Immigration, the entrance of people into a country for the purpose of settling there, has always played a central role in Canada's history. It was much a feature of ancient times when the ancestors of Canada's native peoples migrated from Asia by land via Beringia or by sea via the Japane...

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a land of resources, wealth, and beauty. It's name is derived from a Cree word meaning "rapid river". Land Saskatchewan is 651,900 sq. km. in area, half of it is forests, and one third of it is cultivated lands. In southern Saskatchewan a...

What is silviculture? This position paper will focus on silviculture in forest production and its importance in North America, but generally in Canada. First one must understand what the word silviculture' means and what it is in the forestry world; only then one can go into detail about the proce...

Rocky Mountains or Rockies, great chain of rugged mountain ranges in western North America, extending from central New Mexico to northeastern British Columbia, a distance of about 3220 km (about 2000 mi). The Rockies are bordered on the east by the Great Plains and on the west by the Great Basin ...

Rocky Mountains or Rockies, great chain of rugged mountain ranges in western North America, extending from central New Mexico to northeastern British Columbia, a distance of about 3220 km (about 2000 mi). The Great Basin and the Rocky Mountain Trench, a valley running from northwestern Montana to...