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Alpine warriors
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 M16
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Slovenia
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Winner of Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountaineering History Award in 2015.
- ISBN
- 9781771601092
- Accession Number
- AC609
- AC616 copy 2 transferred to ARC Library
- Call Number
- G512 M16
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpine warriors
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15221
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.2 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Slovenia
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Winner of Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountaineering History Award in 2015.
- ISBN
- 9781771601092
- Accession Number
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.2 M14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19901
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rock Animal
- Alpinist in Training
- Hindu Kush - Unleashed
- Troll Wall
- Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty
- Hungry for Hunger
- Dancing in the Moment
- Enfant Terrible
- Line against the Sky
- The Shining Wall
- Fork in the Road
- Trango Tower
- Night Naked
- Dance of the Underclings
- Chinese Maharaja
- Metaphysical Think Tank
- The Crux
- Chronology of Selected Climbs
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781771602129
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Art of Freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01 Mc14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rock Animal
- Alpinist in Training
- Hindu Kush - Unleashed
- Troll Wall
- Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty
- Hungry for Hunger
- Dancing in the Moment
- Enfant Terrible
- Line against the Sky
- The Shining Wall
- Fork in the Road
- Trango Tower
- Night Naked
- Dance of the Underclings
- Chinese Maharaja
- Metaphysical Think Tank
- The Crux
- Chronology of Selected Climbs
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781771602129
- Accession Number
- 2019.11
- Call Number
- 01 Mc14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Chautauqua serenade : violinist Ruth Bowers on tour, 1910-1912
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 224 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Music
- Travel
- United States
- Women
- ISBN
- 9781927575697
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 06.2 Sh5c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Freedom climbers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14880
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G510 M16 F74
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 351 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Poland
- Pakistan
- Hypothermia
- World War II
- Nepal
- ISBN
- 9781927330128
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G510 M16 F74
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Freedom climbers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14192
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 351 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Pakistan
- Hypothermia
- World War II
- Nepal
- ISBN
- 9781927330128
- Accession Number
- 13-2-1 70,500
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Furrows in the sky : the adventures of Gerry Andrews
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15269
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum Publishing
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5f
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum Publishing
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 239 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Aerial Photography
- British Columbia
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Field
- Forestry
- Surveyors
- World War II
- ISBN
- 9780772664914
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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In the shadow of the Great War : the Milligan and Hart explorations of Northeastern British Columbia, 1913-1914
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15270
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum Publishing
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5i
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum Publishing
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 202 pages, illustrations, maps
- ISBN
- 9789772666376
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5i
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- Archives Library
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Keeper of the mountains : the Elizabeth Hawley story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14435
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : RMB
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14k
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald ; foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : RMB
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations, portraits. ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Nepal
- Notes
- Previously published under the title: I'll call you in Kathmandu
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781927330159
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14k
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- Archives Library
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The landscape of Ernest Lamarque : surveyor, artist and Renaissance man, 1879-1970
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.2 L16l
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 256 pages, illustrations [some colour plates], maps
- Subjects
- Lamarque, Ernest C.
- Surveyors
- Photography
- Alaska highway
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Northwest Territories
- Yukon
- ISBN
- 9781987915013
- Accession Number
- 2017.8638
- Call Number
- 08.2 L16l
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Return to Northern British Columbia : a photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-1939
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15265
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum
- Call Number
- 08.2 Sh5r
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Victoria : Royal BC Museum
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 196 pages, illustrations
- ISBN
- 9780772662835
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 08.2 Sh5r
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- Archives Library
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Surveying Southern British Columbia : a photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-1907
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15272
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5s
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 160 pages, illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Photography
- Surveyors
- ISBN
- 9781927575512
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 02
- Call Number
- 03.7 Sh5s
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- Archives Library
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Surveying the 120th meridian and the great divide : the Alberta/BC boundary survey, 1918-1924
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24952
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
1 website
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 192 p. ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 2
- Subjects
- Surveyors
- Surveys and Mapping
- Surveys
- Great Divide Trail
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- British Columbia - Boundaries
- British Columbia - Surveys and Mapping
- Alberta - B.C. Boundary
- Alberta - Boundaries
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Cautley, Richard William
- History
- History of Alberta
- Abstract
- "Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide is the second book of a two-part series describing the initial Alberta/BC boundary survey undertaken between 1913-1924. Surveying the 120th Meridian focuses on the years 1918–1924, when the Alberta crew continued the survey of the 120th meridian while the BC crew split off to continue mapping the Great (Continental) Divide. The Alberta/BC boundary survey was a unique Canadian project that combined talented surveyors, high-tech surveying equipment, rugged crew members and Canadian wilderness. This is a story of adventure and danger: the crew climbed mountains and surveyed from the peaks of the Canadian Rockies; slogged through the muskeg north of the Peace River; occasionally crossed rivers at high water; and often worked in the rain, snow or cold. The boundary survey produced the first detailed maps of the terrain along the divide and the first pictures of the northern Canadian Rockies taken from an airplane. But the most important legacy of this project is the collection of approximately 5,000 photographs developed from high-quality glass plate negatives. These photographs provide full panoramas of the Rocky Mountain landscape as it looked over a century ago. Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide combines the best of these photographs, diary entries and government documents to recount the astonishing journey of the surveyors and their crew members as they explored Canada’s most dramatic landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Surveyors
- Surveying Methods 1918-1924
- Completion of the Boundary Survey, 1950-1953
- Conclusion
- Geographical Names
- Survey Crews, 1918-1924
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Notes
- Features visual and textual material from the A.O. Wheeler fonds M546 / V771
- ISBN
- 9780773860091
- Accession Number
- 2019.90
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Surveying the Great Divide : the Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
- Author
- Sherwood, Jay
- Responsibility
- Jay Sherwood
- Publisher
- Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 176 pages, illustrations, maps
- Series
- Volume 1
- Subjects
- Cautley, Richard William
- Deville, Edouard
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Hope, Charles Vincent
- Kain, Conrad
- Place names
- Surveyors
- Wallace, James Nevin
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- World War I
- Abstract
- "In 1917, during Canada's 50th anniversary, there was little celebration in the country as it entered the fourth year of World War I. This conflict had a tremendous economic and emotional impact on the various levels of government in the country and on the lives of many people in Canada. In western Canada, despite the turmoil and uncertain outcome of the war, one of the country's major surveying projects continued. In 1913 the Alberta, British Columbia, and Dominion governments began surveying and marking the boundary between the two provinces along the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia's representative, A.O. Wheeler, scaled many of the peaks along the Great Divide and did the phototopographic surveying. R.W. Cautley, the representative for the Alberta and Dominion governments, mapped the boundary through the economically important mountain passes. During the years of 1913-1917, the Boundary Commission surveyors mainly covered the area from Kicking Horse Pass to the United States border."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Map of the Passes Surveyed 1913-1917
- The Rocky Mountains 1917
- Background
- Cast of Characters
- Surveying Methods
- 1913
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- Geographical Names
- Afterword
- Survey Crews
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Index
- Notes
- Includes photographs from the "Mountain Legacy Project" repeat photography
- ISBN
- 978-1-987915-52-5 (softcover)
- Accession Number
- gratis October 2017
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sh5s Volume 1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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