A Vast and Magnificent Land: An Illustrated History of Northern Ontario. Edited by Matt Bray and Ernie Epp. Thunder Bay, Ontario: Lakehead University, 1984. xviii + 205 pp. Illustrations, maps, suggested reading list. $14.95 Canadian

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
Peter Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Reading List ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
History Of ◽  
Suggested Reading

A Cartographic History of Spruce Budworm Outbreaks and Aerial Forest Spraying in the Atlantic Region of North America, 1949–1959

1961 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 360-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. Webb ◽  
J. R. Blais ◽  
R. W. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Choristoneura Fumiferana ◽  
Spruce Budworm ◽  
Maritime Provinces ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Past Half ◽  
St Lawrence River

The spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.)) is a forest pest in all Canadian Provinces and Territories, and in the northeastern, midwest, and northwestern Unired States. It is by iar the most destructive insect affeiting the extensive balsam fir-spruce forest types in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces, and Maine. Outbreaks of varying extent have been reported from these regions almost every year for the past half-century (deGryse, 1947). Periods in which outbreaks were particularly severe and widespread occurred from about 1909 to 1920 and in the 1940's and 1950's. In both periods, outbreaks showed a tendency to shift from west to east, intensifying first in parts of northern Ontario and Quebec and dying out in the Atlantic region south of the St. Lawrence River.

Suggested Reading List

Cephalalgia ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (19_suppl) ◽  
pp. 72-72 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reading List ◽  
Suggested Reading

The Canadian Alternative

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chester Brown ◽  
Insight Into

This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores not only the few Canadian cartoonists who have received study, but many who have not. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories. Specific works covered range from the earliest Canadian comic books to the work of contemporary creators. In contrast to the United States’ melting pot, Canada has been understood to comprise a social, cultural, and ethnic mosaic, with distinct cultural variation as part of its identity. This volume reveals differences that often reflect in highly regional and localized comics such as Paul MacKinnon’s Cape Breton-specific Old Trout Funnies, Michel Rabagliati’s Montreal-based Paul comics, and Kurt Martell and Christopher Merkley’s Thunder Bay-specific zombie apocalypse. The collection also considers some of the conventionally “alternative” cartoonists, such as Seth, Dave Sim, and Chester Brown. It offers alternate views of the diverse and engaging work of two very different Canadian cartoonists who bring their own alternatives into play: Jeff Lemire in his bridging of Canadian/US and mainstream / alternative sensibilities and Nina Bunjevac in her own blending of realism and fantasy as well as of insider / outsider status. Despite an upsurge in research on Canadian comics, there is still remarkably little written about most major and all minor Canadian cartoonists.This volume provides insight into some of the lesser-known Canadian alternatives still awaiting full exploration.

THE BIOLOGY OF CANADIAN BARK-BEETLES: THE SEASONAL HISTORY OF DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS KY. IN NORTHERN ONTARIO

1931 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Author(s):  
E. B. Watson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bark Beetles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Red Pine ◽  
White Pine ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Dendroctonus Rufipennis ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Seasonal History

This bark-beetle is locally distributed over the forested areas of Quebec and Ontario, extending westward into Manitoba; in the United States, it has been recorded from Wisconsin and Michigan.The insect has been found breeding in fallen white pine and jack pine, and, within recent years, has also been recorded from red pine.

History of sedimentation in the northwestern Lake Superior basin and its relation to Lake Agassiz overflow

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1660-1673 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Teller ◽  
Paul Mahnic
Keyword(s):  
Lake Superior ◽  
Proximal Part ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Lake Agassiz ◽  
Nearshore Processes ◽  
Postglacial History ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Clayey Silt ◽  
History Of ◽  
Glacial Advance

Following the Marquette glacial advance, which blocked the eastern outlets of Lake Agassiz and reached northern Michigan about 10 000 years BP, the ice margin wasted back toward the northeast, eventually allowing Lake Agassiz to overflow into the Lake Superior basin through a series of channels. Sediments deposited east of Thunder Bay near the mouth of the Wolf, Wolfpup, Shillabeer, and Black Sturgeon channels reflect three phases in the history of Lake Superior and provide the basis for reconstructing the early postglacial history of the region.The lower part of the sedimentary sequence in the northwestern Superior Basin consists of a distinctive red, stoney, sandy till deposited during the Marquette glacial advance and is overlain by pink rhythmites deposited in Lake Superior when it was a deep proglacial lake at the Minong level. The nearly 300 rhythmites deposited at this time typically consist of 4 cm thick silt + clay couplets, which are punctuated by silt laminae and sandy turbidites that probably represent major thaw periods or storms. These are seasonal rhythmites, deposited prior to the reopening of the Lake Agassiz outlets into the Superior Basin, and they display a decrease in dropstones, grain size, and thickness upsection that reflects a receding ice margin.The first eastern outlets of Lake Agassiz were uncovered around 9500 years BP, and water began overflowing into the Superior Basin in a series of catastrophic floods. Subaqueous fans developed at the Wolf, Wolfpup, and Shillabeer confluence and at the mouth of the Black Sturgeon channel. Large sandy turbidites, 45–65 cm thick, were deposited in the proximal part of these fans, with scouring and large (1 m) trough cross-beds resulting from the largest Lake Agassiz floods. These sediments are transitional to distal, clayey silt rhythmites, 10–22 cm thick. A gradual decrease in flooding from Lake Agassiz is reflected in the upward decrease in rhythmite thickness to 1–3 cm by about 8200 years BP. The final sequence of sediments shows a transition to sandy units as water levels dropped in the Superior Basin and the influence of nearshore processes increased.

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