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MARGARET NORTH has always been most at home teaching in a bog, attired in gumboots. "To do geography without doing fieldwork is a wasted opportunity," says the retired senior instructor emerita of geography at the University of British Columbia. During her 38-year career, North rarely missed an opportunity to show her students how to apply what they learned in the classroom to the world surrounding them. As a specialist in vegetation mapping, she often lectured in the bogs and forest on the campus's fringe.
An accomplished academic, North dedicates much of her spare time to promoting the teaching of geography in North American schools and to developing ...