Posted by James Raffan
on Monday, February 13, 2012
Credit: James Raffan
I’m jammed in a middle seat on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Ottawa, looking for creative things to occupy my mind to avoid assaulting the large passengers on either side of me who insist on occupying the middle arm rests. One possible way to improve the shining hour would be to draft a Middle Seat Manifesto (MSM) that would outline for my oafish starboard and port colleagues on this flight the fact that the window seat passenger has the window to lean on and the aisle seat passenger has ...
Posted by Alan Morantz
on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Image scan courtesy of Alan Morantz.
Right there, up on the wall over my right shoulder, is a framed photograph showing two pages from the battered field book of Frank Swannell. Swannell was a surveyor with the British Columbia Department of Lands during the first three decades of the 20th century. I came across his work while researching a book on maps, and was fascinated by his geometrical measurements and hand drawings of white water rapids and mountain ranges in the Rockies.
The Swannell field book is my reality check whenever ...
In May 1717, Hudson’s Bay Company official James Knight made a note in his journal. It recorded an aboriginal account of the existence, far to the west, of mountains that rose almost to the sky. This was arguably the first European description of the Canadian Rockies, and the start of the written documentation of Canada’s dominant range of peaks. The majestic Rockies are not alone. From the Torngat Mountains in the east, through the Laurentians, the St. Elias, Cariboo, and Selkirk ranges, to the ...
Ottawa is home to the largest urban Inuit population in Canada. Giving community members a place to come together, The Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre shares and celebrates their heritage while fostering cultural values in a new generation.
Watch as children learn how to clean an arctic char, throat sing and carve soapstone sculptures.
Build it and they will come was Laura Madison’s hope when she created an online mapping tool to display real-time data about this year’s destructive spring floods in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Originally created to map post-electoral violence in Kenya, Ushahidi — Swahili for "testimony" — is an online crisis mapping platform that was also used to map the protests in Egypt and the ongoing battle in Libya.
Madison discovered the tool before becoming a member of the Crisis Mappers' Stand-By Task ...
