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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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Beyond the rockies : three thousand miles by trail and canoe through little-known British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26158
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.5 J64b
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 212 pages ; 52 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword -- I. In which we discover an island eden in the Gulf of Georgia -- II. We explore Galiano, Pender and Salt Spring Islands -- III. Over the Cariboo highway--A foot and otherwise -- IV. In which a bishop comes to the rescue -- V. A "hobo's" adventures by the way -- VI. A sky-pilot among the enchanted islands of the British Columbia coast -- VII. Barkerville--The town of a thousand golden memories -- VIII. Chilcotin--Heart of the great British Columbia cattle country -- IX. Secrets in the great north -- X. Prince George and historic Fort St. James -- XI. Trappers, traders and pioneer settlers -- XII. Romantic trails of northern British Columbia -- XIII. The bridge river valley -- XIV. Waterways of the great north -- XV. Down the Peace--From finlay forks to old Fort St. John -- XVI. Peace River--The Last great west -- XVII. Taming the northern wilderness--The Story of sixteen years.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.5 J64b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Calgary's mountain panorama
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11944
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1990
- Author
- Birrell, Dave
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- R 02.01 B53
- Author
- Birrell, Dave
- Responsibility
- text by Dave Birrell; artwork by Ron Ellis
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- c1990
- Physical Description
- 95 p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Fire lookouts
- Mines
- Quarries
- Travel
- World War I
- Notes
- Fold out panorama attached to back cover. Index of peaks at end
- ISBN
- 0921102127
- Accession Number
- 5935
- Call Number
- R 02.01 B53
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- Archives Library
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Circular of general information regarding Glacier National Park Montana
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20134
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- United States Department of the Interior and National Park Service
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office
- Call Number
- 02.3 D34c Pam
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office
- Published Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 64 pages
- Abstract
- Pertains to a comprehensive collection of information regarding travel and amenities in Glacier National Park, Montana. The publication provides insight into travel options, accommodations, costs, rules, regulations, animal safety, outdoor activities and much more.
- Contents
- General description (pg. 1)
- A romance in rocks (pg. 2)
- The Lewis overthrust (pg. 3)
- Magnificently colored strata (pg. 3)
- Carved by water and ice (pg. 5)
- Advantages of camping out (pg. 6)
- A general view (pg. 7)
- The west side (pg.7)
- History (pg. 8)
- East side valleys (pg. 8)
- The principal passes (pg. 12)
- South and west side valleys (pg. 15)
- Administration (pg. 17)
- How to reach the park (pg. 17)
- Road-sign information (pg. 20)
- How to dress (pg. 20)
- Transportation and accomodations (pg. 21)
- Free public automobile camp grounds (pg. 24)
- Post offices (pg. 24)
- Telegrams (pg. 25)
- Express (pg. 25)
- Information, utilities, etc. (pg. 25)
- Medical service (pg. 25)
- Saddle-horse tours (pg. 26)
- Nature-guide tours (pg. 27)
- Information for hikers (pg. 27)
- Rowboats (pg. 28)
- Swimming (pg. 28)
- Fishing (pg. 29)
- Wild animals (pg. 31)
- Rules and regulations (pg. 32)
- Map (pg. 40)
- Panoramic view (pg. 40)
- Literature (pg. 41)
- Government publications (pg. 41)
- References (pg. 42)
- Other National Parks (pg. 43)
- Authorized rates for public utilities, season of 1929 (pg. 44)
- Hotels, chalets, transportation within the park, etc. (pg. 44)
- Notes
- Additional information on front reads, "Season from June 15 to September 15"
- Accession Number
- 3069 a
- Call Number
- 02.3 D34c Pam
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- Archives Library
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Highways, motor camps and stopping places in British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24953
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Bureau of Provincial Information
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Printer to the King
- Call Number
- 02.5 B85h PAM
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- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Printer to the King
- Published Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 96 pages : illustrations, maps
- Abstract
- Pertains to highways, camping, and stopping places in British Columbia as of 1929 - includes maps and descriptions
- Contents
- British Columbia:
- Camps and Fire Precautions
- Fishing and Hunting
- Island Highway
- Vancouver Highways
- Dewdney Road
- Pacific Highways
- Yale Road
- Cariboo Road
- South Trunk Highway
- Kamloops-Okanagan Highway
- Trans-provincial Highway
- Northern Highway
- Okanagan-Arrow-Kootenay Lakes
- Columbia Valley Highway
- Accession Number
- 2014.8336
- Call Number
- 02.5 B85h PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Mentioned as a "Special Publication" in this document entitled "Publications of the Government of British Columbia 1811-1947"
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Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1313
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge
- Call Number
- 08 P88i
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise
- Responsibility
- Mary Louise Pratt
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- xii, 257 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to travel writing and European expansion beginning in 1750 with focus on South America and Africa
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Criticism in the contact zone -- Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary, consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II: the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- The reinvention of America, 1800-50 -- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America -- Reinvention America II: the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing America/reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning -- Imperial stylistics, 1860-1980 -- From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador.
- ISBN
- 0-415-06095-8 pbk
- Accession Number
- 2019.01
- Call Number
- 08 P88i
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- Archives Library
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The kicking horse trail, scenic highway from Lake Louise, Alberta to Golden, British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19849
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Williams, M.B.
- Publisher
- [Ottawa], [F.A. Acland, printer]
- Call Number
- 02.6 W66k PAM
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- Author
- Williams, M.B.
- Responsibility
- M.B. Williams
- Publisher
- [Ottawa], [F.A. Acland, printer]
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 47 pages
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to a Canadian Rocky Mountain travel guide. With the use of both images and text, the author has been successful in compiling a guide for travelling in the Canadian Rockies. The book is written in a narrative voice, as to immerse the reader into the Canadian Rocky Mountain experience. The author cover areas and landmarks ranging from Lake Louise, Alberta to Golden, British Columbia.
- Notes
- This version contains a unique annotation on the first page dating August 4, 1927 from Fred Johnston
- Accession Number
- 2019.50
- Call Number
- 02.6 W66k PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to an interactive website in which the reader can learn more about the author and her admiration for Canada’s national parks.
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The road west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19944
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1996
- Author
- Elkington, Peter W.
- Publisher
- Revelstroke, B.C. : Peter's Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 El5t
- Author
- Elkington, Peter W.
- Responsibility
- Peter W. Elkington
- Publisher
- Revelstroke, B.C. : Peter's Press
- Published Date
- 1996
- Physical Description
- vi, 172 p. : maps ; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Western Canada
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to the travelers and places Peter W. Elkington came across during his personal travels west. He captures an authentic humanity in each story, sharing hardships and hope. He writes of each traveler’s individual life, pain and successes. Elkington invites the reader to find ourselves in his stories, and reflect on the journeys we so often find ourselves on.
- Contents
- Preface (pg. III)
- Prologue (pg. IV)
- Chapter 1: The Pilgrim (pg. 1)
- Chapter 2: The Trader (pg. 11)
- Chapter 3: The Goldseeker (pg. 19)
- Chapter 4: The Golden Mountain (pg. 33)
- Chapter 5: The Prospectors (pg. 41)
- Chapter 6: The Railroad (pg. 49)
- Chaoter 7: Sligh and Friends (pg. 59)
- Chapter 8: Black bear (pg. 69)
- Chapter 9: The priest (pg. 77)
- Chapter 10: George (pg. 87)
- Chapter 11: The Immigrants (pg. 95)
- Chapter 12: The RCMP (pg. 105)
- Chapter 13: Emily (pg. 113)
- Chapter 14: The Explorer (pg. 127)
- Chapter 15: Alfred Mason (pg. 137)
- Chapter 16: Amy (pg. 149)
- Chapter 17: Willie (pg. 157)
- Chapter 18: Peter (pg. 165)
- Epilogue (pg. 168)
- Notes
- The front inside page of the book has been annotated by the author and reads, "Peter W. Elkington"
- ISBN
- 0969994427
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 08.1 El5t
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- Archives Library
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Sketches of Switzerland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue767
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1836
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Call Number
- DQ23 C65 I
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Published Date
- 1836
- Physical Description
- 244 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ23 C65 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Sketches of Switzerland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14949
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1836
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Call Number
- DQ23 C65 II
- Author
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Published Date
- 1836
- Physical Description
- 226 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Subjects
- Travel
- Switzerland
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ23 C65 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of views illustrating the chief points of interest and the glorious mountain scenery seen in a journey through the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24921
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1920?]
- Author
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Publisher
- Toronto and Montreal : Southam Press Limited
- Call Number
- 02.6 C16thr PAM O.S
- Responsibility
- Canadian Pacific Railway News Service
- Publisher
- Toronto and Montreal : Southam Press Limited
- Published Date
- [1920?]
- Physical Description
- [26] leaves : chiefly illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Travel
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Rockies
- Art
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertains to areas of interest along the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rocky Mountains via unattributed photographs.
- Contents
- The Gap
- The Three Sisters, Canmore, ALTA.
- Banff, Showing Bow River Bridge
- Banff Springs Hotel and Bow River Valley
- The Swimming Pool, Banff
- Mount Assiniboine
- Indian Days at Banff
- Lake Minnewanka, near Banff
- On the Bow River, Banff
- Castle Mountain
- Lakes in the Clouds
- The Giant Steps, Paradise Valley
- Lake Louise
- The Great Divide
- Moraine Lake and Valley of the Ten Peaks
- Paradise Valley
- Cathedral Mountain
- Spiral Tunnels, Field, B.C.
- Mount Stephen and Field, B.C.
- Twin Falls and the Yoho Valley
- Emerald Lake
- Mount Chancellor, Leanchoil
- Mount Sir Donald, near Glacier, B.C.
- Hell's Gate, Fraser Canyon, B.C.
- Descriptive Index
- Accession Number
- 7889
- Call Number
- 02.6 C16thr PAM O.S
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To the town that bears your name : a young woman's journey to Nordegg in 1912
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11041
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Nordegg, Martin
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Brightest Pebble
- Call Number
- 08.2 N75t
- Author
- Nordegg, Martin
- Responsibility
- translated by Maria Koch
- commentary by W, John Koch
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Brightest Pebble
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 112p. : ill., ports., facsim., maps
- Subjects
- Nordegg, Marcelle
- Travel
- ISBN
- 0-9699669-1-1
- Accession Number
- 30000
- Call Number
- 08.2 N75t
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The tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1024
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1855
- Author
- Forbes, James David
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : A & C Black
- Call Number
- DQ841 M7 F67
- Author
- Forbes, James David
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : A & C Black
- Published Date
- 1855
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ841 M7 F67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The triangle tour of British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7932
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- Call Number
- 02.5 C16tr Pam copy 1 1926
- 02.5 C16tr PAM copy 2
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- Responsibility
- Canadian National Railways
- Published Date
- 1926
- Physical Description
- 16p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Travel
- Tourism
- Canadian National Railway
- Railway map
- Railway routes
- Jasper National Park
- Prince Rupert - Stewart
- Vancouver
- Abstract
- Pertains to the Triangle Tour of British Columbia which route includes Jasper to Prince Rupert to Vancouver to Jasper on Canadian National Railway - includes detailed map of railway route, summary of trip, and photographs of Jasper and other sightseeing opportunities along the route, list of Canadian National Railway Office of the Travel Department and layout of the Canadian National Railway steamships the Prince Rupert and the Prince George
- Notes
- Publication date of copy 2 unknown, varies from copy 1 1926 pamphlet
- Accession Number
- 20500
- 2019.103
- Call Number
- 02.5 C16tr Pam copy 1 1926
- 02.5 C16tr PAM copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Version available online
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The valley of the hidden lakes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25085
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Wilcox, Walter D.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : The Society
- Call Number
- 02.6 W64v
- Author
- Wilcox, Walter D.
- Responsibility
- Walter D. Wilcox
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : The Society
- Published Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- 9 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map
- Scale
- 1:40,0000
- Abstract
- Summary of Walter D. Wilcox’s time spent at the Valley of the Hidden Lakes
- Notes
- Reprinted from Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia.no. 3-4, April-July, 1922.XX
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 02.6 W64v
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Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America : from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4983
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Kane, Paul
- Publisher
- Toronto : Radisson Society
- Call Number
- 07.2 K13
- Author
- Kane, Paul
- Publisher
- Toronto : Radisson Society
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- liv, 329p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Jasper
- Rundle, Robert Terrill
- Travel
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 07.2 K13
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