Fall Magazines 2021

It was Thanksgiving weekend 2020, and I wrote a blog on Fall Magazines that I read in New Glasgow. Here we are one year later. I have found three new items.

1) Unravel. Telling Halifax Stories.
2) Canada’s History. Special:The Beaver returns.
3) Canadian Geographic. Know your Canada: Ultimate Quiz Notebook.

Unravel is a new magazine.

September/October Vol1/No1 includes Halifax articles on people fighting for change, the film-making industry and a conversation with Sipekne’katik Chief Mike Sack on the fishery in Nova Scotia.

Canada’s History is the equivalent to Canadian Geographic.

In the latest issue (October/November 2021) there is a special section commemorating The Beaver. It includes two articles. Agowigiiwinan Bezhig Minawaa Niizhin celebrating the 150th anniversary of Treaties One and Two. The second article describes the work of seven artists, who formed the Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. to fight for professional respect and political self-determination.

“Geography makes sense of our world by describing locational patterns and relationships of the Earth’s natural and social systems – both past and present.”

It includes 42 questions designed to test your geo-IQ.

e.g. Question 1. True or False
Nova Scotia is made up of at least four ancient continents ?

Question 36.
Which Prime Minister famously said that Canada has “Too much Geography and not enough History”?

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Reference

Herman Hesse, 1974, My Belief. Essays on Life and Art, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Acknowledgements

John Stewart continues to subscribe to the magazines. Edward added the graphics and links. Heather shared the drive.

Postscript

The weekend Chronicle Herald included “A Better Way Forward: 50 years in Nova Scotia”, published by Michelin Nova Scotia. It is time to re-evaluate a better way forward for all of us: our government, our industry and our communities.