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All-time high - an unprecedented number of visitors are heading to Banff National Park, with a million more tourists passing through the gates in just the last five years. Has the beloved park reached its limits?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25147
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Stewart, Ryan
- Odynski, Taylor
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
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- P
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- Author
- Stewart, Ryan
- Odynski, Taylor
- Responsibility
- Ryan Stewart (author)
- Taylor Odynski (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.70 - 75
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Tourism
- Ecology
- Environment
- Banff National Park
- Wildlife
- Town of Banff
- Parks Canada
- Alberta
- Abstract
- Pertains to the rise in visitation to Banff National Park
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
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- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Banff : a park for the people?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19951
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Norman, Carlyle
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Norman, Carlyle
- Responsibility
- Carlyle Norman
- Published Date
- 2012
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff
- Banff (residents)
- Banff (townsite)
- Banff - Townsite development
- Banff National Park
- National parks
- Politics
- Wildlife
- Tourism
- Abstract
- Pertians to Banff National Park and changes in use and policy
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol.4, Iss.1, Winter 2012, p.42-43
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- Highline website
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- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1932
- Publisher
- Department of the Interior
- Call Number
- C2-1.1
- Publisher
- Department of the Interior
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 3 miles : 1 inch
- Relief: Contour interval 250'
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Accession Number
- 400 (4 maps)
- 1003
- 2684
- Call Number
- C2-1.1
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Banff rock : a guidebook to rock climbing in Banff National Park, Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14540
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Perry, Chris
- Publisher
- Altona, Manitoba : Friesens
- Call Number
- 01.4 P42b
- Author
- Perry, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Perry
- Publisher
- Altona, Manitoba : Friesens
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Guidebooks
- Kootenay National Park
- Rock climbing
- Sport climbing
- Thompson, David
- Yoho National Park
- ISBN
- 9780987937001
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 01.4 P42b
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The bold and cold : a history of 25 classic climbs in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15286
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Pullan, Brandon
- Publisher
- Victoria : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.4 P96b
- Author
- Pullan, Brandon
- Publisher
- Victoria : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 264 pages, colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Alberta, Mount
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Banff National Park
- British Columbia
- Bugaboos
- Canmore
- Edith Cavell, Mount
- Robson, Mount
- Rock climbing
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Yamnuska, Mount
- ISBN
- 9781771601153
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 03
- Call Number
- 01.4 P96b
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Niven, Frederick John
- Publisher
- London : Dent
- Call Number
- 02.5 N64
- Author
- Niven, Frederick John
- Publisher
- London : Dent
- Published Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- xi, 188p. : ill., map
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 323
- Call Number
- 02.5 N64
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Classic hikes in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14578
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada : Mountain Vision Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.6 P75c 2011
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Responsibility
- Graeme Pole
- Publisher
- Hazelton, British Columbia, Canada : Mountain Vision Publishing
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 288 p. : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
- Series
- A Canadian Rockies companion guide
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Guidebooks
- Hiking
- Jasper National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Safety
- Yoho National Park
- Notes
- "The 63 best hikes in the Rockies"--Cover.
- Edited and with additional fieldwork and materials by Marnie Pole--T.p verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780969724940
- Accession Number
- 2015.8526
- Call Number
- 02.6 P75c 2011
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Climbing the pinnacle of art : learning vacations and the Banff School of fine arts, 1933-1954
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14652
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Toronto : The University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 06 R27c Pam
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
- Publisher
- Toronto : The University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- pages 69-100
- Notes
- In The Canadian Historical Review 92 (1 March 2011)
- Copied manuscript of the article
- Summary: "The article concerns the history of visual arts education, art instruction, and the productions of tourism in Banff National Park"
- Call Number
- 06 R27c Pam
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Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14191
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Sandford, Robert William
- Publisher
- Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5wat c.1
- 03.5 Sa5wat c.2
- Author
- Sandford, Robert William
- Responsibility
- Robert William Sandford
- Publisher
- Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- xiii, 256 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781927330197
- Accession Number
- 13-7-1 70,500
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5wat c.1
- 03.5 Sa5wat c.2
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Completion of Jasper Highway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24288
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- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1939
- Publisher
- Department of Mines and Resources
- Call Number
- C2-1.2
- Publisher
- Department of Mines and Resources
- Published Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 1 map : col
- Scale
- Scale: 3 miles : 1 inch
- Relief: Contour interval 250'
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Accession Number
- 400
- 626 Deaccessioned (2)
- 3349 Deaccessioned
- Call Number
- C2-1.2
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Confessions of a ski bum : Kicking Horse Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25506
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 125 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A modern backcountry ski guide for day trips in the Kicking Horse Pass area found at the border of Banff and Yoho National Parks. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps for everything from tree skiing to no fall glacier descents. -- from back cover
- Contents
- North Side
- Mount Bosworth Closure
- Bath Exit Valley
- Padget Peak
- Ogden South
- Ogden North
- South Side
- Great Divide Creek
- Narrao & Popes Peaks
- Cathedral
- Collier Peak
- Mount Victoria, North Summit
- ISBN
- 9780991748525
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
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Confessions of a ski bum : the Bow Valley Banff to Castle Valley junction
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25507
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23b
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 350 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A completely rewritten and expanded edition of the book that started "confessions." Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps for near-endless options, including everything from playful powder laps to yet to be skied big lines. -- from back cover
- Contents
- Roadside Runs; Cascade East Face ; Cascade South Face ; Cory Couloir ; Slabatha ; The Goat's Eye ; The Mason's Mistake ; Sunshine Backcountry ; Citadel Pass ; Quartz Hill ; Rock Isle, Larix & Grizzly Lakes ; Twin Cairns ; The Doors ; Wawa Ridge ; Healy Drainage ; Healy Pass ; Bourgeau Meadows ; Lost Horse Creek ; Egypt Lake ; Egypt Lake Access Routes ; Egypt Lake Exit Routes ; Shelter Runs ; The Sphinx ; Scarab Peak ; Pharaoh Peaks ; East Verdant Creek ; Massive Range Mountain ; Pilot & Brett ; Shadow Lake ; Gibbon Pass ; Shadow Valley ; Ball Pass ; Copper Mountain ; Sawback Range ; Cory Pass ; Mystic Pass ; Rockbound Lake ; Traverses
- ISBN
- 9780991748532
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23b
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Curiosities, Collectors and Housepits in Banff National Park : the first protected archaeological site in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Greaves, Sheila
- Publisher
- Canadian Journal of Archaeology
- Call Number
- 07.2 G81c Pam
- 07.2 G81c PAM copy 2
- Author
- Greaves, Sheila
- Responsibility
- Sheila Greaves and E. Gwyn Langemann
- Publisher
- Canadian Journal of Archaeology
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 34 pages, illustrations
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Banff National Park
- Banff Park Museum National Historic Site
- Banff Springs Hotel Golf Course
- Peyto, Bill
- Sanson, Norman
- Tunnel Mountain
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Accession Number
- 2016.8068
- 2019.91
- Call Number
- 07.2 G81c Pam
- 07.2 G81c PAM copy 2
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Death trap : how a cave specialist and a paleontologist are piecing together Alberta's post-glacial fossil record by exploring mountain caves
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20017
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Responsibility
- Niki Wilson
- Published Date
- 2013
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to the growing understanding of the fossil record in Alberta via exporation of caves
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Summer 2013, p. 40 - 44
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- P
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- Archives Library
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- Highline website
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Editor's Notebook: Getting Out There
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25289
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- July/August 2021
- Author
- Kylie, Aaron
- Publisher
- Aaron Kylie
- Edition
- Vol. 141
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Kylie, Aaron
- Edition
- Vol. 141
- Publisher
- Aaron Kylie
- Published Date
- July/August 2021
- Physical Description
- p.8
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Editor, Aaron Kylie's address for the issue discussing Banff National Park with an image at the top of Sulphur Mountain.
- Notes
- "In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 4, July/August, 2021"
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Extinction triage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue946
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Stuart, Ryan
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Stuart, Ryan
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.58-63
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Caribou numbers are dwindling in the mountain parks despite millions of dollars being allocated to save them. Should we be giving up on one species for the sake of another?
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P
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Family walks and hikes in the Canadian Rockies. Volume 1 : Bragg Creek - Kananaskis - Bow Valley - Banff National Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 1
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- Author
- Nugara, Andrew
- Responsibility
- Andrew Nugara
- Publisher
- [Victoria, BC] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xx, 156 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
- Subjects
- Hiking
- Travel
- Banff National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Highways
- Highways - Alberta
- Kananaskis Country
- Maps
- Lake Louise
- Lake Louise - Roads & Trails
- Abstract
- Family Walks and Hikes is an exciting new series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, informative maps, and colour photographs. The first book for the Canadian Rockies in the series brings together an inspiring collection of comfortable walks and spectacular hikes for visitors and locals looking for unique, guided wanderings in a number of diverse locations in the Rockies, including: Elbow Falls Powderface Ridge Troll Falls Elbow Lake Grotto Canyon Grassi Lakes Tunnel Mountain Johnston Canyon Stanley Glacier Plain Of Six Glaciers Bow Summit Ranging from charmingly easy to moderately challenging, these hikes are all accessible from reliable roads and popular staging areas. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions, and full-colour photographs. Each route includes: detailed directions to trailheads colour maps and photographs seasonal information round-trip distances trail commentary difficulty ratings (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Area Maps
- Highway 66, The Elbow
- Highway 40 South, Kananaskis Trail
- Highway 1, Bow Valley, Canmore, Highway 742 South
- Banff
- Kootenay National Park
- Lake Louise
- Icefield Parkway (Highway 93 North(
- Important Contacts
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781771602242
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02.6 N89f Vol. 1
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- Publishers website
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Information for tourists, shoppers' guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8329
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1939
- Author
- King Edward Hotel
- Call Number
- 02.6 K58 Pam
- Author
- King Edward Hotel
- Published Date
- 1939
- Physical Description
- 31p. : ill
- Subjects
- Banff National Park
- Guidebooks
- Call Number
- 02.6 K58 Pam
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The language of fire - interview with Parks Canada Gregg Walker
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue916
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.48-53
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Fire ecology
- Fire fighting
- Fires
- Parks Canada
- Banff National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
- Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park
- Abstract
- Wildfires play an important role in the landscape. But when they burn out of control, professionals dive in to manage them. Fire expert Gregg Walker explains what's really going on amidst the flames
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- English
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- P
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Meeting point : from First Nations to packaged tours, Banff has been drawing visitorys and fostering relationships for thousands of years
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25000
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- November 2010
- Author
- Dulewich, Jenna
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Dulewich, Jenna
- Responsibility
- Jenna Dulewich
- Publisher
- Great West Newspapers
- Published Date
- November 2010
- Physical Description
- p.18-22
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Banff
- Banff (townsite)
- Banff National Park
- History
- Archaeology
- Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
- Bison
- Languages
- Names, Geographical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of Nipikaw Pakitik / Tsa-nidza / Banff with focus on Indigenous place names, use, meaning, and the importance of nato-oh-siskoom / minni happa / hot springs - includes interview with Roland Rollinmud
- Notes
- In 51 North, Winter/Spring 2020
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