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Addresses delivered to the members during the year 1929

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

Published Date: 1930

Author: Empire Club of Canada

Publisher: Toronto : T.H. Best

Call Number: 08.2 Em7

Author: Empire Club of Canada

Publisher: Toronto : T.H. Best

Published Date: 1930

Physical Description: xi, 380p. : port

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

Notes: Partial contents: Robins, E.F. The Peace River Country; Thornton, H.W Problems of the Canadian National Railways; Gibbon, J.M. The music of the people; Dafoe, J.W. Canada's new Northwest development

Accession Number: 7000

Call Number: 08.2 Em7

Collection: Archives Library

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The Adirondacks

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

Published Date: 1917

Author: Longstreth, T. Morris

Call Number: 02.3 L86

Author: Longstreth, T. Morris

Published Date: 1917

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

Subjects: United States

Call Number: 02.3 L86

Collection: Archives Library

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The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay : a chronicle of the fur trade in the north

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

Published Date: 1914

Author: Laut, Agnes Christina

Publisher: Toronto : Brook

Call Number: 08.1 L37

Author: Laut, Agnes Christina

Publisher: Toronto : Brook

Published Date: 1914

Physical Description: viii, 133p. : ill., port., maps

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

Series: Chronicles of Canada, 18. Pioneers of the North and West, part VI

Subjects: Stoney Indians

Notes: Index

Accession Number: 398

Call Number: 08.1 L37

Collection: Archives Library

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Adventures of an alpine guide

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

Published Date: 1932

Author: Klucker, Christian

Publisher: London : John Murray

Edition: 1st (English)

Call Number: 01.2 K71a

Author: Klucker, Christian

Responsibility: Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale

Edition: 1st (English)

Publisher: London : John Murray

Published Date: 1932

Physical Description: 329 pages

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

Subjects: Guide; Klucker, Christian; Alps; Whymper, Edward; Canadian Rockies; Mont Blanc; Mountaineering

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 K71a

Collection: Archives Library

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Adventures of an alpine guide

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

Published Date: 1932

Author: Klucker, Christian

Publisher: London : John Murray

Call Number: 01.2 K69

Author: Klucker, Christian

Responsibility: translated from the 3rd German ed. by Erwin and Pleasaunce von Gaisberg; edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale

Publisher: London : John Murray

Published Date: 1932

Physical Description: xiii, 329p. : ill., ports, map

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

Accession Number: 1886; 5891 - weed

Call Number: 01.2 K69

Collection: Archives Library

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The adventures of James Capen Adams : mountaineer and grizzly bear hunter of California

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

Published Date: 1911

Author: Hittell, Theodore Henry

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons

Edition: Illustrated new edition

Call Number: 01.3 H63a

Author: Hittell, Theodore Henry

Edition: Illustrated new edition

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons

Published Date: 1911

Physical Description: xiii, 373 pages, illustrations (unnumbered plates)

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

Subjects: Bears, Grizzly; United States

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 01.3 H63a

Collection: Archives Library

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Africa

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.951 v

Description: Continent of Africa with state divisions in different colours

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Africa

Date: c. 1920

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 29.8 x 22.4 cm

Description: Continent of Africa with state divisions in different colours

Subject: Africa

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.951 v

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Agassiz, Yale District

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.422

Description: A drawing of a mountain stream by trees in foreground. Heavy shading/pencil use.Cursive writing denotes details and colour scheme.

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Artist: Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)

Title: Agassiz, Yale District

Date: c. 1920

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 20.0 x 26.0 cm

Description: A drawing of a mountain stream by trees in foreground. Heavy shading/pencil use.Cursive writing denotes details and colour scheme.

Subject: landscape

Credit: Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997

Catalogue Number: CoJ.03.422

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Aged Larch

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.289

Description: To the right of centre, the lower trunk of a large larch tree is visible. The trunk is outlined in black, and coloured brown and blue-grey (with touches of ochre and red-brown). In the upper half of the sketch, a few small branches, with brushstrokes indicating groups of yellow needles, are growing…

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Aged Larch

Date: 1935 – 1955

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25.4 x 30.3 cm

Description: To the right of centre, the lower trunk of a large larch tree is visible. The trunk is outlined in black, and coloured brown and blue-grey (with touches of ochre and red-brown). In the upper half of the sketch, a few small branches, with brushstrokes indicating groups of yellow needles, are growing from the tree's trunk. In the middleground are groups of younger (smaller) yellow trees, with tall dark green evergreens behind them. Beyond the trees is a flat area coloured tan-green.

Subject: landscape; mountain; Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.01.289

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Airplane Lake, British Columbia

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

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: LaE.05.02

Description: General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right …

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

Title: Airplane Lake, British Columbia

Date: 1936

Medium: watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 26.9 x 43.5 cm

Description: General colour: light green, brown. The lake sits in the lower third of the picture between two points of grassy treed land. One comes from the left side across the bottom, the other from the right side, part way up to right of center. A brown mountain range rises up from the lake and to the right side. Sky beyond with two birds flying center and left.