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May/June 2007 issue	IN THIS ISSUE: Table of Contents Feature: Torngat Mountains Feature: Urban sprawl Feature: Crumbling mountains Feature: Dust doctor The Inside Story Editor's Notebook Reverberations Explorer À la carte Mosaic

In the early decades of the 19th century, a Scotswoman named Susan Sibbald travelled to Upper Canada and settled on a plot of forest north of muddy York, on Lake Simcoe. Like so many of her fellow immigrants, Sibbald worked her homestead, transforming it from wilderness to rich farmland. That land is now just beyond Greater Toronto's far-flung suburbs.

One of her descendants, photographer Peter Sibbald, grew up and continues to live in the same area, which, in the 1950s and 1960s, was still very much an agricultural society. The rural tranquility soon began to change in the face of relentless urban growth. In the mid-1990s, Sibbald, dismayed by the changes, resolved to use his camera to document how that historic landscape — with its tidy farms, Carolinian forests and ice-age waterways — succumbed so readily to a particularly voracious form of suburban sprawl. He describes the region, known by its area code, 905, as a place that is "neither city nor country, but some creature in between."

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