The Canadian Geographer articles from March 2006

The Canadian Geographer archives from March 2006

Toronto's gay village (1969-1982): plotting the politics of gay identity.
March 22, 2006... Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, a loose association of gay social spaces consolidated into what is now known as the 'gay village' in the Church and Wellesley street areas in downtown Toronto. Scholars argue that, while these...

Flaneurie on bicycles: acquiescence to women in public in the 1890s.
March 22, 2006... Although scholars have established the publicity of all types of nineteenth-century women, their public actions are still regarded as morally constrained. We offer one group of public women, bourgeois cyclists, who after encountering public...

'The last frontier': rationalizing the spread of farming into the boreal woods of Canada, c. 1910-1940.
March 22, 2006... As the twentieth century opened, there were rumours that the cheap land underpinning the dramatic spread of settlement in the previous century might be running out. There were strong motivations, generated particularly by the large body of land...

'Dare the boist'rous main': the role of the Belfast News Letter in the process of emigration from Ulster to North America, 1760-1800.
March 22, 2006... Before the mass migrations from Ireland in the nineteenth century, earlier waves of migration in the eighteenth century saw significant numbers of people leave Ireland, predominantly from Ulster, to settle in North America. This article, using...

Spatial/temporal mismatch: a conflation protocol for Canada Census spatial files.
March 22, 2006... The Canada census is one of the chief sources of demographic and socio-economic data for researchers in this country. Census variables are linked to geography files that allow researchers using geographic information systems (GIS) to view and...

The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Program in Australia: constraints and opportunities for localized sustainable development.
March 22, 2006... Since their creation under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program in 1976, biosphere reserves have provided an international framework for linking...

Measuring the effectiveness of Parks Canada's environmental management system: a case study of Riding Mountain National Park.
March 22, 2006... In 1996, the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization released its ISO 14001 guidelines for environmental management systems (EMSs). By implementing an EMS, an organization is better situated to manage the environmental...

A spatial analysis of small- and medium-sized information technology firms in Canada and the importance of local connections to institutions of higher education.
March 22, 2006... As part of community/regional development policy, governments in Canada attempt to create conditions that stimulate the formation of high-technology clusters and, in so doing, often encourage firm--university/college liaisons. Information...

Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA, USA, and Oxford, UK, 2004, xxi + 242 pp., paper US$34.95 (ISBN 1405102667) Paul Robbins has written a much-needed single-authored text assessing...

Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia by Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden and Mark Roseland. UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005, xviii + 338 pp., cloth CND$85.00 (ISBN: 0774810580), paperback...

Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Managing Changing Prairie Landscapes edited by Todd A. Radenbaugh and Glenn C. Sutter. Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan, 2005, 169 pp., paper CND$29.95 (ISBN 0-88977-177-4) This book arose from a...

This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon and Catriona Sandilands. UBC Press, Vancouver and Toronto, 2005, xx + 386 pp., cloth CND$85 (ISBN 0-7748-1106-4), paper CND$34.95 (ISBN...

Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank. UBC Press, Vancouver & Toronto, 2005, xii + 312 pp., cloth CND$85.00 (ISBN 0-7748-1186-2) Assuming all books have some beneficial...

The Geography of Health Inequalities in the Developed World: Views from Britain and North America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Geography of Health Inequalities in the Developed World: Views from Britain and North America edited by Paul Boyle, Sarah Curtis, Elspeth Graham and Eric Moore. Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2004, xix + 395 pp., cloth, US$114.95 (ISBN...