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Canada's great highway : from the first stake to the last spike
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6353
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Secretan, J.H.E
- Publisher
- London : John Lane The Bodley Head
- Call Number
- 08.5 Se2
- Author
- Secretan, J.H.E
- Publisher
- London : John Lane The Bodley Head
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 252p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 400
- 2926
- 3000
- Call Number
- 08.5 Se2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Fifty thousand miles of sun
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Liddell, R. Scotland
- Publisher
- London : Cassell
- Call Number
- 02 L61
- Author
- Liddell, R. Scotland
- Publisher
- London : Cassell
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- xviii, 283p. : ill
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Includes index
- Accession Number
- 19500
- Call Number
- 02 L61
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The life and work of Sir William Van Horne
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6371
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1920
- Author
- Vaughan, Walter
- Publisher
- New York : Century
- Call Number
- 08.5 V31v
- Author
- Vaughan, Walter
- Publisher
- New York : Century
- Published Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- xiii, 388p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 V31v
- Collection
- Archives Library
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On the old trail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3840
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- London : Eveleigh, Nash & Grayson
- Call Number
- 02.5 R54t
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- London : Eveleigh, Nash & Grayson
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- xiv, 242p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 02.5 R54t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Peeps at many lands : Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3633
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Bealby, J. T
- Publisher
- London : A. & C. Black
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- 02.4 B36
- Author
- Bealby, J. T
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- London : A. & C. Black
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- vii, 87p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Contains illustrations by Thomas Mower Martin
- Accession Number
- 20500
- Call Number
- 02.4 B36
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A preliminary catalogue of the flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19993
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1921
- Author
- Provincial Museum of Natural History
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : William H. Cullin [Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Call Number
- 04.1 P94a
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : William H. Cullin [Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty]
- Published Date
- 1921
- Abstract
- Pertains to the botanical account of the flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands. Documenting both the scientific name, as well as the common name of the flora, the publication serves as a comprehensive guide. Each category is divide and then further divided into sub series, in an effort to achieve further accuracy. Readers can expect to find a comprehensive list of flora species that existed on Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands.
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04.1 P94a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Rail life : a book of yarns
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6341
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Price, Alfred
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Call Number
- 08.5 P93
- Author
- Price, Alfred
- Publisher
- Toronto : Thomas Allen
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 286p
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 P93
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Reminiscences of a raconteur : between the '40s and the '20s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5174
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1921]
- Author
- Ham, George Henry
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Call Number
- 08.1 H17
- Author
- Ham, George Henry
- Publisher
- Toronto : Musson
- Published Date
- [1921]
- Physical Description
- xvi, 330p. : ill., ports., map
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.1 H17
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1921
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19972
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1922
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1921. Published in 1922, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Loan Collection of Lepidoptera (pg. 8)
- Mammals (pg. 8)
- List of Chipmunks in the Province of British Columbia (pg. 8)
- A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (pg. 9)
- Ornithology (pg. 11)
- Notes on the Occurrence of the White-winged Dove (Melopelia asiatica) (pg. 11)
- Accessions (pg. 11)
- Botany (pg. 13)
- Entomology (pg. 17)
- The Pterophoridae of British Columbia (pg. 34)
- Accession Number
- 7201 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1922
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19973
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1923
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1922
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1923
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1922. Published in 1923, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the Museum (pg. 6)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology (pg. 8)
- Accessions (pg. 10)
- Botany (pg. 13)
- Ornithology (pg. 16)
- Notes on the occurrence of the Plumed Egret (pg. 16)
- Notes on the Iceland Gull (pg. 17)
- Notes on the occurrence of the White Pelican (pg. 18)
- Notes on the occurrence of the Brown Pelican (pg. 18)
- Entomology (pg. 18)
- British Columbia insects new to science (pg. 19)
- Lepidoptera not previously recorded from British Columbia (pg. 22)
- Rare and uncommon Lepidoptera taken in British Columbia during 1922 (pg. 23)
- Microlepidoptera (pg. 26)
- Illustrated Lepidoptera (pg. 31)
- Notes and Corrections (pg. 35)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1922
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19974
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1926
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1925. Published in 1926, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology (pg. 9)
- Petroglyphs (pg. 9)
- Palaentology (pg. 10)
- Botany (pg. 10)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 17)
- Amphibians and Reptiles (pg. 21)
- Coleoptera (pg. 24)
- Accessions (pg. 34)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 37)
- In Memoriam (pg. 38)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1928
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19975
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1929
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1928. Published in 1929, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Admission (pg. 6)
- Inception and History of Provincial Musuem (pg. 7)
- Objects (pg. 8)
- Visitors (pg. 9)
- Activities (pg. 9)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 10, 23)
- Palaeontology (pg. 22, 23)
- Botany (pg. 15)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 12, 25)
- Entomology (pg. 24)
- Amphibians (pg. 24)
- Ornithology (pg. 24)
- Mammology (pg. 23)
- Accesions (pg. 23)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 26)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
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- Archives Library
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Smithsonain Institution : Mary Vaux Walcott wildflowers : donor edition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24938
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Vaux Walcott, Mary
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Call Number
- 04.1 W14m O.S.
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- Author
- Vaux Walcott, Mary
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 portfolio (1 folded sheet, 5 plates, 4 loose leaves) : color illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildflower prints by Mary Vaux Walcott reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution as a "Donor Edition - Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program" - short write up about the process and her career with 5 prints on rag paper created using the "Smithsonian Process"
- Contents
- White Epidendrum - epidendrum nocturnum Jaquin - 337 - MVW - 1925
- Silverberry - elaeagnus commutata [additional single print - no write up] - 70 - MVW
- Goldenpea - thermopsis rhombifolia (Nuttal) Richardson - 297 - MVW - 1925
- Missouri Pricklypear - opuntia polyacantha - Haworth - 35 - MVW - 1925
- Rabbitbean - cracca virginiana - Linnaeus - 44 - MVW - 1925
- Notes
- Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program
- Accession Number
- 3089 (single print)
- 3077 (portfolio)
- Call Number
- 04.1 W14m O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Mary Vaux Walcott spotlight with images of wildflower prints on the Smithsonian Art Museum website
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Teachers' trails in Canada : an illustrated review of the Canadian tour of the British Educationists' Party, July-September 1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3715
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Publisher
- London : J.M. Dent
- Call Number
- 02.4 T22
- Publisher
- London : J.M. Dent
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 183p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 18500
- Call Number
- 02.4 T22
- Collection
- Archives 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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"We twa" : reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3625
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1927
- 1925
- Author
- Aberdeen, John Campbell Gordon, 7th Earl of
- Publisher
- London : W. Collins
- Edition
- Golden Wedding ed
- Call Number
- 02.4 Ab3w
- Edition
- Golden Wedding ed
- Publisher
- London : W. Collins
- Published Date
- c1927
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 02.4 Ab3w
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- Archives Library
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The western avernus
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3602
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1924?]
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- Toronto : J.M. Dent
- Call Number
- 02.3 R54 1924
- Author
- Roberts, Morley
- Publisher
- Toronto : J.M. Dent
- Published Date
- [1924?]
- Physical Description
- xiii, 238p
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 18500
- Call Number
- 02.3 R54 1924
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- Archives Library
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