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    Iceberg Wranglers

    September 1, 2007 by Graham Chandler
    PHOTOS: PARKS CANADA/W. LYNCH 01.10.19(20); PARKS CANADA/W. LYNCH 13.01.03.19(30); HIBERNIA MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD. An iceberg in Swale Tickle off Newfoundland. Inset left to right: Icebergs along the east coast of Bylot Island; Hibernia crew on a support vessel perform exercises outside St. John’s....
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    The Light Keepers

    January 1, 2007 by Graham Chandler
    PHOTO: GRAHAM CHANDLER Sundown at the Cape Scott light station on Vancouver Island. We hadn’t expected gourmet Hungarian goulash served up on Royal Doulton china. But at the Cape Scott light station on the remote northwestern tip of Vancouver Island–a place that is normally engulfed...
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    Archeology In The Oilsands

    January 1, 2006 by Graham Chandler
    PHOTOS: NANCY SAXBERG Clockwise from top: This site, north of Port McMurray, is part of what’s being called the Quarry of the Ancestors; archeologists at work north of Fort McMurray, Alta.; three spear points found in Alberta’s oilsands. Heading up Highway 63 out of Fort...
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    Twin Centenarians

    September 1, 2005 by Graham Chandler
    PHOTOS: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C024878; EDMONTON.COM; ARLENE L. MARTIN Clockwise from top: Dutch immigrants clear away trees and brush before plowing new Alberta farmland in 1886; fireworks explode over Edmonton; a wheat field in central Saskatchewan. “I turn 100 this year,” says Priscilla Roland. “And...
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    Saddling Up For Parks Patrol

    March 1, 2005 by Graham Chandler
    PHOTOS: BRADLEY BISCHOFF; J. PAGE, PARKS CANADA Top: Wardens assigned to patrol Banff National Park gather at Stoney Creek Warden Cabin. Below: Wardens on patrol in Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan. “These are my last two babies,” says Rick Smith, foreman at Parks Canada’s Ya...
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    Barging Down The Mackenzie

    May 1, 2002 by Graham Chandler
    The river tug Vic Ingraham awaits its skipper at Fort Providence, N.W.T. Sir Alexander Mackenzie never had it this good. I’m in the middle of the river named after him, soaking up the Indian summer rays that bathe the deck of the river tug Vic...
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