Search Results - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

The amateur trapper and trap-maker's guide : a complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of trapping, snaring, and netting, containing plain directions for constructing the most approved traps ... with concise but comprehensive instructions for preserving and stuffing specimens ...

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25069

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

Published Date: 1875?

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Published Date: 1875?

Physical Description: 134 p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Trapping; Wildlife; Guidebook

Abstract: Guide to trapping fur-bearing and animals including how to make traps and taxidermy and other preservation methods.

Notes: Cover missing

Accession Number: 2926

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Annual report of the Department of the Interior

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3651

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

Published Date: 1875-1936

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Call Number: 02.4 C16i; 02.4 C16i 1908 Copy 2; 02.4 C16i 1930 C.2 Pam

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Published Date: 1875-1936

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

Series: Sessional papers

Subjects: Banff (townsite); Businesses; Government; Hot springs; Indians; Mining; National parks; Roads; Surveys; Tourism; Utilities

Notes: Holdings: 1875-1936 [some photocopies; some Part V or Part III only]. Photocopies only for: 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1903/04, 1905/06, 1906/07, 1908 Dept of Interior & Part III only, 1911/12, 1914/15, 1916/17, 1918/19;; Fiscal year Jan-Dec until 1899 - changed with 6 month gap between 1899 (dated Feb 28, 1900) and 1901 (June 1900-Jun30, 1901) [re: change of fiscal year?]; fiscal year change again 1906/07 (April to Mar 31)[ This second change caused there to be an annual report for 1905 of which we have original]; Also referred to as "The Department of the Interior Report"

Accession Number: 334; 1000; 12548; 2416; 2691; 7830

Call Number: 02.4 C16i; 02.4 C16i 1908 Copy 2; 02.4 C16i 1930 C.2 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Annual report on the progress of the topographical survey of the Adirondack region of New York

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1909

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

Published Date: 1873-79

Author: New York (State). Adirondack Survey

Publisher: Albany : Weed, Parsons

Call Number: F127 A2 N49

Author: New York (State). Adirondack Survey

Responsibility: by Verplanck Colvin

Publisher: Albany : Weed, Parsons

Published Date: 1873-79

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

Call Number: F127 A2 N49

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Articles of a treaty

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8820

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

Published Date: 1878

Call Number: 07.2 Ar7 Pam

Published Date: 1878

Physical Description: p.xliv-li

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

Subjects: Treaty Number Seven

Notes: From Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Year Ended 30th June 1877

Call Number: 07.2 Ar7 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Bernese Oberland : twelve scenes among its peaks and lakes

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2766

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

Published Date: 1874

Author: Walton, Elijah

Publisher: London : Thompson

Call Number: DQ827 W3 Oversize E

Author: Walton, Elijah

Responsibility: with descriptive text by T.G. Bonney

Publisher: London : Thompson

Published Date: 1874

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

Call Number: DQ827 W3 Oversize E

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Between the gates

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2580

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

Published Date: 1878

Author: Taylor, Benjamin Franklin

Publisher: Chicago : Griggs

Call Number: F866 T39

Author: Taylor, Benjamin Franklin

Publisher: Chicago : Griggs

Published Date: 1878

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

Call Number: F866 T39

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Biographical material, Norman Luxton and McDougall family

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54782

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of biographical records and timelines of events pertaining to the lives of Norman Luxton, Elizabeth Chantler McDougall and George McDougall. Includes an obituary article for George McDougall from 1876 [two separate newspaper clippings]; an account of a buffalo round-up in 1909 by Norm…

Date Range: 1876; [1930-1940]; 1934; [1955]; 1960

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / 9

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Published record

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III / D : Other material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton Family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / 9

GMD: Textual record; Published record

Date Range: 1876; [1930-1940]; 1934; [1955]; 1960

Physical Description: 0.5 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: File consists of biographical records and timelines of events pertaining to the lives of Norman Luxton, Elizabeth Chantler McDougall and George McDougall. Includes an obituary article for George McDougall from 1876 [two separate newspaper clippings]; an account of a buffalo round-up in 1909 by Norman Luxton; Article "Here's Alberta - People and Places" featuring Norman Luxton; published book "Elizabeth McDougall: Pioneer" by Edna Kells; and a program for an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of George McDougall's appointment as Chairman of the Hudson's Bay Missions, which includes a detailed timeline of the lives of George and Elizabeth McDougall, as well as their son John.

Notes: File also contains one duplicate copy of each item, excluding "Elizabeth McDougall: Pioneer"

Name Access: McDougall, George; Luxton, Norman; McDougall, Elizabeth (Chantler)

Subject Access: Buffalo; Churches; Family; History; Biography; Businesses; Religions; Memorial

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Pigeon Lake; Calgary

Access Restrictions: Obituary article clippings are fragile, handle with care

Language: English

Conservation: Staples removed from two items in file and replaced with archival clips

Category: Family and personal life; Environment; Land, settlement and immigration; Religions

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Blackfeet Indians

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8716

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

Published Date: 1877

Author: Appleton's Magazine

Call Number: 07.2 Ap5 Pam

Author: Appleton's Magazine

Published Date: 1877

Physical Description: 7p

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

Accession Number: 130; 398

Call Number: 07.2 Ap5 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Californian pictures in prose and verse

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue273

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

Published Date: 1878

Author: Avery, Benjamin Parke

Publisher: New York : Hurd & Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): Riverside

Call Number: F866 A9

Author: Avery, Benjamin Parke

Publisher: New York : Hurd & Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): Riverside

Published Date: 1878

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

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: F866 A9

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Canada on the Pacific : being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley ... with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific railway route

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6292

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

Published Date: 1874

Author: Horetsky, Charles

Publisher: Montreal : Dawson

Call Number: 08.5 H78c

Author: Horetsky, Charles

Publisher: Montreal : Dawson

Published Date: 1874

Physical Description: x, 244p

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Macoun, John; Passes; Surveys

Accession Number: 400; 443

Call Number: 08.5 H78c

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Canada Pacific Railway and imperial confederation : a reply

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6277

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

Published Date: 1879

Author: Fisher, Roswell

Call Number: 08.5 F53

Author: Fisher, Roswell

Published Date: 1879

Physical Description: p.543-546

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

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway

Notes: In Rose Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review

Accession Number: 8500

Call Number: 08.5 F53

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Caricature and other comic art in all times and many lands

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20588

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

Published Date: 1878

Author: Parton, James

Publisher: New York : Harper

Call Number: NC1325 P3

Author: Parton, James

Publisher: New York : Harper

Published Date: 1878

Physical Description: 340p. : illus.

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

Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: NC1325 P3

Location: Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access

Collection: Art Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

The Confederation of Canada with Britain in relation to the Canadian Pacific Railway

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6378

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

Published Date: 1879

Author: Whitman, James

Call Number: 08.5 W59

Author: Whitman, James

Published Date: 1879

Physical Description: p.319-327

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

Notes: In Rose Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review

Accession Number: 8500

Call Number: 08.5 W59

Collection: Archives Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide...over the Union Pacific : 4th vol

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue33

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

Published Date: 1872

Publisher: New York : Crofutt

Edition: 3d annual rev

Call Number: F594 C7

Edition: 3d annual rev

Publisher: New York : Crofutt

Published Date: 1872

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

Call Number: F594 C7

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.

Cupid and Chow-Chow and other stories

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25560

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

Published Date: 1873

Author: Alcott, Louisa M.

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle

Call Number: 05 A2c

Author: Alcott, Louisa M.

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle

Published Date: 1873

Physical Description: 283 pages ; 19 cm

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

Subjects: Literature; Canadian; Short Stories

Abstract: A collection of short stories by famed author of Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott

Contents: Cupid and Chow-Chow ; Huckleberry ; Nelly's hospital ; Grandma's team ; Fairy Pinafores ; Mamma's plot ; Kate's choice ; The moss people ; What Fanny heard ; A marine merry-making