Nine Small Sites on Lake St. Francis Representing an Early Iroquois Horizon in the Upper St. Lawrence River Valley

1964 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 183 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Pendergast
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Small Sites ◽  
St Lawrence River

Early Maize in Northeastern North America: A Comment on Emerson and Colleagues

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
John P. Hart ◽  
William A. Lovis ◽  
M. Anne Katzenberg
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
St Lawrence River

Emerson and colleagues (2020) provide new isotopic evidence on directly dated human bone from the Greater Cahokia region. They conclude that maize was not adopted in the region prior to AD 900. Placing this result within the larger context of maize histories in northeastern North America, they suggest that evidence from the lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley for earlier maize is “enigmatic” and “perplexing.” Here, we review that evidence, accumulated over the course of several decades, and question why Emerson and colleagues felt the need to offer opinions on that evidence without providing any new contradictory empirical evidence for the region.

Reproduction and Survival of Female Mallards in the St. Lawrence River Valley, New York

1995 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Losito ◽  
Guy A. Baldassarre ◽  
Jeffrey H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
River Valley ◽  
St Lawrence River

Observational Study of Wind Channeling within the St. Lawrence River Valley

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 2341-2361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco L. Carrera ◽  
John R. Gyakum ◽  
Charles A. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wind ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Geostrophic Wind ◽  
The United States ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Surface Winds ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
St Lawrence River ◽  
Pressure Driven

Abstract The presence of orography can lead to thermally and dynamically induced mesoscale wind fields. The phenomenon of channeling refers to the tendency for the winds within a valley to blow more or less parallel to the valley axis for a variety of wind directions above ridge height. Channeling of surface winds has been observed in several regions of the world, including the upper Rhine Valley of Germany, the mountainous terrain near Basel, Switzerland, and the Tennessee and Hudson River Valleys in the United States. The St. Lawrence River valley (SLRV) is a primary topographic feature of eastern Canada, extending in a southwest–northeast direction from Lake Ontario, past Montreal (YUL) and Quebec City (YQB), and terminating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In this study the authors examine the long-term surface wind climatology of the SLRV and Lake Champlain Valley (LCV) as represented by hourly surface winds at Montreal, Quebec City, and Burlington, Vermont (BTV). Surface wind channeling is found to be prominent at all three locations with strong bidirectionalities that vary seasonally. To assess the importance of the various channeling mechanisms the authors compared the joint frequency distributions of surface wind directions versus 925-hPa geostrophic wind directions with those obtained from conceptual models. At YUL, downward momentum transport is important for geostrophic wind directions ranging from 240° to 340°. Pressure-driven channeling is the dominant mechanism producing northeasterly surface winds at YUL. These northeasterlies are most prominent in the winter, spring, and autumn seasons. At YQB, pressure-driven channeling is the dominant physical mechanism producing channeling of surface winds throughout all seasons. Of particular importance, both YUL and YQB exhibit countercurrents whereby the velocity component of the wind within the valley is opposite to the component above the valley. Forced channeling was found to be prominent at BTV, with evidence of diurnal thermal forcing during the summer season. Reasons for the predominance of pressure-driven channeling at YUL and YQB and forced channeling at BTV are discussed.

The Saint

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
River Valley ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Saint Francis ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
St Lawrence River

This chapter explores the cult of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Mohawk maiden whose tremendous spiritual discipline (which included daily self-flagellation with tree branches, hot coals, and thorns) convinced Jesuit missionaries that Indians could be “holy” too. Since dying at age 24 in 1680, she—like Mother Julia in South Texas—hasn’t had a moment’s rest: she’s been causing miracles around the St. Lawrence River Valley (and beyond) ever since. In October 2012, she was canonized a Saint by the Vatican—the first Native American ever to be so. More than a thousand Mohawks flew to Rome to bear witness. In this chapter, the author joins the thousand who descended upon Kahnawake, the Mohawk Nation just south of Montreal, Quebec, where Kateri is buried, instead. There, at the Mission of Saint Francis Xavier, she meets an Algonquin woman who graduated from Indian Residential School and learns about the brutal legacies of Catholicism on Mohawk land.

STUDIES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOLYBDENUM IN BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL: I. A SPECTROGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE OCCURRENCE OF MOLYBDENUM IN PLANTS GROWN IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC

1934 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dingwall ◽  
R. R. McKibbin ◽  
H. T. Beans
Keyword(s):  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Red Clover ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Reed Canary Grass ◽  
Canada Thistle ◽  
Ottawa River ◽  
Field Corn ◽  
Canary Grass ◽  
St Lawrence River ◽  
Celery Cabbage

Molybdenum, identified spectrographically by the lines 3902.9Å, 3864.1Å, 3798.3Å, 3193.9Å, 3170.3Å, 3158.1Å and 3132.6Å, was found to be present in vetch, alfalfa, alsike, red clover, timothy, goldenrod, reed canary grass, field corn stalks, Canada thistle, ragweed, celery, beets and carrots grown on a farm in Jacques Cartier county, Quebec. Molybdenum could not be detected in the soil on which the plants grew.Molybdenum was not found in vetch plants grown on several farms in Brome, Compton and Sherbrooke counties; nor in timothy, alsike clover or red clover grown on a farm in Brome county; nor in lettuce, celery, cabbage, beets and carrots grown on two different muck soils of the St. Lawrence River valley, in Huntingdon county.The farm in Jacques Carder county lies in the Ottawa River valley drainage basin, the other farms do not. Known deposits of molybdenum occur in the Ottawa River valley.

Evidence for meltwater drainage via the St. Lawrence River Valley in marine cores from the Laurentian Channel at the time of the Younger Dryas

2015 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Levac ◽  
Michael Lewis ◽  
Vanessa Stretch ◽  
Katie Duchesne ◽  
Thomas Neulieb
Keyword(s):  
Younger Dryas ◽  
River Valley ◽  
St Lawrence River

Earthflows in the Grondines and Trois Rivières Areas, Québec

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Karrow
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Alluvial Deposits ◽  
Plant Matter ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
High Precipitation ◽  
St Lawrence River

Extra-sensitive or quick clays are characteristic deposits of the Champlain Sea, which covered the St. Lawrence River valley about 11 000 years ago. Landslides of the earthflow type occur along many of the stream valleys. Rapid dissection and high precipitation are commonly associated with earthflows.Landforms characteristic of earthflows include bowls, slump slice ridges, pinnacles, inter-bowl ridges, and ribbing. Large earthflow complexes cover areas of several square miles, particularly just south of the St. Narcisse moraine. Earthflow debris spreads over alluvial deposits, many of which contain datable plant matter. Only a few prehistoric earthflows have been radiocarbon dated, but such data hold promise for the study of alluvial history and earthflow occurrence. At least two consecutive phases of earthflow activity have been noted in some areas, and a time span of several thousand years appears to be involved.Earthflows tend to occur in groups; historic flows in the area, including the classic St. Thuribe slide, have occurred in close proximity to older slides. Therefore certain slide-prone areas can be designated for planning purposes. It is advisable to avoid having building sites near present stream valleys.

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