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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25230
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
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- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Responsibility
- Maria Zytaruk
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Birds
- Art
- History
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book
- Chapter 2: Paper birds
- Chapter 3: Containing nature
- Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany
- Chapter 5: Orchids for the few
- Epilogue
- Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition
- ISBN
- 9780772761262
- Accession Number
- 2021.07
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publishers website
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The North West Mounted Police 1873-1885
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15455
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Dunn, Jack F
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Jack F. Dunn
- Call Number
- 08.2 M76du
- Author
- Dunn, Jack F
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : Jack F. Dunn
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 812p : ill
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 9780969859611
- Accession Number
- 2017.8673
- Call Number
- 08.2 M76du
- Collection
- Archives Library
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"Nowt but a Fleein' Thing" : a history of climbing on Scafell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19922
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Phizacklea, Al
- Cocker, Mike
- Publisher
- Lancashire, England : The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District Limited
- Call Number
- DA P45 N69
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- Author
- Phizacklea, Al
- Cocker, Mike
- Responsibility
- Al Phizacklea and Mike Cocker
- Publisher
- Lancashire, England : The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District Limited
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 398 p. : illus. (colour)
- Subjects
- Geology
- Maps
- Clubs
- History
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- A magnificently illustrated volume of immense depth (not to mention size!) detailing the history of climbing on the Scafell crags from the earliest exploration to the present day. In 1874 George Seatree and Stanley Martin made the first ascent of North Climb, which was the first time the main face of Scafell had been ascended outside of the obvious gully lines. It was the start of great things on the crags of Scafell. Upon hearing their report of this new route, Will Ritson, landlord of the Huntsman’s Inn, looked at them incredulously, and declared in his usual broad Cumbrian dialect, "Nowt but a fleein’ thing could git up’t crags on’t Wasdale Head side". This book covers the full 200 year history of climbing on the crags of Scafell in both summer and winter conditions, in an extensive and comprehensive manner. Every route on the crag has been noted with the significant ascents being described in detail, and the entire book has been comprehensively illustrated by photographs from archive and newly commissioned work. A significant proportion of the source material has come from recordings made of the pioneers of these climbs that has never been published before. There is also an intricate explanation of the geological features which go to make up these crags as well as new maps and crag diagrams together with notes on conditions, biographies of past climbers and a comprehensive first ascent list that combines both summer and winter climbing for the first time. This book has been produced by members of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club and it is one of the most detailed compilations of rock climbing history to a single mountain crag in Britain. The Fell & Rock Climbing Club is the premier rock climbing and mountaineering club in the English Lake District. The Club was founded in 1906-07 and has been publishing a definitive series of climbing guidebooks to the Lakes since 1922. (from https://www.needlesports.com/49951/products/nowt-but-a-fleein-thing--a-history-of-climbing-on-scafell.aspx)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Early years 1802 - 1914
- Middle years 1915 - 1973
- Recent years 1974 - 2015
- Geology
- Crag diagrams
- First ascents
- Biographies
- Accidents
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780850280593
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- DA P45 N69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Publisher's website
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Paul Preuss, lord of the abyss : life and death at the birth of free-climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25054
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Smart, David
- Publisher
- Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G513 P38 S63
1 website
- Author
- Smart, David
- Publisher
- Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 248 pages : illus.
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- History
- Biography
- Abstract
- In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to make the first free solo ascent of the North Ridge of the Mandlkogel, Paul Preuss’s public presentations on his climbing adventures filled concert halls in Austria, Italy, and Germany. George Mallory, the famed English mountaineer who died on Mount Everest in 1924, said “no one will ever equal Preuss.“ Reinhold Messner, the first climber to ascend all fourteen 8000 metre peaks, was so impressed by the young Austrian’s achievements that he built a mountaineering museum around Preuss’s piton hammer, wrote two books (in German) about him and instituted a foundation in Preuss’s name. Alex Honnold, the first and only person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, has thought about Preuss’ untimely and surprising death and imagined it to have likely been “the worst four seconds” of Preuss’ life. Although he died at only 27 years old, modern climbing may never have developed the ethical, existential core that it has today if not for Preuss’s bold style. Even the most trenchant traditionalists remain unsure about whether to add him to their pantheon or dismiss him as at worst a lunatic or at best an indelicate subject better left ignored. Smart’s biography is the first English language volume to be published and is certain to bring the remarkable story of Paul Preuss to a whole new generation of climbers. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Introduction : Paul Preuss
- The boy who loved flowers and mountains
- The student mountaineer : Vienna, 1907-1910
- Schneid : Planspitze, Matterhorn, 1908
- Jesus of the Dorotheergasse, 1909
- Dolomites : the Devil's Lair, Summer 1910
- In Munich, the city of climbers
- Allein : five days that changed climbing, summer 1911
- A crazy notion : the great dispute, 1911-12
- Doctor Preuss presents
- Life as a trifle : the Kaisergebirge, Northern Limestone and the Western Alps, 1912-13
- Valhalla : Mandlkogel North Face, October 1913
- The sleeper of Altaussee
- Acknowledgements
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 shortlist for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781771603232
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G513 P38 S63
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25285
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
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- Author
- Brown, Ron
- Responsibility
- Ron Brown
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 156 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Railways
- History
- History of Alberta
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Abstract
- Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.
- ISBN
- 9781459733596
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.3 B78r
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Rainbow Mountains : photographs by Byron Harmon, 1911
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19789
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Harmon, Carole (editor), Byron Harmon
- Publisher
- Vancouver : CH Editions
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Carole Harmon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Vancouver : CH Editions
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- [26] p. : ill., ports. ; 25 x 36 cm.
- Subjects
- Harmon, Byron
- Photography
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Smithsonian Institute
- Mount Robson
- Yellowhead Pass
- Maligne Lake
- History
- Abstract
- Contains images selected from the 1911 joint expedition by the Alpine Club and the Smithsonian Institute including the first circuit of Mt. Robson and the country around Mt. Robson, Yellowhead Pass, and Maligne Lake.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Portfolio of images
- Image captions
- Dedication
- Notes
- Printed in a limited ed. of 200 hand-numbered copies.
- ISBN
- 978-0-9879073-0-1
- Accession Number
- p2019-19
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11t
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- Archives Library
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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19772
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 06.4 sk3s
- Author
- Skidmore, Colleen
- Responsibility
- Colleen Skidmore
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Mary Schaffer
- Photography
- Women
- Bibliography
- History
- Abstract
- "Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author's notes on names
- She Who Coloured Slides
- Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903
- The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906
- Maligne Lake, 1907-1911
- Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17
- ISBN
- 978-1-77212-298-5
- Accession Number
- 2019.16
- Call Number
- 06.4 sk3s
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- Archives Library
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Secwe´pemc people, land, and laws = Yeri´7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25682
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Ignance, Marianne and Ignance, Ronald E.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
- Responsibility
- With contributions by Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many Secwe´pemc storytellers, past and present ; foreword by Bonnie Leonard
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xxxv, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Secwepemc
- Indigenous
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped Secwe´pemc existence while the Secwe´pemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwe´pemc narratives about ancestors' deeds, and demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical sources, and knowledge from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, earth science, and ethnobiology. In addition to a wealth of detail about Secwe´pemc land stewardship, the social and political order, and spiritual concepts and relations embedded in the Indigenous language, the book shows how between the mid-1800s and 1920s the Secwe´pemc people resisted devastating oppression, the theft of their land, and fought to maintain political autonomy while tenaciously continuing to maintain a connection with their homeland, ancestors, and laws. An exemplary work in collaboration, Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future social and political process among the Secwe´pemc and with settler society. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- [English table of contents]. The time of the ancient transformers -- What archaeology tells us about the initial peopling and life of Secwepemcu´l´ecw / Mike K. Rousseau and Marianne Ignace -- The Shuswap language -- How we look(ed) after our land / with Nancy J. Turner -- Trade, travel, and transportation / Marianne Ignace and Kenneth Favrholdt -- Secwe´pemc sense of place -- The Secwe´pemc Nation and its boundaries -- How we are relatives to one another -- Secwe´pemc chiefship and political organization -- Secwe´pemc spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -- The unfolding of dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Indian rights movement of the early twentieth century -- Stories from the past, laws and rights for the future. The sounds of Secwepemctsi´n written in the practical alphabet xxii -- Yeri´7 re sqweqwentsi´n-kt
- An opening prayer xxv-xxvi -- Re sk`ele´p ell re sqle´lten
- Story of coyote and salmon 36-38 -- Tsxli´tentem re sk`ele´p / Coyote and his hosts 63-72 -- 4. Secwepemctsi´n : The Shuswap language 121-144 -- Xelxli´p, xelxele´q
- Coyote juggle his eyes 149-152 -- Le q´7e´ses re spi´xems re nuxwnu´xwenxw
- Women's hunting long time ago 174-175 -- Secwe´pemc words for "beaver" 178 -- Secwe´pemc calendar and seasonal round based on names and activities of Skeetchestn area 196-197 -- Lilly Harry's account of annual resource gathering 198-202 -- Me7 qweqwentsi´n-kt
- A meal prayer 205-206 -- [Food division] 207-208 -- [Example of mixed economy] 211-213 -- Secwe´pemc landscape terms and lexical suffixes 237-239 -- Story of Se´sqem 241-247 -- [Song, referred to as "Secwe´pemc national anthem"] 251-252 -- [North Thompson River, place-terminology] 253-254 -- The use of directional terms in talking about the landscapes 254-259 -- [Secwe´pemc views of territory and its split up into bands] 287-288 -- Stseq.qi´qe
- Story of Balancing Rock 301-304 -- Snine7e´llcw
- Owl's nest 304-309 -- Story of Tessie 309-311 -- ["Secwe´pemc welcome song"] 318 -- Secwe´pemc kinship and in-law terms 323-325 -- Sekla´cwa7
- Story of muskrat 326-333 -- Reqets`we´ ye ell re sni´ne
- The chipmunk and owl story 333-336 -- [Account of arranged marriages, 1930s-1940s] 342-346 -- [Views on marrying white men] 348-349 -- Re sqle´lten
- Story of the salmon 349-353 -- Names and name giving 353-356 -- Re scwicwe´ye ell re skelkle´ts
- Story of ant and grasshopper 357-359 -- ["Indian courts"] 377-379 -- Pe´xwem
- Ways to heal 392-393 -- Sni´ne
- Story of owl 395-398 -- Ctsrm`
- Having a sweat 399 -- Catholic prayers in Secwepemctsi´n 411-418 -- Re q´we´ leqs ell re si´ntse7
- The priest and the altar boy 421-423 -- [The story of Petese´q] 481-483 -- Qweni´meqll
- Story of mosquito 492-496 -- Sku´7pecen
- Story of porcupine 496-500.
- ISBN
- 9780773551305
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25008
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Cronlund Anderson, Mark
- Robertson, Carmen L.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 C87s
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- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- [vii], 362 pages : facsimiles
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Canada
- History
- First Nations
- Abstract
- Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism. (from U of M Press website)
- Contents
- This land is mine : The Rupert's Land purchase, 1869 -- Fifty-six words : Treaty 3, 1873 -- "Our little war" : The North-west Rebellion, 1885 -- The golden rule : The Klondike Gold Rush, 1898-1905 -- Poet, princess, possession : Remembering Pauline Johnson, 1913 -- Disrobing Grey Owl : The death of Archie Belaney, 1938 -- "Potential Indian citizens?" : Aboriginal people after World War II, 1948 -- Cardboard characters : The White Paper, 1969 -- Bended Elbow news : The Anicinabe Park Standoff, 1974 -- Indian princess/Indian "Squaw" : Bill C-31, 1985 -- Letters from the edges : The Oka Crisis, 1990 -- Back to the future : A Prairie centennial, 1905-2005 -- Conclusion : Return of the native.
- ISBN
- 9780887557279
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 08.1 C87s
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary at University of Manitoba Press website
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Settler : identity and colonialism in 21st century Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25063
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Battell Lowman, Emma
- Barker, Adam J.
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.1 B31s
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- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- xii, 145 pages
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Canada
- History
- Abstract
- Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter? Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada explains what it means to be Settler and argues that accepting this identity is an important first step towards changing those relationships. Being Settler means understanding that Canada is deeply entangled in the violence of colonialism, and that this colonialism and pervasive violence continue to define contemporary political, economic and cultural life in Canada. It also means accepting our responsibility to struggle for change. Settler offers important ways forward — ways to decolonize relationships between Settler Canadians and Indigenous peoples — so that we can find new ways of being on the land, together. This book presents a serious challenge. It offers no easy road, and lets no one off the hook. It will unsettle, but only to help Settler people find a pathway for transformative change, one that prepares us to imagine and move towards just and beneficial relationships with Indigenous nations. And this way forward may mean leaving much of what we know as Canada behind. (from Fernwood Publishing website)
- Contents
- 1. Why say settler? -- 2. Canada and settler colonialism -- 3. It's always all about the land -- 4. "Settling' our differences -- 5. Fear, complicity, and productive discomfort -- 6. Decolonization and dangerous freedom.
- ISBN
- 9781552667781
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 08.1 B31s
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Fernwood Publishing website
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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
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- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 192 p. ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 2
- Subjects
- Surveyors
- Surveys and Mapping
- Surveys
- Great Divide Trail
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- British Columbia - Boundaries
- British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
- Alberta - B.C. Boundary
- Alberta - Boundaries
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Cautley, Richard William
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- "Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Surveyors
- Surveying Methods 1918-1924
- Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
- Conclusion
- Geographical Names
- Survey Crews, 1918-1924
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Notes
- Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
- ISBN
- 9780773860091
- Accession Number
- 2019.90
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
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- Archives Library
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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25058
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Ladner, Kiera L. (editor)
- Tait, Myra (editor)
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 L12s
1 website
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 462 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Canada
- History
- First Nations
- Politics
- Abstract
- Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how-even 150 years after Confederation-the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving Canada examines the struggle for Indigenous Peoples to celebrate their cultures and exercise their right to control their own economic development, lands, water, and lives. The Indian Act, Idle No More, and the legacy of residential schools are just a few of the topics covered by a wide range of elders, scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors include Mary Eberts, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Leroy Little Bear. (from ARP books)
- Contents
- Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal / Kiera L. Ladner Myra J. Tait -- Acknowledgements -- Nokomis and the Law in the Gift: Living Treaty Each Day / Aaron Mills -- Reconcile Your State of Mind / Rebecca Thomas -- Don't Read the Comments: The Role of Modern News Media in Bridging the Divide Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Canada / Waubgeshig Rice -- Canada is a Pretend Nation: REDx Talks- What I Know Now About Canada / Leroy Little Bear -- Anthem / Erin Freeland -- Inclusion is Just the Canadian Word for Assimilation: Self-Determinism and the Reconciliation Paradigm in Canada / Rachael Yacaa?al George -- The Path to Self-Determinism / Natan Obed -- Can Canada Retrieve the Principles of its First Confederation? / Peter H. Russell -- Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday: A Play in One Act / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Kapyong and Treaty One First Nations: When the Crown Can Do No Wrong / Myra J. Tait -- Canada, I can cite for you / Christie Belcourt -- "To Honour the Lives of Those Taken From Us": Restor(y)ing Resurgence and Survivance through Walking With Our Sisters / Shalene Jobin Tara Kappo -- Lament for Confederation / Dan George -- Language Rights as Aboriginal Rights: From Words to Action / Karen Drake -- Canada's History Goes Beyond 150 Years / Doug Cuthand -- Forgetting to Celebrate: Genocide and Social Amnesia as Foundational to the Canadian Settler State / David B. MacDonald -- Kahwa´:tsire: Canada 150 Through The Lens of Mohawk Motherhood / Kehente Horn-Miller / Waneek Miller -- Canada: Portrait of a Serial Killer / Jeff Corntassel Christine Bird -- Her 210 / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Because It's 1951: The Non-History of First Nations Female Band Suffrage and Leadership / Mary Jane Logan McCallum Shelisa Klassen -- My Country 'tis of Thy People You're Dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Reconciliation on Trial: Evaluating What Reconciliation Means in the Context of Aboriginal Justice / David Milward -- Got Tolerance? / Felicia Sinclair -- Drinking Dispossession: Shoal Lake 40, Winnipeg, and the Making of Canada / Adele Perry.
- ISBN
- 9781894037891
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 08.1 L12s
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on ARP Books website
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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Edition
- First, revised
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Responsibility
- Cecil Foster
- Edition
- First, revised
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 296 pages
- Abstract
- Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781771962612
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Archives Library
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This place : 150 years retold
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25258
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Elliott, Alicia
- Akiwensie-Damm, Kateri
- Assu, Sonny
- Mitchell, Brandon
- Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel
- Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean
- Robertson, David A.
- Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James
- Storm, Jen
- Van Camp, Richard
- Vermette, Katherena
- Vowel, Chelsea
- Audibert, Tara
- Charles, Kyle
- Chomichuk, GMB
- Donovan, Natasha
- Ford, Scott A.
- Henderson, Scott B.
- Howe, Ryan
- Lodwick, Andrew
- Yaciuk, Donovan
- Publisher
- [Winnipeg, Manitoba] : HighWater Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 E1t
1 website
- Author
- Elliott, Alicia
- Akiwensie-Damm, Kateri
- Assu, Sonny
- Mitchell, Brandon
- Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel
- Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean
- Robertson, David A.
- Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James
- Storm, Jen
- Van Camp, Richard
- Vermette, Katherena
- Vowel, Chelsea
- Audibert, Tara
- Charles, Kyle
- Chomichuk, GMB
- Donovan, Natasha
- Ford, Scott A.
- Henderson, Scott B.
- Howe, Ryan
- Lodwick, Andrew
- Yaciuk, Donovan
- Responsibility
- Alicia Elliott (forward)
- Kateri Akiwensie-Damm (author)
- Sonny Assu (author)
- Brandon Mitchell (author)
- Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley (author)
- Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (author)
- David A. Robertson (author)
- Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (author)
- Jen Storm (author) (artist)
- Richard Van Camp (author)
- Katherena Vermette (author)
- Chelsea Vowel (author)
- Tara Audibert (artist)
- Kyle Charles (artist)
- GMB Chomichuk (artist)
- Natasha Donovan (artist)
- Scott A. Ford (artist)
- Scott B. Henderson (artist)
- Ryan Howe (artist)
- Andrew Lodwick (artist)
- Donovan Yaciuk (artist)
- Publisher
- [Winnipeg, Manitoba] : HighWater Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- vi, 287 pages : chiefly color illustrations
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Graphic art
- History
- History-Canada
- Fiction
- Abstract
- Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through Indigenous wonderworks, psychic battles, and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Annie of Red River / Katherena Vermette ; illustration, Scott B. Henderson ; colours, Donovan Yaciuk -- Tilted ground / Sonny Assu ; illustration, Kyle Charles ; colours, Scott A. Ford -- Red clouds / Jen Storm ; illustration and colours, Natasha Donovan -- Peggy / David A. Robertson ; illustration and colours, Natasha Donovan -- Rosie / Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley ; illustration and colours, GMB Chomichuk -- Nimkii / Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm ; illustration, Ryan Howe and Jen Storm ; colours, Donovan Yaciuk -- Like a razor slash / Richard Van Camp ; illustration, Scott B. Henderson ; colours, Scott A. Ford -- Migwite'tmeg : we remember it / Brandon Mitchell ; illustration, Tara Audibert ; colours, Donovan Yaciuk -- Warrior nation / Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair ; illustration and colours, Andrew Lodwick -- kitaskinaw 2350 / Chelsea Vowel ; illustration, Tara Audibert ; colours, Donovan Yaciuk.
- ISBN
- 9781553797586
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 05.2 E1t
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- Archives Library
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Thumbing a ride : hitchhikers, hostels, and counterculture in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24955
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Mahood, Linda
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 02.4 M11th
1 website
- Author
- Mahood, Linda
- Responsibility
- Linda Mahood
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- Description:xii, 331 pages : illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- In the 1920s, as a national network of roads and youth hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. By the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway had become the main thoroughfare for thousands of young baby boomers seeking adventure. Thumbing a Ride examines the rise and fall of hitchhiking in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time. The Trudeau Liberals responded to youth unemployment by subsidizing a network of hostels to make travel an educational adventure, and many equated hitching and hostelling with the freedom to do their own thing. At the same time, a counter-narrative emerged, of girls gone missing and other dangers. Town councillors, community groups, and motorists called for a nationwide clampdown on a transient youth movement that they believed was spreading hippie sensibilities and anti-establishment nomadism. Hitchhiking is a ritual that requires trust, boundary negotiation, and control. Neither the identity of the hitchhiker nor the motives of the motorist can be determined in advance. Linda Mahood unearths good and bad stories and key biographical moments that formed young travellers’ understandings of personal risk, agency, and national identity. Thumbing a Ride asks new questions about hitchhiking as a rite of passage, and about adult interventions that turned a subculture into a pressing moral and social issue. This book will appeal to students and scholars of history, sociology, and social policy. It will also find an appreciative audience among baby boomers who recall the transient youth movement. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Get your Motor Running: Risk, Ritual, and Rite of Passage Travel
- Thumb Wars: Adventure Hitchhiking
- Rucksack Revolution: Quest in the Age of Aquarius
- Cool Aid: The Transient Youth Movement
- Crash Pads: Blue-Jean Bureaucrats versus the Canadian Youth Hostels Association
- Head Out on the Highway: Stories from the Trans-Canada Highway
- Car Sick: Hitchhiking Dos and Don'ts
- Conclusion: The Vanishing Hitchhiker Eulogy
- Notes
- Index
- ISBN
- 978077483733
- Accession Number
- P2019-30
- Call Number
- 02.4 M11th
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- Archives Library
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Tied to the rails : Jasper's railway connection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19804
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Covey, Bob
- Publisher
- Jasper, Alberta : Jasper Yellowhead Museum & Archives
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11t copy 1
- 08.5 C11t copy 2
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- Author
- Covey, Bob
- Responsibility
- Bob Covey
- Publisher
- Jasper, Alberta : Jasper Yellowhead Museum & Archives
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 99 pages : illustrated with photographs ; 19 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of the railway as it relates to Jasper National Park.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Acknowledgements
- Yellowhead Pass National Historic Site
- Preface
- Mountain torrents
- Ahead of its time
- Stake out
- Following the fur trade
- Fly camps and locations scouts
- "An exceptional opportunity which no wise man will overlook"
- Ahead of the track : wagon trails and tote roads
- Life on the line : a hard advance
- Whisky skirts
- Frozen freighting
- Camplife
- Station to station
- GTP & CNoR station sites and flag stops
- A isolated national park
- Grand schemes and dissolved dreams
- A frame of a town
- Territorial tendancies
- Larger forces at work
- Nationalization
- Canvas tents and increased rents
- Luxury in the wilderness
- Resident relocation, station configuration
- Smooth as silk
- Jasper royaly - teh Beanerie Queens
- Four wheeled future
- Downsizing
- A lineage of commitment
- The Canoe River train wreck
- Jasper railway timeline
- Bibliography
- Index
- Image reproduction information
- ISBN
- 978-1-77084-379-0
- Accession Number
- P2019-24
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11t copy 1
- 08.5 C11t copy 2
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The tower : a chronicle of climbing and controversy on Cerro Torre
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2218
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Cordes, Kelly
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Edition
- First edition
- Call Number
- 01.1 Co81t
- Author
- Cordes, Kelly
- Responsibility
- Kelly Cordes
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 399 pages, [4]-17 and [193]-208 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- South America
- History
- Abstract
- Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies and epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, and why some pursue extreme endeavors that at face value have no worth. --Publisher's description.
- Contents
- Lost time -- In the beginning -- Toni, Toni, Toni -- January 2012 -- 1959 -- Aftermath 1959 -- Doubt, rage, and a gas-powered compressor -- Ragni di Lecco -- Body of evidence -- Origins of belief -- Poseidon and Zeus -- Cold reality -- Belssed by Bridwell -- The grandfather clause -- Insight from Reinhold -- Examination of a myth -- New Patagonia -- El arca de los vientos -- Aftermath 2005 -- Stop making sense -- Los tiempos perdidos -- A new story -- The democratic republic of Cerro Torre -- Demystification of a massif -- A brief commercial interruption -- Contrast on the southeast ridge -- Seven days -- Aftermath 2012 -- Everybody has an opinion -- Cesare's letter -- Growing pains -- Alone with the truth -- The man and the mountains -- Fact-checking interlude -- My truth.
- Notes
- Winner of 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival's Jon Whyte Award
- ISBN
- 978-1-938340-33-8
- Accession Number
- 2019.13
- Call Number
- 01.1 Co81t
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Welcome to Resisterville : American dissidents in British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19781
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Rodgers, Kathleen
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ro61w
- Author
- Rodgers, Kathleen
- Responsibility
- Kathleen Rodgers
- Publisher
- Vancouver : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- xix, 219 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- History
- Immigration
- Abstract
- Between 1965 and 1975, thousands of American migrants traded their established lives for a new beginning in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Some were non-violent resisters who opposed the war in Vietnam. But a larger group was inspired by the ideals of the 1960s counterculture and the New Left and, hoping to flee the restrictive demands of their parents’ world and the pressures of city life, they set out to build a peaceful, egalitarian society in the Canadian wilderness. Once they arrived, they began to build communities according to these ideals -- finding allies in the Quakers and Doukhobors who had taken refuge there years before, and working through confrontations with those in the area who resented the transformative influx of young, idealistic Americans. Even today, their success is evident, as values like equality, sustainability, and creativity still define community life. This fascinating history draws on interviews and archival records to explore the root causes of this and its role in creating a region that continues to be a hotbed of social and environmental experimentation. Welcome to Resisterville is both an important look at an untold chapter in Canadian history and a compelling story of enduring idealism.
- Contents
- Welcome to Resisterville -- Identity and the American migration -- Taking root : brokering friends and allies in the West Kootenay counterculture, 1965-73 -- Acting together and resisting together : building a countercultural haven, 1968-79 -- "We were even stranger than other strangers" : conflict, contestation and boundary negotiation in the formation of the West Kootenay counterculture, 1968-79 -- The birth of environmental consciousness and the rise of the environmental critique, 1973-91 -- Leadership, legacy, and reconciliation -- Forging a "long tradition."
- ISBN
- 978-0-7748-2734-8 pbk
- Accession Number
- p2019-01
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ro61w
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