A Completely Man Made And Artificial Cataract Analysis

Canada, like so many other countries in the world continues to deal with many different environmental resource issues. Throughout our history, one of the issues affecting our country has been the treatment of our First Nations people. For the purpose of this paper, the focus will be on the safe water crisis facing Canada’s First Nations communities. The Oxford Dictionary (2016) defines a crisis as a time of great difficulty or danger. The research included will help clarify the reality of the Canada’s First Nations safe water crisis. Despite some improvements over the past few decades, many of our First Nation citizens still lack access to safe and clean water. Our reserves have water that is contaminated, difficult to access or toxic because of outdated and faulty treatment systems. (Klasing, 2016) This safe water crisis is in need of immediate attention. It is Canada’s responsibility to provide the right to clean and safe water for all of its citizens.

Two places I would like to live when I grow up would be either in Toronto, the capital of Ontario, located in southeastern Canada, or Niagara Falls, the most southern point in Ontario, a major tourist city in Canada. Why? Perhaps my primary reason is that Niagara Falls is my hometown and Toronto is the longest place I’ve lived so far—six years. Of course, there are many alternative reasons likewise. Such as the scenery of the Niagara Falls itself is extremely beautiful, moreover natural, hence it is number five of the world’s top visited tourist attractions respectively. According to “The World’s 50 Most Visited Tourist Attractions” by the Huffington Post, 22.5 million people visit annually, acquiring maximum tourists from June through August. This fascinating city overlooks the Horseshoe Falls, otherwise known as the Canadian Falls, which carries nine times more water than its American counterpart. Here, the alluring crescent shaped cataract is a prodigious fifty four meters, or one hundred and seventy seven feet high. Going up close to the falls on the boat was just incredible, although I was only four at the time—I still remember—to think, by what means did nature make something so befittingly stunning! As we neared the falls, the sound of the limpid, fleet water rapids joyfully cascading off the cliff like syrup, consequently pounding against the rocks at the bottom, unmistakably gets louder likewise thundering, until it is deafening. Despite the sound being obstreperous, it is a fraction of nature’s rumbles, making it vibrantly flawless. Accumulating at the bottom, it foamed into lather, bubbling to the surface, shimmering and sparkling as if bejeweled with silver, glinting in the aureate light. At that moment the sun came out, its rays catching onto the watery slide, setting onlookers into a trance. Simultaneously turning it glittery like shreds of silky silver, magical like a spray of fairy dust. While significantly having the same dreamy and illusory façade of a Renaissance painting and the glistening sorcery a mirage brings, it created a filmy mystique around the cascade. As it gurgled within its depths and tinkled on the surface—us onlookers were astonished. Sometimes, a faint band of distinctive

The Ipperwash crisis of 1995 was not the sole conflict over that particular piece of land, and is only the tip of the iceberg for aboriginal history. In fact, this has been an issue since 1760, when the British decided to conquer Canada. Prior to this, Ipperwash was populated by Native people know then to the British as the Kettle and Stony Point people, who had lived there long before any documentation. When the British first established themselves, Ipperwash was a designated area for aboriginal people and was left untouched by the British. However, in 1812, the British decided they wanted to colonize Upper Canada and approached the Native Indians, asking them to cede the land they possessed. This negotiation continued for nine years (1818-1827). Details

Firstly, the Ogdensburg Agreement was created in 1940. This agreement created a Canadian American permanent joint Board on Defence which improved defence of both the countries. Following that agreement was the Lend-Lease Act in 1941. This allowed Britain to buy military supplies from the U.S when it was still neutral and to postpone payments. At the same time the Hyde Park Agreement was created in 1941. Britain was not buying war materials from Canada due to the Lend-Lease Act so this agreement ensured that U.S bought materials from Canada and so did Britain. This clearly shows that the U.S is not willing to put Canada into an economic downfall. Procedures were taken so that Canada was also benefiting and gaining just like America was. Naturally a country would care about its gain and profit but due to the close bond developed by Canada and America they also prioritize each

The Grand Coulee Dam(G.C.D) changed Kettle Falls forever. Kettle Falls was a peaceful river where Native Americans fished every year. It is said that around 3,000 fish were fished every year. Then in 1933, everything changed when the Grand Coulee Dam started construction and finished on June 1, 1942, that is almost a decade. I feel like it is good that we built the Grand Coulee Dam. The Dam has great effects that have benefitted Washington. Two of them are the jobs people got in the Great Depression and Irrigation we got.

McCullough once again reiterates the responsibility of man prior to the 1889 disaster with the example of Daniel J. Morrell’s concerns in 1880. He sent John Fulton on behalf of the Cambria Iron Works to inspect the dam, where two major structural problems were found: there was no discharge pipe to reduce water in the dam, and, the previous repair left a leak that cut into the dam. This initial warning and advice was rejected, even after their offer to pay for repairs. McCullough then points out that there were in fact four other crucial problems that needed to be repaired that had not been noticed by Fulton. The height of the dam had been lowered, reducing the height between the crest and the spillway. A screen of iron rods were put across the spillway, which would decrease its capacity when clogged by debris. The dam sagged in the center so it was lower than at the ends when the center should have been highest and strongest. Lastly, the club brought the level of the lake nearly to the top so there was no reserve capacity for a severe storm. By indicating the many problems with the dam prior to the great flood of 1889 and the South Fork Club’s refusal to acknowledge the potential danger, McCullough is leaving little doubt to the reader of his

The James Bay Northern Quebec Agreement as an agreement between the government of Quebec and Canada. It paved the way for what is the Cree Nation today.

According to the Center for The Columbia River History, “The Columbia River Basin is the most hydroelectrically developed river system in the world. More than 400 dams, 11 run-of-the-river dams on the mainstem and hundreds of major and modest structures on tributaries block river flows and tap a large portion of the Columbia's generating capacity: more than 21 million kilowatts.” It goes on to say that “Rock Island Dam on the middle river was the first major hydropower producer on the Columbia.” The Rock Island Dam, however, pales in size to the much larger Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams that the federal government completed in 1938 and 1941. During the 1960's and 1970's the last of the mainstream dams were built on the Columbia. Canada completed the Mica Dam in 1973.

Being the only site in Ontario and Canada’s 14th site. Only canal from the 19th century canal-building era that’s still operational and has most of its original structures. The person responsible for envisioning this is Lieutenant Colonel John By after the war of 1812 to make a stretch of water where war ships could carry supplies safely away from the open waters of the St. Lawrence

A provincial election in British Columbia has never before left so much uncertainty. With such a close vote margin separating the BC Liberals from the BC NDP party, the BC Green party with their 3 seats were seemingly able to shift in power in their favour. While negotiations between parties occurred last week, it seemed that of the main points on contentions separating the BC Liberals from gaining the support of the Green party was the Site C project. Site C raises a lot of important questions about the balance between BC’s economy and BC environmental conservative nature. For those of you who remain unaware, the Site C project is a large-scale earth filled hydroelectric dam proposed on the Peace River in north-eastern BC and will be

Is it the fault of self-centered overzealous enthusiast William T. Love? The partially dug hole, left as such by William T Love, if was covered instead of leaving it open would have not caused this problem. In 1920 the land was sold to the industrial town of Niagara Falls. The pit hole was used as a dumping place for municipal waste. Since it was an industrial town, the chemical industries around the area began dumping chemical wastes into the Love Canal area. Mostly at this period of time dumping wastes into a landfill area or into the waters was a common practice. Love Canal was a major tragic incident that helped to develop regulating chemical hazardous wastes in the country. There are lessons learned based on the errors made.

The Love Canal crisis is an epidemic that will shake the roots of this country for centuries. From 1942 to 1953 a landfill in Niagara Falls area known as the Love Canal; which is named after 18th-century famous entrepreneur William T. Love who had an aspiration to connect two levels of the Niagara River, which evidentially separated by Niagara Falls. His plan sought to integrate a canal that would utilize hydroelectric power to create energy. His plan was an utter failure due to the economic collapse of 1892. The construction of the canal continued for a while prior to the economic collapse. After only one mile, at fifteen feet wide and ten feet deep, the canal had been partly dugged. The canal was sold in 1920 to the city of Niagara falls which began using it as an area for chemical waste disposal, followed by the United States Army burying waste from chemical warfare experiments. Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation attained the property in 1947 and buried 21,000 tons of toxic waste for the next five years. During this duration, the Niagara population was extending rapidly, and the city was highly desperate for land. The city purchased the land for $1. A school was constructed on the landfill which punctured a copper barrier Hooker had used to enclose the chemical waste. Later on, Health reports and very odd, strange odors were reported the following years, but not until the

When one thinks about an environmental disaster, the image of a large explosion in a highly industrial area comes to mind. Such is not the case in the Love Canal emergency. Unlike most environmental disasters, the events of Niagara Falls's Love Canal weren't characterized by a known and uncontrollable moment of impact. It developed over a period of several decades, since the effects of leaching chemicals is uncertain and slow in development and the visual effects are very limited. This disaster could have been identified earlier or later for as far as the rest of the world was concerned there was no emergency until the authorities made it public. The importance of Love Canal is that acknowledging the danger that existed

According to the GCC website, Hydro-Quebec began preliminary work in preparation for the immense northern scheme, under which the Great Whale, the Little Whale, the Coats, and the headwaters of the Nastapoka rivers were to be dammed and diverted to create four reservoirs that would feed three new generating stations, GB 1, 2, and 3, with an installed capacity of 3,060 mw. Altogether this work was planned to create reservoirs of more than three thousand square kilometers in area, and add some 865 square kilometers of flooded land to existing water bodies. The Crees were therefore confronted with the prospect of many more decades of massive

Lawrence, Kaniatarowanenneh. Lake Ontario is well outlined by the touching presence of the last glaciation, and is indeed “a shining water” as its name suggests in Wyandot, the language of the Huron. During colonialism, Toronto was formed as the boundary place with a flourishing economy and a transitory social corridor of trade, development and settlement. Transition marks a threshold that is constantly making the cultural topology of its diverse environments as landscapes, the social scenes amidst the natural time of change.