CHANGING CANADA’S CLIMATE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 22

CHANGING CANADA’S CLIMATE

DIVERTING COLD CURRENTS. Schemes to change the climate of North America are being advocated by a Rumanian engineer named Dmitri Joanovici, who is visiting Washington to lay them before Government officials. The greatest scheme is to make Hudson Bay, navigable all the year and turn an area of 1000 'miles round it into a temperate zone. ' Joanovici proposes to shut oft the entrance to Hudson Bay from the west by building a dam from Melville Penin, sula to Baffinland. This, he says, need only be eight miles long. It would stop the flow of cold water and ioe from the Arctic regions, and allow the warm currents from the Atlantic to flow through Hudson' Strait, opening up a vast area to cultivation. The -second scheme is to construct a canal from Montreal to the Atlantic, which will diminish the flow from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, thus allowing the Gulf Stream to come nearer the coast, and rid Nova Scotia and Newfoundland of fogs and mists. To complute Uhe ticheme Joanovici 'proposes further to open up the passes between the Aleutians and across Alaska and thus allow the Pacific tides to temper the cold of the Arctic. After discussing the schemes in Washington Joanovici proposes to visit London to seek support.