Author(s): Bernard Michel
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Abstract: Most lakes and rivers in Canada are covered by ice many months during the year and this has been historically a major factor in the development of this country. It is, however, a difficult task to prepare the history of research on this subject, which is so mixed with the every day life of the people, but yet so hard to trace in the litterature because of its diversity and the large number of scientific disciplines it concerns. The amount of research on floating ice has been considerable in Canada and has increased in an explosive manner in the last decade, with the oil and gas exploration in the North. So we have tried, in this short presentation, first to show the importance of river ice at the origins of the country and second to discuss the main findings in river and lake ice up to the beginning of the 70 's. We have followed the order of topics which are discussed in this Symposium and we apologized to the authors of many important studies which have been made in the past ten years and which could not be covered in this limited presentation.
Year: 1981