Nunavut Arctic College on Mitik Street, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Photo: Google Maps
Here's your virtual chance to get a glimpse of life in Arctic Canada.
Google Street View images of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut are now online.
Google used a special tricycle with a camera mounted on top to capture the street scenes this summer. The company then worked with the community to create the detailed online map.
But it's not just the streets viewers can explore. Google Maps takes viewers inside key buildings, too. Check out souvenirs at the Arctic Closet or visit the Kitikmeot Heritage ...
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Thursday, August 02, 2012
Greetings from Iqaluit!
As an online editor, I'm used to shifting deadlines and last-minute projects that need to be done, finished, perfectly polished and out the door by...yesterday. It's those surprise tasks that often end up being the most interesting. One day this past spring for example, I was at my cubicle minding my own business when our managing editor sauntered in and asked me ever so casually whether I had any plans for August. I told him I did not. He then asked whether I wanted ...
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Sunday, February 19, 2012
You may recall Troy Hurtubise, the man behind the full-body armour suit designed to withstand grizzly bear attacks. The Ontario native figures in TV shows and a National Film Board documentary, and is the author of Bear Man, The Troy Hurtubise Saga. He won an Ig Nobel prize for Safety Engineering (that’s him in the video) in 1998. Then there's Steve Penfold, the York University graduate student — now a professor at the University of Toronto — who won an Ig Nobel the following year for his research ...
Posted by James Raffan
on Friday, January 27, 2012
No ice here. Just a green, green, green, island and water from here to the pole. Yearly average temperature here ranges from just -5ºC to +9ºC. The sea never freezes. Gyda Birnisdöttir and her family live right on the Arctic Circle — or "Heimskautsbaugur” — on Grimsey, a tiny (5 sq. km) island in the Greenland Sea and the only part of Iceland that touches 66º33’ North. Visitors come to Grimsey by ferry from the mainland and by air (if the planes can find a space amongst the circling Arctic ...
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 ...
