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Earle Birney fonds
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- Part Of
- Earle Birney fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of Earle Birney textual records, 1896-1971, n.d.; recordings of Birney reading his works, 1967, 1982; and portraits of Birney, ca.1967. Textual records are excerpts from the Earle Birney papers pertaining to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; including correspondence, 1918-1924, biogra…
- Date Range
- 1896-1982
- Reference Code
- M201 / S31 / V67
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Sound recording
- Recording disc
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Earle Birney fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 201
- S 31
- V 67
- Sous-Fonds
- M 201
- S 31
- V 67
- Accession Number
- 167, 552, 1226, 3603
- Reference Code
- M201 / S31 / V67
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Sound recording
- Recording disc
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Date Range
- 1896-1982
- Physical Description
- 2 cm of textual records. -- 2 sound recordings : audio discs. -- 4 photographs : prints
- History / Biographical
- Earle Birney, 1904-1995, was a writer, poet and educator at Toronto, Ontario. Birney lived in Banff from 1911 until 1917.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of Earle Birney textual records, 1896-1971, n.d.; recordings of Birney reading his works, 1967, 1982; and portraits of Birney, ca.1967. Textual records are excerpts from the Earle Birney papers pertaining to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; including correspondence, 1918-1924, biographical material, 1971, drafts of poems, 1941-1952, printed material, 1948-1970, and Birney family correspondence, 1896-1917.
- Poems include: "Ballad of Kootenay Brown", "Biography", "Bushed", "Conrad Kain", "Holiday in the Foothills", "Leaving Yellowstone", "Oldster". Correspondence is mainly from Charles Brown to Birney. Printed material includes short story: "Mickey was a Swell Guy," set in Banff during the First World War. Recordings are "David" [1967] and "Nexus and Earle Birney", 1982
- Name Access
- Birney, Earle
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Family and personal life
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
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- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: reference copy recordings
- Creator
- Birney, Earle
- Category
- Arts
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
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Leonard Leacock fonds
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- Part Of
- Leonard Leacock fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consist of four separate series: A. I.A. Photography: negatives; B. I.C. Photography: transparencies, 35mm; C. I.D. Photography: prints; D. I.B. Photography: lantern slides. Fonds consists mainly of scenic transparency views arising from Leacock's climbs, hikes, horse and car trips in the Can…
- Date Range
- 1924-1992
- Reference Code
- M372 / S24 / V353
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Part Of
- Leonard Leacock fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 372
- S 24
- V 353
- Sous-Fonds
- M 372
- S 24
- V 353
- Accession Number
- 2568, 3451, 6501, 6502, 6503, 6507, 6580, 6756, 7091, 2022.36
- Reference Code
- M372 / S24 / V353
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Scrapbook
- Date Range
- 1924-1992
- Physical Description
- ca.5100 photographs (ca.4450 transparencies, ca.575 negatives, ca.90 prints). -- 17 cm of textual records (including several volumes). -- 4 sound recordings
- History / Biographical
- Leonard Henry Leacock, 1904-1992, was a musician and educator at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Leacock was born in England and raised in Banff, Alberta. He was educated in Banff and Boston and through the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, and the Royal School of Music, London, England. Leacock joined the staff of Mount Royal College, Calgary as a piano teacher in 1924 and retired from teaching ca.1989. His music career also included performing, composing and adjudicating. Throughout his life, Leacock was an avid mountaineer and photographer. He took numerous hiking and horse trips in the Banff, Jasper and Yoho areas and sometimes worked in trail camps or as a guide.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consist of four separate series: A. I.A. Photography: negatives; B. I.C. Photography: transparencies, 35mm; C. I.D. Photography: prints; D. I.B. Photography: lantern slides.
- Fonds consists mainly of scenic transparency views arising from Leacock's climbs, hikes, horse and car trips in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks from the Crowsnest Pass through Jasper National Park, ca.1939 to 1984. Also included are travels in Yukon, Canada and the United States, including Alaska. Negatives date from 1925 to 1940? and pertain to Assiniboine, Lake Louise, Banff, Banff-Jasper, Columbia Icefield and other mountain areas; also natural history, including wildflowers and wildlife. A small number of negatives are accompanied by prints. Other prints pertain to Leacock, family, events and scenic views.
- Textual records include letters, 1926-1986, 1 cm; diaries, 1930-1934, 1943, 2 items; scrapbooks and clippings, 1931-1936, ca.6 cm; manuscript scores of vocal and instrumental music, before 1985, 8 cm; concert programmes for which Leacock wrote the notes, 1962-1969, 37 items; other concert programmes, [ca.1945]-1986, 2 cm; writings, 1924, 1928, n.d., 4 items; other material, 1931-1987, 8 items. Diaries pertain to Leacock's personal life, giving details of musical, writing, artistic and dramatic activities; teaching and tour guiding; hikes and climbs in the Canadian Rockies; and friends, including Herbert Hahn and Stewart Cameron. Some letters are from Earle Birney, 1926-1978.
- Sound recordings are interviews with Leacock re his career in music, including performing, composing and teaching; also music played by Leacock. Also includes one cassette recording [ca.1985-1992] of Doug Hawkes interviewing Leacock re: a pack trip he went on around 1931 between Gleichen and Jasper and back; cassette includes a story of a camp trip at Castlegar.
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Education
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Music
- Sports, recreation and leisure
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- Some restriction/s on access
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- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline
- file description
- electronic inventory
- summary and reference copy recording for audio interview
- Creator
- Leacock, Leonard
- Category
- Arts
- Education
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Marguerite Orr Rutherford fonds
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- Part Of
- Marguerite Orr Rutherford fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of personal papers and portraits, ca.1915-1990; incoming letters, ca.1915-1979; wedding journal, 1927; activity photographs, 1930s-1940s; hospital assistant papers and photographs, 1942-1945; print material and photographs re Inuit art, ca.1960; family history papers and portraits, c…
- Date Range
- [ca.1875]-1990
- Reference Code
- M320 / V556
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Diary
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Marguerite Orr Rutherford fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 320
- V 556
- Sous-Fonds
- M 320
- V 556
- Accession Number
- 1569, 6773
- Reference Code
- M320 / V556
- Date Range
- [ca.1875]-1990
- Physical Description
- 14 cm of textual records. -- ca.100 photographs : prints. -- 1 item of print material
- History / Biographical
- Marguerite Beryl Orr Rutherford (also known as Marguerite Orr), 1903-1993, was a businesswoman and outdoor enthusiast at Banff and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was the daughter of Lorne and May Orr and grand-daughter of Wesley Fletcher Orr, early mayor of Calgary. Marguerite Orr grew up in Banff, where she attended high school with Earle Birney. In 1927, she married Clyde "Rusty" Rutherford, from whom she was later separated. During WWII, Rutherford worked as a hospital assistant at Whitehorse, Yukon. She later owned Cottage Crafts in Calgary and sold Eskimo art, ca.1960, when it was just becoming popular. Rutherford was a close friend of Allen Bill, war correspondent and later editor and sports columnist for the Calgary Herald.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of personal papers and portraits, ca.1915-1990; incoming letters, ca.1915-1979; wedding journal, 1927; activity photographs, 1930s-1940s; hospital assistant papers and photographs, 1942-1945; print material and photographs re Inuit art, ca.1960; family history papers and portraits, ca.1875-1974; Allen Bill photographs, 1940s-1970s; Earle Birney typescript poem and inscribed publication "David and Other Poems," 1942.
- Name Access
- Birney, Earle
- Rutherford, Marguerite Orr
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
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- Language
- Language is English
- Related Material
- Accompanied by artifacts (Heritage collections)
- Creator
- Rutherford, Marguerite Orr
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Unprocessed
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Big bird in the bush : selected stories and sketches
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Oakville (ON) : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
- Call Number
- 05 B53
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Oakville (ON) : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 95p. : ill
- Subjects
- Banff
- Kootenay region
- Accession Number
- 12500
- Call Number
- 05 B53
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The collected poems of Earle Birney
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1975
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53c
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 2v. in slipcover : ill., ports
- Notes
- Index of titles
- Accession Number
- 14000
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The cow jumped over the moon : the writing and reading of poetry
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1972
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- [Toronto?] : Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- [Toronto?] : Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada
- Published Date
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 112p
- Accession Number
- 5500
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75d
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 285p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Arby's Pinocchio / Charles Noble; Skiis / Bill van Veelan; How we climbed Cascade / Ralph Connor; Mock-death / Jon Whyte; Another Halloween / J. O. Thompson
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75d
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- Archives Library
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Evergreen summer 1921 : readings from a biography by Earle Birney
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53ev
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Responsibility
- recorded by Jeni Couzyn
- Published Date
- 1977
- Series
- British Columbia Provincial Archives sound heritage series, vol.VI, no.3
- Subjects
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- Notes
- In Men of the forest / compiled and edited by David Day
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53ev
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- Archives Library
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Fall by fury and other makings
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4205
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1978
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53f
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 96p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 11000
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53f
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75i
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 224p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Avalanche / Robert E. Gard; Disaster at Avalanche Mountain / Cecil Clark; The agony of Mrs. Stone / Jon Whyte; At Grips with a Grizzly / Colin Wyatt
- Accession Number
- 3092
- Call Number
- 05 F75i
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- Archives Library
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75p
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 271p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents : Alberta / Edward A. McCourt; Lightning storm / Sid Marty; Moraine Lake / R. H. Blackburn; Sunrise on Lake Louise / Ella Elizabeth Clark; Lake Minnewanka / Ella Elizabeth Clark; At Crow's Nest Pass / E. Pauline Johnson; A mountain journey / Howard O'Hagan; Tunnel Mountain / George Bowering; A trip to Mt. Edith Cavell / H.E. Bulyea; What are the best years / Ray Bagley
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75p
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- Archives Library
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- PR9191 P7 F6
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Call Number
- PR9191 P7 F6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Rag and boneshop
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1971
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53ra
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1971
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged) : ill., maps
- Notes
- Partial contents: The mammoth corridors
- Accession Number
- 2000
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53ra
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- Archives Library
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Road to yesterday
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75r
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 310p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Mickey was a swell guy / Earle Birney
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75r
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- Archives Library
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A sense of place
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75s
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 295p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Each mountain / Sid Marty; She goes away / Gordon Burles; The prairie / Sid Marty
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75s
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- Archives Library
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Tales tall and true
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75t
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 272p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Subjects
- Folklore
- Notes
- Partial contents: A fishing story / article from the Crag and Canyon; The search for the unmapped lake / Mary T.S. Schaffer; At the sign of the buffalo / Grant MacEwan; Avalanches / Denise Fair; The creation of the northern Rocky Mountains / Ella Elizabeth Clark; Tales of a gunman / Andy Russell; Akers and Purcell, whiskey traders / Andy Russell; Canadians sight hairy creatures / article from the New York Times
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75t
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- Archives Library
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75tr
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 295p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Easter highway / Sid Marty; Across Canada, west from Toronto / Dale Zieroth
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75tr
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- Archives Library
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Western moods
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75we
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 296p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: The last great buffalo drive / N. Vernon-Wood; Canada : case history / Earle Birney; The flame within the flame / Jon Whyte; Father / Dale Zieroth
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75we
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- Archives Library
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Western profiles
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4183
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Call Number
- 05 F75w
- Author
- Ford, Theresa M., ed
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alberta Education
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 303p. : ill
- Series
- Western Canadian literature for youth
- Notes
- Partial contents: Walking Buffalo, a man for our time / Johanna Wenzel ; Bill Peyto alone / Gordon Burles; Jimmy Simpson of Num-Ti-Jah / Ruth Gorman; George "Kootenai" Brown / Jacques Hamilton; The informal Miss Rummel / Iris Fleming
- Accession Number
- 3100
- Call Number
- 05 F75w
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- Archives Library
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What's so big about green?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1973
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53w
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1973
- Physical Description
- 1v. (unpaged)
- Notes
- Partial contents: Daybreak on lake opal; High rockies; What's so big about green?
- Accession Number
- 2124
- Call Number
- 05.1 B53w
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- Archives Library
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