A probe of nineteenth-century newspapers and other sources has revealed that it was an effort to prevent a cholera epidemic in the Province of Canada in 1866 that sparked a landmark controversy over sawdust dumping in the Ottawa River, Canada’s first major battle over industrial pollution. Ottawa’s newly appointed medical officer of health, Dr. Edward Van Cortlandt, was a leading figure that year in shaping both the city’s and the colony’s strategies to combat a feared cholera outbreak when he sounded alarms about the harmful impacts on fish, navigation, and human health of sawdust waste emanating from the famous Chaudière Falls lumber mills just upstream from Parliament Hill. This previously unidentified trigger to the “sawdust question”—t...
Nonglacial deposits in northern Ontario that may date to the last interglacial interval are well kno...
Interglacial sediments have been known to occur at Toronto for about a century. There have been two ...
Introduction: The shift to remote working/learning to slow transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has ...
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical ...
Le processus d’inondation est relativement commun dans certaines régions du monde. Il fait partie de...
In mid-summer, 1968, the idea that the hip Yorkville district represented a pox on the face of Toron...
Landslides in Champlain Sea clays have played an important role in shaping Eastern Ontario’s landsca...
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemi...
The Métis of Canada were included as an Aboriginal people in the Constitution Act of 1982, but in th...
Le Canada est le cinquième plus grand émetteur de gaz à effet de serre (GES) par habitant au mond...
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, il a été démontré que les maladies émergentes et réémergentes...
Pendant ses années au pouvoir, le gouvernement Harper a été fortement blâmé pour son manque d’engage...
Elders and Indigenous land users in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) have observed a dramatic decline...
Niven Lake was the first wastewater disposal site for the City of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories...
Recently, First Nation (FN) organizations have entered into agreements with federal and provincial g...
Nonglacial deposits in northern Ontario that may date to the last interglacial interval are well kno...
Interglacial sediments have been known to occur at Toronto for about a century. There have been two ...
Introduction: The shift to remote working/learning to slow transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has ...
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical ...
Le processus d’inondation est relativement commun dans certaines régions du monde. Il fait partie de...
In mid-summer, 1968, the idea that the hip Yorkville district represented a pox on the face of Toron...
Landslides in Champlain Sea clays have played an important role in shaping Eastern Ontario’s landsca...
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemi...
The Métis of Canada were included as an Aboriginal people in the Constitution Act of 1982, but in th...
Le Canada est le cinquième plus grand émetteur de gaz à effet de serre (GES) par habitant au mond...
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, il a été démontré que les maladies émergentes et réémergentes...
Pendant ses années au pouvoir, le gouvernement Harper a été fortement blâmé pour son manque d’engage...
Elders and Indigenous land users in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) have observed a dramatic decline...
Niven Lake was the first wastewater disposal site for the City of Yellowknife (Northwest Territories...
Recently, First Nation (FN) organizations have entered into agreements with federal and provincial g...
Nonglacial deposits in northern Ontario that may date to the last interglacial interval are well kno...
Interglacial sediments have been known to occur at Toronto for about a century. There have been two ...
Introduction: The shift to remote working/learning to slow transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has ...