Canada.
Study the map of Canada. Then answer the questions about the map. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. What is the capital of Canada? A. Quebec C. Whitehorse B. Toronto D. Ottawa 2. Which country borders Canada? 3. Pretend you are in...

Who's in charge: Canada regulators.
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions: Julie Dickson, Superintendent of Financial Institutions, 255 Albert St., Ottawa, Canada K1A OH2, (613) 990-3667, www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca Alberta: Dennis Gartner, Deputy Superintendent of Insurance, Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, 409 Terrace Building 9515-107 St., Edmonton, Alberta AB T5K 2C3, (780) 422...

Introduction: rapid landscape change and human response in the arctic and subarctic.
Human development has taken place against a variable climatic and geological backdrop, especially over the last 10,000 years (the Holocene). Dramatic shifts in climate and extreme biophysical events have, throughout time, ensured that nature is in flux, not static balance. These can happen not only over the long term,...

Origins and zoogeography of flies (insecta: diptera) in Southern Yukon grasslands.
IN 1995, I took a zoogeography course at McGill University with my current thesis supervisor, Terry Wheeler. The purpose of zoogeographic analysis is to answer the question: "What lives where, and why?" The question may be simple, but the answer often requires input from systematics, ecology, geology, climatology, paleoecology...

Women in Canadian legislatures 1978-1998.
Norma Gauld is a Senior Reference Librarian, Reference and Information Services, National Library of Canada. She co-ordinated the research for the National Library's electronic resource: "Then & Now: Women in Canadian Legislatures." It is available on the Internet at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/digiproj/women/women97/ewomen97.htm. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of several colleagues...

Wind climate of the Whitehorse area.
ABSTRACT. Measurements from Whitehorse upper-air and nearby mountaintop stations were analyzed with a focus on wind energy development in the region. Fifty years of measurements indicate the region has become warmer and windier. Measurements at the upper-air station have shown increases of 2.7[degrees]C for surface temperature and 1 [ms.sup.-1]...

Northern passage: ethnography and apprenticeship among the subarctic Dene.
By ROBERT JARVENPA. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1998. 210 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., study guide. Softbound. US$11.50. In the acknowledgements to his book, Jarvenpa credits Cornelius Osgood's 1953 "retrospective account" of his 1928-29 field season at Great Bear Lake as stimulus for his own foray...

Hugh Shewell, "Enough to Keep Them Alive": Indian Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965.
HUGH SHEWELL, "Enough to Keep Them Alive": Indian Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, xii + 441 p. In "Enough to Keep Them Alive," Shewell sets himself the ambitious task of examining almost a century of relief and social assistance policies developed by...

Yukon field police: Canada's first peacekeepers paid 80 cents a day.
In 1896, gold was discovered in the Yukon along the Klondike River, not far from the Arctic Circle. With its seven months of bitter winter each year, this Canadian territory is next door to the US Alaskan territory, where gold was also found. These were fabulous discoveries and, as...

Atna Resources Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results.
GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atna Resources Ltd. ("Atna" or the "Company") (TSX: ATN) today reported unaudited financial results for the Company's third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Highlights for the Period -- Closed the US$20 million sale of a royalty portfolio, including the Wolverine Royalty....