WILDLIFE
Banff vs. the bears
Can tourists and grizzlies co-exist in Canada’s busiest national park?
By Sid Marty

CULTURE
Nova Scotia’s French Shore
In a string of villages along a stormy coastline, Acadians are sustaining a culture older than Canada
By Merilyn Simonds with photos by Brian Atkinson

MEDICINE
Northern babies
Inuit women in northern Quebec are reclaiming the rites of birth
By Beth Gallagher with photos by Emanuel Lowi

PHOTOGRAPHY
Prize snaps
12^th Annual Photo Contest winners

HARVEST
Fungus fortunes
Itinerant pickers descend annually on a remote B.C. valley to pick mushrooms worth their weight in yen
By Fred Welland with photos by Laurie Wierzbicki

Society News
Accomplishments of the year

Editor’s notebook
Great Whyte hunt

Write to Know
Grim place names; snowflake forms; Canadian cacti

Geowatch
Core history; church converts; tarry money pit; Willie and the coyote; long-distance rattler

Reviews
Writers on place; sin city; siblings in the woods; sweeping native history

GeoMap
Bright lights, big Earth

Off the Map
Stockholm, Sask., Singapore, Ont.

Our Home and Native Tongue
Winning folk sayings

Imaginary landscape
The Stone Diaries

Final Frame
Moose movements

A Sense of Place
Aritha van Herk on Calgary’s nose