The Canadian Geographer articles from June 2002

The Canadian Geographer archives from June 2002

Sustaining geography; sustainable geographies: the linked challenge. (Post-President's Address).(former Canadian Association of Geographers president Iain Wallace)
June 22, 2002... Introduction I am not sure at what point it dawned on me that my Past-President's address would be delivered at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), but my immediate response was to recognize a...

Negotiating the production of space in Tl'azt'en territory, Northern British Columbia.
June 22, 2002... Societies produce the space in which they operate through social practices that visualize, administer, and use lands and resources. Because Native peoples have held relatively little political power, their ability to influence the production of...

Images of homelessness in Ottawa: implications for local politics.
June 22, 2002... The empirical foci of this paper are a content and discourse analysis of four years (1994 to 1997) of media reporting on `homelessness' in The Ottawa Citizen, the premier, English language daily newspaper in the region. Examining these reports...

Settlement pattern, environmental factors and ethnic background on a southwestern Quebec frontier (1795-1842).
June 22, 2002... In studies of frontier settlement patterns, different site factors are recognized as influential on the immigrant settlement process. Environmental factors such as soil features, while widely cited as crucial, have rarely been studied in enough...

Conceptual and practical issues in the detection of local disease clusters: a study of mortality in Hamilton, Ontario.
June 22, 2002... Recent advances in local spatial statistics and operational computing capacity have led to growing interest in the detection of disease clusters for public health surveillance and for improving understanding of disease pathogenesis. Although...

Methodologie de zonage aquicole regional a l'aide de la teledetection dans un SIRS: application dans la baie des Chaleurs, Quebec.
June 22, 2002... Les etudes sur les activites aquicoles utilisant des informations geographiques et des donnees de teledetection sont parmi les plus difficiles a manipuler dans le domaine de la geomatique. Meme si, de prime abord, les parametres semblent...

Environmental Discourse and Practice.(and 'Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader')(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... edited by Lisa M. Benton and John Rennie Short, Blackwell, Oxford and Malden, Mass., 1999, ix + 219 pp. cloth US$59.95 (ISBN 0-631-21113-6); paper US$26.95 (ISBN 0-631-21114-4) Environmental discourse and practice: A reader edited by...

Ontario: a fine country not half like England?(5 books on Canadian immigrants)(Book Review)
June 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) ...