Canadian Geographic Magazine: October 2009 issue

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In the October issue of Canadian Geographic, writer Russell Wangersky and photographer Ned Pratt explore Newfoundland’s rugged Northern Peninsula, a region that wasn’t connected to the rest of the province by road until the 1960s. The peninsula faces many of the same challenges affecting the entire province — chiefly, a struggling fishing industry and an exodus of young people — but its natural beauty and Norse history have given birth to a burgeoning tourism business, and its resilient residents know how to be true jacks of all trades. It’s what they’ve done for decades.

PLUS: Read about the newfound, fragile alliance between green builders and heritage advocates in Canada, as two camps working to conserve for the future find common ground. And get the scoop on an archaeological controversy at the construction site of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

FEATURES

Norse shore
Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula is a region of depleting resources — just the sort of place for a fisherman to be reborn as Bjorn the Beautiful
Story by Russell Wangersky with photography by Ned Pratt

Exclusively online: Find hot spots for adventure on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula with our interactive map. Plus see and hear the best new bands, books and films emerging from the Island.

CG Photo Club: Field Report — an interview with Ned Pratt
Photographer Ned Pratt talks about shooting portraits and why you shouldn’t anger a Viking in Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula.

Under one roof
Green builders want to cut energy use. Heritage advocates want to save old buildings. And both camps are concerned about the future.
Story by James Glave with photography by Marina Dodis

Surf’s bounty
New markets for Irish moss, Prince Edward Island’s versatile seaweed, are bringing hope to the island’s few remaining mossers
Photography by Robert vanWaarden with story by John DeMont

DEPARTMENTS

The inside story
Shamans and secret societies, Sea change, Space and cyberspace, Golden boys

Editor’s notebook
To the Tablelands

Contributors
Meet our writers and photographers

Reverberations
Seaway memories, Honouring wardens, Disturbing birds

Discovery
Call before you dig, Rocket science meets brain surgery, Local heroes, Mapping the spread of killer bacteria, Return to the Flathead valley, The fabric of the cosmos

À la carte
Memories of Jupiter
By Steven Fick and Dan Ray

Reviews
Lakeland, All That We Say Is Ours, The Wayfinders

On the horizon
Eighty years of wildlife conservation

Mosaic
Floating on air
Photography by Cedric Pearson with story by Dan Ray

In Habitat
The other side of the mountain
By Geoff Powter