Canada East Research Articles

Anatomy of the Kitimat fiord system, British Columbia

The geomorphic complexity of the Kitimat fiord system, on the active margin of British Columbia, Canada, is analysed from several perspectives. Sub-glacial landforms and sediments show that grounded ice exiting the fiord system at the last glacial maximum streamed down Moresby Trough towards the Queen Charlotte trough mouth fan. After brief halts on the inner shelf, grounded ice margins cleared the fiord threshold perhaps by c. 15.5kacal.yrsBP, and certainly before 13kacal.yrsBP. Just outside the fiords, meltwater plumes deposited stratified glaciomarine sediments interbedded with submarine slides. Inside the fiords, thick glaciomarine sediments were deposited, and large transverse moraines formed during temporary halts in retreat. Several glacial outburst floods eroded the Kitkiata moraine and deposited distinctive mud deposits. Postglacial sedimentation on fiord floors has been spatially variable: drifts of mud>90m-thick corresponding with areas of low current velocity alternate with areas of non-deposition and erosion corresponding with areas of high velocity. The fiord system hosts more than a hundred morphologically diverse fan deltas that can be classified in the Prior and Bornhold (1989, 1990) system. Submarine mass transport was most frequent immediately following ice retreat (15.5–11.5kacal.yrsBP). The largest event (~1.2km3) involved failure of glaciomarine sediment on a submarine moraine at Squally Channel, and consequent movement of material into the adjacent deep basin. This event occurred post-13kacal.yrsBP. In the postglacial phase, mass transport continued on a lesser scale up to the present day, most intensively in Kitimat Arm. From the perspective of glacial landforms, postglacial sedimentation and mass transport, this Pacific active margin fiord system has some parallels with fiord systems on Canada's east coast passive margin, and with Norwegian fiords, but the intensive development of Holocene fan deltas is strongly distinctive.

Mobile Technologies for Geographic Response Plans (V2.0)

Companies in the oil & gas industry must undertake extensive environmental studies for every new project. The case of the Trans Canada East Energy pipeline project illustrates this phenomenon. These studies include large-scale field surveys campaigns that generate a huge amount of raw geospatial data. A key component of this process resides in the analysis of this data in order to create knowledge. In this perspective, while many mobile geospatial collectors are available, we focused on designing a complete mobile GIS. Most field experts are not data management specialists and vice versa. Our goal is to use mobile technology to reduce the gap between field observations and geospatial data analysis. Bringing data analysis capabilities directly in the field is advantageous because it provides useful insights in real-time and it can avoid costly mistakes. We have also focused on enhancing the planning phase prior to the field surveys, such as allowing importation of external data into our system. We encountered many challenges while developing our mobile geospatial solution for geographic response plans. One critical element was the mean of transportation used during the surveys. For instance, airborne surveys using a helicopter requires specific navigational features to be accurate. Another element was the availability of internet connections. We had to permit offline map layer in order to provide high quality satellite imagery. Finally, power efficiency is critical for long field surveys. We had to optimize our mobile application in order to maximize the battery's lifespan while retaining enough features such as the GPS precision. Overall, the challenge was to design a system that would permit monitoring that could take place years after the initial data collection. This affected the way we had to implement data sharing, storage and export.

The heights of French-Canadian convicts, 1780s–1820s

This paper uses a novel dataset of heights collected from the records of the Quebec City prison between 1813 and 1847 to survey the French-Canadian population of Quebec—which was then known either as Lower Canada or Canada East. Using a birth-cohort approach with 10year birth cohorts from the 1780s to the 1820s, we find that French-Canadian prisoners grew shorter over the period. Through the whole sample period, they were short compared to Americans. However, French-Canadians were taller either than their cousins in France or the inhabitants of Latin America (except Argentinians). In addition to extending anthropometric data in Canada to the 1780s, we are able to extend comparisons between the Old and New Worlds as well as comparisons between North America and Latin America. We highlight the key structural economic changes and shocks and discuss their possible impact on the anthropometric data.

Large-Scale Changes in Abundance of Breeding Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and Great Black-Backed Gulls (Larus marinus) Relative to Reduced Fishing Activities in Southeastern Canada

Abstract. Large-scale relationships between changes in abundance of coastal breeding Herring (Larus argentatus) and Great Black-backed (L. marinus) gulls and commercial fisheries landings of bottom-dwelling groundfish spanning 28 years in four of Canada's east coast Provinces were investigated. Herring and Great Black-backed gull abundance data were compared between survey periods prior to (1986–1990) and following (2002–2006 and 2010–2014) the widespread reduction of groundfish fishing activities due to a moratorium that began in 1992. Regionwide declines in the number of breeding Herring and Great Black-backed gulls were observed between the 1986–1990 and 2002–2006 survey periods (Herring Gull: -3.7% per year; Great Black-backed Gull: -3.6% per year) and between the two periods following the moratorium (Herring Gull: -1.6% per year; Great Black-backed Gull: -4.1% per year). Total groundfish landings reported for the study area declined by 76% between the 1990–1992 and 2002–2006 fishing periods, and decl...

Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977–2013, by Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum, and Earl Wiseman

Reviewed by: Raymond B. Blake, University of ReginaA former professor and colleague at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick regularly asked students in his diplomatic history course to trace the smell of fish through the history of Canada's foreign relations. His was a historical approach to Canada's diplomatic history, and I suspect that in many Canadian universities where the history of Canada's foreign relations is still taught, fish get very little attention. However, as the authors of Fishing for a Solution ably demonstrate, fisheries still matter in Canada's foreign relations. The authors, all well versed in fisheries policy from their academic and government roles, bring both a historical understanding and first-hand experience to the subject. From 1977, when Canada extended its jurisdiction over much of the continental shelf, to 2013, when there were few fish left to catch off Canada's east coast, two of the authors were engaged in making fisheries policy in Canada's relations with the European Union (EU). The third is a leading academic who has written widely on Canada's fishery policy.This is a remarkably detailed and insightful account of Canada's relations with the EU over the catching of fish in the North Atlantic. The authors convincingly argue that international relations stand at the intersection of domestic and external policies. In this case study, they contend that factors at several different levels impact the Canada-EU relationship. Canada and the EU interact with each other as members of the international community, of course, but their fisheries policies are influenced by subnational units--provinces in Canada and member states in the EU. Canada's east coast provinces, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia, have usually demanded (without much success) a voice in the articulation of fisheries policy. In the EU, Spain and Portugal have exerted considerable pressure on fisheries policy within the EU councils. Although the book recognizes that, in Canada's case, domestic matters have frequently influenced fisheries policy, the focus here is more on the internal dynamics and politics within the EU.The book begins with Canada's decision in 1977 to extend its jurisdiction over fisheries and mineral wealth 200 miles offshore. It was a buoyant period for Canada's fishery, when many thought that the new policy would usher in a period of expansion and prosperity for Canada's fishers. So confident was Canada that it was willing to share it bounty within the 200-mile exclusive zone and subsequently negotiated agreements with European nations that had historically fished off the east coast. Canada believed that the new agreements realized effective conservation measures while achieving access to European markets for Canadian fish exports. It gave the Europeans access to species Canada did not value and fish that were surplus to domestic needs. However, Canadian exporters soon discovered that EU countries were reluctant to open their markets to Canadian fish imports and within a short period, the rush to harvest fish both within and outside the 200-mile zone resulted in dwindling catches from overfishing.The focus in this book, however, is not so much the events leading to the destruction of the fish stocks off Canada's east coast but Canada's attempts to establish long-term agreements on fishing on the continental shelf with the EU. The situation became much more complicated in 1985 when Spain and Portugal joined the EU. Both nations have large fishing industries and their powerful fishing regions exerted a strong influence on state policies. Spain and Portugal forced the EU to challenge what they considered Canada's restrictive management approach to conservation even though that approach was gaining momentum in Canada and indeed throughout the EU. Spain and Portugal quickly took advantage of the dreadful procedure within the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), an international organization to monitor and control fishing in the North Atlantic that allowed member states that disagreed with the quotas set for each member simply to dismiss them and set their own autonomous quotas. …

African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War, by Richard M. Reid

African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War by Richard M. Reid, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2014. 308 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). In historical literature dealing with the American Civil War, black Canadians' contributions to the Union military effort have been largely forgotten chapter, typically meriting only an occasional line or perhaps footnote. Richard M. Reid's latest work is thus welcome addition. Drawing extensively on regimental and pension records, nineteenth-century newspapers, and range of other archival sources culled from libraries and heritage sites in the United and Canada, he breaks new ground and puts British North America's black volunteers on centre stage. Focusing on these remarkable Canadians' contributions, motivations, and valour, he adeptly writes them into the grand narrative of America's devastating sectional conflict. He also provides lens on fascinating life stories of long-overlooked nineteenth-century blacks and reveals much about the local communities from whence they came. Exploring decisions of black residents in the Maritimes, Canada East, and Canada West to enlist in the Union army or navy, he uncovers the complex interplay of ideological, family, and economic concerns that shaped volunteers' choices. In doing so, he sheds light on how race prejudice and wage discrimination in Union ranks, along with Confederate threats to mistreat black prisoners, influenced patterns and timing of enlistment. Reid argues that African Canadians interpreted the Civil War as a fight for universal rights and equal justice (p. 38). For them, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation transformed the conflict into war of liberation; it became struggle to establish civic membership for black Americans (pp. 38-39). Stressing the ideology and worldview of British North America's black volunteers, Reid highlights their transnationalism and agency, unveiling their unrelenting commitment to bring down slavery and willingness to put their lives on the line to emancipate their brothers and sisters still enslaved in the South. Noting that ratios of African Canadian recruits to total black populations in both Canada East and Canada West exceeded corresponding ratios in some Northern states having much larger black populations, notably New York and New Jersey, Reid urges academic historians to recognize the transnational ideological involvement of black communities outside the United States in the Civil War and that the struggle for Emancipation resonated across borders (p. 39). Estimating that nearly 2,500 African Canadians enlisted in the Union army or navy, Reid searches carefully for factors, including employment and kinship ties, which shaped decisions of recruits. …

The Idea of Popular Schooling In Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education by Anthony Di Mascio (review)

Reviewed by: The Idea of Popular Schooling In Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education by Anthony Di Mascio Theodore Michael Christou Di Mascio, Anthony – The Idea of Popular Schooling In Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education. Montreal and Kingston; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. Pp. 257. Anthony Di Mascio’s The Idea of Popular Schooling in Upper Canada is a story of education in Upper Canada, the baptismal name of what we now know more familiarly as the province of Ontario. It responds to the following question: why did popular schooling begin in the province? More pointedly, it concerns the origins of the idea of popular schooling. In this distinction lies Di Mascio’s most important contribution to the historiographical record of Ontario’s schools. Educational historians have painted a vivid and detailed picture of the establishment of Ontario’s public system of education, drawing on the rich archival and prosopographical evidence that we can associate with a formal department of education and the great figures that are linked to its establishment, and yet more work needs to be done to explain why public education came to be at all? How was schooling conceptualized in the popular imaginary? The Idea of Popular Schooling begins to answer these questions by inquiring into the evidentiary basis for this system’s origins, proceeding to explore the reasons for its existence. [End Page 572] The narrative begins with a portrayal of Upper Canada that is reminiscent of rags to riches stories. A “backwoods…howling wilderness,” sparsely populated, managed in short order to enact provisions that would establish a public schooling act that would endeavor to reach the entire population. Through lobbying and pressures upon the press and upon the government by its inhabitants, Upper Canada was a forerunner in publicly funded education. The heroes of this story are the Upper Canadians. The author assumes the torch carried for decades by seminal Canadian historians of education such as J. Donald Wilson, Robert Stamp, Neil Sutherland, and Bruce Curtis who challenged the ‘great man’ narratives that frequented this country’s educational history. This is not to neglect the work of Alison Prentice, Jane Errington, Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Paul Axelrod, and other notable Canadian historians of education, who have demonstrated how people’s civic engagement with the state altered the landscape of public schooling. The creation myth of Upper Canadian education posits Egerton Ryerson as a George Washington figure. I am partial to Ryerson. His place in the Canadian pantheon is well deserved; Di Mascio notes, quite correctly, however, that three common school acts had already been enacted in Upper Canada before Ryerson assumed office. Just as Lawrence Cremin sought to tie the history of schooling in the United States to broader social and intellectual movements rather than telling a story of linear progress, so Di Mascio seeks to situate his study within a broader tradition of historical narratives that challenge Whig history. This is a tradition that is decades old. It is revitalized here. Di Mascio’s history begins before the establishment of a formal Department of Education in Upper Canada (at the time, Canada West; Canada East, in broad strokes, designated what is presently referred to as Quebec), which was born in 1841. In 1822, the General Board of Education was created as a central department. As the author notes, this board “was an afterthought to the Common School Act passed in 1816, and although a great deal of information concerning the administrative and institutional developments of the time, they tell us very little about the idea of popular schooling and its advocates” (p. 5). As a result, his archival sources are quite unique. Di Mascio has few government documents to draw upon. Formal correspondence is scant. Rather than pursuing official records or emphasizing the establishment of schooling as system within Upper Canada, the author is primarily interested in explaining what the people of the province wanted out of an educational system, and what – at least with respect to formal rhetoric – its backers promoted. Di Mascio argues, quite convincingly, that civic engagement within Upper Canada was higher than we might expect. High...

Internationalization Strategies for Higher Education

Higher education across the globe tends to operate in a liquid environment with few static periods of any length. The ability to rapidly respond to global economic and academic trends (globalization) is a key driver for leadership and sustainability. Internationalization is one aspect of globalization that has emerged more recently. Internationalization in higher education is a strategic response to the global market. While motivations may vary amongst institutions, common motivators for internationalization include; commercial advantage, market share of fiscal and knowledge economies, and to enhance the educational outcomes of graduates. While an institution may adopt any number of approaches to internationalization, this poster presents an insight into the motivations and initiatives employed by the Medical Radiation Science program at Charles Sturt University. Charles Sturt University (CSU), based in rural Australia, has 6 major campuses over a large area of rural NSW, several metropolitan smaller campuses in Australia plus campuses in Canada (Ontario) and South East Asia; serving 38000 students in 400 programs. The Medical Radiation Science (MRS) program offers a four year undergraduate degree with specializations in nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and radiography, advanced practice master’s degree courses with generic streams plus specializations in nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, CT, MRI, and image interpretation, and research higher degree programs (research masters, professional doctorates and doctor of philosophy). Students come to study nuclear medicine at CSU (internal or by distance) from North America, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. Local graduates of MRS programs at CSU are employed across Australia, New Zealand and Europe in the main. CSU has both independent and collaborative internationalization strategies that have successfully delivered graduate attributes and competencies in global citizenship, knowledge transfer, curriculum diversity and sustainability, and graduate mobility. This has largely been driven by concordance of core education philosophies and industry demand for mobilization. Furthermore, these initiatives have contributed to academic collaboration with both individual and team competencies in global citizenship, international knowledge economy, skill diversity, academic sustainability, and academic mobility.

Canada East: Breaking through the soybean yield barrier in Ontario

Crops & SoilsVolume 47, Issue 3 p. 32-34 Regional Roundup Canada East: Breaking through the soybean yield barrier in Ontario Brian Hall CCA, Brian Hall CCA brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ontario Ministry of Rural Affairs (OMAF/MRA), Ontario, CanadaSearch for more papers by this author Brian Hall CCA, Brian Hall CCA brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ontario Ministry of Rural Affairs (OMAF/MRA), Ontario, CanadaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 27 May 2014 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2014-47-3-8Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume47, Issue3May‐June 2014Pages 32-34 RelatedInformation

Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-Imperial Legal Influences

The development of the law of riparian rights in the Anglo-American world in the nineteenth century has been analyzed from several points of view, including economic property theory and Marxian legal history. Transnational aspects of the subject have not been neglected, as some have highlighted the transatlantic framework in which this body of doctrine developed, and others have examined the use of Continental, civil law sources by some of the American jurists responsible for that development. Yet the inter-imperial aspect of this story, in particular the meeting of the laws of the British and French Empires, has gone unremarked.This paper examines the crossed histories of English common law, French civil law, and American law in the jurisprudence of water rights in Lower Canada/Canada East/Quebec in the mid-nineteenth century, and the influence of this jurisprudence on the developing water law of the British Empire.

Canada East: Low‐disturbance shallow manure injection in winter wheat

Canada East: Low‐disturbance shallow manure injection in winter wheat

Canada East: Recap of the Ontario CCA conference

Crops & SoilsVolume 47, Issue 2 p. 14-38 Regional Roundup Canada East: Recap of the Ontario CCA conference Susan Fitzgerald, Susan Fitzgerald Executive Director susan.tfio@sympatico.ca Ontario CCA ProgramSearch for more papers by this author Susan Fitzgerald, Susan Fitzgerald Executive Director susan.tfio@sympatico.ca Ontario CCA ProgramSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 March 2014 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2014-47-2-2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume47, Issue2March‐April 2014Pages 14-38 RelatedInformation

Canada East: Validating S rates and sources for alfalfa in Ontario

Crops & SoilsVolume 47, Issue 1 p. 20-21 Regional Roundup Canada East: Validating S rates and sources for alfalfa in Ontario Brian Hall, Brian Hall brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ontario Ministry of Rural Affairs (OMAF/MRA), Ontario, CanadaSearch for more papers by this author Brian Hall, Brian Hall brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ontario Ministry of Rural Affairs (OMAF/MRA), Ontario, CanadaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 January 2014 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2014-47-1-6Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume47, Issue1January‐February 2014Pages 20-21 RelatedInformation

A comparative study of different classification techniques for marine oil spill identification using RADARSAT-1 imagery

The discrimination of oil spills and look-alike phenomena (e.g., low wind area, wind front area and natural slicks) on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is a crucial task in marine oil spill detection. Many classification techniques can be employed for this purpose. In order to make the best use of the large variety of statistical and machine learning classification methods, it is necessary to assess their performance differences and make recommendations for classifier selection and improvement. The objective of this paper is to compare different classification techniques for oil-spill detection in RADARSAT-1 imagery. The data of this study consists of 15 features of 192 oil spills and look-alikes identified by Canadian Ice Service between 2004 and 2008 off Canada's east and west coastal areas. The studied classifiers include the Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), tree-based ensemble classifiers (bagging, bundling and boosting), Generalized Additive Model (GAM) and Penalized Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA). Two performance measures, the specificity at fixed sensitivity (80%) and the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), were estimated using cross-validation to evaluate the performance of classifiers at a high sensitivity. Overall, the bundling technique which achieved a median specificity of 90.7%, at sensitivity of 80%, significantly outperformed the second best (i.e. bagging) by 1.5 percentage points, and the worst (i.e. ANN) by 15 percentage points. The median values of AUC measure indicated consistent results. Bundling and bagging achieved comparable median AUC values of about 92%, followed by GAM and PLDA, with ANN yielding the smallest. Most classifiers (SVM, bundling and especially PLDA and ANN) performed significantly better on datasets pre-processed by log-transformation and standardization than on the original dataset. These results demonstrate the importance and benefit of selecting the optimal classifiers for oil spill classification, and configuring the classifiers by proper feature construction techniques.

Canada East: Starter fertilizer distribution on winter wheat as affected by rate of application

Crops & SoilsVolume 46, Issue 6 p. 11-13 Regional Roundup Canada East: Starter fertilizer distribution on winter wheat as affected by rate of application Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 November 2013 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2013-46-6-2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume46, Issue6November‐December 2013Pages 11-13 RelatedInformation

Reconfiguring Spirituality and Sexual/Gender Identity: “It's a Feeling of Connection to Something Bigger, It's Part of a Wholeness.”

In the context of religious and spiritual communities that may marginalize those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), we explore how 11 women reconfigured potentially conflicting spiritual and sexual/gender identities. Interviews with women in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada's East coast, indicated some used faith traditions to try to change themselves, but most found ways to disengage from or alter their spiritual relationships. Many losses were entailed as women rejected or were discarded by faith communities. In reconfiguring their spiritual lives, women drew from former traditions, explored new paths, and forged individual relationships to the spiritual.

'For You The War Is Over': An airman remembers

Abstract Lloyd C. McCracken grew up in a rural community on Canada's east coast. As a teenager, with the World War II entering its peak, he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force as a tail gunner, a job with extreme hazards. Fifty years later, in 1992, McCracken produced this remembrance of his time in the Air Force - his training, hair-raising sorties over Germany and, especially, two years he spent as a POW in a German prisoners of war camp. This text now includes associated documents and photographs. His story reveals a human phenomenon that we nevertheless fail to understand - our uncanny ability to adjust to the inconceivable. Our ability to hold it, live in it, relay it. As his story recounts, McCracken had plenty of traumatic experiences. Yet, his descriptions of these experiences expose details without registering their effects. For readers, comprehension of the emotional happens elsewhere - above and around the words - in envisioning the effect of these experiences on McCracken and his family. Understanding is only discoverable in the text's resignation, its absences, its restraint.

Canada East: Liquid potassium fertilizer trial on Ontario soybeans

Crops & SoilsVolume 46, Issue 3 p. 10-11 Regional Roundup Canada East: Liquid potassium fertilizer trial on Ontario soybeans Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 May 2013 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2013-46-3-2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume46, Issue3May‐June 2013Pages 10-11 RelatedInformation

John Wallace Baird: The First Canadian president of the American Psychological Association.

John Wallace Baird (1869-1919) was born and raised in southwestern Ontario, earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 1897. He would ultimately rise to become the first Canadian-born president of the American Psychological Association at a critical turning point in the discipline's history, during World War I. He was also the director of the laboratory in the famed Clark University psychology department, led by G. Stanley Hall, and died just months before succeeding Hall into the presidency of Clark. Baird studied briefly with Wilhelm Wundt, earned his PhD from ?. B. Titchener, and taught at Johns Hopkins and the University of Illinois. When he was stricken with what would be his fatal illness, he was serving as Vice-Chair of the Psychology Committee of the U. S. National Research Council.Keywords: applied psychology, American Psychological Association, Canada, journal editing, perceptionOne of the most significant Canadians in the history of psychology has been nearly forgotten. He studied under several of the most prominent members of the early discipline-Wilhelm Wundt, Joseph Jastrow, and ?. B. Titchener. He won one of the earliest research grants for psychology from the Carnegie Foundation. He taught at some of the most prestigious universities: Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Illinois, and Clark. He conducted and published influential and controversial research on visual perception. He served in editorial positions with the American Journal of Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and the Journal of Educational Psychology. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. He ultimately rose to become president of the American Psychological Association (APA) during one of the discipline's most critical times. During his term he also served as Vice-Chair of the Psychological Committee for the U.S. National Research Council. He was within months of succeeding G. Stanley Hall as president of Clark University when his life was cut short. And yet, despite this level of accomplishment, today his name is known to few: John Wallace Baird. The aim of this article is to sketch the story of Baird's life and career, reminding Canadian psychologists of one of their most illustrious predecessors.John Wallace Baird (see Figure 1) was born on May 21, 1869 into a farming family living in Motherwell, Ontario, about 50 km north of London. His father and mother had moved there just 15 years before, purchasing land from the government to establish a farm. They then started a family of, ultimately, 12 children. John was the eighth child. It was an interesting time in Canada West,1 as the area of what is now southern Ontario was then known. Responsible government had only come to Canada West in 1848, finally breaking the grip of the Family Compact and allowing people of the non-Anglican majority to share in their own governance. Ongoing disputes between the predominantly English-speaking Canada West and predominantly Francophone Canada East led to the capital of the so-called United Province of Canada moving from QuA©bec City to Toronto and back to QuA©bec again, before finally settling in Ottawa in 1866. As is well known, the two provinces confederated with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and were renamed Ontario and QuA©bec in 1867, just 2 years before John Baird's birth.The elder Bairds' first child, Andrew Browning Baird (1855-1940) grew up to become a prominent Presbyterian minister. He is best known for having brought the church to Edmonton, then little more than a rugged trading post of about 300 people, protected by a fort, located in the lower portion of the old Northwest Territories (Alberta did not become a separate province until 1905). In 1887 he moved to Winnipeg, where he taught at Manitoba College, one of the denominational institutions that would ultimately unite to form the University of Manitoba. In 1916, Andrew would become the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada for 2 years. …

Canada East: Evaluating early planting and long‐season varieties in Ontario

Crops & SoilsVolume 46, Issue 2 p. 14-17 Regional Roundup Canada East: Evaluating early planting and long-season varieties in Ontario Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author Brian Hall, Brian Hall Edible Bean and Canola Specialist brian.hall@ontario.ca Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural AffairsSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 March 2013 https://doi.org/10.2134/cs2013-46-2-4Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume46, Issue2March‐April 2013Pages 14-17 RelatedInformation