Nanaimo, city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait. Founded as Colvilletown around a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post, it developed after 1849 when coalfields were discovered nearby by local Indigenous peop
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551 fires scorching nearly 71,000 square miles of land from the West Coast to the Atlantic provinces, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center. It wasn't just remarkable for its destruction, however, but also for the fact that it never really seemed to end....
Initially, we intended to feature archival content and other historical materials held at LAC that were created by Indigenous peoples in their ancestral languages. After several months of unsuccessful research, we realized that with the exception of a small number of documents, there was little conte...
then push on. It’s a better trip than it used to be, before the route through the country was found, before the explorers and before the map makers. Now we have a plan to follow. The bleak, cold winter closes in, but we chose this life. We are homesteaders, looking for our land...
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View of the Library of Parliament and Centre Block on the day after the Centre Block fire, taken by William Topley in 1916 (MIKAN 3194673) Despite Canada being heavily involved in the First World War at the time, it was clear that the buildings had to be rebuilt. With the country expandi...
Rustic Fire Hydrant, Quebec City ___ Looking Down the Avenue, Quebec City ___ Church Top, Quebec City ___ Sign Kiosk, Quebec City ___ Quebec’s Banner Fluttering, Quebec City ___ Colorful Roof, Quebec City Share this: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Loading...Notre...
*Some weeks afterHearts on Firewas published, and after I wrote this post, Win Butler of Arcade Fire was credibly accused in a number of news outletsincluding Pitchfork, of a history of behaving predatorily toward women. He claimed all the conduct was consensual, but the preponderance of publ...
Fire plays an important role for boreal forest succession, and time since last fire (TSLF) is therefore seen as a useful covariate to devise forest management strategies, but TSLF information is currently either spatially or temporarily limited. We therefore developed a TSLF map for an extensive ...