THE CANADIAN PLAINS

Rölvaag, Grove And Pioneering On The American And Canadian Plains

Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950

Medicine that walks: disease, medicine, and the Canadian plains native people, 1880–1940

work, which would have been invaluable once, may not be noticed by communities whose interests have moved on. The dogs did not only make knowledge, they made material goods. In a fascinating and funny chapter, Todes follows the marketing of pure, dog gastric juice as a remedy for digestive upsets. This leads him to explore the very hard work that Pavlov did to demonstrate the relevance of physi...

Routing of western Canadian Plains runoff during the 8.2 ka cold event

[1] The collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over Hudson Bay 8.47 ka allowed the rapid drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz into the Labrador Sea, an event identified as causing a reduction in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the 8.2 ka cold event. Atmosphereocean models simulations based on this forcing, however, fail to reproduce several characteristics of this event, partic...

Sanitation in the Plains

At present the latrine in India is, as usuallymet with, a most insanitary arrangement; dark, airless and evil smelling. In the Indian Medical Gazette * I have already described a type of latrine for hill stations which has proved extremely satisfactory. The latrine here described is intended for the plains and is a distinct improvement on the usual model. i My object is to expose the whole inte...