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Alberta Oil Sands #14

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Title: Alberta Oil Sands #14

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Dimensions: 162.56 x 121.92 cm

Subject: oil; water; chromogenic; print

Credit: Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

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Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Responsibility: D.W. Schindler; W.F. Donahue

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 6 pages ; illustrations , maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Western Canada; Glaciers; Rivers; Lakes

Abstract: Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.

Notes: In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online via PNAS's website

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Caribou Highway & Merritt

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Date: 1938

Catalogue Number: LaE.09.12

Description: a small note/sketchbook with no front cover “Caribou Highway & Merritt 1938” printed in black watercolour.photos only up to # 8 see sketchbook for subsequent drawings

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Artist: Ernest C. W Lamarque (1879 – 1970, Canadian)

Title: Caribou Highway & Merritt

Date: 1938

Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.0 cm

Description: a small note/sketchbook with no front cover “Caribou Highway & Merritt 1938” printed in black watercolour.photos only up to # 8 see sketchbook for subsequent drawings

Subject: landscape; water; mountains; buildings; Ernest Lamarque

Credit: Gift of Ernest Lamarque (Estate), 1971

Catalogue Number: LaE.09.12

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The Cascade

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in m…

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Artist: Henry Eric Bergman (1893 – 1958, Canadian )

Title: The Cascade

Date: 1931

Medium: woodblock on rice paper

Dimensions: 33.5 cm x 24.6 cm cm

Description: A black and white woodcut with a foreground of a forest with fallen and leaning trees, a stream running first right and then finishing on the viewer’s left. The ground is littered with rocks. Beyond are some small pine trees, a rockwall with a water fall cascading down the rock face. Signature in monogram HEB bottom rhc.

Subject: landscape; forest; water; H.E. Bergman

Credit: Gift of Norma Bergman, Calgary , 2010

Catalogue Number: BeH.04.02

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Denying the source : the crisis of First Nations water rights

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: Phare, Merrell-Ann

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 P49

Author: Phare, Merrell-Ann

Responsibility: Merrell-Ann S. Phare

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: xi, 99 p.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations - (SEE ALSO Indians); Water; Government; Environmental conservation

ISBN: 9781897522615

Accession Number: 13-2-1 70,500

Call Number: 04 P49

Collection: Archives Library

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03 T89t

Collection: Archives Library

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Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #7

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.11

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are green, blue, brown and grey. The top right corner is rimmed with white clouds, under which the mountain is rendered in a purple/grey. Under the mountain, in the lower third of the image, several blue streaks represent a river or lake. A…

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Artist: Les Graff (1936 – , Canadian)

Title: Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #7

Date: 2001 – 2001

Medium: oil on masonite board

Dimensions: 35.6 x 45.7 cm

Description: An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours are green, blue, brown and grey. The top right corner is rimmed with white clouds, under which the mountain is rendered in a purple/grey. Under the mountain, in the lower third of the image, several blue streaks represent a river or lake. At the blhc there is a segment of green. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in beige paint. Au verso, written in black ink in the tlhc, “45/H-2”.

Subject: landscape; mountain; water

Credit: Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006

Catalogue Number: GrL.01.11

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Lake O’Hara

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Artist: Kenneth Gillespie (1948 – , Canadian)

Date: 2000

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: GiK.01.01

Description: The scene is dominated by the rock faces, and mountains, notably the Yukness Ledges. Very little sky is visible, mostly white and blue clouds. Mauve, pink and brown mountains with a few vestiges of snow; pink and brown rock faces with dark and light green trees leading down to the shore. Seven Sist…

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Artist: Kenneth Gillespie (1948 – , Canadian)

Title: Lake O’Hara

Date: 2000

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 76.5 x 101.5 cm

Description: The scene is dominated by the rock faces, and mountains, notably the Yukness Ledges. Very little sky is visible, mostly white and blue clouds. Mauve, pink and brown mountains with a few vestiges of snow; pink and brown rock faces with dark and light green trees leading down to the shore. Seven Sisters Falls is visible mid-to viewer’s right. The bottom portion is turquoise blue water bisected by a line of brown/orange/pink rocks with seven shadowy trees and tree trunks, viewer’s right.Au verso printed in black marker, viewer’s left, Lake O’Hara 30x40; viewer’s right Lake O’Hara