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Caribou comeback : how the plan to reintroduce a lost species is unfolding in Canada's flagship national park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20015
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Hajnrych, Taryn
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- P
1 website
- Author
- Hajnrych, Taryn
- Responsibility
- Taryn Hajnrych
- Published Date
- 2013
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to the reintroduction of caribou in Banff National Park
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Summer 2013, p. 37 - 39
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Caribou rainforest : from heartbreak to hope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25061
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Moskowitz, David
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 04.2 M85c
1 website
- Author
- Moskowitz, David
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 204 pages : color illustrations, color maps
- Subjects
- Caribou
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- In a North American rainforest, that few people even know exists, about a dozen dwindling herds of caribou are struggling to survive. Caribou Rainforest doesn’t tell an easy story, ask easy questions, or pretend that there are easy solutions to the possible extinction of the last mountain caribou herds found in Canada and the United States. There are fewer than twenty animals left in the last US herd. Yet what Caribou Rainforest does—with photographs, words, and science—is explain why this is happening, so that as a community we don’t repeat our mistakes, even when our intentions are good. Author and photographer David Moskowitz has studied and photographed these caribou extensively in order to understand their plight. He hasn’t found villains, but rather climate change, predators, recreationists, settler colonialism, industrial logging, mineral extraction, and a perfect confluence of factors that have worked against this fragile species and the fragile environment upon which it relies. The story of this iconic animal and stunning landscape provides an example of shifting conservation challenges and tactics in the twenty-first century. Mountain caribou have been identified as an “umbrella species” by conservationists, meaning that protecting their habitat also helps preserve many other species who depend on the same ecosystem. The discussion topics are controversial and wrenching—upending the forestry economy of the region, exterminating wolves (who also struggle to survive) to protect the caribou, limiting recreational access to critical habitat, respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. The issues are contentious, but the opportunity to craft solutions still exists. If we do in fact lose the caribou, the task then pivots to how can we protect what remains of this rare rainforest ecosystem. In Caribou Rainforest, the author searches for lessons that can turn despair into hope: their story can become the inspiration and catalyst for committed change. (from Caribou Rainforest website)
- Contents
- North America's hidden rainforest. Map: Mountain caribou range : historical and current -- The mountains : our playground, their last refuge. Map: Overview of the Caribou Rainforest -- The Caribou Rainforest : a forest like none other. Map: Northwest inland temperate rainforest -- Mountain caribou : ghosts of the rainforest. Map: Historical and current caribou populations -- Wildlife of these mountains : a laboratory of evolution -- Human dimensions : the language of a landscape -- The path ahead : reflections on grief and hope -- Acknowledgments -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photographer's notes -- Get involved.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival finalist for Mountain Environment and Natural History
- ISBN
- 9781680511284
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 04.2 M85c
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- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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- Website for Caribou Rainforest project
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Castle in the wilderness : the story of the Banff Springs Hotel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24950
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
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- Author
- Robinson, Bart
- Responsibility
- Bart Robinson
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 160 p.; illus.
- Subjects
- Hotels
- History
- Travel
- Tourism
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- A Castle in the Wilderness: The Story of the Banff Springs Hotel is the definitive historical record of one of the world’s most famous mountain resorts. The story navigates the hotel’s early history from its construction by the Canadian Pacific Railway to the glittering era of the 1920s through to the changes of modern times. Local author and historian Bart Robinson has been exploring and writing about the Banff Springs Hotel since the 1970s. In A Castle in the Wilderness he combines a complete hotel history with rich anecdotes and snippets of the past that have enriched Banff and indeed Canada, from the hotel’s links to the construction of the transcontinental rail line to the visits of maharajahs and movie stars.How did such a gracious hotel come to be in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies? How much did it cost to build? Who designed it? Who selected its furnishings? Which famous visitors has it hosted? And why is now known as the Fairmont Banff Springs? These and many more questions are answered in the Castle in the Wilderness. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Origins of a Hotel
- Grand Designs
- Vistas and Vendettas
- Growing Pains
- Towers and Troubles
- Princes and Politicians
- Out of the Fire
- A Brief But Golden Moment
- Tribulations and Triumph
- A Second Century
- Into the New Millenium
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- ISBN
- 9781926983356
- Accession Number
- 2019.89
- Call Number
- 08.5 R55c
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- Archives Library
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- Link to publishers website where publication can been purchased
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The Cave and Basin : Banff's hot springs and the birth of Canada's national parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25251
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Hart, E.J. (Ted)
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 H11c
1 website
- Author
- Hart, E.J. (Ted)
- Responsibility
- Ted (E.J.) Hart
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 91 pages
- Abstract
- THE CAVE AND BASIN by Ted Hart is the story of mineral springs in Banff National Park that were instrumental to the growth of Banff and formed the nucleus of Canada’s national park system. Authored by renowned historian E.J. (Ted) Hart, Cave and Basin offers background on what is now protected as a national historic site, exploring the story of its discovery and the lives of those involved in its development as a world-famous attraction. It describes these unique and fascinating hot springs and how they became the catalyst for important developments in Canadian history and culture. The book details the story of the springs’ first discovery, their critical place in a government decision to create a reserve to protect them for public use and their development into a tourist location where generations of Canadians and those from around the world came to enjoy their soothing balm. In the process, the springs, and the Cave and Basin particularly, became the epicentre for both the creation and the commemoration of Canada’s national parks. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Sacred waters of the mountains
- Chapter 2 - Like some fantastic dream
- Chapter 3 - The hot springs investigation
- Chapter 4 - Recuperate the patients and recoup the treasury
- Chapter 5 - As near perfetion as it is possible to make
- Chapter 6 - Walter Painter's wonder
- Chapter 7 - Different guises
- Chapter 8 - Recent times
- Index
- Photo credits
- About the author
- ISBN
- 9781926983271
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 H11c
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Project: Great Divide Trail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25004
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- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wark, Grace
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Wark, Grace
- Publisher
- The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
- Published Date
- 2019
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Great Divide Trail
- Hiking
- Trails
- Maps
- Trail Blazers
- Abstract
- Pertains to the anniversary of the Great Divide Trail and includes stories from "Tales from the Great Divide" and Dr. Jeny Fleick's presentation at the 2019 Great Divide Trail Association Annual General Meeting
- Notes
- In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 27, No.4, December 2019. pg. 7 - 9
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- Digital copy available
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A century of antics, epics, & escapades : the Varsity Outdoor Club, 1917-2017
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19856
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Varsity Outdoor Club, University of British Columbia
- Edition
- centennial edition
- Call Number
- 01.4 C51a
1 website
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Edition
- centennial edition
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Varsity Outdoor Club, University of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 2017
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and achievements of the Varsity Outdoor Club over the last 100 years in celebration of the organizations centennial anniversary. Divided by decade, the book offers the reader a comprehensive analysis of the achievements during each time period. From mountaineering to rock climbing, hiking and sailing, the centennial edition of the Varsity Outdoor Club offers the reader a personal experience in understanding mountain life.
- Contents
- Foreward
- A history older than ours
- Table of contenets
- Timeline
- 1917 - 1939
- 1940's
- 1950's
- 1960's
- Buildering by Ard Ardvin
- 1970's
- Conservation and advocacy in VOC
- 1980's
- Women in the VOC
- 1990's
- Huts
- Nerdiness in the VOC
- 2000's
- VOC portrait: Roland Burton
- VOC marriage proposals
- 2010's
- Beyond 2017
- Acknowledgements
- A note on sources
- Appendix: executive lists
- ISBN
- 9781775043003
- Accession Number
- 2019.56
- Call Number
- 01.4 C51a
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- Archives Library
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- The attached URL pertains to the Varsity Outdoor Clubs official website
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A century of antics, epics & escapades : the Varsity Outdoor Club, 1917-2017
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19924
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
1 website
- Author
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Responsibility
- Varsity Outdoor Club
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. ; University of British Columbia's Varsity Outdoor Club
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 252 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The Varsity Outdoor Club has turned 100. To celebrate the rich history of the clubs wilderness (mis-)adventures we’ve independently published the best of our collective stories from the last century into one beautiful coffee table book. The VOC has been intimately tied with the history of hiking, skiing, mountaineering and exploration of Southwestern British Columbia and beyond. From building a wooden cabin on the untamed wilds of Grouse Mountain (in the 1920s), to the first ski crossing of the now ultra-classic, “Neve Traverse” in Garibaldi Park, to modern adventures pushing how far and how fast we can go. Each chapter explores the decades from 1917 to 2017, combining primary written accounts, stunning photos and oral histories of the members into a larger unfolding narrative of the ever-evolving relationship between adventurers and nature. (from Varsity Outdoor Club website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- A history older than ours
- Table of contents
- Timeline
- 1917-1939 - Maps: VOC areas & traverses over time
- 1940s - Decades of Garibaldi Park
- 1950s - Decades of Loganeering
- 1960s - Buildering; decades of socializing
- 1970s - Conservation and advocacy in the VOC; Decades of transportation
- 1980s - Women in the VOC; decades of adventure
- 1900s
- Huts
- Nerdiness in the VOC; Maps: selection of traverses since 2000s & climbing pilgrimages
- 2000s
- VOC portrait: Roland Burton
- VOC marriage proposals
- 2010s
- Beyond 2017
- Acknowledgements
- A note on sources
- Appendix: executive lists
- ISBN
- 9781775043003
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G505 V37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Varsity Outdoor Club website - publication information
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Chamonix : a guide to the best rock climbs and mountain routes around Chamonix and Mont Blanc
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19914
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Boscoe, Charlie
- Geldard, Jack
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Call Number
- DQ841 B67 C43
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- Author
- Boscoe, Charlie
- Geldard, Jack
- Responsibility
- Charlie Boscoe and Jack Geldard
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 456 p. ; illus (colour)
- Subjects
- Chamonix
- Guidebooks
- Abstract
- Chamonix is the most famous climbing area in Europe. Nowhere else has as much quality rock, spectacular peaks and varied mountaineering history. For most climbers a trip to Chamonix is an integral part of their climbing and mountaineering career. When there you want to try everything; perfect granite rock routes, magnificent long ridges, intimidating north faces and then also have some valley sport climbing for the ‘rest days’. Or maybe you just want to tick Mont Blanc.For the first time ever, all this is available in a single publication from Rockfax with hundreds of routes ranging from short sport ticks to the best multi-day adventures. It is illustrated with some amazing photo-topos, superb maps and with excellent detailed descriptions. For Rockfax this has been one of our most exciting challenges to date. Doing justice to this vast area with it many iconic climbs and mountain routes and great variety of climbing is no small task. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chamonix logistics
- Chamonis climbing
- Glacier du Tour
- Glacier d'Argentiere
- Glacier de Talefre
- Grandes Jorasses
- Envers des Aiguilles
- Plan de l'Aiguille
- Aiguille du Midi
- Helbronner
- Mont Blanc du Tacul
- Mont Blanc
- Tre la Tete
- Aiguilles Rogues - Brevent
- Aiguilles Rogues - Index
- Chamonix Valley sport climbing
- Route index
- Mountain route index and tick list
- Crag general index
- ISBN
- 9781873341575
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- DQ841 B67 C43
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Publisher information - able to download digital version on app
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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Indigenous life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25209
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Daschuk, James W.
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Call Number
- 08.1 D26c
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- Author
- Daschuk, James W.
- Responsibility
- James W. Daschuk
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Health
- First Nations
- Canada
- Government
- Abstract
- Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream. " It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. (From University of Regina Press website)
- Contents
- Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog : An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair
- Foreward by Elizabeth A. Fenn
- Introduction to the 2019 Edition
- Introduction to the 2013 Edition
- Chapter 1 - Indigenous Health, Environment and Disease Before Europeans
- Chapter 2 - The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease
- Chapter 3 - Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82
- Chapter 4 - Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821
- Chapter 5 - Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
- Chapter 6 - Canada, the Northwest and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
- Chapter 7 - Treaties, Famine and the Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
- Chapter 8 - Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
- Chapter 9 - The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
- Conclusion
- ISBN
- 9780889776227
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 D26c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- University of Regina Press website
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Herrington, Jim
- Child, Greg
- Honnold, Alex
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
1 website
- Responsibility
- Jim Herrington (photographs), Greg Child (essay), Alex Honnold (foreward)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 191 p.; illus (some colour)
- Subjects
- Photography
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineers Women
- Abstract
- Pertains to climbers including portraits of Glen Dawson, Hamish McInnes, Dinko Bertoncelj, Gwen Moffat, Francois Guillot, Minoru Higeta, Thomas Hornbein, Joe Brown, Bradford Washburn, Robert Gabriel, Sonia Livanos, Martin Boysen, Doug Robinson, Chuck Pratt, Jim Wickwire, Louis Reichardt, Armando Aste, Peter Haan, Serge Coupe, Dee Molenaar, Glen Denny, Royal Robbins, Joe Fitschen, Mark Powell, Junko Tabei, Jim Whittaker, Sir Christian Bonington, Doug Scott, Pertemba Sherpa, Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger, Huntley Ingalls, George Hurley, Layton Kor, Cesare Maestri, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Allen Steck, Steve Roper, Don Claunch Gordon, Fred Beckey, David Brower, Pierre Mazeaud, Kim Schmitz, John Roskelley, Bonnie Prudden, Henry Barber, Don Lauria, Robert Paragot, Reinhold Messner, Kancha Sherpa, Riccardo Cassin, Glen Exum, John Gill, Dave Rearick, Jules Eichorn, Pat Ament, Jeff Lowe
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface
- Reflections on the golden age of climbing
- Photographs
- Climber biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Grand Prize - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- Mountaineering History Award - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- ISBN
- 9781680510836
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Website for book with author and publisher information, ordering information, images of inside of publication, reviews, etc.
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The CMH gallery : a visual celebration of CMH Heli-Skiing and Heli-Hiking.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19902
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Gmoser, Hans
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub.
- Call Number
- 06.4 G11t
1 website
- Author
- Gmoser, Hans
- Responsibility
- Hans Gmoser
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub.
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- 127 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the breathtaking photography captured by members of the Canadian Mountain Holiday Heli-skiing and Summer Adventurers in Banff, Alberta. The Canadian Mountain Holiday Company (CMH) worked to create a gallery in their book that would showcase some of the stunning photography they hold in their collection. The photographs are vast, showcasing skiing adventures, snowboarding adventures, hiking trips and the outdoors in its most natural state. Alongside each photograph is a short excerpt written by Hans Gmoser. Although never intended to be a concise story, the captions help to provide context and evoke a greater appreciation for nature and adventure.
- Accession Number
- 2019.64
- Call Number
- 06.4 G11t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the official website for the CMH. Interested users can explore the site for more information concerning the CMH and the services they offer.
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Dear Nan : letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25081
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
1 website
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Responsibility
- Doreen Walker (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Carr, Emily
- Abstract
- This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer. Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr’s interest in art. Carr’s relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed. The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time. Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr’s misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt “rag rug level” when depressed and how she “was sat down with a spank” when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. “Queer how we go on,” she wrote to Cheney, “luck there is so much rubber in human composition.” (from UBC Press website)
- Contents
- Foreward Introduction Note on the text Acknowledgements Abbreviations Colour Plates Chronology Illustrations The Letters Postscript Transcription of the Carr Letters Emily Carr’s “Variations” Index
- ISBN
- 9780774803908
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on UBC Press website
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Death trap : how a cave specialist and a paleontologist are piecing together Alberta's post-glacial fossil record by exploring mountain caves
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20017
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Responsibility
- Niki Wilson
- Published Date
- 2013
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to the growing understanding of the fossil record in Alberta via exporation of caves
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Summer 2013, p. 40 - 44
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- P
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- Archives Library
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- Highline website
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Deep in the furrows - a four-generation Noble venture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25132
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- June 2018
- Author
- Smith, Steven Ross
- Publisher
- Alberta Views
- Call Number
- P - General
1 website
- Author
- Smith, Steven Ross
- Responsibility
- Steven Ross Smith
- Publisher
- Alberta Views
- Published Date
- June 2018
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the agricultural history of the Noble family
- Notes
- In Alberta Views; Volume 21, Number 5, June 2018, p. 42 - 46
- Call Number
- P - General
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Available online via Alberta Views website
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A digital bundle : protecting and promoting Indigenous knowledge online
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20040
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Wemigwans, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Call Number
- 00.5 W47d
1 website
- Author
- Wemigwans, Jennifer
- Responsibility
- Jennifer Wemigwans
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Archives
- Abstract
- "'A serious advance in state-of-the-art research.' Marisa Duarte, author of Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country An essential contribution to Internet activism and a must-read for educators, theorists, and users of technology, A Digital Bundle demonstrates the great potential for digital technology to contribute to Indigenous self-determination, resurgence, revitalization, and the rebuilding of nations. Wemigwans redefines online Indigenous Knowledges as "digital bundles," grounding online projects within Indigenous traditional paradigms. She elevates both cultural protocol and responsibilities within this designation, representing new possibilities for both the Internet and Indigenous communities. Her own website was produced and created within Indigenous community cultural protocols, showing the reader a clear example of how one can respectfully follow Indigenous practices and apply Indigenous ethics in the construction of a digital site."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Indigenous Resurgence and the Internet -- Decolonizing the Digital -- Applying Indigenous Methodologies And Theories -- Biskaabiiyang ("to Look Back") -- Naakgonige ("to Plan") -- Aanjigone ("Non-Interference") -- Debwewin ("Truth as Heart Knowledge") -- Lighting New Fires for the Internet.
- ISBN
- 9870889775510
- Accession Number
- 2019.79
- Call Number
- 00.5 W47d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Smith, Will
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
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- Author
- Smith, Will
- Responsibility
- Will Smith
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- [248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
- Subjects
- Railways
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Restaurants
- Travel
- Canada
- Industry
- History
- History-Canada
- Hotels
- Abstract
- Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
- Chapter 2 - Research sources
- Chapter 3 - Railway
- Chapter 4 - Steamships
- Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
- Chapter 6 - Airline
- Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
- Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
- Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
- Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
- Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
- Chapter 12 - Market value
- Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
- Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
- Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
- Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
- Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
- Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
- Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
- Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
- Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
- Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781999382100
- Accession Number
- 2019.27
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2017 release
- Author
- Rupprecht, Markus
- Publisher
- M.Y.R.A. Entertainment
- Call Number
- 06.3 M97d DVD
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- Author
- Rupprecht, Markus
- Responsibility
- Margarethe Baillou and Allan Neuwirth (producers)
- Donna Logan (writer)
- Markus Rupprecht (writer, director)
- Julie Lynn Mortensen, Juan Riedinger, Kate Mulgrew, Rutger Hauer, Peter Strauss (actors)
- Publisher
- M.Y.R.A. Entertainment
- Published Date
- 2017 release
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color
- Subjects
- Artists
- Films
- Film making
- Stoney Nakoda
- Abstract
- DVD cover abstract: Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. At art school, she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their worlds are polar opposites, and their attraction turns their lives upside down. Inspired by a true story, Drawing Home is a universal romance for the ages. Extended abstract: Inspired by the story of Catharine Robb Whyte and Peter Whyte, founders of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, the film depicts their courtship while attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston Massachusetts and early years of their marriage in Banff. The film focuses on their painting, managing of Skoki Lodge, their relationships with family, Stoney Nakoda, and artist Carl Rungius, and Peter's subsequent health problems. Catharine Robb Whyte, 1906-1979, was born in 1906 at Concord, Massachusetts and grew up amongst the wealth and creativity of the Robb and Morse families. Peter Whyte, 1905-1966, was born and raised in Banff, Alberta, the son of merchants Dave and Annie White.
- Notes
- This film is not a documentary. It is a fictionalized account of Peter and Catharine Whyte's relationship. Locations for the movie include the actual home of Catharine and Peter Whyte in Banff Alberta, which is located on the grounds of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Extras included Bow Valley locals Brad White, Deb Reeve and David Zweifel and others. Soundtrack Stars in My Eyes is performed by Judy Collins
- Accession Number
- gratis - 2 copies
- Call Number
- 06.3 M97d DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dwayne Harty captures Yellowstone to Yukon
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25127
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Wilkinson, Todd
- Publisher
- Big Sky Journal
- Call Number
- P - General
1 website
- Author
- Wilkinson, Todd
- Responsibility
- Todd Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Big Sky Journal
- Published Date
- 2011
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Exhibitions
- Art
- Artists
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to an exhibit of paintings that were on display at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in the summer of 2012 from the National Museum of Wildlife Art entitled "Yellowstone to Yukon : Journey of Wildlife and Art" which featured many artists including Carl Rungius, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles M. Russell, Edward Kemeys, A.P. Proctor, Belmore Browne, John Fery, Aiden Lassell Ripley, Bob Kuhn, Tucker Smith, Ken Bunn, Ken Carlson, Michael Coleman, Jim Wilcox, Laney, Frances Yellow, Lanford Monroe, Tim Shinabarger, Nancy Glazier, Ernest Thompson Seton, Clarence Tillenius, Robert Lougheed, Robert Bateman, Charles A. Beil, Richard Loffler, Robert Muskego, Robert Hope, Walter Phillips, Maureen Enns etc.
- Notes
- In Big Sky Journal, Volume XVII, Number 3, Art 2011, p. 74-77
- Call Number
- P - General
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Big Sky Journal webpage for magazines
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Dyed in the green
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25278
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Publisher
- [North Saanich, British Columbia] : [George Mercer]
- Call Number
- 05.4 M46d
1 website
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Responsibility
- George Mercer
- Publisher
- [North Saanich, British Columbia] : [George Mercer]
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 361 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Parks Canada
- National parks
- Abstract
- National Park Warden Ben Matthews expected challenges with his new posting at Cape Breton Highlands, but he got more than he bargained for. Facing a notorious poacher and the local communities who viewed poaching as a way of life, Ben and the park wardens are drawn into an intricate game of cat and mouse that takes a turn no one could have imagined. Set along the world-famous Cabot Trail, this is a gripping story about protecting one of Canada's special places. (From McNally Robinson website)
- Notes
- Book one in the Dyed in the green series
- ISBN
- 9780987975409
- Call Number
- 05.4 M46d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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Eagle Valley - our legacy
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25283
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- May 2018
- Author
- Macklin, Anne
- McCullough, Douglas
- Henry, Lynne
- Souster, Bill
- Greif, Frank
- Publisher
- Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.
- Call Number
- 08.2 E1e
1 website
- Responsibility
- The Eagle Valley Working Group
- Anne Macklin
- Douglas McCullough
- Lynne Henry
- Bill Souster
- Frank Greif
- Publisher
- Cochrane, AB : Satellite Printing Ltd.
- Published Date
- May 2018
- Physical Description
- 7 sections ; illustrations (some colour), colour maps
- Abstract
- In August 2016, a group of about 40 residents as well as a couple of county councillors met at the Eagle Valley Community Hall to discuss the process of creating a new area structure plan under the oversight of a steering committee. The result of that meeting was a consensus to create a working group to provide the county with input as well as to help officials “understand who we are as a community, the commitment that we have to the land we live on, and our heritage, cultural and social resources that are in the community,”.Five volunteers — Anne Macklin, Lynne Henry, Douglas McCullough, Bill Souster and Greif — formed the Eagle Valley Working Group, which is not affiliated with any recognized societies already in the region. Over the following six months, a questionnaire was formulated to glean information from the community’s residents. A summary of the survey’s results was then discussed during a meeting held at the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group’s office this past January. When the process started, a number of important stakeholders in terms of working relationships were identified, such as the oil and gas industry, social services including Greenwood Neighbourhood Place as well as the Town of Sundre. So following January’s meeting, the working group was tasked with preparing the legacy document. Included within its pages is information about Eagle Valley’s climate, oil and gas sector, geology, as well as infrastructure issues such as roads, wastewater, water, parks and recreation. A copy of the book, is available for sale at the Sundre Municipal Library. (Summarized from Mountainview Today article - website)
- Contents
- Reader's guide
- Introduction and background
- Pride of ownership
- Sense of values
- Environmental harmony
- Stewardship of resources
- Property protection and personal security
- Legislative and management framework
- Appendices
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.2 E1e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Article with further information
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