The Canadian Geographer articles from June 2004

The Canadian Geographer archives from June 2004

The boundaries of property: lessons from Beatrix Potter.(Wiley Lecture)
June 22, 2004... One time there was a picket fence / With space to gaze from hence to thence / An architect who saw this sight / Approached it suddenly one night / Removed the spaces from the fence / And built of them a residence (Max...

Producing North and South: a political geography of hydro development in Quebec.
June 22, 2004... Prolongement du corps social, l'espace est un ampute potentiel. Mais il est aussi la cave ou le grenier, le lieu ou sont entreposees les richesses futures. Et parmi celles-ci l'hydroelectricite qui, non seulement occupe une...

Engaging in the disablement process over space and time: narratives of persons with multiple sclerosis in Ottawa, Canada.
June 22, 2004... Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressively worsening chronic disease of unknown etiology for which there is as yet no cure. It affects primarily the central nervous system and has varied symptoms ranging from fatigue, balance...

The rise of specialty crops in Saskatchewan, 1981-2001.
June 22, 2004... Introduction The most significant change in cropping patterns in Saskatchewan over the past 20 years, and perhaps since agriculture became well established in the province, has been the increase in land sown to specialty crops. The area...

Visual artists: counter-urbanites in the Canadian countryside?
June 22, 2004... Introduction Although arts are largely an urban phenomenon, recent study demonstrates the existence of numerous rural centres in Canada specialising in the production of some form of art (Bunting and Mitchell 2001). However, very little is...

Lifetime interprovincial migration in Canada: looking beyond short-run fluctuations.
June 22, 2004... Introduction Interprovincial migration has important short-run and long-run effects on individual Canadians and on various aspects of the Canadian society. At the personal level, it is a process through which some Canadians manage to...

The dynamics of family farming in North Huron County, Ontario. Part I. Development trajectories.
June 22, 2004... Introduction In southern Ontario, as in many other regions, the histories of farming and rural communities are closely intertwined. During much of the twentieth century, family farming served as the primary engine of local rural economies...

The dynamics of family farming in North Huron County, Ontario. Part II. Farm-community interactions.
June 22, 2004... Introduction Among the consequences of continuing structural change in North American agriculture is a growing uncertainty about the place of rural communities in the economic and social life of the farm sector (Bird et al. 1995; Sumner...

Protected areas in Canada: decade of change.
June 22, 2004... Introduction Banff was set aside as Canada's first national park in 1885. Since that time, the amount of land in park systems in Canada has increased dramatically and new legislation and policies have been introduced. The last decade of...

Representations of Space and Time.
June 22, 2004... Representations of Space and Time by Donna J. Peuquet, The Guilford Press, New York, 2002, xii+ 380 pp. cloth US$45.00 (ISBN 1-57230-773-0) One legacy of the burgeoning role of geographical information science (GISc) is that the...

Northern Lights Against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Northern Lights Against POPs. Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic by David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2003, xxx + 354 pp. cloth $75 (ISBN 0-7735-2448-7); paper $29.95 (ISBN...

The Right to the City. Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Right to the City. Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space by Don Mitchell, Guilford Press, New York and London, 2003, ix+270 pp. paper US$23.00 (ISBN 1-57230-847-8) The geographical literature attests to Don Mitchell's...

Domicide: the Global Destruction of Home.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2001, x+283pp. paper (ISBN 0-7735-2258-1) This is an important and timely book. The synthesis...

Geographies of Power. Placing Scale.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Geographies of Power. Placing Scale by Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright. Blackwell, Malden, 2002, 315 pp. paper $27.95 (ISBN 0-631-22558-7) The rapid spread of SARS around the globe has drawn attention to the rescaling of everyday...

Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: the Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic by David Damas, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2002, xvi+280 pp. cloth $75.00 (ISBN 0-7735-2404-5) In Arctic...