Canadian Geographic Magazine: November/December 2003 issue

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November/December 2003

FEATURES

WILDLIFE
Polar grizzlies
Are the big brown bears developing an appetite for sea mammals?
By Ed Struzik

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
CG In-depth: Arctic grizzlies
Are grizzlies encroaching on the icy domain of their great white cousins?

HISTORY
Reading the river
The North Saskatchewan in myth, prose and poetry
By Myrna Kostash

THROUGH THE LENS
Full house
Big families line up for a Montréal photographer
Photography by Karim Rholem with text by Mark Abley

ARCHAEOLOGY
Island of the stone devils
Faces carved in rock in arctic Quebec hint at troubled times
By Francine Saint-Laurent with photography by Daniel Arsenault

TRANSPORTATION
Handy craft
Two centuries of tinkering produces a canoe fit for one river
By Gary L. Saunders

CULTURE
British Columbia’s vanishing past
An artist immortalizes B.C.’s fading landmarks
By Michael Kluckner

DEPARTMENTS

The inside story
News from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Editor’s notebook
The view from the vineyard

Contributors
Meet our writers and photographers

Reverberations
Cleaning up Lake Erie, Cross-border solutions, Forest fallout

Discovery
Trouble flows North, Kamchatka disaster, Mapping mayhem, The hand that feeds them, Nunavut winds, Let there be LEDs, Food enough, Chaos rains, Berry fine wine, Photo copies

À la carte
British Columbia aflame

Reviews
Snowflake secrets, Charting the North, Samuel Hearne’s excellent adventure

On the horizon
Songsters of the boreal forest

Mosaic
Aboard the tooth bus
by Chuck Russell

In habitat
Hallowed hockey ground
by Tom Hawthorn