Topic - ‘Web Media’
Canadian Library Association Digest - The Canadiana Discovery Portal is rapidly becoming the best single source for Canada’s documentary heritage for researchers, students, and the general public. In October 2010, the Canadiana Discovery Portal [currently in Beta mode] surpassed the 60 million-page mark, providing Canadians with access to more than ...
The American Experience - In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three ...
Nunatsiaq News - Gilles Boutin spent years staring up at the night sky, never thinking it would produce Quebec’s first book on the northern lights. Earlier this year, the amateur photographer launched Les Aurores Boréales: Québec-Nunavik, a 200-page collection of some of the most stunning skyscapes the north and south ...
Luminous Landscape - The arctic offers photographers far more than unusual terrain and wildlife. It offers exceptional light. During the winter, the sun remains low on the horizon throughout most of the day – that is, on the days where the sun rises at all. The golden hours last far ...
Crazy Guy on Bike Website - The north is like another country. The northern people are more polite and civil than the people in Vancouver and the northern customs and culture clearly distinguish northern people from the savage barbarians in the southern cities (like Vancouver, for ...
VBS TV - In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed ...
Urban Design Yellowknife - Few towns are as defined by Open Space as Yellowknife - possibly because of the stark contrast of its modern functional design. Open Space in Yellowknife blends through the urban environment. The open space is made up of a combination of boreal vegetation ...
Boston Globe - The art capital of Canada is not located on the tony streets of Toronto or Montreal, but on a remote tip of Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut. It is Cape Dorset, a community of slightly more than 1,300 mostly Inuit people, with an unforgiving climate ...
BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network - The IFSN Website Project is a web-based centre for increasing awareness of issues, concerns and strategies related to protecting, conserving and restoring the myriad of Indigenous food based cultures across Canada. The website provides an interpretive and interactive meeting place for: 1) ...
Smithsonian Museum - People of the Arctic have always lived with year-to-year fluctuations in weather and ice conditions. But in recent decades, they have witnessed dramatic and worrisome changes. Most troubling, the climate has become unpredictable, the land and sea unfamiliar. Only recently has the full extent of changes in ...
