查看更多>>摘要："WHY IS CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC covering the Queen's Platinum Jubilee?" I can't tell you how many times I was asked this question over the five months we spent putting together our cover story for this special commemorative issue. The short answer is that Canadian Geographic has always covered the movements and milestones of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. After all, she is Queen of Canada. And it was this Queen who, in 1957, granted the Canadian Geographical Society permission to use the title "Royal" in its name, a powerful endorsement of the organization's significance.
查看更多>>摘要：NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay since 2004, Charlie Angus lives in Cobalt, Ont., the setting for Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower. Published earlier this year, Angus's latest book is a fresh look at Cobalt, a silver-mining town whose history embodies the myths and realities surrounding resource extraction in Canada. Cobalt challenges the narrative of settler discovery and makes a blunt assessment of the environmental destruction caused by an industry historically governed by few safety or environmental regulations. Angus spoke with Canadian Geographic about his book, the mining industry and his hometown.
查看更多>>摘要：AS WITH ALL CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS, what this map of 1878 Toronto doesn't show is every bit as interesting as what it does. Perhaps more so. According to an 1878 city directory, Toronto at the time had numerous newspapers, an extensive network of rowing, lacrosse and curling clubs, 36 real estate agents, a dental college, an Oddfellows lodge, four hoop skirt makers and three dance teachers. A man named James Authors made artificial limbs from a storefront on King Street, just east of Yonge. There was even a historical society, the York Pioneers, which, as it happens, still operates.
查看更多>>摘要：ON A DRY, WINDY DAY in August 2020, archeologist Ernie Walker was visiting Wanuskewin Heritage Park's newly acquired plains bison herd. The bison had worn away the vegetation by rolling on the ground taking dust baths. Looking down, Walker noticed a protruding rock with a groove cut across the top of it. Assuming the cut was from tool damage, he brushed away the dirt, exposing even more cuts - and that's when he began to get excited. "When I realized that it was a ribstone," he says," I tried not to have a stroke."
查看更多>>摘要：Lab-grown meat is real meat. It's just made from animal cells rather than from living animals. And it has a lot going for it. Top of the list is that it's set to slow the meat industry's impact on climate change. Last year, CE Delft, a Dutch research firm, released a study showing lab-grown meat made with renewable energy could contribute significantly less to global warming than conventional meat. The study showed a 17 per cent reduction in global warming impact compared with poultry, a 52 per cent reduction compared with pork, and up to a 92 per cent reduction compared with beef. The study also found a significant reduction in land use for lab-grown meat. Other benefits include improved animal welfare, as well as addressing food insecurity in vulnerable populations and lower risks of product contamination with salmonella or E. coli.
查看更多>>摘要：Protecting 30 by 30: that's the goal. Canada aims to safeguard 30 per cent of its oceans by 2030 to reverse biodiversity loss, protect ecosystems and ensure resilience against warming and acidification. But how can we conserve something as dynamic, deep, multi-dimensional and diverse as the ocean? Globally, marine protected areas are considered an effective tool in ocean conservation. There are 14 in Canada protected under the federal Oceans Act, in addition to national marine conservation areas and marine national wildlife areas. These fall under the jurisdiction of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Parks Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada, respectively. And they're protected by various bits of legislation, including the Oceans Act, the Fisheries Act and the Canada Wildlife Act. "There are multiple partners and stakeholders who are involved within the ocean space," says Kathy Graham, director general of marine planning and conservation at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. "It's a delicate dance."
查看更多>>摘要：The sun won't rise for another hour, but Andrew Szklaruk is already on patrol in his truck here in Churchill, Man., prowling through the town's frozen shadows looking for polar bears. He shines headlights down every snowbound street, each backroad and waterfront trail, running a practised eye behind all the sheds, half-ton trucks, boulders and clumps of evergreens. He's looking for the fresh prints of a massive paw or a hump of something cream coloured against the white snow, or perhaps a ghostly hint of movement.
查看更多>>摘要：Those of us who were on the royal tour in the spring of 2005 to celebrate the centenaries of Saskatchewan and Alberta remember the rain, the whipping wind and the plunging temperatures - but also the "stiff upper lip" of Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen and Prince Philip were coming first to Regina for the unveiling of a statue on the grounds of the legislature to honour Burmese, a horse she rode for 18 years. Burmese, a filly, was not only the Queen's favourite horse, but a local celebrity, having been bred at Maple Creek, west of the provincial capital. She had been given as a gift to the Queen in 1969, when the RCMP Musical Ride was performing in the United Kingdom.
查看更多>>摘要：I am Cree and Nakota, from the Little Black Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan. Like most of you, I am also a Treaty person. Treaty 4 territory is a place of incredible beauty. The Qu'Appelle River - the kah-tep-was in Cree - has cut deeply into the earth as it winds among grassy hills. In Cree tradition, all the creatures who walk, crawl, swim or fly over this land are our relations.
查看更多>>摘要：The story goes that to honour the coronation of Canada's new monarch in 1953, Arctic explorer Lt-Col. Patrick Baird suggested that a peak that soared over Pangnirtung on Baffin Island be named Mount Queen Elizabeth. But, on further review, the proposal was turned down: in the estimation of Governor General Vincent Massey, it was said, the mountain wasn't quite mighty enough. That's not to say Canada's new Queen went uncommemorated in northern Canadian geography: Baird's recommendations for naming Coronation Fiord and Coronation Glacier did go ahead in '53. That June, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's government announced a token of toponymic respect befitting the occasion, introducing Alberta's new Queen Elizabeth Ranges, comprising 15 mountain peaks around Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, the tallest of which, Mount Unwin, climbs beyond 3,200 metres.
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