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Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Csis), Bert Chapman Apr 2025

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Csis), Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

April 24, 2025 presentation for Canada's GovInfo Day Spring 2025 hosted by Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Internet Archive Canada. Provides information about the publicly available information resources produced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) which is the Canadian Government's foremost national intelligence agency. Provides information about this agency's statutory organization, types of publicly available reports they produce, information about other Canadian government intelligence agencies, and parliamentary oversight of Canadian government intelligence operations. Lists additional resources for finding information about CSIS and explains the benefits of having access to these resources for users.


The Danger Of A Single Story: Affrilachian Experiences In West Virginia Policy, Economy, And Resilience, Kyleigh Edwards, Cameron G. Rishworth Apr 2025

The Danger Of A Single Story: Affrilachian Experiences In West Virginia Policy, Economy, And Resilience, Kyleigh Edwards, Cameron G. Rishworth

CRC Research Symposium

This research project sought to understand the various issues facing Black communities in West Virginia and the efforts being made by Affrilachian (African Americans in Appalachia) people and communities to address the issues that they face and to build spaces and initiatives that support Affrilachian communities to survive and thrive. The contributions of Black West Virginians to the region have often gone ignored in mainstream histories and continue to be ignored by mainstream media. However, this project seeks highlight the significant organizing that is being done by Affrilachians, illustrating that although Black people only make up 3.8% of West Virginia’s …


Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Instant Lawn: Sod Farming In Oregon, Brian Dyck Apr 2025

Instant Lawn: Sod Farming In Oregon, Brian Dyck

The Geographical Bulletin

I n the past, the term the "sod farmer" usually referred to the Midwest farmer of the 1800's tilling the stiff prairie soils without the aid of advanced technology and scientific knowledge. Then about twenty five years ago, beginning in the Midwest, the term began to take on a new meaning. It referred to the development of a new agricultural industry, the commercial production of sod for lawns in residential and recreational areas, industrial parks and in the beautification of freeway and highway systems. The sod industry is emerging in Oregon. Its development and prospects can be understood by examining …


Volume 9 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Volume 9 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 9 Complete Issue


Residential Subdivisions: Underlying Themes And Associated Forms, Christopher D. King, Geoffrey Wall Apr 2025

Residential Subdivisions: Underlying Themes And Associated Forms, Christopher D. King, Geoffrey Wall

The Geographical Bulletin

Land is one of the most important resources available to man. Man's activities take place upon the land and his buildings are, of necessity, firmly rooted in the ground. The way in which these buildings are arranged has changed through time in response to the changing aspirations of society. Perhaps the most basic use of the land is residential. We spend most of our time at home and the environment in which we dwell influences our performance in all phases of life. In urban situations the means of utilizing the land resource is the process of land subdivision. The term …


An Assessment Of Reilly's Model Of Consumer Behavior, Patricia L. Drews Apr 2025

An Assessment Of Reilly's Model Of Consumer Behavior, Patricia L. Drews

The Geographical Bulletin

All human behavior occurs in space and can therefore be studied in a manner that emphasizes the locational components of that behavior. One tenent fundamental to spatiallyfocused studies is that decisions related to spatial behavior are perceived as rational. This paper exam'ines a model of a particular type of spatial behavior involving decisions-the shopping behavior of rural people when buying retail goods or services that are relatively ubiquitous. William J, Reilly's law of retail gravitationl and the related breaking-point equation, derived mathematically from Reilly's law and explicitly stated byPaul D. Converse and associates2 , provide a model that predicts which …


The City At The Bottom Of Lake Michigan, Lawrence G. Wolf Apr 2025

The City At The Bottom Of Lake Michigan, Lawrence G. Wolf

The Geographical Bulletin

The New York Times, Sunday, February 17, 1974, reported a subterranean heat source extending from Mexico to above the Salton Sea. If subterranean geothermal sources can be gotten out of the air over the Salton Sea, what next? A week later a radio announcer was heard saying a balloonist was lost over the ocean below Morocco. If the ocean is now beneath Morocco, no wonder he was lost! Journalists are not the only ones living in an unreal world. The United Nations and the Population Reference Bureau end the North American continent at the Rio Grande! The continents of North …


The Search For Spatial Theories: On The Role Of Conceptual And Computational Models In Geographic Research, Daniel A. Griffith Apr 2025

The Search For Spatial Theories: On The Role Of Conceptual And Computational Models In Geographic Research, Daniel A. Griffith

The Geographical Bulletin

At present academic inquiry is guided by various research paradigms, the most popular ones being those affiliated with metaphysics, phenomenology and positivism, while the literature to date lacks an explicit structural typology identifying and interrelating these formats. As a result, numerous peculiar classification schemes have been created. For example, Kerlinger indicates that reesearch in general is comprised of three different modes, namely behavioral, historical and methodological~ Harvey, following ' Hempel, distinguishes between deductive-nomological and inductive-systematization, viewing the hypothetico-deductive system as a special case of this former type2 Olsson talks about formal as opposed to substantive research~ And Relph, exemplifying a …


Geographic Research And International Trade, J. Harold Leaman Apr 2025

Geographic Research And International Trade, J. Harold Leaman

The Geographical Bulletin

At the present time, the geographic and economic studies which have examined various aspects of international trade have been mainly concerned with identifying the patterns which exist. Very little attention has been given to the processes which may have created the patterns. In fact, given the present state of research, we seem to be in a weak position to answer questions which relate to the processes which have created the present form of international trade. Geographic research in international trade can' be examined by looking at three problem areas. A brief summary of work done in these three areas will …


Editor's Comments, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Editor's Comments, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Inflation has captured Gamma Theta Upsilon -and you did not even know you were under siege. A close examination of Volume 9 will show several changes designed to cut out costs. If our subscription/income were higher, some problems could be eliminated. We do have a supply of Volumes 1-8 which are sitting, waiting, anticipating to be read. Your new G.T.U. initiates will receive Volume 9 and 10 as part of their fees. Page 48 explains how they can get complete sets of The Geographical Bulletin. The cost to them is well below production costs-about 50%-and is a minor amount to …


Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Volume 10 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Volume 10 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 10 Complete Issue


Development Through The Domestication Of Animals: The Case Of The Musk Ox And The Eland, James L. Kelly Apr 2025

Development Through The Domestication Of Animals: The Case Of The Musk Ox And The Eland, James L. Kelly

The Geographical Bulletin

In recent years a determined effort has been made to domesticate new animals with most attention focusing on the eland, which is native to the arid and semi-arid areas of southern and eastern Africa, and the musk ox of arctic North America.1 The underlying purpose of these efforts is to develop lands that are currently either poorly used or not used at all. The natural habitats of the musk ox and the eland are areas plagued by cold temperatures or aridity. These regions have resisted man's attempts at agriculture. Even grazing of domestic livestock has been difficult because of harsh …


Learning Topographic Map Use Through Simulation, Russell L. Stubbles Apr 2025

Learning Topographic Map Use Through Simulation, Russell L. Stubbles

The Geographical Bulletin

A simulation game designed to facilitate learning to read and to use topographic maps was tested among sample groups of college undergraduates and high school seniors. The board game, "Natural Disaster," permits two to four students to participate in property location decisions, based on their understanding of natural hazards which are to be inferred from the topographic map's contours and locations of particular places. A randomizing procedure assigned the students to one of two treatments, the simulation game or a lecture-discussion, both of which covered the same substantive material. After pretesting, the appropriate treatments were administered to the students, and …


The Development Of The Russian Iron And Steel Industry, James E. Rowe Apr 2025

The Development Of The Russian Iron And Steel Industry, James E. Rowe

The Geographical Bulletin

The original base of the Russian iron and steel industry was located near Tula which is situated in the Central Industrial region. The smelting of small deposits of local iron ore was begun with the utilization of charcoal made from the surrounding forests. A secondary region developed near Lake Onega in the northwestern section of Russia. The local availability of iron are and charcoal and a nearby market were major factors in the establishment of this early center of production. During the reign of Peter the Great in the early 18th century a considerably greater development of ferrous metallurgy took …


Military Geography: An Investigation Of Qualification, Bruce G. Graves Apr 2025

Military Geography: An Investigation Of Qualification, Bruce G. Graves

The Geographical Bulletin

Comprehension of the meaning of military geography is far more complex than it first appears. Traditionally military geography loosely encompasses the whole field of geographic activity required for the direction of organized military forces. The term "military" includes activities by which man performs characteristics that are generally referred to as soldierly in practice. The weight of this definition is magnified by the importance of strategy exercised at a given time. Scholars who perceive a sub-discipline as having a distinctive characteristic that is basically a sub-division of a whole field of academic study, may at first glance, see a direct relation …


The Mormon State Of Deseret: A Study In Political Geography, Lawrence R. Handley Apr 2025

The Mormon State Of Deseret: A Study In Political Geography, Lawrence R. Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

On July 24, 1847, the vanguard of the Mormon migration reached the valley of the Great Salt Lake. By December, 1849, the Mormon population had increased to over 8,000, and was spread over 26 settlements from Ft. Bridger west to near Carson City, and from Ogden south to Manti. Within two and a half years the Mormons had established the foundation of their theo-democratic kingdom in the Great Basin. This presentation will deal with the Mormon's expansion between 1847 and 1851, and the political unit, the "territory" and "state" of Deseret, that was an attempt to claim the Great Basin …


The Political Geography Of The Marine Environment, Robert W. Smith Apr 2025

The Political Geography Of The Marine Environment, Robert W. Smith

The Geographical Bulletin

The paucity of research .articles by geographers on the political and planning aspects of the marine environment is evident from review of the geographical literature. It is undoubtedly true that there are some geographers who are involved at all levels of policy making in this region, but the fruits of their efforts have not been made available to a professional audience - fifteen articles in three major U.S. geographical journals in the past 16 years is not very commendable. Since 1958 (the year of the first Geneva Law of the Sea Conference), only five articles have appeared in the Annals …


Impacts Of Extreme Weather Conditions On Coastal Fisheries Near Bayou Teche, Louisiana From 2019–2023, Georgia C. Davis Apr 2025

Impacts Of Extreme Weather Conditions On Coastal Fisheries Near Bayou Teche, Louisiana From 2019–2023, Georgia C. Davis

LSU Master's Theses

The region of Southcentral Louisiana, particularly around Bayou Teche, thrives on its commercial and recreational fisheries. These fisheries are occasionally subject to events like extreme weather that cause sudden and unexpected losses (NOAA Fisheries, 2024a). Between 2019 and 2023, a series of extreme weather events impacted southcentral Louisiana near Bayou Teche. This series of extreme events includes Hurricane Barry (2019), Hurricane Laura (2020), Hurricane Delta (2020), Hurricane Zeta (2020), Hurricane Ida (2021), and a United States Drought Monitor (USDM) D4 drought (2023). This study analyzes the impacts of the extreme weather series on coastal fish observed species richness (SR) in …


Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Index: The Geographical Bulletin: Volumes 1-10, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Index: The Geographical Bulletin: Volumes 1-10, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Index: The Geographical Bulletin: Volumes 1-10


Volume 11 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Volume 11 Complete Issue, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 11 Complete Issue


Perception Of Climate In North Carolina, Jeffrey T. Lutz Apr 2025

Perception Of Climate In North Carolina, Jeffrey T. Lutz

The Geographical Bulletin

Geographers strive for a better understanding of how man perceives the world in which he lives. Environmental perception is a strategic concern within geography; and climate is an integral factor influencing man's responses to the complex environment. This study focuses on climatic perception, which constitutes an integral aspect of environmental awareness. Much work has been done in the field of environmental perception. Studies have dealt with the environmental in general, the perception of weather terminology and forecasting effectiveness, and specific climatic extremes or hazards such as flood and drought. However, research concerning the perception of general climatic conditions is lacking. …


Satellite Photos, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Satellite Photos, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Satellite Photos


Factors Affecting Distribution Of Cattle In India, E. Dayal Apr 2025

Factors Affecting Distribution Of Cattle In India, E. Dayal

The Geographical Bulletin

The problem of surplus cattle population in India has been widely discussed. The low yield of milk and the roaming cattle everywhere, even in the cities, give an idea of surplus cattle population, and have led to the general izations made about the irrational wastefulness of the large cattle numbers. However, the usefulness of cattle in India should not be judged only in terms of milk yield, because cattle contribute to the prosperity of the farmer in more important ways than by providing milk. The basic question of why the large cattle population is felt to be necessary must be …


Editor's Comments, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Editor's Comments, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

This issue's "Comments" should probably be entitled "Odds and Ends". Many things come to mind, and a few are recorded here. In a recent issue we invited your attention to the Congress review of some NSF Teacher Education and curriculum development activities. Congress won. No money has been budgeted for Teacher Centered Programs. After having worked in these types of activities most every year since 1960, I view the decisions with mixed emotions. It was the conclusion of our staff that we did some good in these progr~ms. I visited many exparticipants in their schools, talked with their colleagues and …


Using Trade Books To Thematically Teach Civil Rights Issues, Alyssa Whitford, Timothy Lintner, Caroline Sheffield Apr 2025

Using Trade Books To Thematically Teach Civil Rights Issues, Alyssa Whitford, Timothy Lintner, Caroline Sheffield

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This semester-long project examined the use of social studies trade books to thematically teach the civic contributions of three individuals who served as change agents in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Two were African American men, Robert Smalls and Frederick Douglass, who took civic action to address racial discrimination faced by the Black community following the U.S. Civil War. The other was Ida B. Wells who challenged social inequities and injustices within her community. Throughout this project, sixth-grade students read selected trade books, examined primary sources, completed graphic organizers, and crafted writing …


Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher Apr 2025

Cover And Forewords, James W. Gallagher

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


Bicycling: A Review, A Pilot Study And Planning Implications, Brian Dyck Apr 2025

Bicycling: A Review, A Pilot Study And Planning Implications, Brian Dyck

The Geographical Bulletin

Bicycling is a growing activity. It provides both a form of exercise and a means of transportation. Recent estimates indicate there are over 85 million bicycle users in the United States.' Renewed interest in bicycling has occurred in the last ten years.' Some of the major reasons for the growth in bicycling include the revival of social acceptability of adult bicycling, the emphasis on the need for exercise, the greater availability of leisure time, the provision of bike ways and a response to the "energy crisis". The growth of bicycling, however, has caused some crucial concerns. Two of the more …