Beaver populations are making a post-fur trade resurgence, causing lots of trouble and a few cases of panic
Tag Archives: beaver
The Lone Beaver: David Poulsen narrates Canada’s cattle-herding beaver
Calgary Stampede rodeo announcer David Poulsen narrates the viral video of a beaver’s herding efforts in Saskatchewan.
12 dishes made from beaver
12 delicious treats from The Canadian Beaver Book
Hudson’s Bay releases Sochi Winter Olympics uniforms
Canada, straining for gold
5 Canadian myths that just won’t die
Our Book of Lists checked the facts on Canuck alcohol content, beaver parts, taxation and guns
Beaver be dammed
A proposal to replace the beaver with the polar bear as our national emblem causes fur to fly
Beaver, be gone
At 36, our national emblem is apparently getting long in the bucked tooth
Chewing through a continent
Beavers’ revenge: Once extinct, beavers are now blamed for widespread damage
Le castor fait tout
I wonder if any of the other Macbloggers have been straining at their imaginations trying to find a PG-rated way to talk about the name change over at Canada’s second-oldest magazine. It took me a while to remember that General Semantics has an answer for this. So: The Beaver, now to become Canada’s History, was named in 1920 for what we’ll call beaver1, the rodent Castor canadensis. The periodical was obliged to make the change because of jokes about and search-engine confusion with beaver2, a colloquialism for an anatomical neighbourhood in the human female.