This study is, primarily, a presentation of a "re-exploration" of the physiography and vegetation of a large portion of Northern Ontario. At the same time, it serves as an illustration of a method of multiple survey through the use of aerial photographs. The area of Northern Ontario which is "re-explored" is the roughly 93,903 square miles encompassed by the Albany River Sheet (No. 2220) of the World Aeronautical Chart Series, published at a scale of 1 to 1 million (Map 1, in pocket). There were three principal reasons for selecting this particular area. One is that it is contiguous to Northern Quebec where similar studies have been made by research groups in the Geography Department of McGill University.

Some years ago it was customary to discuss a nebulous region of the world called "the north" even though this designation suffered from numerous ambiguities. To eliminate confusion and identify a particular northern portion of the earth, the terms "arctic" and "sub-arctic" were introduced. Thus in searching for common denominators by which they could denote the arctic and sub-arctic, geographers have turned largely to climatic factors. One point often stressed is that the defined regional boundaries are not governed by latitudinal considerations.

As an introduction to a discussion of the geomorphological studies undertaken in the Lake Hasen area a brief geographical description of the area will be given. Much criticism in recent years has been voiced against purely descriptive geographical works. No doubt much of this criticism is valid for description alone can be a very shallow thing. The observations, upon which the description is founded, form the basis from which hypotheses are erected. Often in geographical studies the description is regarded as too superficial to grace a scientific work and is therefore omitted.

The present study is an attempt to show what a geographer can do in the seemingly remote field commonly termed "Intelligence Service." This field is generally considered in relationship with the notion of a conflict. Any armed conflict, be it a regular or civil war, a revolution, an armed intervention of security forces, or a simple boundary incident, is primarily a geographic problem. Geography applied in armed conflicts has developed into a special science, military geography.

The primary object of the survey was to provide a Photographic Terrain Interpretation Key, and the organisation of field work was directed to that end. As the terrain characteristics of the survey region bad to be analysed during the preparation of the key it was also possible to prepare a geographical outline at the same time. Owing to the need for minute detail in the widespread photographs chosen for keying, a good deal of time was spent on purely photographic work at the expense of other aspects, notably the detailed geomorphology.

This thesis is an account of the history, legislation, growth and structure of the New Towns of the London area. It includes an examination of the planning principles involved in the internal design of the towns, and an appraisal of the broader implications of the new towns as a facet of the policy of the decentralization of population from London.

The relationship between the meso-climate and tobacco leaf fleck is investigated by correlating wind, temperature and relative humidity records of six stations within the flecking area with the fleck index. Criteria for the recognition of the lake breeze are established and the correlations that exist between the lake breeze and flecking are shown. It is concluded that the lake breeze correlates effectively with flecking when the lake breeze is accompanied by a southerly gradient wind. The lake breeze and meteorological processes connected with it may provide a mechanism for fumigation in the manner suggested by Mukammal (1959) and (1960).

There is no known scientific account of the physical and human geography of the District of Brome. Some information is scattered in various reports and essays of investigators in other fields of research, such as history or geology, but as yet no effort has been made to collect this material into one work. The purpose of this thesis is to summarise the scanty work done in the area previously, and to supplement the lacking or not coordinated knowledge with the up-to-date information collected during special field work in the area.

The purpose of the field investigations, of which this thesis is the outcome, was twofold: firstly, to study the present glacier cover of the Kingaite Peninsula, and secondly, to attempt to elucidate the course of glaciation and deglaciation during the Pleistocene Epoch as a whole and during the Wisconsin Age in particular.

Geomorphology, from its Greek derivation, is the study of the shape of the earth's surface and, as such, it falls within the realms of both geography and geology. In each of the two disciplines, however, its objectives differ. The core of geographical research is the study of the 'region' and geomorphology provides this with a physical basis. [...]