial Disease.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... by Alan Bewell, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000, xv + 373 pp. Cloth US$47.95 (ISBN 0-8018-6225-6). Disease was more important in building the British Empire than technology, commerce, or military might. This is Bewell's...

Placing Autobiography in Geography.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Edited by Pamela Moss, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2001, 235 pp. paper US $19.95 (ISBN 0-81562848-X) Edmund Bentley said, "Geography is about maps/But Biography is about chaps." Pamela Moss would disagree in every way. For her,...

The Nature of Economies.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... by Jane Jacobs, Random House Canada, Toronto, 2000, x + 190 pp. cloth $29.95 (ISBN 0-679-31036-3), Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2001, x + 190 pp. paper $16.95 (ISBN 0-679-31096-7) As a geographer interested in the interaction between the...

Ontario: a fine country not half like England?(Bibliography)
December 22, 2002... A Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario by David G. Burley, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1994, xii + 309 pp. cloth $39.95 (ISBN 0-7735-1199-7) ...