Paddling the Boreal Forest: Rediscovering A.P. LowDundurn, 29 նոյ, 2004 թ. - 319 էջ The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador -- some of the most rugged and isolated land in Canada -- has captivated avid canoeists for generations. In the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, the intrepid A.P. Low of the Geological Survey of Canada spent, in total, more than ten years of his working life surveying the area. Employing Aboriginal canoemen and guides, he travelled by canoe, snowshoe and sailing vessel to map and document much of this vast territory. Challenged by the mystique of this extraordinary Canadian, canoeists Max Finkelstein and James Stone retraced Low's routes -- by their admission, their toughest canoe trip ever! Using archival sources, oral history and personal experience, they tell the story of A.P. Low and, in the process, reveal the environmental issues now facing this much threatened Canadian wilderness. "Once again Max Finkelstein has blessed us with his incredible ability to make history of exploration come alive. Rather than sit behind a desk and try to imagine the 'misadventures' Low would have had, he goes out and duplicates them, and along the way creates a few tales of his own. This is one great read and we should be thankful that people like Max and Jim Stone exist in this world of ours." "From A.P. Low's logs and reports, Max Finkelstein and Jim Stone give vitality to that great geological surveyor. Interspersed are vivid accounts of their own challenging canoe voyages on the same rivers and portages of the boreal forest and rock in the James Bay/Ungava/Labrador country of the Cree, Innu and Inuit. What emerges is an eloquent testimonial for the wilderness canoe trip in the Canadian experience." |
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... director of the Geological Survey and then deputy minister of the Department of Mines . In his private life he was a keen sportsman , playing on some of the first hockey teams in Canada , and a figure of note in the early days of ...
... director of the Geological Survey " over the heads " of some geologists who bitterly resented that he had fewer years of service than themselves . The following year , he was appointed deputy minister of the newly formed Department of ...
... director of the Geological Survey was short , and his tenure as deputy minister of Mines was marred straightaway by his debilitating illness , so that he had little time to make his mark as a senior bureaucrat . In Low's time there were ...
... director of the Geological Survey in the 1890s and for whom the city in the Yukon is named , as well as a number of other Canadian landmarks . At that time , the Geological Survey was headquartered in Montreal and Low made some social ...
... Director of the Geological Survey ) , William Mclnnis and Frank Dawson Adams.16 The Geological Survey of Canada was founded in 1842 by Sir William Logan , " one of the world's leading scientists and thinkers of his time , and in whose ...