There is no known scientific account of the physical and human geography of the District of Brome. Some information is scattered in various reports and essays of investigators in other fields of research, such as history or geology, but as…

Forecasts of daily maximum and minimum temperature have become of increasing importance to both agriculture and industry, and reasonable accuracy has been attained in predicting these values. The success in prediction has been largely due to the persistence of either…

Pulp and paper manufacturing is one of Canada's best known industries, but the spectacular woods operation of British Columbia seem largely to overshadow the equally significant forest industries of eastern Canada, particularly in popular accounts of Canadian manufacturing. It was…

The aim of Historical Geography is essentially twofold - the elucidation of the present geographical reality of an area by the fuller understanding of its past development, and the attainment of some knowledge of the processes of geographical change. Most…

Barbados has the distinction of a one crop economy, that crop being sugar cane. This situation has existed for over 500 years, and during the latter part of this period, particularly since 1924, the cane breeding section of the Department…

In establishing the range of an Historical Geography it is often wise, for the sake of clarity, to outline those things which are not within the scope of a particular work as well as its actual aim. It is not…

The vegetation of Labrador-Ungava has long attracted the attention of explorers, naturalists and other scientists who have made numerous studies at various places in the vast Peninsula. Due to the inaccessibility of much of this inhospitable land, it has been…

The Internet has been conceived as a communication tool to cross geographical boundaries and allow knowledge to be shared among people from all over the world. As a consequence of the expansion of computer networks, the abundance of available information…