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Canada's vegetation : a world perspective

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

Published Date: 1995

Author: Scott, Geoffrey A.J.

Publisher: Montre´al : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 04.1 S1c

Author: Scott, Geoffrey A.J.

Publisher: Montre´al : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: xviii, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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

Subjects: Vegetation; Botany

Abstract: Canada's Vegetation describes plant species in relation to physical geography and includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra or boreal-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each ecosystem is provided, and equivalent vegetation types throughout the world are reviewed and compared with those in Canada.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0773512403

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.1 S1c

Collection: Archives Library

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The Canadian Indian : the illustrated history of the great tribes of Canada.

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

Published Date: 1969

Author: Symington, Fraser

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, Illustrated Books Division

Call Number: 07.2 S6t

Author: Symington, Fraser

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, Illustrated Books Division

Published Date: 1969

Physical Description: 272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

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

Subjects: Colonialism; Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous People; Indigenous Traditions; Canadian

Abstract: Advisory, this item contains offensive and outdated language of the time. "Intent is to present an abstracted view of Indian life as it was or may have been." - Aurora

Contents: Introduction: A paradise lost -- Part one: The people and the land -- 1. From the mists of Asia -- 2. Where they struck root -- 3. The tribal lifestyle -- Part two: The fifty tribes of Canada -- 4. Nomads of the eastern forest -- 5. Hunters of the high plains -- 6. The potlatch people -- 7. The planters of corn -- 8. The northwoodsmen -- 9. The mountain dwellers -- 10. Life in the lodge -- Part three: A collision of cultures -- 11. The white invasion -- 12. The history makers -- 13. The years of war -- 14. The saga of the Bois Brules -- 15. The cavalry of the Plains -- 16. The price of fur -- 17. When wampum was wealth -- 18. The great buffalo kill -- Part four: Into exile -- 19. "My arrows are broken" -- 20. Through an Indian eye -- 21. Red children of the Queen -- Epilogue: A look at today and tomorrow -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index

Notes: Advisory, this item contains offensive and outdated language. Fragile spine.

Accession Number: 2022.17

Call Number: 07.2 S6t

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Rockies : where eagles soar

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

Published Date: 1995

Author: Rowed, Scott

Publisher: Banff, Alta. : Cirrus Pub.

Edition: 1st

Call Number: 04 R79c

Author: Rowed, Scott

Edition: 1st

Publisher: Banff, Alta. : Cirrus Pub.

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: 120 pages, 31cm, colour images/map

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

Subjects: Animals; Flowers; Geography; Rocky Mountains; Indigenous; Indigenous Culture

Abstract: Photography of people, places, animals, and plants from various locations in the Canadian Rockies.

Contents: Banff -- Lake Louise -- The Icefields parkway -- Jasper -- Kananaskis -- Yoho and Kootenay National parks -- Mt. Robson -- The Columbia mountains

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0969954603

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 R79c

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Rockies whitewater

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

Published Date: 1995

Author: Smith, Stuart

Publisher: Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.

Call Number: 02.8 SM5r

Author: Smith, Stuart

Publisher: Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: 312 pages, 22.6cm

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

Series: Canadian Rockies Whitewater

Subjects: Travel; Rocky Mountains; Canoeing; Kayaking; Rafting; Whitewater

Abstract: The complete guidebook to whitewater boating in the Southern Rockies -- back of book

Contents: Shortened contents : Elk river drainage -- Lower Kootenay drainage -- St. Mary drainage (British Columbia) -- Middle Kootenay drainage -- Upper Kootenay drainage -- Upper Columbia drainage -- Kicking Horse drainage -- Lower Oldman drainage -- Castle and Crowsnest drainage -- Upper Oldman drainage -- Elbow and Highwood drainage -- Lower Bow drainage -- Upper Bow drainage

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library; First volume

ISBN: 0969961804

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 02.8 SM5r

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian Rockies whitewater the Central Rockies

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

Published Date: 1996

Author: Smith, Stuart

Publisher: Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.

Call Number: 02.8 SM5c

Author: Smith, Stuart

Publisher: Jasper AB : Headwaters Press Ltd.

Published Date: 1996

Physical Description: 336 pages, 22.8cm

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

Series: The second in a series of guidebooks

Subjects: Whitewater; Rocky Mountains; Central Rockies; Kayaking; Canoeing; Rafting; Travel

Abstract: A river guide for canoeists, kayakers and rafters - front cover

Contents: Shortened Contents : Lower North Saskatchewan river drainage -- Upper North Saskatchewan river drainage -- Brazeau river drainage -- Lower Athabasca river drainage -- Middle Athabasca river drainage -- Upper Athabasca river drainage -- Columbia river drainage -- Upper Fraser river drainage -- Lower Fraser rover drainage

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0969961804

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 02.8 SM5c

Collection: Archives Library

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Carboniferous to Jurassic Pangea Field Trip #7

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

Published Date: 1994

Author: Richards, B.C. and E.W. Bamber and Henderson, C.M. and Higgins, A.C. and Johnston, D.I. and Mamet, B. and Meijer-Drees, N.C.

Publisher: Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology Geological Survey of Canada

Call Number: 03.7 R39c

Author: Richards, B.C. and E.W. Bamber and Henderson, C.M. and Higgins, A.C. and Johnston, D.I. and Mamet, B. and Meijer-Drees, N.C.

Responsibility: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and GSGP

Publisher: Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology Geological Survey of Canada

Published Date: 1994

Physical Description: 79 pages, includes removable map, 27.7cm

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

Series: Open File 2866

Subjects: Geological Survey of Canada; Geology; Geological Maps; Geography

Abstract: Field trip guide -- Uppermost Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) at Jura Creek, and Mount Rundle, Southwestern Alberta -- Trip leaders Richards, B.C. and Meijer-Drees, N.C. and Bamber, E.W. and Johnston, D.I.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library; Calgary, Alberta, Canada August 15-19, 1993

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03.7 R39c

Collection: Archives Library

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Creating environmental publications a guide to writing and designing for interpreters and environmental educators

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

Published Date: 1991

Author: Zehr, Jeffrey and Gross, Michael and Zimmerman, Ron

Publisher: Stevens Point WI : UW-SP Foundation Press, Inc

Call Number: 04 Z3c

Author: Zehr, Jeffrey and Gross, Michael and Zimmerman, Ron

Responsibility: Heintzman, James consulting editor

Publisher: Stevens Point WI : UW-SP Foundation Press, Inc

Published Date: 1991

Physical Description: 88pages, 27.9cm

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

Series: Interpreter's Handbook Series

Subjects: Education; Environment; Design

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0932319133

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 Z3c

Collection: Archives Library

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Crowsnest Pass wildlife : a guide to Alberta's richest area of species diversity

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

Published Date: 1992

Author: Marshall, C. Locke -- McIntyre, David M. -- McIntyre, Martha L.V.

Publisher: Blairmore, Alta. : Sweetgrass Communications

Edition: 1st

Call Number: 04.2 M35c

Author: Marshall, C. Locke -- McIntyre, David M. -- McIntyre, Martha L.V.

Responsibility: Illustrated by McIntyre, Martha L.V.

Edition: 1st

Publisher: Blairmore, Alta. : Sweetgrass Communications

Published Date: 1992

Physical Description: iv, 36 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., folded map ; 19 cm

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

Subjects: Wildlife; Wildlife corridors; Alberta

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0969664109

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.2 M35c

Collection: Archives Library

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The emergence of animals : the Cambrian breakthrough

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

Published Date: 1990

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Call Number: 03 M22t

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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

Subjects: Fossils; Burgess Shale; Paleontology; Paleoecology Rodinia

Contents: Cambrian explosion -- Aliens here on earth? -- Mudeaters -- Small shelly fossils -- Golden spike -- Rifting of Rodinia -- Garden of Ediacara -- Ecological feedback and intelligence -- Precambrian oxygen -- Ecological chaos and innovation.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library First use of Rodinia

ISBN: 0231066465

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 M22t

Collection: Archives Library

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Exploring the Columbia Icefield

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

Published Date: 1999

Author: Kucera, Richard E.

Publisher: Calgary : High Country Colour

Edition: Special 5th ed.

Call Number: 03.4 K96e

Author: Kucera, Richard E.

Edition: Special 5th ed.

Publisher: Calgary : High Country Colour

Published Date: 1999

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

Subjects: Athabasca Glacier

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 9780920573532

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03.4 K96e

Collection: Archives Library

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Fenollosa and his circle

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

Published Date: 1962

Author: Brooks, Van Wyck

Publisher: New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Call Number: 05 B79f

Author: Brooks, Van Wyck

Publisher: New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Published Date: 1962

Physical Description: 321 pages

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

Subjects: Japanese; Japan; Art; Slavery; Archaeology; Mexico; Mayan; Biography

Abstract: A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover

Contents: Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05 B79f

Collection: Archives Library

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A field guide to forest insects and diseases of the Prairie Provinces

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

Published Date: 1995

Author: Hiratsuka, Yasuyuki and Langor, David William and Crane, Patricia Ellen

Publisher: Edmonton : Northern Forestry Centre

Call Number: 04.2 H63a

Author: Hiratsuka, Yasuyuki and Langor, David William and Crane, Patricia Ellen

Publisher: Edmonton : Northern Forestry Centre

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: xiii, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; c20 x 16 cm

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

Subjects: Insects; Disease

Notes: Includes abstract in French. Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0660159481

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.2 H63a

Collection: Archives Library

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Field guide to Precambrian-Cambrian, Frasnian-Famennian and Devonian-Carboniferous boundaries in western Alberta and easternmost British Columbia

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

Published Date: 1991

Author: Geldsetzer, H.H.J. and Richards, B.C. and Teitz, M.W.

Publisher: Geological Survey of Canada

Call Number: 03.7 G28f

Author: Geldsetzer, H.H.J. and Richards, B.C. and Teitz, M.W.

Publisher: Geological Survey of Canada

Published Date: 1991

Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

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

Series: Guidebook for field trips nos. 2 & 3 of the 1991 joint meeting, held Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1991 from Calgary, Alta.

Subjects: stratigraphy; Geological Survey of Canada; Geology; Geography

Abstract: Event markers in earth history, a joint meeting of IGCP Project 216: Global Biological Events in Earth History, IGCP Project 293: Geochemical Event Markers in the Phanerozoic, IGCP Project 303: Precambrian/Cambrian Event Stratigraphy

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03.7 G28f

Collection: Archives Library

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The fishes of Alberta

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

Published Date: 1992

Author: Paetz, Martin J

Publisher: Edmonton : Queen's Printer

Call Number: 04.2 P13 1992

Author: Paetz, Martin J

Responsibility: by Martin J. Paetz and Joseph S. Nelson

Publisher: Edmonton : Queen's Printer

Published Date: 1992

Physical Description: 437pages, 22.7cm

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

Notes: Bibliography; Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.2 P13 1992

Collection: Archives Library

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Fluvial processes in geomorphology

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

Published Date: 1964

Author: Leopold, Luna B. and Wolman, M. Gordon and Miller, John P.

Publisher: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman

Call Number: 04 L55f

Author: Leopold, Luna B. and Wolman, M. Gordon and Miller, John P.

Publisher: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman

Published Date: 1964

Physical Description: xiii, 522 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm

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

Subjects: Rivers; Glacier Map; Glacier National Park; Geology; Geomorphology

Contents: THE EVOLVING LANDSCAPE: The changing scene -- Geomorphology and the field problem -- PROCESS AND FORM: Climate and denudational processes -- Weathering -- The drainage basin as a geomorphic unit -- Water and sediment in channels -- Channel form and process -- Hillslope characteristics and processes -- THE EFFECTS OF TIME: Geochronology -- Drainage pattern evolution -- Channel changes with time -- Evolution of hillslopes.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04 L55f

Collection: Archives Library

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Geological atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

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

Published Date: 1994

Author: Mossop, Grant and Shetsen, Irina and Dixon, Jim and Kramers, John and Madunicky, Mika

Publisher: Calgary, Alta. : Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists ; Edmonton, Alta. : Alberta Research Council, Alberta Geological Survey

Call Number: 03 M79g

Author: Mossop, Grant and Shetsen, Irina and Dixon, Jim and Kramers, John and Madunicky, Mika

Responsibility: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Alberta Research Council with the Alberta Department of Energy and the Geological Survey of Canada

Publisher: Calgary, Alta. : Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists ; Edmonton, Alta. : Alberta Research Council, Alberta Geological Survey

Published Date: 1994

Physical Description: 1 atlas (x, 510 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 45 x 59 cm + 1 plastic overlay (1 sheet ; 36 x 54 cm)