The Canadian Shield
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Author | : Tina Schwartzenberger |
Publisher | : Weigl Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Canadian Shield |
ISBN | : 9781553881483 |
Examines the history, geography, climate, plants, animals, and peoples of the Canadian Shield region of Canada.
Author | : Nick Eyles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781554551408 |
Being a Canadian carries with it a tangible sense of living on the edge of a vast barren interior. Only named as such in 1883, the Canadian Shield is an empty immensity of lakes, bogs, rivers, forest and protruding ribs of hard Precambrian crystalline rock that covers more than half of the total land area of Canada. This book traces the geologic evolution of the Shield, its first tentative exploration by humans starting 11,000 years ago as the last great ice sheets withdrew, its changing economic fortunes as Europeans penetrated its remote rocky vastnesses for furs and metals, and its transformation in the twentieth century into a national icon to Canadians. Regarded as 'barren' and of no value, much of the Shield was given away in 1670 to a single London-based fur trading company, the Hudson Bay Company, who jealously guarded its northern domain until 1867. This two hundred year long monopoly created a virtual government over a huge piece of North America. Without the HBC, much of it would have passed into American hands and there would have been no 'Canadian' Shield or country called Canada. As a nation, we are indebted to hard rock.
Author | : Grace Rajnovich |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2002-02-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1770706739 |
More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibway, whose roots may extend to the beginnings of human occupancy in the region almost 10,000 years ago. Archaeologist Grace Rajnovich spent fourteen years of field research uncovering a multitude of clues as to the meanings of the paintings. She has written a text which is unique in its ability to "see" the paintings from a traditional native viewpoint. Skilfully weaving the imagery, metaphors and traditions of the Cree and Ojibway, the author has recaptured the poetry and wisdom of an ancient culture. Chief Willie Wilson of the Rainy River Band considers Grace's work "innovative and original."
Author | : S.B. Lucas |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813754461 |
This volume contains a description of the geology and mineral deposits of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, an overview of Grenville Province geology, and a synopsis of Precambrian fossil occurrences in North America. Six large plates include a geological map of Canada, geological map of the Grenville Province, lithotectonic map of the Superior Province, Archean mineral deposit map of the Superior Province, and more.
Author | : Wayne Andrew |
Publisher | : Thomson Nelson |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Canadian Shield |
ISBN | : 9780176260972 |
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, e, i.
Author | : Geological Survey of Canada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Canadian Shield |
ISBN | : |
Current research on the Canadian Shield produced by the Geological Survey of Canada. Each report includes an abstract. The reports include stratigraphy, sedimentology, geology, metallic deposits, geochronology, economic geology, tectonics, geochemistry, and geophysics.
Author | : John Lewis Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Moon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780919644083 |
Author | : Myrna Irene Guymer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2009-03-06 |
Genre | : Alphabet books |
ISBN | : 9781894431286 |
Author | : Steven Earle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781537068824 |
This is a discount Black and white version. Some images may be unclear, please see BCCampus website for the digital version.This book was born out of a 2014 meeting of earth science educators representing most of the universities and colleges in British Columbia, and nurtured by a widely shared frustration that many students are not thriving in courses because textbooks have become too expensive for them to buy. But the real inspiration comes from a fascination for the spectacular geology of western Canada and the many decades that the author spent exploring this region along with colleagues, students, family, and friends. My goal has been to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the important topics of geology, richly illustrated with examples from western Canada. Although this text is intended to complement a typical first-year course in physical geology, its contents could be applied to numerous other related courses.