A Note on the Occurrence of Ray's Bream (Brama raii Bloch) on the West Coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia

Copeia ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 1930 (3) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Pritchard
1953 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Pickard ◽  
D. C. McLeod

Grand monthly means of daily observations of surface sea-water temperature and salinity from twelve light stations along the British Columbia coast during the 13 years 1935 to 1948 have been analysed. In general the temperatures reach a minimum of 45°F. ± 1° (7.2 °C. ± 0.5°) in January and February. The maximum varies from 50° to 64°F. (10° to 18 °C.) in August. The warmest waters occur in bays protected from wind action, and the coldest waters occur in regions of turbulent mixing due to wind or strong currents. The salinity along the mainland coast is a minimum in early summer, associated with the maximum run-off from melting snow. Along the west coast of Vancouver Island the minimum occurs in mid-winter, associated with maximum precipitation which is not stored as snow in this region. At the southern and northern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands there is little or no variation of salinity because there is no land drainage of consequence in the vicinity.In passes between Georgia Strait and the sea where the waters are mixed to homogeneity by strong tidal currents the annual variation of temperature and salinity is reduced, and in some cases entirely suppressed.On the west coast of Vancouver Island it is shown that the annual cycle is affected by the dominant winds and upwelling of deep ocean waters.


1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 1147-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin M. Brodo ◽  
Teuvo Ahti

The Queen Charlotte Islands, off the west coast of British Columbia and with a hypermoist, oceanic climate, has 44 taxa in the Cladoniaceae: 5 species and 1 forma of Cladina, and 34 species with 3 additional subspecies and 1 variety of Cladonia. Two species and one subspecies are described as new to science: Cladonia albonigra Brodo & Ahti, Cladonia schofieldii Ahti & Brodo, and Cladonia ecmocyna Leight. ssp. occidentalis Ahti. In addition, one new combination is made: Cladonia novochlorophaea (Sipman) Brodo & Ahti. Cladonia homosekekaica Nuno, although not part of the Queen Charlotte flora, is also described and discussed. Chemical variation in the Cladoniaceae is examined critically, and many taxa formerly recognized at the species or infraspecific levels are reduced to unnamed chemotypes. The following synonymies were made or confirmed: Cladina aberrans (Abbayes) Hale & W.L. Culb. =Cladina stellaris (Opiz) Brodo; Cladonia squamosa var. subsquamosa (Nyl. ex Leight.) Vain. =Cladonia squamosa Hoffm.; Cladonia pseudostellata Asahina =Cladonia uncialis (L.) F.H. Wigg.; Cladonia japonica Vain. =Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot.; Cladonia pseudorangiformis Asahina =Cladonia wainioi Saviez. A thamnolic acid chemotype of Cladonia bellidiflora (Ach.) Schaer. and a thamnolic and usnic acid containing chemotype of Cladonia umbricola Tønsberg & Ahti are common on the Charlottes. Cladonia singularis S. Hammer is reported as new to Canada based on a specimen from Vancouver Island. Cladonia macroptera Räsänen, Cladonia polydactyla (Flörke) Spreng., Cladonia pseudomacilenta Asahina, and Cladonia subsubulata Nyl. are excluded from the North American flora. Cladonia kanewskii Oksner is reported as new to Norway and Europe. Keywords: Cladina, Cladonia, Cladoniaceae, British Columbia.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1612-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Poulton ◽  
J. D. Aitken

Sinemurian phosphorites in southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta conform with the "West Coast type" phosphorite depositional model. The model indicates that they were deposited on or near the Early Jurassic western cratonic margin, next to a sea or trough from which cold water upwelled. This suggests that the allochthonous terrane Quesnellia lay well offshore in Sinemurian time. The sea separating Quesnellia from North America was partly floored by oceanic crust ("Eastern Terrane") and partly by a thick sequence of rifted, continental terrace wedge rocks comprising the Purcell Supergroup and overlying Paleozoic sequence. This sequence must have been depressed sufficiently that access of upwelling deep currents to the phosphorite depositional area was not impeded.


2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez

AbstractNootka is an historical fur-trading centre in Yuquot, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. In 1788, the Spanish king Charles III sent an expedition to Nootka commanded by Ignacio Arteaga (1731-1783). A year later, Spain established a military post, San Lorenzo de Nutka, at Yuquot in 1789 which existed until 1795. The missionaries who arrived with the sailors were urged to learn the vernacular languages in order to evangelize. In chapter 5 of the


1963 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Lane

Oceanographic data collected in a line of stations extending seaward of the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, were reviewed and analyzed. On the basis of these data and the large-scale meteorological processes of wind, insolation, and precipitation, the characteristic structure of temperature and salinity in the coastal region was denned in five temporal stages throughout the year. These stages are presented as vertical sections along the line with characteristic ranges of values to be found in each of the structural elements.


1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 839-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Berkeley

Twenty-five species of Polychaeta recently collected off the coast of British Columbia are discussed. Most were taken in waters of considerable depth off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Sixteen are new to British Columbia. Most of these are known from farther south on the west coast of North America, but some from much shallower depths than those from which they are now recorded; two of them are new to the northeast Pacific; one is a new subspecies. The other nine have been previously known from British Columbia, but they are now recorded from much greater depths than hitherto, or in new geographical locations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Humphreys ◽  
Sean Blenkinsop

AbstractThis article uses an unconventional format to explore the role of parent and nature and the development of a young child's ecological identity. It follows journal entries from a mother observing her young son, Julian, as he explores, interacts with, and learns from the Stawamus River on the west coast of British Columbia. By creating questions, discussing and analysing these written observations, we explore the role of parenting and nature and the implications this might have for environmental education. Some of the ideas explored in this article include early ecological identity, empathy, relational existence, experiential learning, and affordances in the natural world. We further suggest that nature and parent working together might become key educators for a child.


1982 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 736-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Beamish

Lampetra macrostoma n.sp., a freshwater parasitic lamprey, is distinguished from related species L. tridentata, L. lethophaga, L. folletti, L. minima, and L. similis by its parasitic habit and very large disc. Other characters distinguishing the species from L. tridentata are its longer prebranchial length, large eye, weakly pigmented velar tentacles, and its ability to remain in freshwater. The recently metamorphosed form readily survives in freshwater and probably is non-anadromous even though it can survive in salt water. The new species has been discovered in two lakes on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, where it attacks large numbers of resident salmonids. Because of its ability to survive and feed in freshwater, it poses a definite threat to freshwater fishes.Key words: lamprey, new species, non-anadromous lamprey, salmonid parasitism


Author(s):  
Melissa Dalgleish

Phyllis Webb, OC is a Canadian poet, teacher, and broadcaster. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended the University of British Columbia and McGill University. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, a selection of prose, and a collection of broadcast scripts, essays and reviews published as Talking (1982). Her first collection of poems was published alongside work by Eli Mandel and Gael Turnbull in Trio (1954). Webb’s first full-length collection, Even Your Right Eye (1956) was followed by The Sea is Also a Garden (1962). She began working at CBC Toronto in 1964 and acted as the producer of the ‘Ideas’ programme from 1967–1969. Her 1965 collection Naked Poems marked a point of departure with its compact forms and erotic evocation of lesbian desire. After returning to the West Coast, Webb did not publish another full-length collection until Wilson’s Bowl (1980). She won the Governor General’s Award for The Vision Tree (1982). Webb’s interest in the Persian ghazal form inspired Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti-Ghazals (1982) and Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti-Ghazals (1984). Her consistent concern with form manifests itself in her formal experimentation and her meticulous crafting of poems.


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