Woman Who Mapped Labrador

Woman Who Mapped Labrador PDF Author: Mina Hubbard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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The definitive Hubbard, combining her previously unpublished diary, a full biography, and new maps that break down her daring canoe trip day by day.

Woman Who Mapped Labrador

Woman Who Mapped Labrador PDF Author: Mina Hubbard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773529243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Book Description
The definitive Hubbard, combining her previously unpublished diary, a full biography, and new maps that break down her daring canoe trip day by day.

The Lure of Faraway Places

The Lure of Faraway Places PDF Author: Herb Pohl
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770706275
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada's most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl's friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb's book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There's nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It's part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

The Home and School Reference Work

The Home and School Reference Work PDF Author: William Francis Rocheleau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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The Land Beyond

The Land Beyond PDF Author: Jack Ives
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231052
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a memorable depiction of a life in science.

The Dominion of Canada

The Dominion of Canada PDF Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Arctic Bibliography

Arctic Bibliography PDF Author: Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1558

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Every Trail Has a Story

Every Trail Has a Story PDF Author: Bob Henderson
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459717899
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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LIMITED TIME OFFER Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries. From the Majorville rock formation (dated as being older than Stonehenge), through the systems of walking trails developed by pre-contact Native Peoples, and the fur trade routes, to the more recent grand stories of the Chilkoot Gold Rush of 1897, Bob Henderson, the traveller, captures our living history in its relationship to the land – best expressed through the Norwegian quote "nature is the true home of culture." The diversity of fascinating content includes the ancient James Bay landmark (the "Wonderful" Stone); the mountain treks of naturalist Mary Schaffer Warren; the west coast observations of George Vancouver; practices such as dog sledding, warm winter camping and canoeing that allow for heritage insights; the trails of Dundas, Ontario; the exploits of missionary Gabriel Sagard; the recluse Louis Gamache of Anticosti Island; the abandoned gravesites along the coast of Newfoundland – to name but a few. As historian Michael Bliss once said, "We have to find a way to make history smell again." Author Bob Henderson brings the "fragrance of the past" into the present and invites us to imagine and participate. "Like an enthused hummingbird too eager to land, Bob Henderson leads a wide-ranging tour of the vast garden of Canadian history and landscape. Once entrusted with the scent of intrigue we are invited to follow these stories and trails deeper, make them speak and inform our own travels and impressions. Here are stepping stones and touchstones, paths toward richer engagements via a storied and fabulous past." — Alexandra & Garrett Conover, co-authors of The Snow Walker’s Companion "I pulled off the river; a log cabin set back in the woods had caught my eye. Though very old it was in good shape — there was no lock on the door. A framed note beside it read, ’Leave as you found it.’ The interior was neat and tidy, a complete set of blackened pots hung on the walls, a small stack of kindling by the open door of a Findlay stove. ’A perfect place,’ I thought to myself. As I turned to take in the rest of the cabin I saw before me Canada/Yukon rivers, Labrador fiords, Prairie medicine wheels, Superior’s north shore, portage and trail - it was all there before me, across space and time. As I stood there ghosts emerged from the walls, trappers, cowboys, ill-fated explorers, lucky canoeists — all in the same room, all eager to tell their stories. Such is the nature of Bob Henderson’s wonderful book." - Ian Tamblyn, songwriter Watch for More Trails, More Tales coming November 2014.

Evangelium vitae

Evangelium vitae PDF Author: Maurizio C. Kapsa
Publisher: Edizioni Studio Domenicano
ISBN: 9788870942309
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book PDF Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1492

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Return of Caribou to Ungava

Return of Caribou to Ungava PDF Author: A. T. Bergerud
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576789
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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The George River caribou herd increased from 15,000 animals in 1958 to 700,000 in 1988 - the largest herd in the world at the time. The authors trace the fluctuations in this caribou population back to the 1700s, detail how the herd escaped extinction in the 1950s, and consider current environmental threats to its survival. In an examination of the life history and population biology of the herd, The Return of Caribou to Ungava offers a synthesis of the basic biological traits of the caribou, a new hypothesis about why they migrate, and a comparison to herd populations in North America, Scandinavia, and Russia. The authors conclude that the old maxim, "Nobody knows the way of the caribou," is no longer valid. Based on a study in which the caribou were tracked by satellite across Ungava, they find that caribou are able to navigate, even in unfamiliar habitats, and to return to their calving ground, movement that is central to the caribou's cyclical migration. The Return of Caribou to Ungava also examines whether the herd can adapt to global warming and other changing environmental realities.